This short related-work podcast follows up on the last conversation with Michael Bungay-Stanier, to present the seven coaching-like questions from his book ‘The Coaching Habit’ for helping us to stay curious longer, jump to advice a little more slowly. I also reflect on my experiences trying to apply this in my academic life where I see it as one of our most powerful tools to help empower and develop good people.

Michael Bungay-Stanier is an internationally renowned author, company founder and thought leader in coaching. Michael is the founder of Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. He's the author of 6 books, the best known of which is The Coaching Habit which has sold close to a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews. His latest book The Advice Trap, focuses on what it takes to tame your Advice Monster. We start off the conversation reflecting on his career choices and discussing the differences between academia and industry. He then discusses what it means to be more coach-like in our work - staying curious a little longer, asking good questions, and being slower to jump to advice – as well as how to recognise our different advice monsters. We finish off with some questions posed by participants on a recent academic leadership development course. Overview (times approximate):00:28 Preamble 04:07 Bio07:26 Career choices, meaning and impact11:41 Academia16:45 Staying curious longer18:05 Advice challenges23:26 Getting practical32:22 Advice monsters & their prizes and punishments42:51 Responding to questions51:32 Wrap up 53:55 EndSee www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/6/10/michael-bungay-stanier for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links

Dr Tanita Casci, Head of Research Policy, and Dr. Elizabeth Adams, Workstream Lead – Research Culture, at the University of Glasgow, talk about creating a positive collegial research culture as the vehicle for doing good research, along with practical strategies for how they support, reward and celebrate good practice.See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/5/21/tanita-casci-elizabeth-adams for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/5/7/jeremy-birnholtz for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, a transcript and related links

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/30/cal-56-neha-kumar for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/23/rw7-job-crafting for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/4/11/rw6-superpowers for a time-stamped transcript and related work links.

See www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/3/19/john-tang for a time-stamped overview of the conversation, transcript and related links.

See www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/3/10/aaron-quigley for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links. As broad overview here:02:00 Career path from degree in Computer Science to Head of School at UNSW16:00 Making choices, strategic hindsight and foresight, and getting the right advice22:55 The importance of silent warriors and service roles and his secret power of caring about getting things done and not caring about who gets the credit34:15 His secret power of listening37:55 Moving into his new role as Head of School44:45 His secret power of talking

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2021/2/16/austen-rainer for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

You can find the full transcript and related links via www.changing.academiclife.com

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/8/28/eunice-sari for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/5/26/anirudha-joshi for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/5/22/covid-musings-from-australia for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/2/10/pejman-mirza-babaei-part2 for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/1/26/pejman-mirza-babaei for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

For related links see http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2020/1/6/reflections-on-2019

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/10/5/rosa-arriaga for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/7/24/alex-taylor for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/6/14/tom-erickson for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/4/23/jen-mankoff for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/3/31/moshe-vardi for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/3/19/moshe-vardi-part1 for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2019/2/2/jofish-kaye for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/12/8/katie-siek for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2018/11/11/leysia-palen for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2018/10/12/mike-twidale for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2018/9/7/lindsay-oades for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2018/2018/8/8/jan-gulliksen for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/7/11/rowena-murray for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/6/18/kirsten-ellis for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Janet Read is a Professor in Child Computer Interaction at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Janet’s path to academia was via maths teaching, and then falling into a PhD after she had a family. Our discussions are wide ranging and throughout she is incredibly thoughtful, reflective and proactive in how she goes about unentangling processes and challenges. Because this ends up being a long conversation, I’ve added some notes on the web about the high level topics and talk about it two parts. In the first part, up to about the hour, she explores her own journey learning how to do research, how to supervise students, and how to support good learning experiences. She has some really interesting things to say about today’s university process-driven culture and argues that we need to do much better at understanding students and how to better support the learning experience, not equating attendance with learning. In the second part, she talks about being a complete academic, that one of the challenges is that no-one really knows what an academic actually does. She talks about how she deals with the demands on her time, the potential costs of being too efficient, being proactive and looking after your own needs, creating a collaborative group culture, wishing for encouraging and supportive leadership and saying ‘well done’. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/ 5/17/janet-read for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Kylie Ball is a Professor in the in the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Faculty of Health at Deakin University in Australia. She is also Head of early- and mid-career researcher (EMCR) development and publishes a very impactful blog targeted to EMCRs called The Happy Academic. We have a wide-ranging discussion about the EMCR support initiatives she has put in place, including workshops, mentoring programs and virtual resources, as well as the blog which she talks about as a form of virtual mentorship that can have a wider reach. We explore her own strategies for physical and mental wellbeing and how to form good habits. Themes throughout are around how much there is that we can actually take control of and make choices about, and we get a good sense of how to create a kinder and more supportive culture within our faculties. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/4/18/kylie-ball for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links

Carman Neustaedter is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and is also Director of the Connections Lab (cLab) research group. He talks about the importance for him of taking time to reconnect with his identity and values, and building in regular time for reflection, both on the bigger issues of where he is going and also on day to day work like writing challenges. He also discusses feeling overwhelmed and deciding to track his work time over a whole year, which led to surprising findings about how he actually spent his time and how he worked fewer hours than he thought he did. He also touches on issues around handling reviewer critique, managing his email inbox and how he structures time and prioritises family. A thread through a couple of stories is also the importance of being able to take on the perspective of others, whether these are the critical reviewers or colleagues. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/3/6/carman-neustaedter for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

James Wilsdon is a Professor of Research Policy in the Department of Politics and Director of Impact and Engagement for the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Associate Director in the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He has been involved in many policy and think tank initiatives. Of particular interest here, he chaired an independent review of the role of metrics in the management of the UK's research system, publishing a final report in 2015 called The Metric Tide. More recently he has chaired an expert panel on Next Generation Metrics for the European Commission. In this conversation we talk about his experiences working in both policy think tanks and in academia, about the increasing focus on research impact for academics and how the UK has created some culture change in this direction. He also discusses issues around metric-based systems of assessments for academics and calls on us not to indulge processes of evaluation that we know empirically are bad science. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/ 2/1/james-wilsdon for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Luigina Ciolfi is a Professor of Human Centred Computing at Sheffield Hallam University (UK). A common theme of the conversation is her passion for giving back. We talk about peer service organising a conference, and about her early career experiences as a junior faculty with responsibilities for a program, and what sorts of training and support were or could have been useful for her. In giving back now to junior faculty, she also talks about recent training experiences to take a coaching/mentoring approach and the value of this. We then talk about some of her recent research studying how nomadic workers and how work-life balance plays out for them and how there is no one strategy that suits everyone. She reflects on her own strategies here and also on the challenges of working in a different country to your families. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2018/1/16/lui-ciolfi for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

As with the end on 2016, this is a short podcast (18:58) where I reflect on the year that has been. I also add my call to increasing compassion and kindness in the workplace and discuss the benefits of doing this and various options for how to play it out. I would also love to hear your feedback and ideas for what and who you want to hear about in future podcasts.

Michael Muller is a researcher at IBM Research in Cambridge MA. We cover a lot in this conversation, Michael reflects on his long PhD process in cognitive science, long in part because of chronic diseases that he still deals with. He talks about the decision to move to industry and his experiences working in various industry positions since then, including interpreting participatory design methods for a North American industry context, finding out he wasn’t suited to management, and loving the work he is doing now. A theme across many of the stories is the tension arising from navigating organisational demands and his own deeply held values, and throughout you can hear his deep care for people. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/12/6/michael-muller for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Jolanta Burke is a Positive Psychologist, who works as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Leader of the MAPPCP programme at University of East London and also has her own consultancy business. She shares how she dealt with burn-out during her PhD, having to find a place of harmonious rather than obsessive passion, and how this influences her work supervising students now. She also shares her experiences working in business contexts as a consultant, in creating positive workplaces and how we could better do this in academia. And she shares her passion for making a better world through communicating our research to people and helping people. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/11/11/jolanta-burke for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Evan Peck is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bucknell University in the US. Evan has a passion for teaching and also wants to do good research but when he was looking around for a faculty position, he decided he didn’t want to trade off family life and life quality to do it all, as he considered he might have to at a top-rated school. He also wasn’t sure about industry where he could have better life quality but would miss teaching. He is now an evangelist for Liberal Arts Colleges, like Bucknell, as a middle way for PhD students to include when considering career options. Evan talks about his decision processes getting there and his current experiences as a new faculty in establishing work to include teaching, research and time for family. He also has a great blog post written on this topic. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/8/9/evan-peck for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Scott Robertson comes from a psychology and cognitive science background and is now a Professor in the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Scott shares the experiences of being rejected for tenure twice and how he dealt with that. His story is one of perseverance and courage, doing what you care about, and the importance of mentors and being part of a community. He is now in a tenured position and enjoying the freedom to follow his mission around civic engagement and to get back to acting. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/ 7/27/scott-robertson for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Margaret Burnett is a professor of Computer Science in the School of EECS at Oregon State University. She is a pioneer woman in computer science whose work has been honoured with numerous awards, including ACM Distinguished Scientist. Her passion is to change the world by designing more gender-inclusive software. In this conversation, she shares experiences being the first woman software developer at Proctor & Gamble Ivorydale in the 1970s, and creating two start-ups as well as a women’s business network in the 1980s. She also talks about her work in academia, in particular about her GenderMag project, as well as practical experiences including mentoring and management using dove-tailing strategies as well as managing family life by drawing fences. She also tries to do one thing every day to make the world a better place. An inspirational person in so many ways! See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/7/5/margaret-burnett for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

For more information and related links see http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2017/6/18/amy-ko

Gloria Mark is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California Irvine. Gloria talks about her experiences as chair of a major conference, not just the work but also the rewards. She talks about how she moved from a Fine Arts background, painting murals on buildings, to a PhD in cognitive science and now studying the relationship between media use, attention and stress, but still being able to be creative in work. She also reflects honestly on her own struggles to manage her screen time and stress but above all she reminds us of the importance of fun and fulfillment in work. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/6/6/gloria-mark for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.

Chris Frauenberger is a post-doctoral researcher and principle investigator at Technical University Vienna. Chris shares his experiences navigating various post-doc positions, taking parental leave, negotiating with his partner about family-career choices, dealing with an uncertain future, and being strategic about trying to build up a CV and visibility to maximize the chance of getting a permanent position. He also reflects on what happens if this doesn’t happen and the importance of having multiple dreams to choose from. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/3/31/chris-frauenberger for more information and related links.

Ali Black is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Ali tells stories of courage and care and connection, stories that grew out of painful interactions with ‘the academic machine’ and feeling like failure. She talks about creating a different way of engaging in academia, one that is based on intentionality and meaning, on connecting to what is important, on being and becoming, and on creating a more caring and collaborative culture. An important step in this was reaching out to colleagues and forming a women’s writing group to write together and to explore their versions of slow scholarship. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2017/3/20/ali-black for more information and related links.

Anna Cox is a Reader and Deputy Director at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC). Anna shares her early career experiences, the challenge of lecturing a large class, and how she and her partner created flexible work practices to manage family and work. She also talks about the research studies she and her students have been doing on ‘work life balance’, including the ways in which people are different, and strategies such as creating microboundaries and frictions to help us take more control of our work. You can find summary notes and related links including the questionnaires she mentions at http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2017/3/5/anna-cox

Kia Höök is a professor in Interaction Design at KTH in Stockholm Sweden, director of the Mobile Life Centre and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. We talk about her early research career, and her experiences securing a large amount of research funding with some colleagues then co-leading a large research centre, building a culture, and managing relationships with industry partners. She also talks about how her year-long sabbatical gave her time and space to reflect on the challenges of success and to reconnect to what is important, to re-set her own rules and to re-think how she wants to engage as an academic. Summary index: 01:57 research background; 11:27 shaping and running a research centre; 40:34 the sabbatical experience

Cliff Lampe is an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He also plays numerous key service roles in the HCI and CSCW peer communities. He talks about faculty meetings and peer service being joyful, the importance of social capital and relationships, how he decides what to say yes/no to, how he manages his work. He also talks about concerns around the production of busyness, the push for quantity not quality, and the increasing community burden of peer review. He challenges to think about new models and to play our role in making academia work. If nothing else, he will change the way you think about faculty meetings and peer service. See http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/2017/1/20/cliff-lampe for more detailed notes.

This is a very short reflection [07:55 mins] from me on 2016 and the wonderful diverse stories we have heard. And looking forward to 2017 as we continue to explore together how to create a better academic life. For all 2016 podcasts go to www.changingacademiclife.com.

Lone Malmborg is an Associate Professor and heads the Interaction Design Research Group and the People and Computational Things Section at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She talks here about what is happening in Denmark and ITU around performance measures for academics. She reflects on the impacts of what gets counted and how counts get benchmarked and what this means then for things like publication strategies and stress levels. She also shares strategies that she has tried out in her own section to turn individual counts into cooperative activities, as well as her personal strategies. For summary and related links go to http://www.changingacademiclife.com

Ben Kraal has quite a different story to tell from the other people in the podcast series so far. After 9 years on limited university contracts, Ben Kraal decided to move to industry as a user experience consultant. He talks about his experiences in academia, the challenges of being legible, how he made the decision to leave and what his home and work life is now like.

Tom discusses his career choices, what drives his research, dealing with insecurities and rejections, funding models, metrics, and being part of a two-academic family

Saul discusses his experiences picking and supervising students, strategically building a research lab and community, taking control of our own work-life balance, publication strategies, remote working, and moving into retirement.

Yunan Chen, Ass Prof at UC Irvine, talks about moving from China to a PhD at the intersection of medical informatics and human computer interaction in the US. She also speaks out about her pre and post tenure experiences, being part of a long distance relationship, and the struggles negotiating academia and becoming a new mother.

Marcus Foth on sabbatical, creating a research niche at the intersection of disciplines, publishing in diverse venues, setting up a new lab and of chairing conferences.

Katherine Isbister from the Center for Games and Playable Media at University of California, Santa Cruz, on finding your fit, being productive and praising yourself.

Prof Rafael Calvo from the Positive Computing Lab at the University of Sydney in Australia talks about his varied career, his work on positive computing and his own mental health and well being strategies

Dr Mary Czerwinski, principal researcher & research manager at Microsoft Research, on managing people, managing stress, and the work to do good work

ProfJon Whittle from School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University talks about making career shifts, changing strategies when proposals get rejected, making multi disciplinary work work, creating balance, and leading by example.

Prof Judy Olson, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences in the Informatics Department at UC Irvine, reflects back on her career, on changes she has seen particularly the increasing expectations of hiring committees, on common issues people deal with, on blooming where you are planted, on dealing with imposter syndrome, on the value of good colleagues/collaborators and on her work plans after retirement later this year.

A conversation with Prof Carl Gutwin from the University of Saskatchewan