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UiB Ferd Career Center for Early Stage Researchers
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Healthy Working Habits: Time Management and Writing Motivation

This course will cover topics that deeply affect all researchers in and outside academia, and also transfer to other careers: time management and writing motivation. All disciplines and career stages are welcome.

Main content

Many researchers, at all career stages but especially early on, struggle with finding enough time to do everything. We work too much, we neglect our lives, we get burnt out – and we lose the passion for research that got us started. How do we develop healthy working habits and how can they renew a sustainable, positive relationship to our work?

Course content: Practical tips for organizing your time, at all scales: year, semester, day, hour. Rubrics for setting your own priorities, when to say yes, how to say no, how to protect your valuable focus both physically and emotionally.  

How to generate and sustain motivation for self-directed work like writing up research or other independent, challenging activities. Concrete tips for drafting, revision, overcoming writing block, social support mechanisms.  

Teacher:  Laura Saetveit Miles, professor in English literature, renowned lecturer in career development and academic professionalization. 

Language: English