Getting to the Top Kate Jolly Professor of
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‘Getting to the Top’ Kate Jolly Professor of Public Health & Primary Care
Pick your mountain
Define your criteria of success • Enjoying the job • Academic esteem • Balance between work and family • Title
It’s arriving that is important – not the speed of the journey….
The benefits of a steady pace… • Becoming a professor brings more corporate responsibilities: – Leadership and management responsibilities take up a lot of time • If you are part-time you may need to do somethings, then others – not all simultaneously
Ask Important Questions • Pick an important piece Thanks to Prof KK Cheng
Ask Important Questions • Pick an important piece Thanks to Prof KK Cheng
Ask Important Questions • Know when you have a vital piece • Read 4* journals and consider what makes them 4* • Talk to people Thanks to Prof KK Cheng
Top Tips I • Focus on the core business – Good papers / Grants / Ph. D supervision / teaching – Collaborations – Then add the external esteem activities • Carve out your own niche • Get a mentor • Know the rules – look at the promotion criteria for the next grade years in advance – Take up opportunities
Top Tips II Stay focussed Collaborate Take-up opportunities to review grants Review papers in your field – ask seniors to allow you to review alongside or suggest you as an alternative • If you are less than full time, don’t spread yourself to thinly • •
And enjoy your work….
