On the Art and Politics of Chairing Panels
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
So, I did it. I was away. I was out. I packed my stuff and took a plane to Mexico and stayed there for 22 days. Not just like that, it was actually a...
Happy New Year, everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you came good into this 2023. May it be a healthy, successful and marvellous year for all of you! So… a new beginning. Well, that’s...
Maybe you stopped by because of my title: Positive Procrastination? Sounds challenging, right? Everybody of us has experienced the powers of procrastination (I really like the Wikipedia entry on it), in all its ways,...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
This is going to be a short post and I shall give you a glimpse of my first feedback on my distance teaching. This semester, I am giving a course on epigraphy at the...
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...
You may have seen our recent posts and you may have noticed our emphasis on all the stuff of academia that can scare the hell out of us – failing, how to get a...
Today I want to talk about motivation and the last long days of corrections, revisions and re-writing of your thesis or dissertation. When I first stumbled on the #100daysofdissertationchallenge on Instagram, I thought about...
Hey there, guys! It’s time for part II of our PhD/Life Wisdom series concerning wisdom learned from bouldering. In Part I, Sarah told you about the following points we learn from climbing walls: 1....
Okay, I am actually feeling like Frodo, except for not standing on Mount Doom and being totally wrecked by an evil power. I am actually feeling like Frodo, sitting at my desk, enjoying some...
This is it. This is the last month of my intensive writing bootcamp to finish my dissertation. That was the reason why you have not seen any posts from me recently… I was busy....
Welcome to part III of our selfcare-series and I decided this time to write about social life, because I am a few days away of going on a long holiday. I definitely need a...
As I told you last week, I was on my way to Italy – and now, I am back here in Austria, sitting in my appartment, enjoyed a wunderful silent and easy Sunday without...
You have maybe seen it on our social media profiles – Sarah and I are really big in conferencing right now. You know, just see a Call for Papers on the Internet or getting...