From PhD to Life
feeds into negative self-talk and personal fears. Coaching can help clients notice when their gremlins are causing harm, and realize what they are saying isn't true.
Uncertainty about the future. This crops up more for my PhD-in-hand clients and ABDs o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/coaching-graduate-students/
From PhD to Life
feeds my soul, too. I find my work meaningful and rewarding, and want it to continue to be so in future. I value the clients and community I serve, but know that there are so many more people out there I can help. So I carry on, I learn, I grow. I must.
A few weeks ago my coach asked me a questio...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/building-a-formal-community/
Adventures in Academe
The term is ubiquitous in university mission statements, but students seem to understand it differently than we do.
feeds. Together we unpacked the concept both in light of early modern texts and our present global reality, with its polarizing discourses and walls and detainment centres.
We kept circling back to two questions: Can we rehabilitate the concept of citizenship for higher education? Can we...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/adventures-in-academe/are-we-misusing-the-word-citizenship-in-higher-education/
Dispatches on academic freedom
While my own academic freedom is less robust since becoming a senior administrator, I have loved finding new ways of defending academic freedom for others.
feeds and thereby exposing their faculty to risk. They are feeling conflicted about this because they belong to a minority group relative to the experts in the field who are usually approached by the media. So, their withdrawal from media work makes the public representation and the range of availab...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/dispatches-academic-freedom/the-view-from-the-deans-office/
Ask Dr. Editor
Part two of my series on low-effort, high-reward graphics for grant proposals, this time focusing on timeline charts.
feeds into the next. For example, the dark blue arrow might indicate attendance at an event in which you share knowledge. Participants could check the veracity of the analyses that you’ve performed earlier (pale blue arrow), and provide additional details that then serve as a data collection (da...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/ask-dr-editor/quick-yet-polished-timelines-for-grant-applications/