Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every
I help academics build their confidence to do the work they find meaningful and find the time to do it.
This podcast includes a whole range of topics: strategies for protecting your time, writing and editing advice, thoughts on careers and the wider context, preventing overwork and burnout, etc.
Pursuing a scholarly career is tough these days. I firmly believe that your academic career has the potential for joy as well as success.
I also believe that you can pursue your scholarly work in whatever situation you find yourself in, even if it's not ideal. You don't have to, but if it's important to you, you don't have to wait for someone else to create the ideal conditions.
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Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every
Of Many Minds: An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette
An interview with Lee Skallerup Bessette about the book Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among Faculty and Staff in Higher Education, which she has co-edited with Rebecca Pope Ruark.
We discuss the trap and the promise of higher education for neurodivergent folks, and the ways that contributors to the book navigate that.
Read the edited transcript on my website here.
Get Lee & Rebecca's book: Of Many Minds here.
Related Posts, Podcasts & Books:
- All The Things ADHD - Podcast
- Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal (book) - by Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD
- Lee featured on an episode of Rebecca’s podcast too: S5:E1 - the agile academic
This interview took place via Zoom on Sept 17 2025. It has been substantially edited, as mentioned in the introduction, for ease of reading/listening and reference.
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