Plate Spinning: A Beginner’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving as an Engineering/Science Academic

This document is intended as a frame of reference and a quick-start guide for new appointees in Science and Engineering to make sense and success of their first five years following appointment. The secret recipe for rocketing to a professorial appointment will not be found in these pages, but key points and strategies which benefited the authors forms the basis of discussion – these can also be viewed as “I wish I was told this when I started”. Where evidence beyond the anecdotal is available and substantiates claims made to this effect, they are presented. These have been selected from useful resources, which may provide useful further reading.