1. Some (frighteningly honest!) personal stats.:
Brief career history:
BA English & Leeds –
MA 20th Century Leeds –
Worked at Oxford Uni. Press in marketing –
Oxford –
submitted October 2012, viva January 2013
Cultural Engagement Reading – February-May 2013
Knowledge Exchange 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)

2. 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)
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3. 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!