Mínar hugleiðingar
Í þessari bloggfærslu þá talar Kate Clancy um að hún og eiginmaður hennar (bæði akademískir starfsmenn) vinni öll kvöld og séu með samviskubit yfir því að barnið fái ekki nógu mikla athygli.
Síðan talar hún um ráðstefnu sem hún fer á fyrir Pre-Tenure Women. Þaðan tekur hún þrjá hluti:
- Bring your whole self to the job.
- This is about wanting to push the boundaries of how anthropologists and doctors think about female reproductive physiology. This is about the intersection of feminism and evolutionary biology. And this means that I need to more explicitly make this passion my primary scholarly interest.
- Have a plan.
- The Plan A academic says yes to most things because she is directionless and is trying to meet expectations, whereas the Plan B academic uses her personal values and interests to define and express her scholarly worth.
- “It is 5 years from today. If you were wildly successful in your work and personal life, what will you have achieved?”
- Be a radical.
- Yet these institutions that know they want their faculty to be twenty first century scholars use the same metrics to evaluate interdisciplinary scholars as they use to evaluate traditional ones.
- My 2006 paper on iron-deficiency anemia and menstruation has been cited by six other papers; my 2011 blog post on this paper has been viewed tens of thousands of times and received almost sixty comments between its two postings.
Gott að heyra, erfitt að fylgja. Aðallega upplífgandi að hlusta á fólk ‘re-affirma’ að það vilji vinna þessa vinnu.