Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide ยท Priorities & boundaries in the face of job losses A friend (not an academic) has recently lost their job and noted that one of the most frustrating things about it is: “nobody ever looked at our performance, a decision was made several levels up and eliminated the department wholesale.” […]
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Permission to do the scholarly work you want to do
Are you telling yourself that you should be doing something that you really don’t think is valuable? Are there gremlins telling you that the work you want to be doing isn’t really scholarly? Or that it’s unfashionable (“No one publishes that kind of thing these days.”). Or, that it’s not the kind of thing people […]
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