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Tag: academic career

Calm Productivity course goes live on 24 February

Feb 15, 2023

in Productivity, Scholarship

academia, academic career, calm productivity, career progression, course, head space, online course

Over the past few months, I’ve been building an online course called Calm Productivity, as part of my Head space project. It’s taken way longer than I’d hoped it would, and required a lot more work than I’d anticipated. But I’m very happy with the outcome and can’t wait to release it in a couple…
Uncertain times: A short reflection on career progression

Feb 23, 2018

in Publication, Writing

academic career, career progression, complex systems, distributed systems, higher education, reflection, social networks, uncertainty, wicked problems

As part of the 10 year celebration of SAFRI – the Southern African FAIMER Regional Institute – I was asked to contribute short reflection to a chapter on Professional development: Post fellowship on a personal and professional level. This is what I submitted (download the PDF).