Values
The Options Suite
One of the things participants in my courses notice is that I keep it ‘real’. I don’t portray life as a last-year PhD student or as a newly minted PhD graduate, or an early to mid career researcher, as a glamorous path, because it ain’t. It’s stressful, it’s exhausting, it’s anxiety-producing. And I help people…
Read MoreConfident or not, here I come
In a recent online discussion in PhD2Postdoc, one participant asked what a ‘shy’ type can do to overcome her reluctance to put herself forward in a networking environment and, more generally, ‘promote her research’. We brainstormed some great networking strategies, but it’s the theme of self-confidence that I wanted to tackle more deeply here. …
Read MoreBuilding your Publication List Part 2: the (gendered) juggle?
In my last post, I wrote about co-authoring. I want to continue thinking on this topic by talking about something we hear about less often: how co-authorship tends to be a gendered phenomenon. You may recall that in my last post I shared with you the story of a male client who was co-authoring…
Read MoreSocial is Successful?
I was sitting in on a conversation with a group of ECRs this week, all sharing their anxieties and concerns about their research careers. I could relate to all those worries and what ifs, and it felt like only yesterday I was at the coal face of life as a postdoc. One question posed…
Read MoreMoney with meaning
A friend of mine, an avid cyclist, recently told me about a guy on a bike who sat on her tail while she was riding to work one morning, goading her to speed up or get out of his way. He eventually overtook her, and in response to his pretty colourful language, she replied ‘Riding…
Read MoreGoals? No thanks…
Goals. The start of the year, any year, seems to be all about goal-setting. And it’s easy to get sucked into the idea that we need to set a ‘S.M.A.R.T’ goal then make rapid progress on it – in no time at all. What a shame that academic publishing and grant-winning have slower lifecycles! …
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