Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · F**k Confidence. Settle into ease instead. Although confidence is bandied about as an individual, empowering thing, it’s also an insidious neoliberal, capitalist, patriarchal ideal that can often be more harmful than not. It tells us that: ‘you just have to be confident!’ ‘just do it!” ‘just be yourself!” ‘fake […]
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Radical alternative ways to approach productivity in the PhD
Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Radical alternative ways to approach productivity in the PhD This month’s article is by a guest author, Jamie Pei. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that I try to follow my own advice and take a proper vacation. I’m on annual leave for the first […]
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