I have been writing about my experiences with teaching in the past, and how I've developed systems to streamline my teaching. Today, I'm focusing on seven teaching lessons that I have learned over the past years, that I'd like to…
After more than a year of interviews for the PhD Talk podcast, and many years of hosting the "How I Work" series on this blog, I've come to one conclusion: PhD trajectories are never straight paths In fact, no life…
This Fall semester, all over the world enthusiastic young (or not so young) people start their first job as a faculty member. If you are one of them - congratulations! But also: beware, you are in for quite a ride...…
At the beginning of every semester, I first make my task list for the upcoming semester. In this task list, I review my upcoming deadlines and responsibilities in terms of research projects, graduate students, papers to write, service responsibilities, teaching,…
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…
At the beginning of every semester, I evaluate (publicly) my goals of the previous semester. Summer 2022 contained three big blocks for me: time in Ecuador, time in the Netherlands, and holidays. As such, I planned a bit differently than…
At the start of every semester, I outline the structure of my weeks with a weekly template. My weekly template for the fall semester is not fully ready yet, as I'll only know my daughter's activities over the course of…
Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming Hanan Hindy to PhD Talk. Hanan is a Lecturer at the Computer Science department at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Hanan did her PhD at…
At the end of every semester, I check how I spent my time. In summer 2022, I took time off - to travel to the Netherlands and prepare for my time there, and to take actual holidays. I spent most…
I realized recently that I do the same things at the start of every semester. So, instead of trying to remember what needs to be done at the beginning of the semester by scrolling back in my calendar and looking…
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