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Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants

By Karen Kelsky | November 9, 2021

We are deep in interview and grant season and so this episode we devote to the unseen but critical aspect of your candidacy: your ability to quickly and factually articulate yourself as a scholar and expert: what you do, how you do it, with whom … [Read more...] about Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants

Tagged With: academic job market help, campus visit interview questions, grant writing strategies, grantwriting, how to prepare for the conference interview, how to write a grant proposal, the conference interview

Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure

By Karen Kelsky | November 1, 2021

Part three in our three-part series about getting Unstuck. So much of the academic experience is about feelings of failure.  It's central to normally functioning academia (in the sense of job, grant and article rejections), but it's far more relevant … [Read more...] about Ep 3:7 Quagmire of Failure

Tagged With: academic overwhelm, coping with failure, coping with rejection, getting unstuck, going postac, Imposter Syndrome, leaving academia

Ep 3:6 Sea of Change

By Karen Kelsky | October 19, 2021

We continue with the three-part examination of getting stuck and unstuck. Last week we talked about the Island of Perfectionism. Today we talk the Sea of Change (next week, we talk the Quagmire of Failure).  The individualism of the (American) … [Read more...] about Ep 3:6 Sea of Change

Tagged With: fear of change, leaving the academy, overcoming fear, perfectionism, professor is out, Quit Lit, quitting academia

Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible

By Karen Kelsky | October 13, 2021

It's The Great Resignation, and people are departing their shitty jobs in droves. This includes academics, and not just adjuncts. Tenured and tenure track faculty are proactively departing to a degree never before seen. (Find many of them on the … [Read more...] about Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible

Tagged With: how to leave the academy, Imposter Syndrome, leaving academia, perfectionism, process not outcome, take the first step

Ep. 3:4 – Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones

By Karen Kelsky | October 6, 2021

We are joined by Dr. Jane Jones of UpIn Consulting (@JaneJoanne) to talk about 5 reasons that your article manuscripts might be getting rejected, drawn from Kel and Jane's Art of the Article program. Here's the list: 1) not finishing out of fear [of … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:4 – Five Reasons Your Work Gets Rejected with Dr. Jane Jones

Tagged With: academic success, how to be a researcher, how to get accepted, how to write an abstract, journal acceptance, journal rejection

Ep. 3:3 – Play To Your Strengths

By Karen Kelsky | September 28, 2021

What do you do when you get stuck? Kel has found that her coaching clients tend to devolve into a spiral of self-loathing. But that doesn't work; it's just not very motivating! So Kel asks: why does the academy tell us we must automatically be good … [Read more...] about Ep. 3:3 – Play To Your Strengths

Tagged With: overcoming imposter syndrome, overcoming writers block, productivity

Ep 3:2 The Chair

By Karen Kelsky | September 23, 2021

Karen insisted that we watch The Chair, and insisted we devote a podcast episode to it. So here it is. At this point in time there are no more "hot" takes to be had, so in this episode we offer our tepid takes.  Even so, there is a lot to say. Karen … [Read more...] about Ep 3:2 The Chair

Tagged With: academic racism, neoliberal university, The Chair

Episode 3:1 Coming Back from Isolation

By Karen Kelsky | September 14, 2021

Karen and Kel are back from their summer hiatus, and they talk re-entry. Re-entry, that is, to a shitshow academic year in a pandemic that, in the US, has been mismanaged to a degree that almost defies belief.  Academics are coming back to campuses … [Read more...] about Episode 3:1 Coming Back from Isolation

Tagged With: academic overwhelm, burnout, covid on campus

Ep 2:40 Resisting the Culture of Overwork

By Karen Kelsky | June 7, 2021

An episode recorded pre-pandemic but even more relevant now.  Karen and Kel talk resisting overwork, and recovering your joy.  The key here is detachment from your work: neither misery nor joy; just a set of tasks. Put another way:  it's what you do, … [Read more...] about Ep 2:40 Resisting the Culture of Overwork

Tagged With: academic overwhelm, academic overwork, planning for summer, work life balance

Ep 2:39 Blk+In Grad School: Grad School Success Summit

By Karen Kelsky | May 25, 2021

We are delighted to bring back Allante Whitmore, PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, impresario behind the podcast and website Blk+In Grad School, and founder of the 4-years-running virtual Grad School Success Summit, coming up … [Read more...] about Ep 2:39 Blk+In Grad School: Grad School Success Summit

Tagged With: Black and In Grad School

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