Time Management
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Introduction
Mentor Interviews
Introduction Video References
- Bartlett, Arsan, Bankston, Sarabipour, Ten Simple Rules to Improve Work-Life Balance, PLoS Computational Biology, 2021.
- Susi, Shalvi, & Srinivas, “I’ll work on it over the weekend”: high workload and other pressures faced by young researchers, Nature, 2019.
- Flaherty C., So Much to Do, So Little Time, Inside Higher Ed, 2014.
Reflection Prompts
- How do you manage and protect your time?
- What advice do you provide your mentees regarding time management?
- How do you exemplify time management?
- Are there opportunities for you to re-define work expectations within your department or discipline?
- What do you think your mentee struggles the most with, given your prior conversations, when it comes to time management? How can you support them?
Additional Resources
Read
- Time Management: Seize the moment, J. M. Perkel, 2015, Nature
- The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life, R. Nagpal, 2013, Scientific American Blog Network
- The Art of ‘No’, Robin Bernstein, 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Time Management, Chapter 6 in Making the Right Moves, A Practical Guide to Scientifıc Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, BWF, HHMI.
Watch
- Time Management in Academia, M. Rillig, 2021, YouTube video
- The Philosophy of Time Management, Brad Aeon, TEDx, YouTube video
Listen
- Using Time Productively, Faculty Factory Podcast
- Time Management & Efficiency, Faculty Factory Podcast
- Professor-ing when life happens, from the PROFESSOR-ING Podcast