While you don’t need more pressure to produce, you may be missing giving sustained attention to your writing or research. Some of your original summer plans are no longer possible. In this track I encourage you to prioritise meaningful activity and discuss what that might mean for your writing and research plans for the summer. This track (and the text version) was sent to newsletter subscribers on 17 April 2020.Related Posts:No, you don't need to completely change your research focus https://jovanevery.co.uk/dont-change-your-research-focus/Shifting priorities within your research during the pandemic https://jovanevery.co.uk/shifting-priorities-research-pandemic/Prioritising non-academic audiences during the pandemic https://jovanevery.co.uk/prioritising-non-academic-audiences-during-the-pandemic/The relationship between writing for scholarly audiences and writing for wider audiences https://jovanevery.co.uk/writing-for-scholarly-vs-wider-audiences/Risking doing the work you find meaningful https://jovanevery.co.uk/risking-doing-the-work-you-find-meaningful/Cycles of the academic year & intensity of work (also on Soundcloud) https://jovanevery.co.uk/academic-year-cycles-intensity/See also: Academic ‘disaster scripts’ in a time of disasters by Katherine Firth which addresses what may be your initial instinct to ‘rise to the challenge and over-perform and push through’.Read the post here: https://jovanevery.co.uk/writing-research-summer-pandemic/For more content like this, sign up to the monthly newsletter: jovanevery.co.uk/newsletterFollow me on Twitter: twitter.com/JoVanEveryFind my Facebook Page here: facebook.com/JoVEAcademicCareerCoach Join the Academic Writing Studio: academicwritingstudio.co.uk
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