Tag: academic productivity
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Head Space course discount during January
Head Space is offering a 25% discount on online courses this January, for new newsletter subscribers. The courses aim to provide health professions educators with practical strategies for establishing sustainable academic workflows.
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Head space visual refresh
Announcing an update to the Head Space project. A complete visual refresh, emphasising simplicity and focus.
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Generative AI for personal productivity – Physiopedia AI webinar
This webinar aimed to demonstrate how physiotherapists can effectively integrate AI into physiotherapy practice, with a focus on enhancing productivity and clinical workflows. I discussed practical strategies for using generative AI tools in rehabilitation, from patient management to treatment planning, while maintaining ethical considerations and human oversight.
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Academic productivity courses on sale
The Head space online courses will be on sale until the 31st of January. Sign up before then to get 25% off, and start 2024 with the gift of calm academic productivity. There are courses on: Each course explores the common challenges in these core areas of academic productivity, and describes the most effective strategies…
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Sale: Head space courses are 25% off until the end of January
Are you an academic who wants to work smarter, not harder? Do you want to improve your productivity, time management, and workflow without sacrificing your well-being and career goals? If so, you might be interested in the Head space online courses, designed for busy academics who want to get back to a sense of calm productivity.…
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Calm Productivity course is on sale
Summer sale The Calm Productivity course is on sale until the 31st of August. The Calm Productivity course is aimed at busy academics who are stressed, under pressure, and working extended hours just to get through a ‘normal’ workload. By embracing a structured workflow, Calm Productivity helps create sustainable approaches to academia without sacrificing your…
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Using Obsidian for academic writing and creativity
In this conversation with Dave Nicholls, I describe how I use Obsidian to support my academic writing and creative process, in response to Dave’s question: Is using Obsidian worth it? I explain how I’ve set up different vaults in Obsidian, depending on what it is that I’m trying to do, and use examples from my…
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Head space course on Calm Productivity
It’s been a while since I posted anything about the Calm Productivity course I created earlier this year, so I thought it’s time to give it another plug. The aim of the course is to provide a structure for busy academics to build new habits and routines around their workflow for a sustainable, high-impact academic…
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Why publish-or-perish? Why not, publish-and-prosper?
It’s weird to think of some of the things we take for granted in higher education. Surely one of the worst is to be taken in by the publish-or-perish mindset; the idea that, unless you publish you have no future in academia. That you’ll be punished, or worse, that you’ll ‘perish’: To die or be destroyed, especially…
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Head space: Calm productivity for knowledge work
Head space is a programme for academics who want to establish new habits and routines aimed at cultivating a space for calm productivity. To escape the unproductive and frenetic activities that fill our days. And to create the head space we need to do the work we love. I’ve started A New Thing. It’s called Head space…
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Knowledge work and academic productivity
This is an introduction to a new project I’m starting where I think about, explore, and discuss ideas around workflow, process, and productivity as a knowledge worker. If being an academic is about using information to create value for others, then I don’t think that we have systematic processes that we can use to manage…