MINDFUL ACADEMIC

Fighting Burnout. Slowing Down. Attending to My Inner Child.

Summer Guilt

One day you wake up, only to realise that more than half of your summer break is gone. And you feel neither rested, nor accomplished. I...

(our) Obsession with “Tangible” Outcomes

You know the drill. You are asked to turn every term paper into a dissertation chapter, every chapter into a journal article, a stack of...

Doing a PhD in times of crises

In the past five days, I have been wondering, more severely than ever before, what is the point of my PhD. Who cares about my research...