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This free workbook helps you rebuild the foundations so boundaries actually hold. You will need: 20 minutes, a printout or some paper, and pen. This workbook offers a new way of understanding why saying no feels impossible as an academic. You've tried everything You've set the boundary five times. No emails after 7pm. One work-free weekend day. Protected writing time. Then someone asks for help and you say yes anyway. You turn off notifications. You block your calendar. You p

"I've never done this before. I don't know how." An old colleague said this to me last week about writing a curriculum review document. She's been an academic for twelve years. It struck me that we don't get taught how to  be  academics. Academics must learn by watching others, by googling examples, and sometimes by working it out at 10pm on a Wednesday when it's due Thursday morning. Yes, maybe you did a PhD so you know research. You have done a PGCert for teaching skills. B

"I don't have time for coffee chats—I barely have time for my actual work." This sentiment has become the unofficial motto of modern...

I spent my first summer holiday as an academic re-reading a textbook for a new module I was teaching in September. Not because anyone...