On August 16th 2021, I returned to my campus office for the first time since March 2020. Almost 1,5 years of working from home have passed, and finally we are back to our university offices. The measures at our campus…
As I was writing my parts for our co-authored book about the doctoral defense, it struck me how little research has been done on the emotional dimension of the defense. So, I set out to gather data on the topic.…
This post is part of the series PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: posts written for the Dutch academic career network AcademicTransfer, your go-to resource for all research positions in the Netherlands. These posts are sponsored by AcademicTransfer, and tailored to those…
While I haven't been posting on my blog about recent publications anymore, I would like to make an exception for our recently published article "Challenges and Opportunities for Academic Parents During COVID-19". The article is published in the journal Frontiers…
I used to schedule my time using the same template for most days. My standard formula was: two hours of writing, two hours of research, two hours of teaching, and two hours for emails, admin, and service. As my number…
Before the start of every semester, I make a list of my ongoing tasks, my priorities, and plan my weekly template. Based on these, I can develop my goals for the semester. Fall 2021 means a return to campus for…
During COVID-19, my workload increased: teaching online and changing my courses to this format took a lot of time and effort, there's more need for pastoral care for students, and admin and service responsibilities are taking up more time as…
As always before the start of a new semester, I have developed my weekly template for this fall semester, which you can see above (I did take out the names of my students with whom I have recurring meetings). Here…
I enjoy reading, and I read a lot. As a child, you could always find me tucked away in a corner of the garden, reading a book. As I went to university, I experienced "letter fatigue", and only picked up…
I recently ran a poll on Twitter to see if people would want to continue working from home more often than in the past in the post-pandemic times. Here are the results of this poll, as well as a follow-up…
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