Time management

Research and teaching are two sides of the knowledge coin: creation and dissemination. How do young scholars learn to balance these fundamental roles?

Reduce procrastination, forget multitasking and get the to-do list done. From delegating to prioritising urgent versus important tasks, here are six practical ways to balance teaching, research and service for university faculty

Teaching at universities while also working in industry can require superhuman powers of organisation. Brooke Wilson offers pointers for staying on top of things

As the role of university teacher evolves, a key workplace challenge is how to offer proximity without becoming a 24/7 bot service

With ever-greater demands being placed on university faculty, Megumi Terui offers advice on balancing two key parts of the job

Block scheduling rethinks curriculum design, lesson-planning, assessment and feedback. Tom Clark outlines how this shift, as well as blended learning resources, helped Victoria University meet students’ need for clear and reliable rhythms of study

Olivia Burgess shares her abbreviated form of the pomodoro method for being productive in only 25 minutes a day

Block teaching can seem like an impossible task – all the teaching in less than half the time. But with intentional design of courses and resources, you can move from traditional to block delivery. Here, Ellen Buck shares advice based on her experience

Starting at the end seems counterintuitive, but anticipating student strengths and weaknesses and automating your responses comes into its own for large cohorts

Teaching and research are the pillars of academia, yet these two roles often end up in opposition to one another, says Tara East