Category: Service

  • In our most recent "how can we help you?" thread, a reader asks: I'm interested in how faculty distribute their time across different research activities (reading, drafting, writing, and revising) during three periods: the teaching term, academic breaks, and sabbatical. As a grad student without service responsibilities and limited teaching responsibilities, I'm trying to understand…

  • By Trevor Hedberg One of the Cocoon’s recent posts concerned a reader inquiry about why it takes some referees longer than 2 weeks to review a paper. This is an understandable question – it’s something I wondered about when I was a graduate student – and the ensuing discussion generated an array of responses. Some…

  • In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, ECR writes: I am an ECR (~5 years post-PhD) and I am starting to get my first invitations to be an external examiner for PhD and MA theses. Is this something one should list on one's CV? (It seems prima facie like an indicator of scholarly…