Promotion Application Workshops

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

The workshops aim to build participants’ skills as persuasive writers, to improve the quality of their applications, and to help them present a compelling account of their achievements and impact.

Importantly, 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.

By the end of the workshops, participants will have refined content that they can use within their application. Better even: Many of the tools we teach are relevant for grants, awards, and prizes too!

  • We provide participants with highly 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 and/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.

  • Typically taking place at least a month after the first workshop, we develop written resources, group work exercises, and tailored slides 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.