1. Kate Jolly Professor of Public Health & Primary Care
‘Getting to the Top’
Kate Jolly
Professor of Public Health & Primary Care

2. Pick your mountain

3. Define your criteria of success
Enjoying the job
Academic esteem
Balance between work and family
Title

4. It’s arriving that is important – not the speed of the journey….

5. The benefits of a steady pace…
Becoming a professor brings more corporate responsibilities:
Leadership and management responsibilities take up a lot of time
If you are part-time you may need to do somethings, then others – not all simultaneously

6. Ask Important Questions
Pick an important piece
Thanks to Prof KK Cheng

7. Ask Important Questions
Pick an important piece
Thanks to Prof KK Cheng

8. Ask Important Questions
Know when you have a vital piece
Read 4* journals and consider what makes them 4*
Talk to people
Thanks to Prof KK Cheng

9. Top Tips I Focus on the core business Carve out your own niche
Good papers / Grants / PhD supervision / teaching
Collaborations
Then add the external esteem activities
Carve out your own niche
Get a mentor
Know the rules – look at the promotion criteria for the next grade years in advance
Take up opportunities

10. Top Tips II Stay focussed Collaborate
Take-up opportunities to review grants
Review papers in your field – ask seniors to allow you to review alongside or suggest you as an alternative
If you are less than full time, don’t spread yourself to thinly

11. And enjoy your work….