Changing Academic Life

By Geraldine Fitzpatrick

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What can we do, individually and collectively, to change academic life to be more sustainable, collaborative and effective? This podcast series offers long-form conversations with academics and thought leaders who share stories and insights, as well as bite-size musings on specific topics drawing on literature and personal experience. For more information go to https://changingacademiclife.com Also see https://geraldinefitzpatrick.com to leave a comment. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Episode Date
Remembering Volkmar Pipek - on being curious, being you
Apr 24, 2024
Liam Bannon (Part 1) on a career outside the box
Apr 10, 2024
Jean Paul (Part 2) on leading virtual transdisciplinary teams and stakeholder engagement
Mar 27, 2024
Jean Paul (Part 1) on Sandpit funding & impact-focussed research
Mar 13, 2024
Funding & Research Culture (podcast extract)
Feb 28, 2024
Celebrating 100!
Feb 08, 2024
On research identity, meaningful work and funding (solo)
Jan 24, 2024
Katta Spiel (Part 2) on neurodivergence & different ways of being and knowing
Jan 10, 2024
Reflecting on 2023
Dec 22, 2023
Katta Spiel (Part 1) on career uncertainties, gender identity and health issues
Dec 13, 2023
Revisiting Irina part 2
Nov 29, 2023
On Self Compassion
Nov 22, 2023
Mark Reed on mental health, love and impact
Nov 15, 2023
On choosing the park
Nov 08, 2023
Irina Shklovski (Part 2) on coming back from burnout, being enough, doing enough
Nov 01, 2023
Irina Shklovski (Part 1) on Burning Out
Oct 25, 2023
Mobility, pensions and you, yes you! (solo)
Oct 20, 2023
Susanne Bødker on career, culture and choices
Oct 11, 2023
Reforming research assessment top-down bottom-up middle-out (solo)
Sep 27, 2023
Being a Work in Progress (solo)
Sep 21, 2023
Karen Stroobants on changing research culture and reforming research assessment
Sep 13, 2023
New Season Welcome (solo)
Sep 06, 2023
End of Season Reflections and Transitions
Jul 07, 2023
Sarah Davies (Part 2) on luck, disrupting excellence, and cultures of care
Jun 21, 2023
Sarah Davies (Part 1) on mobility, precarity and notions of excellence
Jun 07, 2023
Elizabeth Churchill on creating culture, leading teams, loving challenges
May 24, 2023
Marta Cecchinato (part 2) on promoting wellbeing through leadership, EDI & self-care
Apr 25, 2023
Marta Cecchinato (part 1) on digital wellbeing and microboundary strategies
Apr 14, 2023
James Wilsdon - Replay on metrics & responsible research evaluation
Mar 30, 2023
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus on global south research, reviewer bias, abstract vs lived diversity, & pluriversality
Mar 09, 2023
Edward Lee on the toxic culture of peer review
Feb 23, 2023
A confession from my review hall of shame
Feb 07, 2023
Gloria Mark - Replay
Jan 26, 2023
Leadership development with Austen Rainer
Jan 16, 2023
End of 2022 Reflections
Dec 30, 2022
Aisling O’Kane on radical participatory decision making (Part 2)
Dec 16, 2022
Aisling O’Kane on mobility, interdisciplinary threads & family (Part 1)
Dec 08, 2022
Stuart Reeves on effecting change – from the picket line to the Senate (Part 2)
Dec 01, 2022
Stuart Reeves on 'what are universities for' and management complexities (Part 1)
Nov 25, 2022
Darragh McCashin on imposter phenomenon and multi-level strategies (Part 2)
Nov 11, 2022
Darragh McCashin on interdisciplinarity, a new lecturership during COVID, and his imposter (Part 1)
Nov 02, 2022
Julie Kientz on leadership, impact, & being comfortable with being uncomfortable (Part 2)
Oct 12, 2022
Julie Kientz on making her way from small town geeky outcast to uni professor (Part 1)
Sep 22, 2022
Oscar Trimboli on how to listen deeply (Part 2)
Sep 15, 2022
Oscar Trimboli on being better listeners (Part 1)
Sep 08, 2022
Reconnecting in 2022
Sep 01, 2022
RW9 Progress and praise
Jul 23, 2021
RW8 Asking good questions, empowering good people
Jul 02, 2021
Michael Bungay Stanier on the power of curiosity and taming your advice monster
Jun 10, 2021
Tanita Casci and Elizabeth Adams on supporting, rewarding and celebrating a positive collegial research culture
May 21, 2021
Jeremy Birnholtz on sustainability of reviewing, queer research and being curious
May 07, 2021
Neha Kumar on choices, authenticity and the power of the collective
Apr 30, 2021
RW7 Job Crafting - small tweaks can make a big difference
Apr 23, 2021
RW6 Exploring your own superpowers
Apr 12, 2021
John Tang on review stress in a pandemic, community-level solutions and distributed work
Mar 19, 2021
Aaron Quigley on silent warriors, secret powers, and making the world better
Mar 10, 2021
RW5 Finding the management sweet spot
Feb 25, 2021
Austen Rainer on changing cultures, leading people and values
Feb 16, 2021
RW4 Rejection, tenure and so-called excellence
Feb 11, 2021
RW3 Notice, appreciate, thank - a good contagion!
Feb 02, 2021
RW2 From adapting to growing
Jan 22, 2021
RW1 My year of being bold
Jan 22, 2021
Reflections on 2020
Dec 29, 2020
Eunice Sari on being a trouble maker, pioneering new ways, and building society
Aug 28, 2020
Anirudha Joshi on being a designer, learning by doing, and developing community
Jul 15, 2020
COVID musings from Australia
May 21, 2020
Pejman Mirza Babaei (part 2) on post-tenure, balance and learning to become a good leader
Feb 10, 2020
Pejman Mirza-Babaei (part 1) on being strategic, the fast track to tenure, and finding his path
Jan 27, 2020
Reflections on 2019 & 2018
Jan 06, 2020
Rosa Arriaga on transferrable discipline toolkits, making a difference, & caring for the grad student journey
Oct 10, 2019
Alex Taylor on research at the boundaries, moving from industry to academia, the labour of academia & the power of the collective
Jul 24, 2019
Tom Erickson on industry research, telecommuting, and practising for retirement
Jun 14, 2019
Jen Mankoff on managing an academic career with a disability & finding good ways forward
Apr 23, 2019
Moshe Vardi (part 2) on publication pressures, student stress, mid-career mentoring & societal obligations
Apr 01, 2019
Moshe Vardi (Part 1) on social implications of technology & our responsibility as academics
Mar 19, 2019
Jofish Kaye on industry research, having an impact, and values-driven decision making
Feb 01, 2019
Katie Siek on dual careers & children, mentoring & lobbying, & dealing with illness
Dec 11, 2018
Leysia Palen on creating a new research area, the long path to tenure and starting a department
Nov 12, 2018
Mike Twidale on agile research, leading from strengths, and story-telling
Oct 12, 2018
Lindsay Oades on academic wellbeing, connecting to strengths, meaning and purpose, and not taking the system too seriously
Sep 07, 2018
Jan Gulliksen on middle management, leading autists, and building values and trust… with drama
Aug 08, 2018
Rowena Murray on writing retreats, academic friendships and dealing with discrimination
Jul 11, 2018
Kirsten Ellis on shifting goalposts, motivation, flying & being a working mum with a disabled child
Jun 19, 2018
Janet Read on charm bracelets, finish tape & the work to be a complete academic
May 18, 2018
Kylie Ball on supporting early career researchers, virtual mentorship and wellbeing
Apr 18, 2018
Carman Neustaedter on research identity, work tracking surprises, and taking perspective
Mar 07, 2018
James Wilsdon on impacts, responsible metrics & evaluation practices
Feb 01, 2018
Luigina Ciolfi on giving back, mentoring, and finding your own work-life strategies
Jan 16, 2018
Reflections on 2017 & creating kinder better work cultures (solo)
Jan 02, 2018
Michael Muller on principled engagements, value tensions, liking people & giving back
Dec 06, 2017
Jolanta Burke on burnout, harmonious passion, positive workplaces & helping others
Nov 14, 2017
Evan Peck on making choices, accepting trade-offs, and liberal arts as a great middle way
Aug 09, 2017
Scott Robertson on missing tenure, persevering, and connecting to mission & community
Jul 27, 2017
Margaret Burnett on pioneering, mentoring, changing the world & GenderMag
Jul 05, 2017
Amy Ko on being reflectively self-aware, deliberately structured, & amazingly productive
Jun 20, 2017
Gloria Mark on service, multitasking, creativity and fun
Jun 06, 2017
Chris Frauenberger on post-docs, parental leave & multiple dreams
Apr 04, 2017
Ali Black on doing academia differently...caring, connecting & becoming
Mar 20, 2017
Anna Cox on family, work & strategies for making the changes we want
Mar 06, 2017
Kia Höök on challenges of success & value of slowing down and re-connecting
Feb 13, 2017
Cliff Lampe on the joy of academic service, faculty meetings & peer networks
Jan 20, 2017
Reflections to kickstart the new year of 2017! (Solo)
Jan 02, 2017
Lone Malmborg on academic performance measures, benchmarking and strategies
Dec 15, 2016
Ben Kraal on moving from academia to industry
Dec 02, 2016
Tom Rodden on doing good work, metrics, failure, funding, and family
Nov 02, 2016
Saul Greenberg on supervising, building a lab, creating good work life balance
Oct 18, 2016
Yunan Chen on getting tenure, the two-body experience & negotiating motherhood
Oct 09, 2016
Marcus Foth on creating a research niche and building a lab
Sep 25, 2016
Katherine Isbister on finding your fit, being productive 8-5 and praising yourself
Aug 18, 2016
Rafael Calvo on technology and choices for mental health and well being
Aug 11, 2016
Mary Czerwinski on managing people, managing stress, and the work to do good work
Aug 03, 2016
Jon Whittle on the digital brain switch, drama and dance
Jul 27, 2016
Judy Olson on her career and blooming where you are planted
Jul 18, 2016
Carl Gutwin on academic life, making choices, getting perspective
Jul 03, 2016