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Changing Academic Life — 156 episodes · page 1 of 2
Celebrating 10 Years & Season End (CAL147, S8E12)
Cultivating Deep Listening: Showing Up, Staying Curious, and Resisting Advice (CAL146, S8E11)
Mike Levin on navigating academia as a disruptive interdisciplinary researcher (CAL145, S8,E10)
Raffael Himmelsbach on Courage, Discomfort, and Leadership in Ambiguous Academic Roles (CAL144, S8E9)
On Identity, Meaning, and Joyful Effort (CAL143, S8E8)
Christian van Nieuwerburgh on Bringing Back the Joy (CAL142, S8E7)
Bethany Wilinski (Part 2) on Designing Your Intentional Sabbatical (CAL141, S8E6)
Bethany Wilinski (Part 1) on sabbatical, burnout and choosing rest (CAL140, S8E5)
Academic Rebels: From Bureaucracy to Trust, Teams, and New Leadership (CAL139, S8E4)
Jen Heemstra on Accidental Leadership (CAL 138, S8E3)
Jayne Price on making work work better (CAL137, S8E2)
Sarah McLusky on diverse careers, purposeful events and effective communication (CAL136, S8E1)
LP Replay - Reflect, Celebrate, Dream (CAL135, S7E8)
Infertility, Career Choices, and Compassion (CAL 134, S7E7)
Susan Dray (Part 2) on listening, mentoring, and adversity (CAL133, S7E6)
Susan Dray (Part 1) on navigating interstices: academia, industry and global consulting (CAL132, S7E5)
On the art, heart and science of 1-1 meetings (CAL131, S7E4)
Steven Rogelberg on Transforming Academic Meetings (CAL130, S7E3)
Deborah Boehm-Davis on career paths, leadership, and change (CAL129, S7E2)
Season 7 Kickoff: Fresh Starts and Being Intentional (CAL128 S7E1)
Season Reflections: Cultivating a Good Academic Life (CAL127, S6, E21)
Creating Peer Support Groups (CAL126, S6, E20)
Johanna Stadlbauer on boundaries, agency, and community building (CAL125, S6 E19)
Tina Persson on career pivots, recruitment and coaching for career security (CAL124, S6 E18)
Strengths as Superpowers - Replay (CAL123, S6 E17)
Graham McAllister (Part 3) on the art and craft of writing (CAL122, S6E16)
Graham McAllister (Part 2) on aligning team vision (CAL121, S6E15)
Graham McAllister (Part 1) on career pivots: academia to industry to startup (CAL120, S6E14)
Oana and Matt (Part 2) on mental health, teaching path and reflective practice (CAL119 S6E13)
Oana and Matt (Part 1) on leadership, belonging, and micro-actions making a difference (CAL118 S6E12)
Sharing my story with Nutan Limaye (CAL117, S6E11)
Vikki Wright on career transitions, ADHD, and learning to manage yourself (CAL116, S6E10)
Your LP Reflections - Looking back, Looking forward (CAL115 S6E9)
Evan Peck on considered choices and career moves: from liberals arts to a research uni (CAL114, S6E8)
Özge Subașı on values, choices and care (CAL113, S6E7)
Creating Positive Cultures: Stories from the archive
Fostering psychological safety in research environments [solo]
Creating better research cultures together
On reframing networking: connections and impact
Liam Bannon (Part 2) on values & what matters
S6E1 Welcome to the new season
CAL106 On STOP - the purposeful pause (solo)
Remembering Volkmar Pipek - on being curious, being you
Liam Bannon (Part 1) on a career outside the box
Jean Paul (Part 2) on leading virtual transdisciplinary teams and stakeholder engagement
Jean Paul (Part 1) on Sandpit funding & impact-focussed research
Funding & Research Culture (podcast extract)
Celebrating 100!
On research identity, meaningful work and funding (solo)
Katta Spiel (Part 2) on neurodivergence & different ways of being and knowing
Reflecting on 2023
Katta Spiel (Part 1) on career uncertainties, gender identity and health issues
Revisiting Irina part 2
On Self Compassion
Mark Reed on mental health, love and impact
On choosing the park
Irina Shklovski (Part 2) on coming back from burnout, being enough, doing enough
Irina Shklovski (Part 1) on Burning Out
Mobility, pensions and you, yes you! (solo)
Susanne Bødker on career, culture and choices
Reforming research assessment top-down bottom-up middle-out (solo)
Being a Work in Progress (solo)
Karen Stroobants on changing research culture and reforming research assessment
New Season Welcome (solo)
End of Season Reflections and Transitions
Sarah Davies (Part 2) on luck, disrupting excellence, and cultures of care
Sarah Davies (Part 1) on mobility, precarity and notions of excellence
Elizabeth Churchill on creating culture, leading teams, loving challenges
Marta Cecchinato (part 2) on promoting wellbeing through leadership, EDI & self-care
Marta Cecchinato (part 1) on digital wellbeing and microboundary strategies
James Wilsdon - Replay on metrics & responsible research evaluation
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus on global south research, reviewer bias, abstract vs lived diversity, & pluriversality
Edward Lee on the toxic culture of peer review
A confession from my review hall of shame
Gloria Mark - Replay
Leadership development with Austen Rainer
End of 2022 Reflections
Aisling O’Kane on radical participatory decision making (Part 2)
Aisling O’Kane on mobility, interdisciplinary threads & family (Part 1)
Stuart Reeves on effecting change – from the picket line to the Senate (Part 2)
Stuart Reeves on 'what are universities for' and management complexities (Part 1)
Darragh McCashin on imposter phenomenon and multi-level strategies (Part 2)
Darragh McCashin on interdisciplinarity, a new lecturership during COVID, and his imposter (Part 1)
Julie Kientz on leadership, impact, & being comfortable with being uncomfortable (Part 2)
Julie Kientz on making her way from small town geeky outcast to uni professor (Part 1)
Oscar Trimboli (Part 2) on how to listen deeply (CAL62)
Oscar Trimboli (Part 1) on being better listeners (CAL61)
Reconnecting in 2022
RW9 Progress and praise
RW8 Asking good questions, empowering good people
Michael Bungay Stanier on the power of curiosity and taming your advice monster
Tanita Casci and Elizabeth Adams on supporting, rewarding and celebrating a positive collegial research culture
Jeremy Birnholtz on sustainability of reviewing, queer research and being curious
Neha Kumar on choices, authenticity and the power of the collective
RW7 Job Crafting - small tweaks can make a big difference
RW6 Exploring your own superpowers
John Tang on review stress in a pandemic, community-level solutions and distributed work
Aaron Quigley on silent warriors, secret powers, and making the world better
RW5 Finding the management sweet spot
Austen Rainer on changing cultures, leading people and values