Welcome to The Grateful Academic

With the end of the academic year upon us, this blog challenges us to think about scheduling a session of reflection through 3 lenses: retrospective, introspective and prospective and how these can help us to learn, focus and plan.

Overwhelm is rife in academia, there is always way too much to do. The wonderful Kate Tapper is back helping us learn how to say no.

For many of us working in academia the end of the term or semester is coming and whilst we may be starting to look ahead towards some well e

Have you ever considered that how we think about something, might be able to change how it feels? This blog is about the power of positivity

In this blog, I share ways of retaining the focus we regain after taking a break and why we should all regularly hit the refresh button.

Your time is your most precious commodity. In this blog I reflect on how busyness can stop you from being effective, and how 5 minute tasks

Dr Becky Selwyn is an award winning senior lecturer in Engineering who writes about the challenging phenomenon of Imposter Syndrome.

The latest guest blog at thegfratefulacademic.com is all about compassion, from the wonderful Fabienne Vailes.

Sharing the Grateful Academic's second blog on kindness, I welcome the wonderful Kate Tapper, founder of Bud Development to the site.

In this blog I’m thrilled to welcome Dave Jarman. He writes his blog on the benefits of entrepreneurial behaviour for all academics

co-create / kō-krē-ˈāt / verb to make or produce something by working with one or more others

In this blog, Sally Brown writes about what grateful late-stage or retired academics can do to support the next generation of academics.

support / səˈpɔːt / verb to give encouragement to someone because you want them to succeed

In this blog, Zoe talks about her advocacy work and how it is critical to acknowledge that things aren’t always ‘positive’ in academia

learn /ˈləːnɪŋ/ verb the process of gaining understanding of something by studying or experience