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ADVANCE INFORMATION

Women in

Academia

Optimizing Our Potential

Margaret C. Watson

KEY SELLING POINTS
Provides a rare insight into the female experience of academia, combining hard facts and lived experience.
Presents the scientific evidence, supplemented by the experience of a diverse group of scholars (female
and male).
Uses a Positive Psychology Approach to the subject i.e. the reader is encouraged to identify and build upon
their strengths.

Women in academia earn less and are less likely to be published, cited, funded or promoted compared with
male colleagues. Using her own experience, and reflecting a Positive Psychology Approach, Watson puts
forward ideas to promote awareness of women in academia to engage with behaviours and activities that
contribute to successful academic careers, underpinned by evidence, theory and the experience of 25
international scholars (female and male) from a wide range of disciplines.

Women in Academia provides a rare insight into the inner workings of academia, focussing primarily on what
women could do as individuals to enhance their potential. This book makes a positive contribution to the
navigation and development of careers for women in academia. It summarizes the valuable combined
experience of the author and the 25 scholars. Tangible lessons in career development are presented using a
variety of methods including case studies which are insightful and provoke action, as well as ‘additional
resources’ and ‘over to you’ sections that support a workbook approach of ‘how to do academia’.

Margaret C. Watson has 30 years’ experience of academic research, is a certified Coach and Mentor, and a
registered pharmacist. She holds Professorial positions in the UK and her business, Watson Research and
Training Ltd, provides consultancy and training on research and academic practice and personal development.

Publication Date: 28th February 2024 £23.99 ISBN: 9781805142508
Thema subject category: VSC – Advice on careers and achieving success
paperback 216 x 138 mm 264 pp Portrait Author location: Aberdeen

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