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How to Be a Happy Academic
A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching
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- 240 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
How to Be a Happy Academic
A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching
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About This Book
Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns.
Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including:
- Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy
- Workflow & managing workload
- Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence
- Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills
- Getting your work/life balance right.
Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Table List
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Academic Knowledge Work as Extreme Knowledge Work
- Section 1 Choosing the Right Academic Work The Success Pyramid
- 2 Values in Academic Work
- 3 Success and Its Indicators
- 4 Doing the Right Things I Effectiveness, Priorities, and Strategy
- 5 Doing the Right Things II Goals, Tasks, and Time
- Section 2 Developing The Core
- 6 Creativity Adding the Vital Spark
- 7 Human Work and Self-Work
- 8 Learning Success, Failure, and the Growth Mindset
- 9 Influence Persuasion and Connection
- 10 Write Anything Better
- 11 Developing Better Habits and Systems for Everyday Tasks
- Section 3 Bringing It All Together
- 12 What Next�
- References
- Appendix 1 Values Inventory
- Index