3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It
We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural res...
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The Professor Is In
The Professor Is In answers all your questions about the academic career. Dr. Karen Kelsky and productivity coach Kel Weinhold, with their trademark combination of candor, humor, and compass...
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20 of 25 episodesEp 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting
Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple w...
Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism
Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her...
Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad
One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that...
Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From
Burnout is on everyone’s mind right now. It’s the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was. Profs and students both are at...
Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market
You didn’t get the job this year; what to do? Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that re...
Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism
We dig into the definition of “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia. Drawing f...
Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing
We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just… surviving in academia! So today we are t...
Ep 3:20 What Even Is Sick Leave For an Academic?
[Note: Karen and Kel were on vacation in NYC and recording from a hotel room! Please excuse the tinny sound today and next week; it goes bac...
Ep 3:19 Academic Labor Is Labor
We talk about the “capitalist gaze” and how it impacts the creativity of academics. Casting our research outcomes as “products” can be deepl...
Ep 3:18 How Is Academia Like Gardening?
When you think about academia like a garden, the analogy clarifies a lot of things. First off, not every plant can thrive in every spot; als...
Ep 3:17 Co-Writing As a Productivity Hack
Collaborative writing is a great productivity hack when it works. But how to make it work? In this episode Karen and Kel talk to Dr. Julia H...
Ep 3:16 Leaving Academia - All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
It’s the newest trend! Join the thousands who are saying goodbye (and good riddance?) to the academic career! If you spend any time on Twitt...
Ep 3:15 Managing Rejection
Karen and Kel talk about coping with rejection, moving beyond the typical advice to “take a break, come back to it later, etc. etc.” (which...
Ep. 3:14 Imposter Syndrome
We talk Imposter Syndrome: what it is, why we get it, how to overcome it. We talk about gendered messages, structural racism, and being told...
3:13 Lighting Your Fire
We are back! Thank you for your patience! Kel and I needed to rethink the podcast; basically we love to talk TO people, and after two years...
Ep 3:12 Your Breaking Point
We talk breaking points. Kel suggests to anyone feeling they’ve reached the breaking point at the end of the semester: pause, and appreciate...
Ep. 3:11 "White People, Don't Start That Bullshit!" - Interview with Deja Rollins
Today we are joined by the remarkable Deja Rollins, speaking about performative allyship. Deja, a graduate student in Communications at UIUC...
Ep. 3:10 We Don't Go Back, We Go Forward - Interview with Dr. Samira Rajabi
Dr. Samira Rajabi, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at U of Colorado Boulder, joins us for a discussion of navigating ambiguous grief an...
Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants
The Professor Is In Ep 3:9 The Key to Interviews and Grants Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward...