Resources

Podcast. In this 2013 podcast, the GradHacker podcasters are joined by three guests who discuss the prospect of #altac (alternative academic) careers for today's graduate students preparing to enter the workforce. (The hosts first discuss recent posts relating to grad-student concerns, including "Training grad students for a new scholarly landscape.")

Criteria used to identify nontraditional students: 1) enrollment patterns, 2) financial and family status, and 3) high school graduation status.

Wiebe argues that the relationship between theology and religious studies is more compicated and interrelated than most acknowledge.

Podcast: Conversation ranges from the public perception of what Religious Studies does, what to do with a RS degree, to the financial practicalities of doing postgraduate research in the UK and US today.

Podcast overview of issues related to studying religion on the web.

Great site that advocates for non-traditional students

Podcast. Doe Daughtrey talks to Kevin Whitesides about online communications technologies that provide new opportunities and challenges for the creation of alternative learning environments and how they differ in significant ways from traditional face-to-face environments.

Podcast. Zoe Alderton leads a group of academics with experience of all levels of academic publishing in a discussion which aims to demystify the process.

Podcast. Topics covered: The importance of publication, and the relative merits of different publications; getting teaching experience; services to the discipline and the community; conferences and networking; what to put in your CV; how to keep up-to-date with your field

Podcast. First half of podcast looks at belief identities between the sacred and secular. Second half focuses on how to build an academic career, win research funding, and get articles published.