Anatomy of Academic Advice

Oh advice. It seems like you can’t turn a corner without someone telling you how you’re professor-ing or grad schooling wrong. Sometimes it’s a colleague. Sometimes it’s a random person on social media. Sometimes it’s sought for, but usually it’s unsolicited. On this episode, we’re breaking down academic advice. What makes for good advice? And why is bad advice...so bad? And why is it that so much academic advice assumes that we’re all cis, het, white guys? Joining us to talk about good academic advice, bad academic advice, shadow advising, and the expectations of "academic mommy" and "academic daddy" are Dr. Shanti Fernando (@ShantiFernando), Associate Professor of Political Science at Ontario Tech University, and Dr. Sule Tomkinson (@sule_tomkinson), Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Université Laval and Director of Le Centre d’analyse des politiques publiques. Get in touch with Academic Aunties on Twitter at @AcademicAuntie or by e-mail at [email protected]. Need some auntie wisdom? Send an #AskAnAcademicAuntie question to academicaunties.com/ask. Related Links Promoting the value of unofficial academic mentorship (https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/promoting-the-value-of-unofficial-shadow-academic-mentorship) Common pieces of academic advice from listeners (https://twitter.com/AcademicAuntie/status/1461027530819911680)