Half of writing is editing

We often forget, when giving students feedback about their academic writing, that EDITING is a huge part of the writing job. Maybe half of o...

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How do we caption items in Word?

So how do we caption items in Word? Well, it depends what we are captioning. Luckily Word has a built-in function which we can access via th...

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A career development client's view of a development approach

In a previous post, I began considering what a developmental approach is in career development ( here ). It apparently comes from liberal p...

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The career development 'isms'

Earlier this year I was reading a couple of Tristram Hooley papers (Hooley et al., 2018; Hooley & Sultana, 2016) which talked about deve...

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Making Moodle groups

Where I teach we use Moodle as our learner platform. It is a bit clunky, but most of the time it works reasonably well. However, every now a...

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The Fabulist

Unlike many other people on the planet, I had not read The Salt Path (Winn, 2018), the UK book relating the story of Raynor and Moth Winn, a...

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Career development and neoliberalism

This is not really my gig, but I thought I should at least attempt to feel my way through the political aspects of work that we career pract...

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Procrastimarking

Ah: procrastimarking. This is Clayton's marking: i.e., the marking we are doing when we are not doing any marking. Now that previous s...

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Wayfinding and wayfinders

Applying Polynesian voyaging traditions to modern organisational management, wayfinding leadership is a framework translating ocean navigato...

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Where to from here

A review article last year by Ross et al. (2025) examined the themes of the 2023 International Association of Forensic Sciences conference i...

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What is a "good" slide?

So: what makes for a good slide in a PowerPoint presentation? Each slide should act as a supportive visual aid. It should prioritise clarity...

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Mind the [research] gap

Tara Brabazon (2025) talked about the SOCK - the significant contribution to knowledge - and the research gap in a video last year, citing a...

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Exploring the Gati model

i Career decision-making can be thought of as a process flow, where we logically step through gathering and analysing information, compari...

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