Do you need to be excellent?
This track was inspired by the argument made in _“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence_ by Samuel Moore, Cameron Neylon, Martin Paul Eve, Daniel Paul O’Donnell & D...
17 Feb 202210min
When you start to hate what you love
You started on your academic path because you loved your work. You were excited and interested in a particular area of scholarship. But somewhere along the line you lost that connection, temporarily o...
17 Feb 20224min
If someone's crying, something needs to change
No one said teaching would be easy but … You shouldn’t be exhausted. You shouldn’t be close to tears on a regular basis. You shouldn’t be angry. This also applies to research and other aspects of your...
17 Feb 20224min
The importance of your vision
One reason I started doing what I’m doing, is that I could see all of these brilliant, interesting people not really enjoying their academic jobs. For various reasons you were discouraged, frustrated,...
17 Feb 202211min
Do you suffer from imposter syndrome?
It is common to feel like an imposter. In this track I go beyond reassuring you that you are good enough to consider how connecting your work to your values might help you feel like less of an imposte...
17 Feb 20223min
Goals and Magical Thinking
In this track I apply something I learned from Naomi Dunford to academic careers. It's important to set goals that are achievable and not attach magical endings that are related to the goals but not g...
17 Feb 20224min
Mid-career blahs
Going from a situation in which performance goals are set externally, and there are real consequences to not meeting them, to one in which you get to set a lot of your own goals is bound to be disorie...
17 Feb 20224min
Is "number of hours" the right measure?
When considering the problem of working too many hours, it's important to also consider what you are doing in those hours. Your goal isn't just to work fewer hours but to make meaningful work a larger...
15 Feb 20225min
