Associate Professor Joanne Devlin and I are currently coediting a book, with the working title Academic Mamas. Filled with the stories of women academics across diverse disciplines in Australian universities, our book will be intended for everyone who wants to learn about the different experiences of mothers in academia and identify strategies that…
There seems to be an easy solution to these financial woes for a single parent. Get a job. Any job. And here is one of the greatest challenges of being a single parent in academia—having to prove you can hack it over and over and over again. I hadn’t even…
Last year, I won another small research grant—A$3,700—and I was able to go overseas for research, which is great. But A$3,700 did not stretch to cover child care, and as a single parent, there was no father to leave them with. I had to juggle friends and family; in the…
I am going to tell you a story. It is what we all do in academia, really, tell stories. We tell stories to our students to help them learn, stories to our colleagues of our latest discovery, stories to readers of journals or books to spread our research. As mother…
Editors—and, no doubt, thesis examiners—sometimes encounter sentences like this: In a further report discovered to be of relevance to the present study, it was communicated by Smith et al. (2050) that the failure of a front line hospitality staff member training program to have a positive impact on front line…
Introduction ‘I didn’t want an unsatisfying career. And I didn’t want to commit to one place – either one company or one location. I wanted to make my own decisions.’ – Rocco Baldasarre Most of the adult population worldwide has experienced remote working during the pandemic and realised it was…
Capstone Editing is very happy to introduce this year’s winner of our Laptop Grant for Postgraduate Coursework Students, Eyale Teshager. Eyale was kind enough to share his story with Capstone Editing so we could share it with you. His hard work, dedication and outstanding academic achievements are what led us to…
We are proud to announce Ms Alex Richmond as the recipient of the 2019 Capstone Editing Conference Travel Grant for Postgraduate Research Students. She will be attending two prominent Social Enterprise Research Institute conferences in the United Kingdom: The 7th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise in Sheffield, England,…
We are very proud to announce that Ms Laura Engfors is the 2017 recipient of the Capstone Editing Conference Travel Grant for Postgraduate Research Students. Laura will use her award to deliver a presentation at the 2018 Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Annual Conference in May in Florida, USA—the most prestigious conference…
We are proud to announce that Dr Rose Michael is the 2019 recipient of the Capstone Editing Carer’s Travel Grant for Academic Women. Dr Michael will be travelling with her mother and two children (one of whom has additional needs) to London in July of this year. While abroad, Dr Michael will present…