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End of summer panic

As the long summer break nears an end and the beginning of the academic year looms larger on the horizon, you may have a tendency to panic about your writing and research. You wonder whether you’ve...

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Applying for promotion: Research Trajectory

While helping a client with her application for promotion I was reminded of a conversation I had with a senior colleague when I applied for a promotion many years ago. The promotion committee will be...

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Take control of your research plans

One thing that frustrates me is how often researchers seem to be giving over control of their research to others. You don’t think about planning your research until a funding deadline looms. You do...

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Prestigious journals & wider impact

Writing for scholarly journals and writing for wider impact are not mutually exclusive. The impact your work has outside of academia is partly dependent on the quality of the work and the respect that...

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Taking on a leadership role

Taking on a management/leadership role, even at the department level is a big deal. You might be really excited about the possibilities and have all kinds of plans for how you can make things better...

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Writing a research statement

A research statement is a common component of the academic job application. The purpose of this document is to give the hiring committee a sense of what you will be doing if they hire you so they can...

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Surviving and thriving in uncertain times

Uncertainty is stressful. Things are always uncertain. We have limited control over the future. My approach to supporting academics is on identifying the things you can control and being flexible...

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Prestigious journals & wider impact

Writing for scholarly journals and writing for wider impact are not mutually exclusive. The impact your work has outside of academia is partly dependent on the quality of the work and the respect that...

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Taking on a leadership role

Taking on a management/leadership role, even at the department level is a big deal. You might be really excited about the possibilities and have all kinds of plans for how you can make things better...

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Writing a research statement

A research statement is a common component of the academic job application. The purpose of this document is to give the hiring committee a sense of what you will be doing if they hire you so they can...

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Surviving and thriving in uncertain times

Uncertainty is stressful. Things are always uncertain. We have limited control over the future. My approach to supporting academics is on identifying the things you can control and being flexible...

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Risking doing the work you find meaningful

A longstanding imaginary-friend-on-the-Internet, who now runs a very successful online business, once said that something I’d said to him years ago had been pivotal to his success. I had no idea what...

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Saying no, FOMO, and being strategic about research

I saw a short thread on Twitter reflecting on taking advice to say no a lot. before starting my lectureship, my mentors told me very clearly to say no to as many things as possible (except unmissable...

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Mid-career blahs

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “I’ve Got Tenure, How Depressing” (Kathryn D. Blanchard, 31 January 2012), highlights the fact that even getting a coveted tenure-track position doesn’t...

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You don’t have to decide what to do with your life

This post was originally published in University Affairs Careers Cafe on April 29, 2013.  When you make a decision about a job or a program of study, it is normal to imagine how your life story will...

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What an academic career looks like

There are a lot of different ways to have an academic career. Your academic career is affected by both your own values and desires, and by forces beyond your control. Although a lot of academic career...

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Where does confidence come from? Part 1: meaningfulness

External validation is not a reliable antidote to self-doubt. It can help, but only if it validates something you are already pretty confident is true. If your confidence is low, you extend your...

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Where does confidence come from? Part 2: Security

This is part 2 of a series about confidence. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about meaningfulness. The introductory section is repeated so you don’t have to read them in any particular order....

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Where does confidence come from? Part 3: support

This is part 3 of a series about confidence. In Part 1 of this series, I talked about meaningfulness. In Part 2, I talked about security. The introductory section is repeated so you don’t have to read...

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I wrote a thing about reviewing your writing accomplishments

Anna Clemens and I have been following each other on Twitter for a while. She provides editing and grant writing support for scientists and asked me if I could write something about reviewing the year...

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