How Can Academic Coaching Help You?

Tellan Academic Coaching offers specialised writing training to help move your academic career forward. Whether you are an early career scholar or an established researcher, or you are working on a Masters or a PhD, writing is essential to your success. Academia demands clear, concise, and innovative approaches to writing in order to secure grants, publish research, and craft promotion and award applications. For that very reason, it is often a source of immense stress. An academic coach can help you identify your areas of strength, refine your writing process, and provide ongoing support to meet your targeted outcomes.

We also offer pedagogical support to help you cultivate your teaching practice. You are already an expert in your discipline, but it is through teaching that you are able to convey your knowledge, mentor students, and make an impact at your university. Whether you are looking to refine your unit outline, revamp your assessments, or cultivate your presence in the classroom, an academic coach can help you take your teaching to the next level.

A successful academic career demands a high level of writing expertise and requires a conscious approach to pedagogy - which can be challenging when you are also balancing service commitments, community roles, and a rich life outside academia too.

An academic coach can help you:

  • Identify your academic goals and your unique strengths as a writer, scholar, and teacher

  • Explore what you want to change along with what skills and habits you want to develop

  • Establish realistic writing schedules and set clear, attainable writing goals

  • Work with you to synthesise feedback on your written work

  • Adopt a strategic approach to the revision process

  • Consider issue related to research integrity and ethics

  • Reflect on student evaluations and cultivate your pedagogical approach

  • Situate your writing and teaching within a wider program of career development