44 pages tagged "work-life balance"

My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

Tells the story of the eight most significant failures in my academic career and outlines how every single one of them had unexpected upsides

19 May 2026 (updated 08 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Conference and informal meet-ups

Report and pictures by members of the CYGNA network on conference and other informal meet-ups

24 Nov 2023 (updated 08 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Did you break your wrist too?

Managing your first year of the recovery process from a broken wrist - my experiences

07 Apr 2026 (updated 12 Jun 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why sometimes a failure can be a blessing in disguise

Short introduction to my latest white paper: My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

10 Jun 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Tripped over a tree root? Fell off your bike? Accident in the gym?

Short intro to my white paper featuring my experiences in the first year of my recovery process from a broken wrist

03 Jun 2026 (updated 04 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Weaving the Threads: experience, tools and networks for teaching in today’s world

Reports on our 70th CYGNA meeting - organised by our Teaching & Scholarship CYG

15 Apr 2026 (updated 08 Apr 2026) - Ciara O’Higgins

Having an academic identity crisis after becoming a full professor?

Introducing a white paper to inspire you to start reflecting on the necessity, meaning, and joy in your academic career

04 Feb 2026 (updated 03 Dec 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Our 6th end-of-year meeting

Reports on our 68th CYGNA meeting - two hours filled with reflections and fun

14 Jan 2026 (updated 06 Dec 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Academic well-being: resources for physical & mental well-being and energy management

Collates various resources on academic well-being for easy acccess and reference

03 Dec 2025 (updated 18 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why did I take early retirement & farewell messages

A year after retiring from Middlesex University I have finally managed to write up a post about this; it includes the many lovely farewell messages of my wonderful MDX colleagues

01 Oct 2025 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Every little action counts booklet now available

Announces the publication of Positive Academia's first booklet

24 Sep 2025 (updated 31 Aug 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYG: Career stage CYGs

Introductory page for our new career stage CYGs [Cygna special interest groups]

19 Dec 2024 (updated 16 Sep 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Cygna Collaborations

Collation page for our new Cygna collaborations initiative - this page reports on some of the many collaborations our swans have engaged in across the CYGNA network in the past decade

19 Dec 2024 (updated 14 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Get Ready, Set, Go: The Doctoral Research Journey and Top Tips Workshop

Joining CYGNA fostered belonging, empowered collaboration, and enriched my personal and academic growth.

22 Jan 2025 (updated 23 Jan 2025) - Susanna Menis

CYGNA: End of 2024 celebration - ABC of research careers, Christmas carols and more...

Reports on our 62nd CYGNA meeting - two hours filled with learning and fun

22 Jan 2025 (updated 29 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Our 4th Christmas meeting - failure & fun

Reports on our 56th CYGNA meeting - two hours filled with stories about rejections in journal publishing, secret santa, and new year resolutions

08 Jan 2024 (updated 09 Oct 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Past, present, and future

Reports on our 54th CYGNA meeting where we discussed the network's history, its expanded coordination team, and our exciting plans for the future

06 Nov 2023 (updated 21 Dec 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Thriving in Research and Coping with Uncertainties

Reports on our 53rd CYGNA meeting: combining career development with relaxing and invigorating conversations

14 Jun 2023 (updated 29 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Kind and inclusive networking

Reports on our 52nd meeting of the CYGNA network dealing with the why, where and how of networking in CYGNA

26 Apr 2023 (updated 06 Sep 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to prepare a large-scale ESRC funding application?

Seminar in the Management, Leadership & Organizations Department seminar series at Middlesex University

27 Feb 2023 (updated 11 Feb 2025) - Bianca Stumbitz

Seven signs it’s time to get out: spotting toxic collaborations in academia

Advice on how to spot the signs that a collaborative relationship isn’t nourishing to us and is possibly not worth continuing

23 Jan 2023 (updated 10 May 2025) - Martyna Śliwa

CYGNA @50 and Christmas celebration 2022

Reports on our 50th (!!!) CYGNA meeting. Strikes thwarted our big plans, but we still had fun.

16 Jan 2023 (updated 05 Sep 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Performance in the workplace: what’s dance got to do with it?

Summarizes a recent study on the effect of dance on well-being and productivity at work

13 Jun 2022 (updated 13 Jun 2022) - Michela Vecchi

CYGNA @EIBA Madrid 2021

Report and pictures by members of the CYGNA network at the EIBA conference

14 Feb 2022 (updated 01 Mar 2025) - Ciara O’Higgins

CYGNA: Secret Santa at the 2nd pandemic Christmas

Reports on our 44th CYGNA meeting with a Secret Santa Christmas celebration

17 Jan 2022 (updated 11 Dec 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citizens of the Organization

Closing commentary on Wives of the Organization offering suggestions on how to be a better organizational citizen

06 Feb 2016 (updated 14 Mar 2021) - Anne Sigismund Huff

Wives of the Organization

An essay about how female academics often end up doing the academic equivalent of housework

06 Feb 2016 (updated 14 Mar 2021) - Anne Sigismund Huff

Introduction to Wives of the Organization

An exchange between Alison Konrad and Anne Huff to introduce Wives of the Organization

06 Feb 2016 (updated 14 Mar 2021) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Wives of the organization - 30 years on...

Celebrating International Women's day with a reprint of a post on Anne Huff's classic treatise that has lost none of its potency

08 Mar 2021 (updated 19 Apr 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: REF and Christmas during a pandemic

Reports on our 36th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on REF and A Christmas celebration

05 Jan 2021 (updated 11 Dec 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: The wonderful world of book publishing

Reports on our 35th CYGNA meeting with three publishers discussing textbooks, research books and practice books

12 Dec 2020 (updated 26 Aug 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Female leadership in Higher Education

Reports on our 33rd CYGNA meeting - our first in a full academic year of online meetings

29 Oct 2020 (updated 01 Apr 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

2nd CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: MBTI & Stress

Reports on our 32nd CYGNA meeting - our second virtual meeting discussing stress trigger factors for different MBTI types

16 Jul 2020 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

1st CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: Coping with a Pandemic

Reports on our 31st CYGNA meeting - our first virtual meeting dealing with work-life balance during a pandemic

06 Jun 2020 (updated 05 Sep 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Be proactive, resilient & realistic!

Argues that as an academic you are an independent professional shaping your own career

07 Jan 2020 (updated 29 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Work intensification, well-being and career advancement

Reports on our 29th CYGNA meeting dealing with workloads and work intensification

08 Dec 2019 (updated 29 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Wives, Woes and Good Work: Untangling the Contradictions

Commentary on Wives of the Organization exploring how relational practice can become invisible work

06 Feb 2016 (updated 17 Apr 2019) - Joyce K. Fletcher

Does Everybody Still Want a Wife?

Commentary on Wives of the Organization arguing how we need change institutions

06 Feb 2016 (updated 17 Apr 2019) - Anne-Wil Harzing

When to say no?

Criteria for saying no: Just because you can do something doesn't mean you always should do something

25 Mar 2019 (updated 14 Oct 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Be nice AND get the corner office

Reports on our 21st CYGNA meeting with an emphasis on negotiating your employment conditions

02 Apr 2018 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: Working effectively with support staff in academia

Reports on our 18th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on working with support staff and a discussion of boundaryless careers

06 Mar 2018 (updated 21 Mar 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Take care of the little ants

One of the most funny and sad stories about office politics I have ever read

29 Jan 2018 (updated 10 May 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia

Provides thirteen suggestions on how to prevent burn-out and keep your sanity

12 May 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Female academics: Wives of the organization?

Describes how gendered interactions in the workplace subvert success for female academics

14 Apr 2016 (updated 14 Apr 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing