Category Archives: academic life

Academic rewards

I’ve had a couple of rough days (weeks? months?) and when life starts messing with you all of a sudden it becomes much harder to cope with the huge work load as well. I usually don’t have a problem juggling … Continue reading

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Addicted to ToDo-lists

At times like these, when I simply don’t know where to start because I have so many things to do, I make lists. On little pieces of paper, on the back of reports I’m reading, and more recently in the … Continue reading

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Do new mothers doing a PhD get enough support?

That’s the question asked in a piece on the Times Higher Education web site. I was actually interviewed over the phone for this article, since the author had read my post on PhD parenting! I have a couple of comments … Continue reading

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An alternative career

You know how an academic career can be quite uncertain, dependant on short term contracts and hard to obtain research funding? So you need a plan B. This is mine – I’m an excellent travel organizer. If anyone would be … Continue reading

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Heels for height and authority – really?

Working from home again today and I took the opportunity to browse through the latest issue of Universitetsläraren – a publication from SULF, a union for researchers and university level educators. About half way through, I stumbled on an article … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Twitter!

Apparently, Twitter turns 10 years today – and of course this deserves a blog post on it’s own. I joined twitter in september 2011 – and since then I’ve published 3320 tweets. Puh. I thought this post would be a … Continue reading

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PhD parenting

I started writing this post last year as I was taking the MOOC “How to survive your PhD“. I quickly got engaged in online discussions about the struggles of getting your PhD and keeping your sanity. I worked on my … Continue reading

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