Our two-part promotion workshop draws on years of experience crafting promotion applications with academics at all career levels and coaching applicants for their promotion interviews.

The workshops are tailored to the university’s or faculty’s specific promotion process, template, and guidelines to ensure the needs of sponsors and participants are met.

In workshop 1, we provide participants with practical tools for thinking through the impact of their achievements, clearly defining their vision, confidently narrating career disruptions, and other factors relevant to their university’s or faculty’s promotion process. Such tools aim to build the strongest possible connection between an applicant’s text and members of the promotion panel. Participants will then use these tools to craft or rewrite sections of their own promotion application and send samples of their revised text to the workshop facilitator or organiser prior to the next workshop.

In workshop 2, which typically takes place at least a month after the first workshop, we develop tailored content and exercises using some of the samples provided by participants. We discuss how the tools have been applied, what challenges participants encountered during the process, and what opportunities for improvement remain.

The workshop is delivered in-house as two half-day events.