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Research: a category in transition

Also known as scholarship, thinking big thoughts. A big part of your academic life.

When reviewing the blog with a view to treating it more as a library of useful information (in summer 2015), I noticed that I have stopped putting things in this category and shifted much more to categorizing things as "writing".

Posts in this category will be edited and/or recategorized starting in July 2015.

Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

Night-time camping scene with a dark blue sky full of stars and the only light coming from an orange tent to the left. A lone silhouetted star-gazer looks up to the stars with a bright headtorch beaming towards the sky. A glowing campfire is on the right.

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars I’ve written before about juggling as a metaphor for planning out your workload. Consider all of the things you want and need to do, at work and outside of work, as the box of things a juggler could be … [Read more...] about Juggling, jigsaws, and navigating by the stars: making reasonable plans

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Career Planning, Developing a Practice, Finding Your Way, Planning, Research, Self-confidence Tagged With: audio, audio version available, autonomy, boundaries, goals, perfectionism, priorities, rest, saying no, vision, writing

Writing & research in the summer of the pandemic

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

One of the issues that has come up in the Academic Writing Studio is the relationship between motivation to write and finding the writing you need to do meaningful. This is not a new problem but the current crisis may have brought it to the fore. You may already struggle to prioritize writing or … [Read more...] about Writing & research in the summer of the pandemic

Filed Under: Audio Version Available, Developing a Practice, Finding Your Way, Research, Writing Tagged With: audio, audio version available, COVID19

Shifting priorities within your research during the pandemic

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

One of the issues that has come up in both Office Hours (a group coaching session for members of the Academic Writing Studio that I’m holding weekly at the moment) and in the Establishing a Writing Practice class is the relationship between motivation to write and finding the writing you need to do … [Read more...] about Shifting priorities within your research during the pandemic

Filed Under: Finding Your Way, Research Tagged With: COVID19

No, you don’t need to completely change your research focus

Posted on April 13, 2020 by Jo VanEvery

One of the issues that has come up in both Office Hours (a group coaching session for members of the Academic Writing Studio that I’m holding weekly at the moment) and in the Establishing a Writing Practice class, is the relationship between motivation to write and finding the writing you need to do … [Read more...] about No, you don’t need to completely change your research focus

Filed Under: Finding Your Way, Research Tagged With: COVID19, meaningfulness

Writing a research statement

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Jo VanEvery 1 Comment

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 see how that fits into the department and institution as a whole. The research statement is like … [Read more...] about Writing a research statement

Filed Under: Career Planning, Finding Your Way, Research Tagged With: job applications, research statement

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