I mentioned a while back (in this post) that I’d applied for a paid blogger job with VITAE, the organisation that supports UK researchers, but didn’t get it because I couldn’t make an induction session in London. To my delight I was contacted a few days ago and asked if I was still interested. So I’m now on the official team until it’s reviewed at the end of March.
The theme of the blog is staff development and career support for researchers, but people seem to be interpreting that quite broadly. My first post as one of the core bloggers has just gone up here – The Coffee Club theory of departmental sociability. It’s a bit frivolous, but with the current economic climate doing what it’s doing to the UK HE system I thought something lighthearted might be in order.
I’ve got to do three posts each month, comment on other people’s blogs, and encourage other people to visit the blog and comment (so off you go now, there’s a dear). It’s not going to enable me to retire early but it’s nice to be recognised. This is my first paid writing job, unless you count a poem I got published in the skateboard magazine RAD when I was 14. So in all, I’m quite pleased.
Now that I googled you (see my reply on the networking thread of the Vitae forum), I thought I’d look at some of your old posts. :o)
Interesting to hear about the paid blogging job as I had seen the advert, thought it might be interesting but the deadline was that day at about 6pm, and it was far too late for me to do something about it. Since doing a bit more writing on the blog, it had actually crossed my mind to ask who are the paid bloggers but felt that’d be a bit unfair to put them on the spot. But since I found your post on this topic here, I thought I might as well ask – who else out of the regular posters is on the team, as it were? (Of course, if it’s a secret, then don’t tell me). How many of you are there?
And thanks for the post on the European CV’s – I’ll have a good look through those links shortly.
All the best, and keep enjoying France,
Blanka
We could tell you, but then we’d have to kill you…
No, I don’t think it’s a secret. I’m one!
Hi Blanka,
the core contributors to the Vitae blog are now completely transparant: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/218231/Core-contributor-profiles.html
hope that helps,
Tennie