A Professor’s Guide to Getting Professional Development Funding
There are some things that really get on my nerves about academia. One of them is the assumption that we should all know how to do the job. I mean, we have Ph.D.s, right? How on earth does the process of getting a Ph.D. prepare you for managing #allthethings, getting...
Five Project Management Skills Every Academic Needs to Know
The very nature of academic work means that we have to juggle. The three pillars of our work–research, teaching, and service–outline a daily working life where we are pulled in at least as many directions (though in reality, it is many more). Because of...
From Sticky Notes to Systems: How I Organized My Academic Life
I really don’t consider myself super organized. So it might seem strange for me to have created a course called “Organize Your Academic Life.” But of course, I didn’t always have a complete system in place for organizing my academic projects. And maybe you don’t right...
The Four Cornerstones Of Writing More: Work On One Thing at a Time
This is part 4 of our four cornerstones of writing more series. I was listening to a podcast interview with a pretty big-shot entrepreneur who was talking about how he runs a successful multi-million dollar online business. “I only work on one project at a time, and I...
Three Essential Aspects of a Writing Project Management System
Most academic women I work with in my courses, writing retreats, and one-on-one writing strategy sessions cite time as their biggest obstacle to writing and publishing more. We are just too over-burdened with the sheer number of seemingly incongruous tasks that make...
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