The balanced
researcher
Strategies for busy researchers
If you’re a busy researcher
juggling many demands on
your time then you need toread this book. It will give you:Strategies to be more
effective in your work
Strategies to balance workand other parts of your life
Specific actions that will
have a big impact on yourwork and life

Hugh Kearns Maria Gardinercontents
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The balanced researcher?
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The secret life of a researcher

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How’s your balance?

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Ten strategies for keeping your workin balance
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Make a plan
Pick the right things
Make time for research
Learn how to say NO
Delegate
Set realistic standards
Write regularly (and then submit it!)Don’t check your email first thing in
the morning
9. Use the 3 Ds of paperwork (and email)10. Deal with distractions

10-13 Ten strategies to keep the non-workpart of your life in balance
1.

Establish boundaries between
work and non-work
2. Get a routine
3. Ask your significant others
4. Be present
5. Book breaks and holidays
6. Delegate, outsource, get help
7. Exercise, diet and health
8. Me time
9. Review your priorities
10. Have fun!

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Putting it into practice

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The balanced
researcher?
So you’re a researcher. Chances are then, you’re pretty
busy. Firstly, there’s your research. Proposals. Ethics.
Paperwork. Meetings. Applying for grants. Getting
grants, then managing the money and the people.
Writing reports. And that’s all before you even getto the actual research. Then there’s papers to write,
rejection letters to deal with and conferences to attend.
And for most people research is just one of thethings they do. You might teach or tutor, rundemonstrations, manage a unit or even have anothercompletely different job. And that’s just work.
No matter how much you enjoy your research it’s
likely that there are other parts to your life too.
You probably have a family or friends, you may
have social commitments and, who knows, you
may even have some personal interests!
It can be hard to fit all of this in. There are so many
demands on your time, so much to do. So, is it possible
to have some sort of balance or is this just the way
it is if you want to be an effective researcher?

The good news
The good news is that it is possible to keep a sense ofbalance and be an effective researcher. Over the pastten years we’ve run very successful workshops forthousands of researchers ranging from post-graduate
researchers to post-docs and very senior researchers.
We talk about what works and what doesn’t in termsof being a successful researcher and also how to havea life outside of research. In this book we summarise
the most useful strategies and provide a range ofsuggestions that we and other researchers have founduseful in balancing the different demands in our lives.
This book is a chance for you to think about balancein your life, what you might want to change, andstrategies for doing that. But first a story. Does thefollowing situation sound familiar?

The secret life of a researcher
You get in early at 8.00am because you want to finish that paper that’s beenhanging around for ages. You’re sitting at your desk ready to start writing. You
think – I’ll just check my emails for ten minutes and then I’ll get started on theliterature review. There’s one from your co-author asking if your draft is ready.
A quick shudder and on to the next one. An honours student in yourdepartment saying they can’t find a particular reference. You think – What apain, why can’t they look it up themselves; but it’ll only take a few minutes, I’ll
just do a quick check on the library electronic journals. Eventually, with greatsatisfaction, it’s found and emailed off. A few more emails.

It’s 9.15am. Well, you think, I may as well just get the rest of these emails
cleared; glassware not cleaned in lab yesterday – send back saying it wasn’t me;
astronomical society bash tonight – send back saying sorry, can’t come;interesting reference from colleague – reply saying thanks, and go look up
reference – feel very satisfied when found, printed, stapled and put in pile with
40 other articles.

It’s 10.00am. Where has the morning gone? Well, it’s been pretty busy;
surely it’s time for a cup of coffee. You meet a few colleagues in the coffee
room and talk about how hard it is to find time to fit research in. It’s
10.30am. As it’s only an hour until the team meeting you think there’s notmuch point in trying to start the lit review now, so you polish up somematerial for your afternoon seminar. The team meeting goes on and on.
Eventually it’s 12.30pm and with a sigh of relief you head off for lunch.

At 1.30pm you get back but now you’ve got that post-lunch drowsiness so you
think – first I’ll just do a few of those quick jobs that have been hanging aroundto get me into the mood. It’s 2.30pm and a colleague knocks on the door andasks for help calibrating her sensometer. You’re really good at this so you help,
and after all, she’s helped you with your statistics in the past. Then you have togive a lecture/seminar and the participants keep asking questions afterwards.
After this you rush back into your office.

It’s 4.30pm already. You’re late so you shut down your computer, grab your bag
and rush out. Your department head walks past and asks how your day was. You
say – great, very busy, did a lot – but you have to rush now because you’re late
for a meeting of the Department Research Committee and they’re discussing
improving publication outcomes!
Eventually you get home. Late as usual. Tired after a busy day. Family things to
do. Bills to pay. Calls to return. And all the while carrying a black cloud of guilt
because that paper still has to be written. Definitely going to get to it tomorrow!

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How’s your balance?
OK, so that story might not be you.
Then again, we have lots of people
come up to us at workshops andask if we’ve been spying on them!
So how is your balance?
The balance scale on the rightis a visual way of looking
at balance.

Times with FamilyInterests

Research
Community WorkAdmin

> Try out a few balance scales for yourself. Where would you place thefollowing items on your balance scale?
● Work● Home● Administration● Work you want to do● Teaching?

?

● Work you have to do?

?

● Research● Health● Career progression● External demands● Me time● Family/friends?
Here are some signs of imbalance:• increased stress• worry and frustration• fatigue and health problems• loss of interests and motivation• isolation

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What would those who know you say?
A note about balance. Many people imagine
balance as a fixed state where everything is inperfect equilibrium. A better image of balance
is of a tightrope walker who is in a constantstate of slight imbalance but can make small
adjustments to accommodate. That’s whatlife is like. There are always unexpected
emergencies and opportunities that canknock you out of balance. The trick is how
quickly you can resume your balance.

> Have you got the balance
the way you want?

We worked with one woman who was on aninternational post-doc. She worked hard in thelab all day. When she went home she looked
after her family. Because English was her
second language she attended a class to help
with her written English. She was exhausted.
When we asked what she would like to do she
said she’d love to be able to spend an hour aweek doing yoga but couldn’t
see how to fit it in. With alittle re-organisation andre-prioritising she was able tofind the hour. And just that
one thing made a huge
difference to how she felt.

> What would you change?
> What would your ideal look like?

Effective strategies for achieving balance?
What we’ve done in this book is takethe most effective strategies aroundwork-life balance, time management
and effectiveness, and express them ina short, practical form that you can put
into practice. First we describe ten
strategies that can help you be more
effective in your work and get a senseof balance in your research role. Then
we describe ten strategies that apply toyour non-research life.

5Ten strategies for keeping yourwork in balance
1 Make a plan“

2 Pick the right things‘Would you tell me, please, which way I
ought to go from here?'‘That depends a good deal on where youwant to get to,' said the Cat.
‘I don't much care where--' said Alice.
‘Then it doesn't matter which way
you go,' said the Cat.

”

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll

Planning isn’t that exciting
and when you’re feelingoverwhelmed, it’s probably
the last thing you feel likedoing or can find time to do.
However if you don’t givesome thought to what you
want to achieve, you arelikely to be tossed around by circumstance, andbecome fairly reactive in your choices.

“”

US President Dwight Eisenhower

So if you look ahead to the next year what are yourplans? What would you really like to achieve by theend of the year? By the end of three months? By theend of this week? By the end of today? What is themost important thing you need to get done today?

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It’s more important to be doing the right things thandoing things right. Sometimes we make theassumption that working hard is enough. But
experience tells us that this is not so. For example,
spending weeks marking assignments will not getyour thesis written. A massive teaching load is notgoing to help your research career. Sure, these are
valuable activities, but you need to think about whichtasks and projects deserve the most attention.
So look at the tasks on your list. Are they the rightthings? Of course some things will be out of yourcontrol, but not everything. Are there things on yourlist that are taking up time but are not really helpful?

One of the reasons people give for not planning isthat things change and often plans don’t work out.
Eisenhower’s quote suggests that plans need to be
fluid. Then you can change and update them as
circumstances change.

Plans are useless but planningis essential.

A pilot announced to herpassengers “I’ve got goodnews and bad news. The
good news is that we’re
500km ahead of schedule.
The bad news is that we’retravelling in completely thewrong direction.”

A senior researcher told us how busy she was.
She had moved from one institution to anotherbut several months later was still involved inmany projects from her former institution.
They weren’t making much effort to replace her
so she was still doing some of that work.
This was a clear case of working hard but at thewrong things.

3 Make time for research
Research may be only one part of your role. Youmight also be a lecturer or a supervisor or haveanother job. What often happens then is that
research gets squeezed in at the end when all theother, seemingly more urgent, things are done. You
spend the day doing administration, attending
meetings, responding to students and keep tellingyourself that you must get down to your researchwhen you find time. Unfortunately when you do findit, it’s usually at the end of the day or late at night
when your brain cells are not that creative.
What you have to do is MAKE time. This means
setting aside specific time (in your diary!) when you
will research or write.

4 Learn how to say NO
There’s a song “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”.
However for most people NO seems to be a harder
word! It’s so easy to commit to things, to take on an
extra project, to keep loading yourself up. Eventually
you end up overloaded!
For most of us saying NO is not easy. But there aresome alternatives. A good one is to learn how not to
say YES so readily. When someone asks you to takeon a new commitment you might answer “Thatsounds interesting. Can I get back to you?” or “I’ll justneed to check my diary and I’ll give you a call back”.
This gives you time to think about whether you reallywant to take on the task or to come up with somealternatives. For example “I can’t help you with thatright now but if you can wait until tomorrow I’ll havesome time then”.

5 Delegate
Some people get overwhelmed because they feelthey have to do everything themselves. Now in every
job there are some things that you personally have todo, but in most jobs there are also parts you can get
help with. You might be lucky enough to have staff
you can delegate tasks to. If not, there may beothers who can provide assistance eg students,
administrative staff. Is there money available topay someone to help?
In our experience, the most effective time fordoing the demanding aspects of research, suchas writing or analysis, seems to be early in the
day when you’re fresh. We suggest setting aside
two hours, say between 9 and 11am, that you
dedicate to writing or analysis.

There are several reasons why people are
reluctant to delegate.
It’s faster to do it myself.
Perhaps the first few times but long term you’ll beoverloaded
The other person won’t do it as well as I can.
Possibly. But will they do it to a sufficient standard?
I like doing it.
Sure, but you’ve got so many other things to do too.

What could you delegate?

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Ten strategies for keeping yourwork in balance
6 Set realistic standards

7 Write regularly(and then submit it!)One researcher we worked with told us she had
five articles that could be sent to journals but
she couldn’t send them. She felt that they
weren’t good enough, that they needed more
work. That they were sure to be rejected.
This was despite previous evidence to thecontrary. Her strategy was to start working
on the sixth paper!

In our experience
researchers and research
students tend to be
intelligent, high achieving
people. They also often
tend to be perfectionistic,
setting very high standards
for themselves. This has pluses and minuses. The
pluses are that they produce high quality work andstrive to do good research. The minuses are that thehigh standards can get in the way of producing goodwork. Perfectionists can be very critical of their own
work leading to a lot of self-doubt and concerns
about their ability.
Perfectionists, by definition, find it hard to set
reasonable standards. So one strategy is to look at
the objective evidence? What have you achieved?
What has been the reaction to your work so far?
Get an objective opinion from someone else.

> How are your standards?

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In our experience many researchers find writing
difficult. It’s not that they dislike writing. Many enjoy
it. But firstly it’s hard to find the time and then there
are the anxieties that it raises.
Is what I’ve written good enough? Will it be rejected?
Even when they write, many hesitate before
submitting. They think I need to go over it one moretime. I need to polish it up a bit.
Some writers also suffer from binge writing. This isbased on an assumption that you need big blocks oftime (eg three days) to write. The problem is thatthree free days rarely appear.
So in our experience themost productive researchers
write regularly even if it is
only in small amounts –research shows that even30 minute blocks increase
writing productivity.

We put one PhD student on a regime of writing
for two hours three days a week. He achieved
more in six weeks than he had in the previous
six months.

8 Don’t checkyour email firstthing in themorning
You can increase your daily
productivity by about 20% by following this one
simple tip. When most of us get to work our firstinclination is to just quickly check our emails. But
mostly it doesn’t turn out to be quick. And then you
end up getting distracted and becoming reactive.
So try this. When you get in to work don’t turn on
your computer (or at least your email program).
Instead you might plan out your day’s work and if
possible even start on the most important thing.
Then you can check your email, say after morning
tea. Give it a try!

9 Use the 3 Ds of paperwork

Deal with distractions
Constant distractions such as phone calls, emails or
drop-in visitors can lead to feeling a bit out ofcontrol. You have plans but they keep getting waylaid.
But there are some things you can do:● Don’t answer yourphone at certain
times. Let it go to
the answeringmachine when you
are trying toconcentrate or
writing

One professor we worked with arranged for thecomputer support staff to remove the Solitaire
program from his computer.

(and email)Research involves a lot of paperwork. Journals to read,
forms to fill out, requests for information and so on.
It’s likely your desk is piled high. Some people copefine with clutter but for others it leads to a lot ofstress and lost productivity. Try this strategy for
dealing with paperwork (and emails). The next time
you pick up a piece of paper imagine that it is stuck
to your fingers. The only way to get it off your fingers
is one of the 3 Ds.
1. Do it if you can do it straight away then do it andget rid of it.

● Turn off the ‘bing’ on your email program so it

doesn’t pop up and distract you. Even better, turnoff your email program● Set up consultation times formeetings and student
consultations● Close your office door if you

have one● Go to a quiet place if you

need to do concentrated work

2. Dairise it if it will take more than a few minutes
to do then get out your diary and find the time when
you will do it. Then put the paper in the file for thatproject.
3. Ditch it if you don’t want to do it or diarise it thenditch it. Yes! In the bin.

9Ten strategies for keeping thenon-work part of your life in balance
1 Establish boundaries

between work and non-workIt’s easy for work to spill over from your normal work
day into the rest of your life. If you don’t get things
done during the day it’s tempting to tell yourself thatyou can finish it off at home later. The internet has
made this much easier. You can check your emails
from home, search for references and resources andbe in contact with anyone at any time.
The problem with this is that you might start off justfinishing off some urgent task but this then grows
into responding to emails, trying to get ahead for the
next day. Often because it’s quieter at home you
actually get more done. This can lead to a blurring ofwhen you are working and when you’re not.
And it’s good to be off duty sometimes. That’s when
you recharge, catch up with family and friends andattend to the other parts of your life. So while there
are no definitive rules it’s useful to think about where
the balance is for you. Clear boundaries can be
helpful. For example, you might decide not to work athome at all. Or if you do work at home you might
specify certain times.
A senior academic
described herboundaries. She decided
to work hard during theweek but wherever
possible not to work on
the weekends. She didn’t
check her work emails, she switched off her
work mobile and didn’t bring paperwork homewith her. She reported that her weekends weremuch more fun but that she was also being
more effective at work. She said “In the past I
used to procrastinate about things because I
knew I’d do them on the weekend. Now I focus
on finishing things when I’m at work because I
know I’m not going to work on the weekend.
It’s helped me focus on the important things.”

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Get a routine
Routines can be a useful way of ensuring you getround to things that are important to you. For
example, you could set one night of the week when
you go out with your friends or family. If you leavethis to chance, or when you find time, it’s less likely
to happen.
One person we worked
with instituted Friday
Surprise with his young
family. This meant thatevery Friday evening afterwork he got to decide what
the family would do eg goto the movies, have a meal.
By having the routine people
didn’t double-book on Friday
and the fact that it was afamily routine meant that itwas very likely to happen. The
surprise element also made it fun.

Do you have routines that havefallen into disuse? Is it worth
getting one going again?

3 Ask your significant others

before taking on majorcommitments
Often we take on major commitments, that impact on
our family and friends, without really thinking about
what it means for them. So when someone suggeststhat you apply for a new grant that will take a lot of
your time you might mention it to the people close toyou. They might comment “But you said you were
overworked already. How are you going to fit this in?”One researcher we know took this to such extremes
that people used to ring his partner first to ask if he wasavailable for new commitments.

4 Be present
Sometimes although your body has left work yourmind is still on the job. Presenteeism, as opposed toabsenteeism, is where you are physically there but
your attention is somewhere else. You know thefeeling. You’re there playing scrabble with your kids
and they ask you a question and you’ve no idea
what they said because your mind was back at work.
You might be worrying about something you left
unfinished or thinking about what’s in store fortomorrow. We sometimes tell ourselves that thisgoing over of things in our heads, worrying, is useful
because we might find a solution.
There are some strategies
for reducing worry. If there
is something you reallyneed to do, then do it eg
call someone to check if
there really is a problem.
Write down your worries.
Debrief with someone.
Distract yourself.

Problem-solving versus worrying

A general practitioner on one of our courses
recalled that his spouse told him “Your work
gets the best, your family gets the rest”. It’s
interesting to think that many of us give ourbest to people we don’t know very well and thepeople we do care about see us when we’retired and worn out.

It’s important to distinguish between
problem-solving and worry. Problem-solving isa fairly structured process of working out what
can be done. Worrying is recycling the same
thoughts over and over. It’s a pretty destructive
activity because not only does it not solve theproblem, it wears out your neurons.

11Ten strategies for keeping thenon-work part of your life in balance
5 Book breaks and holidays
Often we tell ourselves we must have a break when
we find the time. But then the time doesn’t come. An
alternative is to schedule breaks and holidays well inadvance. The break itself is good but looking forward
to it can also be motivating. Even short breaks arehelpful. They can help you get perspective on issues
and often you return to work feeling more productive.

Bringing paperwork on holidays
Your paperwork andyour laptop need aholiday too. But the best
holiday you can givethem is to leave them athome while you’reaway. One early career researcher described
how she would feel guilty about taking aholiday so she always brought her data with her
so she could analyse it. Of course she neverlooked at it which made her feel guilty too.

6 Delegate, outsource,

get help
Some of us, high achievers and perfectionists inparticular, are very reluctant to give up anything.
We think we should be able to do it all. We want toperform well at work, then come home andorganise a house and garden, and spend time withfamily and friends.
The reality is that there is limited time (168 hours ina week), and heavy commitments in one area of life
mean there is less time in other areas. It’s sensible
to get help where you can. For example, perhaps
you can afford to pay a cleaner to come in once aweek, get a gardener, use a babysitter occasionally.

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7 Exercise, diet and health
When things are out of balance it’s likely that the lastthing you want to do is exercise or examine yourhealth and diet. Yet these things build up yourresilience and give you more energy. It’s tempting,when you’re under pressure from looming deadlines,
to work late into the night and sleep less.
This might work in the shortterm but it becomescounter-productive. You canend up putting in more hours
but getting less output.
Once again, looking after
yourself works better if you
have a routine.

We worked with one researcher who had ahistory of health problems. His life seemed to
go in a cycle of feeling OK for a while, and thenhaving a serious illness where he couldn’t work.
His solution was to work very hard when he wasable to. In fact he would work so hard hewouldn’t get much sleep or exercise or eat very
well. And of course then he would get sick andnot be able to work at all. Which only made him
more determined to work even harder the nexttime so he could catch up.

> What small changes could you
make on a consistent basis?

8 Me time
One woman cameto our workshop
because she wasstuck. She wanted
to do her researchbut couldn’t seemto find the time orenergy. It turnedout she had a great interest in gardening but
hadn’t had time to do any for ages. When she
did make some time for it, she felt much morepositive and also more motivated to have a goat her research.

What do you really enjoy
doing? Did you have a passion
when you were a child, forexample, singing, painting?
Do you have some greatinterest or hobby? Ourinterests often get squeezed
out when work pressure andother demands increase. Whichis a shame for two reasons.
Firstly, you are missing out onsomething you enjoy. And secondly these activities
restore you and are likely to make you more
motivated and productive.

> What would you do if you had
some “me time”?

9 Review your priorities
Sometimes it’s easy to drift into things or get carriedalong by peers and colleagues. Because everyone else
has the latest labour-saving gadget you get one.
And then you have to work harder to pay for it.
And it doesn’t seem to save you much labour!
We work with rural doctors and many of them work
really long hours so that they can provide well for
their family. But they work so hard that they don’t
get to spend time with their families. And when you
ask the families what they really want they say“To spend more time with Mum or Dad”.

> Does your life reflect yourpriorities?

“

Life is what happens to you while
you’re busy making other plans”

John Lennon

10 Have fun!
It’s tempting to think you’ll behappy when you finish thisproject, when the house isfinished, when the next paper
gets published, when your thesis
is finished, when things settle
down. That might happen but
there’s no reason why you can’t
have some fun now too!

> What are the things you enjoy?
Can you do one of them now?

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Making changes
You might think all this is just common sense really. (It is!) But then why don’t we do it? One reason
is that over a lifetime we develop habits or patterns of behaviour and some of these are hard to break.
And secondly, we sometimes lose a bit of perspective. When you’re in the middle of something, eg
writing a paper, it can seem like the most important thing in the world. When we’re busy, our thinking
can get a bit muddled. So here are some tips that we have used with people to increase the chancesof making changes and then making the changes stick.

> Choose something small andachievable
Rather than signing up for the next Ironwoman
competition or an Everest ascent, you might decideto go for a walk at lunchtime three times a week.
Setting achievable goals and achieving them is likely
to motivate you to keep at it and will probably leadto more changes.

> Commit to the changeThis means doing something like writing it inyour diary, telling people about it or arranging to
involve other people. For example, tell your kidsthat you will pick them up early after school andwalk home with them tomorrow. Or join a knitting
group or a book group.

What is your small and achievable thing?

Who can you tell?

> Choose something you can> Reward yourself

do soonThe sooner the better, ideally in the next few days.
For example, call a colleague today to discuss thatbook chapter that’s been hanging over your head. Or
tomorrow hand in that draft of a chapter you’ve beenhanging onto for weeks.

If you make a change that was difficult, eg saying noto an opportunity, or finishing off a piece of workthat has been hanging over your head, then giveyourself a reward. The reward might be having a cupof tea or taking a break or even checking your emails!
But remember that the reward must come AFTER thetask, not before!

When can you start it? Today?

What’s your reward?

Here are some examples of changes that people have made.
Most of them are small but have had a big impact...
✓ Stop checking emails firstthing in the morning✓ Block out two hours in themorning for writing✓ Use a diary forscheduling work

✓ Go for a walk at lunchtime✓ Decide not to stand for a✓ Have lunch!
✓ Take a weekend breakwith my partner(and not bring work!)

committee at the next AGM

So what can you do? Can you do something about it right now
e.g. write it in your diary, call someone, book a meal out?
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Putting it into practiceThis short book is an opportunity to think about the current balance in your work and your lifeand how you might like things to be. It provides a range of practical strategies and suggestions
that many researchers have used to make small but significant changes.

Balance at work
1 Make a plan
2 Pick the right things
3 Make time for research
4 Learn how to say NO
5 Delegate
6 Set realistic standards
7 Write regularly (and then submit it!)8 Don’t check your email first thing in the morning
9 Use the 3 Ds of paperwork (and email)10 Deal with distractions

Balance in your non-work life
1 Establish boundaries between work and non-work
2 Get a routine
3 Ask your significant others
4 Be present
5 Book breaks and holidays
6 Delegate, outsource, get help
7 Exercise, diet and health
8 Me time
9 Review your priorities
10 Have fun!

So what will work for you?
If life is going along fine, then keepon doing what you are doing. If you
feel a bit out of balance, or want tomake some changes, then perhaps
it’s worth giving one of thesestrategies a go.
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About the authors
Hugh Kearns is the Head of the Professional Development Unit at Flinders
University, Adelaide, Australia.
Maria Gardiner is a clinical psychologist and also co-ordinates a very successful
mentoring scheme for researchers at Flinders University.
Together they have a long history of working with high performing people toincrease their effectiveness and self-management skills. They have run numerous
workshops and masterclasses for academics, researchers and PhD students and arein high demand across Australia and internationally. In 2006 they were honoured
with a national teaching award for their innovative programs dealing with theemotional and psychological aspects of doctoral study.
They are active researchers themselves having published many papers and authoreda number of very popular books aimed at PhD students and researchers.
● Defeating self-sabotage: getting your thesis finished● The seven secrets of highly successful PhD students● The PhD experience: what they didn't tell you at induction● Time for research: time management for PhD students● Turbocharging your writing (in press)● www.ithinkwell.com.au

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