Achieving Academic Promotion

Marian Mahat is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Marian has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, as well as the private sector. Her research focuses on student learning and outcomes in different learning and teaching contexts and systems.Jennifer Tatebe is a Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work examines the transformative potential of education in disadvantaged contexts by exploring the socioeconomic and political contexts of these educational spaces and their influence on teaching and learning.

Foreword; Rowena ArshadPart 1: Scholars' Experiences and Personal Reflections on Academic Promotion 
Chapter 1: Demystifying the academic promotion process; Marian Mahat and Jennifer Tatebe 
Chapter 2: From perilous to permanent; Jennifer Tatebe 
Chapter 3: Being female in academia; Marian Mahat 
Chapter 4: Raising the bar: Landing your first academic position in U.S. higher education; Blair Izard and David Moss 
Part 2: International Perspectives on the Structural and Institutional Processes of Academic Promotion 
Chapter 5: Academic promotion in the UK: Your guide to success; Jackie Calkwell 
Chapter 6: Academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: System and institutional perspectives; Jussi Kivistó, Elias Pekkola, and Attila Pausits 
Chapter 7: The academic market in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities for early career scholars; Elizabeth Balbachevsky 
Chapter 8: What now for the graduate and early career academics; Graeme Aitken