Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

Committing to a conference presentation is a common way to help motivate you to make progress on a larger writing project. It can work really well but you also risk feeling worse about your project an...

14 Tammi 202516min

Inspired by a recent trip in which I realized I'd finally got the balance right and didn't need a holiday to recover from my holiday. Some tips on using the Two Questions to Avoid Burnout to guide tra...

4 Joulu 20246min

One of the Academic Writing Studio team told me about a great book they’d read that they thought might be helpful for many of our people. I asked her to write about it. Jeanette Hannaford has been par...

15 Marras 202412min

This track introduces the Spotlight on saying no by providing an overview of the main themes and setting the other tracks into a larger context. Written and recorded in April 2022. Updated in November...

6 Marras 202416min

Do you have a book that's been in progress for a long time? You are not alone. I've helped several mid to late career scholars who have been weighted down by unfinished projects. In this track, I use ...

18 Loka 202415min

You've finished a full draft. You have a target submission date. How do you know your book manuscript is good enough to submit? In this track I talk about how shifting from a chapter by chapter approa...

11 Loka 202411min

Sharing some specific options for your satisfying career and how the framework outlined in Part 1 can change how you approach them. The focus is on 3-5 year positions like post-doctoral research fello...

20 Syys 202415min

In a labour market that can legitimately be described as dystopian is it even possible to have a satisfying academic career? In this track I talk about what it means to create a career and provide ref...

13 Syys 202417min