Everyone seems to be leaving academia, so let's explore reasons why that might be with three academics who have recently left academia (one of whom came back!). They are Drs Kaolina Urbanksa, a Senior R&D Psychologist at the Chemistry Group (thechemistrygroup.com), Jade Pickering, Head of Customer Success at Gorilla (gorilla.sc), and Ian Hussey, a meta-scientist based at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany ..read more

Are you an academic? Do you suffer from self-doubt? Maybe you want to improve academic research culture? Well, this podcast is just for you! Join me every month to hear interviews from academics across the world who will talk about their struggles with Impostor Syndrome and how they're trying to push for positive change in academia ..read more

Rejection. It happens to us all, whether applying for a grant or submitting a paper for peer review. Yet, despite rejection being part of academia, academics (me included) can find rejection very difficult to cope with. To talk about issues surrounding rejection and how to cope with it, I am joined by Dr Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) and Prof Siri Leknes (@sirileknes ..read more

Open science is a set of reforms that seek to improve the quality of research, both in practice and culture. They address the publish or perish and fund or famine culture, and generally make the scholarly enterprise more accessible and transparent to all. Though necessary and worthwhile, advocating and practice open science is not without its challenges. My guests with discuss these challenges, drawing upon their personal experience in promoting Registered Reports! Please follow via Twitter @ImpostorPod ..read more