Some (frighteningly honest!) personal stats.: Brief career history: BA English & Philosophy @ Leeds – 2003-2006 MA 20th Century Literature @ Leeds – 2006-2007 Worked at Oxford Uni. Press in marketing – 2007-2008 DPhil @ Oxford – 2008-2013 submitted October 2012, viva January 2013 Cultural Engagement post-doc. @ Reading – February-May 2013 Knowledge Exchange Facilitator @ Oxford – May 2013-present Founded Oxford Phenomenology Network – March 2014 Maternity leave – February-October 2016 Published my first monograph – July 2017 Got offered my first permanent lectureship – March 2018 Some (frighteningly honest!) personal stats.: Jobs applied for post-thesis: 60 Interviews: 14 (only 2 were for permanent academic jobs; 3 I pulled out of) Job offers: 3 (1 for my 3-month post-doc.; 1 for my KE role; 1 for my new lectureship)

ad hoc hourly-paid tutoring and supervision family/ home (partner, baby, dog, health, finances…) full-time job in university administration (‘Knowledge Exchange Facilitator’) ad hoc hourly-paid tutoring and supervision research & publications (articles, edited chapters, book of the thesis) networking (Oxford Phenomenology Network, BAMS, conferences, Twitter, Facebook - #WIASN) Image: http://test.juggle.org/2013/08/05/10-female-juggling-stars-of-the-past/

Things I did to help me write my application: researched the University, Faculty, School, and Department online (paying particular attention to relevant research clusters) ensured that I explicitly addressed each of the selection criteria got my mother-in-law to proofread my CV and cover letter! Things I did in preparation for my interview: reached out to my networks to find people that I knew in the Department and School to get a better feel for the place (any pressing agendas, things going on in the background…) my friends insisted on giving me a mock interview (based on our ‘interview questions database’) spent ages stressing over what to wear! Things I did on the day of my interview: made sure I had plenty of snacks with me got taxis, rather than buses, each end did this superhero pose in the bathroom just before I went in!