When and why did you create your website?
Second of nine posts based on my webinar for Georgia State University's CIBER - Interview by Tamer Cavusgil
I first created my website in the last century, in 1999 to be exact. Or rather my husband – a software engineer with a PhD in operations research, who likes to observe academia from a distance – created it for me. He initially maintained it, but after a few years I learned how to do this myself. I am a bit of a technophobe, but he convinced me that personal websites were going to be very important in academia. Boy was he right!
I first used it mainly to distribute my teaching materials, but I started adding academic resources quite early. I offered the Journal Quality List in 2000 and the Publish or Perish software in 2006. Both were created for very pragmatic reasons, trying to change the academic system I was working in from below. For details see: Why did you create the JQL and the PoP software?
Can you give us a quick guide to using your website?
That’s a great question. My website has expanded a lot in the past 7 years and at the moment there are more than 750 distinct pages on it. Even I get confused sometimes! So that’s why I have created a dedicated starting page, called Working in Academia. On that page you will find links to my books and my multi-part blogposts on publishing, social media, promotion, and building your research profile.
- Effective promotion applications
- Avoid a desk-reject for your article
- Social media to support your career
- Improve your Research Profile
It also includes a link to my other blogposts by core themes such as: academic careers, conference reports, gender in academia, academic etiquette, creating research impact, academic publishing, doing (international) research and the Publish or Perish software. Finally, it has a curated list of my YouTube videos by topic to make it easier to find the right videos for you.
As my main roles have always been research related, most of my resources relate to research rather than teaching. However, there is also a selection of video resources in IHRM for potential classroom use, as well as a link to using social media in teaching, written by one of my collaborators Christa Sathish.
Related pages
Other posts in this series
- Why I offered resources from early on in my career
- When and why did you create your website?
- Why did you create the JQL and the PoP software?
- What is CYGNA and how did it start?
- Why I love blogging and creating videos
- How do I practice #PositiveAcademia?
- My top-3 career tips
- What are mistakes ECRs could avoid?
- How do you find the time to do all of this?
Find the resources on my website useful?
I cover all the expenses of operating my website privately. If you enjoyed this post and want to support me in maintaining my website, consider buying a copy of one of my books (see below) or supporting the Publish or Perish software.
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.
