I think I should be applying for lecturing posts because I am a senior researcher here and manage a small team.
You can apply for a "Relief from Civil Disabilities" certificate, notes Deborah A. Scalise, an assistant attorney general in New York State who frequently lectures on legal ethics.
"I joined the Facebook groups of courses I was hoping to apply for and could see what the course content might be like and what people really thought of the lectures".
During this period I applied for about 20 lecturing positions at different universities in Australia.
After a year's vacation in Italy and with his book in hand, Schopenhauer applied for the opportunity to lecture at the University of Berlin, the institution at which he had formerly studied, and where two years earlier (1818), Hegel had arrived to assume Fichte's prestigious philosophical chair.
In 1847, on learning of Elizabeth Blackwell's admission to the Geneva New Yorkk) Medical College, she applied for permission to attend lectures at the Harvard Medical College and was denied.
Academics crave "leave" as space to think and to write, unfettered by running departments, advising on policy, poring over accounts, organising conferences, applying for funding, marking, writing lectures, supervising theses and so on.
Travelling northwards, Sheffield University recently applied for a high court injunction after students occupied a lecture theatre on 30 November.
The flagship ten-week graduate program is highly competitive: Last year 2,200 applied for 80 spots and paid $25,000 apiece to hear lectures by and network with the likes of venture capitalist Tom Byers, Net evangelist Vint Cerf and lifestyle enthusiast Tim Ferriss.
When Hawking's lecture was announced, more than 20,000 people applied for tickets to see him speak.
I have certainly endured lectures in which I felt my time was better spent applying for a job or even checking e-mails.
