Changing Academic Life
134 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhat can we do, individually and collectively, to change academic life to be more sustainable, collaborative and effective? This podcast series offers long-form conversations with academics and thought leaders who share stories and insights, as well as bite-size musings on specific topics drawing on literature and personal experience.
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CAL106 On STOP - the purposeful pause (solo)
May 22, 2024 06:00 - 13 minutes - 16 MBIn this short solo episode a share a simple yet powerful technique, S.T.O.P., for taking a purposeful pause throughout your every day. Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed. 00:29 Motivating STOP 01:50 What is STOP 04:37 Using STOP 11:19 Towards making STOP a habit 13:58 End This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Remembering Volkmar Pipek - on being curious, being you
April 24, 2024 06:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBVolkmar Pipek was a highly influential researcher from Uni of Siegen who sadly passed away in Jan 2024 after a long illness. This short episode draws from a written interview he gave to Mateusz Dolata on the occasion of his 2023 EUSSET-ISSI Lifetime Achievement Award. I read an extract where he shares his advice about becoming and being a researcher: Be curious. Be who you are. Be curious who you are. Wise advice for all of us. Read the full interview with Volkmar Pipek Interview conducted...
Liam Bannon (Part 1) on a career outside the box
April 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBLiam Bannon is a Professor Emeritus and founder and director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland. Liam has been a hugely influential thinker writer and researcher since the 1980s, along with various collaborators, in shaping work around technology and design. Recorded in-person in 2017, he reflects on his interdisciplinary journey and contributions, covering areas such as AI, HCI, CSCW, human-centered design, and collaboration. Liam’s experiences ex...
Jean Paul (Part 2) on leading virtual transdisciplinary teams and stakeholder engagement
March 27, 2024 14:28 - 41 minutes - 58.1 MBJean Paul is a senior scientist at the Medical University of Innsbruck. In part 2 of our conversation, Jean discusses her experience leading an impact-led transcdisciplinary research project focused on supporting families with mental health issues. She highlights the challenges of stakeholder engagement, distributed team management, and transdisciplinary research. Jean emphasizes the importance of community engagement, virtual team collaboration, and fostering diversity in academia. She also...
Jean Paul (Part 1) on Sandpit funding & impact-focussed research
March 13, 2024 06:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBJean Paul is a Senior Scientist at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria. Jean discusses her involvement in a unique research funding process called a sandpit or an ideas factory. Having then taken on the leadership of the project, she provides insights into the challenges and benefits of transdisciplinary research, stakeholder engagement, and arguing for their impact-focused approach. Jean also shares her academic background in social science, health and genomics research work in A...
Funding & Research Culture (podcast extract)
February 28, 2024 19:18 - 30 minutes - 35.4 MBThis episode is an edited extract from a ‘Beyond Phrenology’ podcast episode where Dr Madhur Mangalam chatted with me about the impacts of research funding challenges on academic culture and individual well-being. The conversation addresses the need for a shift towards more supportive and diverse cultures, the complexities of academic career paths, and the importance of leadership, mentorship and job crafting. We also discuss the implications of international academic norms on individual car...
Celebrating 100!
February 08, 2024 06:00 - 19 minutes - 22.6 MBTaking this time to celebrate CAL100 – the 100th episode for the Changing Academic Life podcast series (actually 109th episode if we count the nine related work episodes) and thanks to all the people who have been part of making it happen. To update and correct the information about Dr Paddy Barrett who inspired this podcast: His original podcast was called 'The Doctor Paradox'. He is a preventive cardiologist not an anaesthetist as I stated. And he is now working in Ireland not the US! ...
On research identity, meaningful work and funding (solo)
January 24, 2024 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBTriggered by a comment from Katta Spiel in an earlier podcast, in this solo episode I explore the tensions between the autonomy and freedom we have to shape our research identities and do meaningful work, and the systemic constraints from funding and promotion opportunities. The tensions particularly arise when research interests don’t align well with institutional expectations or funding trends. I explore various ways to navigate these tensions, such as, adjusting research focus to align wi...
Katta Spiel (Part 2) on neurodivergence & different ways of being and knowing
January 10, 2024 06:00 - 38 minutes - 43.6 MBDr Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien, a recent ERC Starting Grant recipient, and a good colleague of mine. In part two of our conversation, Katta discusses being neurodivergent, and experiences with ADHD, and being an activist for change with an example of how gender is dealt with in research, and about 'epistemic plurality and the importance of making space for different ways of being and knowing. They conclude by advocating for respectful curiosity about individual experienc...
Reflecting on 2023
December 22, 2023 14:13 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBIn this short episode I reflect on the podcast season so far and on my own year of transitions. And I offer some prompt questions to help us reflect on what we have achieved and learnt this past year and encourage us to take some time to savour and celebrate it. Overview: 00:05 Introduction 01:32 Podcast highlights 05:50 Transitioning to a new phase 7:35 Reflection prompts 10:17 Gratitude & looking forward 13:26 End This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: ...
Katta Spiel (Part 1) on career uncertainties, gender identity and health issues
December 13, 2023 06:00 - 43 minutes - 49.7 MBDr Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor at TU Wien, a recent ERC Starting Grant recipient, and a good colleague of mine. In the first part of this two-part conversation Katta shares their experiences on a range of topics like career uncertainty, rejection of proposals, coming out as queer, having a formal gender change, dealing with chronic health issues, and being successful in receiving a prestigious research council grant. Dr. Spiel's struggles and successes reflect their unyielding ef...
Revisiting Irina part 2
November 29, 2023 06:00 - 5 minutes - 6.22 MBThere were some technical hiccups in Part 2 of my conversation with Irina Shklovski, making the original audio I released very choppy (a lesson in not relying on smart tools!). I’ve uploaded new audio version that is much easier to listen to and doesn't chop off words. So this is an encouragement to you to listen to this now as it is such an important raw honest conversation and Irina shares so many useful ideas about coming back from burnout and learning to be enough, do enough. I include ...
On Self Compassion
November 22, 2023 14:02 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this short episode I pick on the notion of self-compassion from the discussion with Mark Reed last week, and go back to Kristin Neff’s work and other related self-compassion researcher to unpack the three components of self-compassion and some practices for cultivating self-compassion and also point to some of the research evidence base for the benefits of self-compassion. I also share my own experience in needing to apply self-compassion this week. Overview: 00:29 Introduction 01:27 ...
Mark Reed on mental health, love and impact
November 15, 2023 11:52 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBProfessor Mark Reed is an academic, author, podcaster, consultant, trainer, policy advisor among his many roles. His research area is on ecosystem markets and environmental governance, and he studies how researchers can generate and share their knowledge so they can change the world. Reflecting both of these strands, he is both an academic, co-directing a research Centre at Scotland’s Rural College, and he is the founder of Fast Track Impact, a training and coaching company, and he hosts The...
On choosing the park
November 08, 2023 06:00 - 7 minutes - 6.58 MBIn this very short 7mins episode, I talk about choosing to go to the park instead of doing a longer episode as I had planned - making good enough choices and honouring other areas of my life. I also point to related older podcasts that talked about issues around burnout, obsessive vs harmonious passion, self care, planning: Jolanta Burke on burnout, harmonious passion, positive workplaces & helping others (from 2017) Anna Cox on family, work & strategies for making the changes we want (fr...
Irina Shklovski (Part 2) on coming back from burnout, being enough, doing enough
November 01, 2023 06:00 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBProfessor Irina Shklovski, University of Copenhagen, continues her powerful story about her academic burn-out experiences, returning to work and learning the dance of how to be enough and do enough. She discusses the push-and-pull between professional expectations and personal health, the value of reflection and self-awareness, how to establish work boundaries, and the crucial role of support from colleagues. We also touch on university funding, neoliberal culture in academia, and the import...
Irina Shklovski (Part 1) on Burning Out
October 25, 2023 06:00 - 45 minutes - 51.8 MBProfessor Irina Shklovski, University of Copenhagen, has a powerful story to tell about her burn-out experiences. In Part 1 she talks about how she got there, having an amazingly supportive department and colleagues, and how her body tells her when to stop. Implicated in this are issues such as being across two departments, defining her scholarship, starting a new uni during COVID, the downside of getting grants and what it’s like getting to the point of not being able to function and havin...
Mobility, pensions and you (solo)
October 20, 2023 07:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this short solo episode, I reflect back on recent conversations around academic mobility, discuss some benefits, and also point to an EU initiative to improve support for mobility across sectors, countries and disciplines. I also discuss some of the costs and issues around mobility, and in particular pensions, something we don’t often think about. In sharing my experiences with a complicated pension situation because of my international and sector mobility, I encourage everyone to think a...
Mobility, pensions and you, yes you! (solo)
October 20, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this short solo episode, I reflect back on recent conversations around academic mobility, discuss some benefits, and also point to an EU initiative to improve support for mobility across sectors, countries and disciplines. I also discuss some of the costs and issues around mobility, and in particular pensions, something we don’t often think about. In sharing my experiences with a complicated pension situation because of my international and sector mobility, I encourage everyone to think a...
Susanne Bødker on career, culture and choices
October 11, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBProfessor Susanne Bødker is a professor of Human Computer Interaction at Aarhus University in Denmark. She reflects on 40 years at Aarhus University (AU) touching on issues including mobility, changes over time, hiring practices, creating collegial culture, being active in university politics, transitioning to retirement, being a single parent, among many others. You’ll hear a strongly held set of values around participation and human connections. Susanne is one of the most respected and imp...
Reforming research assessment top-down bottom-up middle-out (solo)
September 27, 2023 20:06 - 41 minutes - 38 MBFollowing the conversation with Dr Karen Stroobants on the EU CoARA agreement, I discuss some other top-down initiatives at international and national levels for reforming research assessment. I also share some of my own bottom-up experiences trying to put these principles to work eg in writing references and being part of evaluation panels. It is also my hope that these actions can also have some middle-out influence. Overview [41:33 mins] - full transcript available: [00:00:29] Episode i...
Being a Work in Progress (solo)
September 21, 2023 15:00 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MBIn this short episode I reflect on my recurring life lesson about putting unrealistic pressures on myself, in this case to put out a full podcast this week. Especially when the platforms I am using are a work in progress. And accepting that I am also a work in progress. What are your recurring life lessons? Transcript [08:03 mins] [00:00:29] Geri: Do you ever have any of those life lessons where it seems like the universe needs to serve them up to you again and again and again? Because you...
Karen Stroobants on changing research culture and reforming research assessment
September 13, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBWe need to reform research evaluation because "It's not just which people are we excluding, which profiles are we excluding, which ideas are we excluding, but also whose problems are we not solving" says Dr Karen Stroobants. Karen is a researcher, policy adviser and consultant on research policy and strategy, with a focus on research culture. Her research background and PhD is in chemistry. She now manages a portfolio of activities, combining roles as (part-time) lead policy advisor on rese...
Season 4 Welcome (solo)
September 06, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBThis is a short episode to kick off Season 4 of the Changing Academic Life podcast series. Looking forward to bringing some great conversations coming on a range of topics fro reforming research assessment, burnout and neurodiversity. A new website will be coming very soon! You can access all the latest episodes via this link that will connect you to your favourite podcast player. And don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already to be sure you don’t miss any episodes! This podcast us...
New Season Welcome (solo)
September 06, 2023 09:00 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBThis is a short episode to kick off the new Season of the Changing Academic Life podcast series. Looking forward to bringing some great conversations coming on a range of topics fro reforming research assessment, burnout and neurodiversity. A new website will be coming very soon! You can access all the latest episodes via this link that will connect you to your favourite podcast player. And don’t forget to subscribe if you haven’t already to be sure you don’t miss any episodes! This podc...
End of Season Reflections and Transitions
July 07, 2023 04:07 - 18 minutes - 15.2 MBThis is the end of the current season of episodes. I take the opportunity to shortly reflect on the themes we’ve heard - around listening, leadership, wellbeing, peer review, and research excellence and evaluation. I also invite you to share your feedback and suggestions, and I share some of the various transitions happening over the break, all leading up to the next season starting Sept/Oct 2023. If you missed any episodes from this season, you can find them all on your favourite podcast a...
Sarah Davies (Part 2) on luck, disrupting excellence, and cultures of care
June 21, 2023 05:31 - 38 minutes - 31.1 MBSarah Davies is a Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University of Vienna. Overall her work explores how science and society are co-produced, with the digital and digitisation being key aspects. Of particular interest for our discussions is her current research on the conditions of academic work and knowledge production. In Part 2, Sarah Davies shares from both her research and lived experiences on topics like...
Sarah Davies (Part 1) on mobility, precarity and notions of excellence
June 07, 2023 03:12 - 51 minutes - 41.5 MBSarah Davies is a Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University of Vienna. Overall her work explores how science and society are co-produced, with the digital and digitisation being key aspects. Of particular interest is her current research on the conditions of academic work and knowledge production. In Part 1 here, we discuss her experiences with academic mobility, touching on issues of cultural differences,...
Elizabeth Churchill on creating culture, leading teams, loving challenges
May 24, 2023 10:09 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBDr Elizabeth Churchill, Snr Director at Google, shares experiences on building team cultures, managing diversity, onboarding global teams, and useful management frameworks. She also shares her journey from psychology to working in big tech and now at the infrastructure level, what she was looking for in moving between companies, and her love of people, of being challenged and continually learning. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2023/ cal80-elizabeth-churchill for a time-stampe...
Elizabeth Churchill on creating culture, leading teams, loving challenges
May 24, 2023 09:09 - 1 hour - 52.9 MBDr Elizabeth Churchill is a Senior Director at Google. We recorded this interview while we were both at a conference, where she was awarded a SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. In this conversation she shares insights and experiences around building good team cultures, managing diversity, onboarding for global teams, and some management frameworks that she has found useful. She also shares her journey from a psychology background to working in big tech and from research to now delivering technic...
Marta Cecchinato (part 2) on promoting wellbeing through leadership, EDI & self-care
April 25, 2023 09:41 - 47 minutes - 37.8 MBThis is part 2 of my conversation with Dr Marta Cecchinato (Part 1 is here). Marta is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on understanding the complexities of multiple technologies in everyday life and how digital experiences can be shaped to support wellbeing at work and in our personal lives. In part 2, we go on to discuss a range of issues from how her wellbeing stance has influence...
Marta Cecchinato (part 1) on digital wellbeing and microboundary strategies
April 14, 2023 11:56 - 38 minutes - 31.2 MBDr Marta Cecchinato is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on understanding the complexities of dealing with multiple technologies in everyday life and how digital experiences can be shaped to support wellbeing at work and in our personal lives. In part 1 of our conversation, she talks about her digital wellbeing research, the concept of microboundaries, and strategies for taking more c...
James Wilsdon - Replay on metrics & responsible research evaluation
March 30, 2023 14:06 - 34 minutes - 27.3 MBThis is a replay of a 2018 conversation with Professor James Wilsdon when he was a Professor of Research Policy in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He is now at UCL as a Professor of Research Policy in the Dept for Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP). James has been involved in many policy and think tank initiatives. Of particular interest here, he chaired an independent review of the role of metrics in the management of the UK’s re...
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus on global south research, reviewer bias, abstract vs lived diversity, & pluriversality
March 09, 2023 20:07 - 1 hour - 56 MBThis conversation continues the reflections on our peer reviewing practices, this time bringing in the experiences of someone from the Global South. Here I am speaking with Prof Heike Winschiers-Theophilus. Heike is a Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Informatics, at Namibia University of Science & Technology. Heike shares the many challenges she and her colleagues have faced in the form of reviewer assumptions and biases, often informed from a Global North mindset as the default ‘main...
Edward Lee on the toxic culture of peer review
February 23, 2023 14:25 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBIn the last episode from my own reviewing hall of shame, I mentioned the coincidence of attending a webinar where Edward Lee talked about the ‘toxic culture of rejection’, based on a blog post he write in 2022. In this episode we hear from Edward directly and discuss the culture of rejection, in CS especially, the problems with peer reviewing, the nature of conferences, and how we might approach reviewing differently and start to change the culture around publications, acceptance rates and e...
A confession from my review hall of shame
February 07, 2023 15:29 - 19 minutes - 15.8 MBThis short reflection follows on from the last episode, a replay of my 2017 conversation with Gloria Mark in honour of her just having published her book called “Attention span: a groundbreaking way to restore balance, happiness and productivity”. I make a confession here that comes from my reviewing hall of shame, about when I was a reviewer of one of the key papers leading to this book, a paper authored by Victor González and Gloria Mark. And how I (very wrongly!) argued for rejection. Luc...
Gloria Mark - Replay
January 26, 2023 07:18 - 53 minutes - 42.8 MBGloria Mark is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California Irvine. This is a replay of our conversation in 2017 in honour of her having just published her book called ‘Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity’ which is being touted as the ‘must-read book for January’ and receiving a lot of enthusiastic media and podcast attention. In this conv...
Leadership development with Austen Rainer
January 16, 2023 05:41 - 50 minutes - 40.6 MBAusten Rainer and I love co-facilitating academic leadership development courses for Informatics Europe and sharing experiences with so many people who share a commitment to doing academia differently. In this conversation we reflect on how these courses came about and experiences running them so far. We also try to unpack the similarities and differences between the online and residential versions of the course as well as the broad topic areas we cover. Join us in being part of changing ac...
End of 2022 Reflections
December 30, 2022 13:50 - 19 minutes - 15.4 MBIn this short podcast [19:16 mins], I reflect on some of the themes from across the podcast discussions since Sept 2022 - themes around listening, leadership and stepping up to make a difference. I also conclude with a call to take some time now to reflect on and savour your 2022 and to think of your theme for 2023. Full transcript: [Also downloadable as pdf] 00:05 Welcome to changing academic life. I'm Geraldine Fitzpatrick. And this is a podcast series where academics and others share t...
Aisling O’Kane on radical participatory decision making (Part 2)
December 16, 2022 05:33 - 43 minutes - 35 MBDr. Aisling O’Kane is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in Health at the University of Bristol in the UK. In Part 1 of our conversation, she talked about her very diverse background ad reflected on issues like the importance of mobility, the challenges being part of an academic couple with family, and the impact of COVID. In Part 2 here, she goes on to talk about how she came to take on an acting Head of Department role as a relatively junior faculty member, motivated by w...
Aisling O’Kane on mobility, interdisciplinary threads & family (Part 1)
December 08, 2022 14:15 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBDr. Aisling O’Kane is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in Health at the University of Bristol in the UK. In Part 1 of our conversation, she talks about her very diverse background from engineering to human factors and working in industry, from margarine, beer and nuclear risk assessment, then to doing a PhD, and now being in a faculty position. Along the way she reflects on the importance of mobility, the challenges being part of an academic couple with family, and the im...
Stuart Reeves on effecting change – from the picket line to the Senate (Part 2)
December 01, 2022 17:42 - 38 minutes - 31 MBDr. Stuart Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Mixed Reality Lab and Horizon Research Institute at Nottingham University in the UK. This conversation is in two parts. In Part 1 of our conversation, he reflected on the complexities of universities and the structural/managerial issues that contribute to this. In Part 2 here, Stuart goes on to describe his journey from protesting about pensions on the picket line to becoming an academic member of the university Senate and his experiences of...
Stuart Reeves on 'what are universities for' and management complexities (Part 1)
November 25, 2022 12:06 - 39 minutes - 32 MBDr. Stuart Reeves is an Associate Professor in the Mixed Reality Lab in the School of Computer Science and Horizon Research Institute both at Nottingham University in the UK. This conversation is in two parts. In Part 1 here, he reflects on the conflict in defining one’s own research brand vs the importance of the collective and collegiality in academia, and the structural issues that contribute to this. He raises the question of ‘what are universities for’ and highlights the complexities of...
Darragh McCashin on imposter phenomenon and multi-level strategies (Part 2)
November 11, 2022 09:30 - 47 minutes - 38 MBWelcome to Part 2 of my discussion with Dr Darragh McCashin. In Part 1 Darragh discussed his PhD in Digital mental health and his path to being an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Dublin City University during COVID. In part 2, we start off replaying what he was saying about the mental health challenges faced by PhD and early career researchers in particular and then we get into a focus on the imposter, something that we can probably all relate to. Based on his work and tha...
Darragh McCashin on interdisciplinarity, a new lecturership during COVID, and his imposter (Part 1)
November 02, 2022 09:39 - 32 minutes - 26.3 MBDr Darragh McCashin started as an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Dublin City University during COVID. In Part 1 of this conversation, he reflects on his experiences doing an interdisciplinary PhD in digital mental health, on the importance of interdisciplinary thinking, and on starting a lecturer position at a new university during COVID times. Darragh is also part of the Core Group for the EU COST Network on Researcher Mental Health Observatory, called ReMO. In sharing w...
Julie Kientz on leadership, impact, & being comfortable with being uncomfortable (Part 2)
October 12, 2022 07:18 - 44 minutes - 36 MBDr. Julie Kientz is a professor and Chair of the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington in the US. In part 1 of our conversation, Julie reflected on how she made her own way from a small town geeky outcast, to get through college, and then on to a PhD and a faculty position and parenthood. We continue here in Part 2 with Julie talking about some early roles that demonstrated leadership skills, her tenure process and finding a more focused path post...
Julie Kientz on making her way from small town geeky outcast to uni professor (Part 1)
September 22, 2022 06:25 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBDr. Julie Kientz is a professor and Chair of the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington in the US. In part 1 of our conversation, Julie shares her fascinating journey from first wanting to be a vet to then getting into a small town college to do computer science and then eventually doing a PhD at Georgia Tech and later getting a tenure track position. Her telling of the story is rich with reflective insights and nuggets of wisdom, whether it is abou...
Oscar Trimboli on how to listen deeply (Part 2)
September 15, 2022 07:49 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBOscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the...
Oscar Trimboli on being better listeners (Part 1)
September 08, 2022 08:19 - 31 minutes - 25.6 MBOscar Trimboli is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organisations that create powerful legacies for the...
Reconnecting in 2022
September 01, 2022 10:22 - 6 minutes - 5.56 MBA short preamble to kick start a new season for 2022 of Changing Academic Life podcasts. [6:56 mins] Links: Austen Rainer, Queens Uni Belfast Online Academic Leadership Development Course (Starting end Sept 2022) Residential Leadership Development Course (last held June 2022) Informatics Europe Transcript: (00:04) Welcome to changing academic life I'm Geraldine Fitzpatrick. And this is a podcast series where academics and others share their stories, provide ideas and provoke discussi...