How to Be a Happy Academic
A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching
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A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching
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Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns. Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy Workflow & managing workload Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills Getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.
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My copy of this book was given to me by one of the authors.
The advice in here is spot on for academic workers, but I imagine that many academic workers won't take the time to read through it. That's a shame–and I agree that the book could be pared down a bit. I think the length stems in part from the authors' awareness that spending time with these concepts is important, so slowing the reader down and making him/her think and do exercises is an effective way to get the lessons to sit a bit deeper.
Most of the contents of this book are things that i cover with the academics I coach. That makes me something of the target market for Clark & Sousa. What I really appreciated about their approach, though, can be summed up with a quote from p. 189 “All too readily, the challenge of academic work also becomes about the self, and especially the self-work that we must do.”
