Over the last two weeks, my lab group have hosted two invited speakers remotely. Both were experienced academics and completely comfortable with video conferencing. And yet, both spent the first five minutes of their talk clicking around, sighing, and saying, “Sorry, I just need to figure out how to share my screen.”

You’re holding back on publishing your best ideas because theory feels scary to you. That’s the truth I’ve learned from clients, writing groups, and, if I’m honest, my own experience in academia.

You’ve got a brilliant idea—maybe even five.  But nothing’s happening.  I’m talking about the ground-breaking research centre, the important article, or the amazing life-changing impact project. 

I was listening to a podcast with Gabor Mate the other day talking about junior doctors. He and the podcast host were discussing how some junior doctors just can't tear themselves away from their work and end up staying late or going in on their day off.

If you went part-time to manage your workload only to end up using your unpaid days to catch up on email and things you didn't manage to finish, then it's time to stop.

I met this professor at a women in leadership event, and she was telling me about the time she spent her entire morning looking for these name tags and a welcome banner for the departmental open day.

Women in academia, it's time to do the one thing you always skip: Celebrate Yourself… as we wrap up 2024 with my annual online planning party (it's free to attend).

At a work Christmas party, I met a woman who exuded confidence and ease, which surprised me—until I realised she wasn’t an academic but worked in HR. It got me thinking…

Boundaries are something many of us socialised as women struggle with (we have to be helpful and nice, right?). However, clear boundaries are essential for maintaining well-being and protecting against burnout.

A friend at another institution recently told me about their latest hiring process. They passed on an eccentric genius—someone with amazing research…

Does your brain run a mile a minute to the extent that it feels really hard to switch it off? And when you try, it wants to continue its train of thought? If this is you, read on…

We all know that fear of missing out—FOMO—can drive us to say yes to too much.  FOMO sneaks into almost every corner of academic life...

Let's be clear: you don't need to do it all to succeed in academia. In fact, doing everything is precisely what will hold you back...

Here's quick email hacks I use to reduce overwhelm whilst catching the important stuff...

Read on to find out eight ways your people-pleasing is getting in the way of your goals!

Have you ever felt really awful after getting a rejection or a perceived failure? Then, keep reading.

It's a common feeling at the beginning of September amongst many academics to start to feel the pull of rewriting your entire course. I'm here to tell you to resist that temptation.

Do things feel out of control during term time? Try becoming the ringmaster

In academia, most of us aren’t simply working on one project at a time, completing it, and then starting anew.

As academics, do we need to write everyday or is it alright to have a less regular, perhaps longer chunk once a week or so?