Why busy researchers need hobbies
People often think hobbies are for kids, or retired people; for people who have holidays that aren’t really conference travel, or weekends that aren’t spent
People often think hobbies are for kids, or retired people; for people who have holidays that aren’t really conference travel, or weekends that aren’t spent
So often people talk about ‘boundaries’ like they are unfortunate, negative, limitations. ‘Having boundaries’ is all about saying ‘no’ and ‘no more’. This is a
As someone who had a pretty efficient work-life balance system, before COVID made everything happen on a computer in my home… I have been struggling
You don’t get knocked down and bounce back stronger. At least not immediately.
Longtime readers of the blog will know Research Degree Insiders is a big fan of time off — there’s a whole category of posts tagged
Sometimes I realise that an important idea I’ve been talking about, almost since the beginning of the blog, has never had a post of it’s
When Audre Lorde wrote ‘self-care is warfare’, she declared that when an African-American woman takes care of herself, she fights back against a system that says
I wrote Exercising Like a Girl back in early February, about starting out on a feminist and feminine self-care gym routine. I’ve been at this for
Warning: Today I’m going to talk about going to the gym and femininity. Moreover, I’m going to talk about my personal, embodied experience. I’m a feminine, cis-gendered
I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity and efficiency recently. Reading yet more articles about startups working a 4 day week/ the 4 hour work
