Recovering Academic

Recovering Academic


Latest Episodes

Send Recovering Academic to the NPA Meeting!
January 29, 2020

Happy 2020, Recovering academic audience (& hello to those new to us). We hope you had a restful break and 2020 is off to an amazing start. Recovering Academic has been invited to the annual NPA Meeting in March,

Season 4: ep 02: Dr. Emily Roberts
November 18, 2019

Dr. Emily Roberts. Photo source: pfforphds.com. We spoke with Emily Roberts, PhD about their business Personal Finance for PhDs. Emily's career after academia is advising PhDs about finance. One of the key points she made was to how having a sol...

Season 4, Episode 1: Eva Amsen
November 01, 2019

Eva Amsen, PhD. Photo from Easternblot.net. Photographer: Rannie Turingan For our series four opener, we talk with Freelance writer, editor and science communicator Eva Amsen, PhD who joined us in the middle of her night from London.

Recovering Academic Season 4 Teaser
June 27, 2019

We've discussed our experiences regarding the struggles we faced when leaving academia. So now we want to hear from you! The recovering academic trio is on summer break, but we want to ask for your help to plan our next season!

Season 3 Episode 11: Space
April 30, 2019

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Public Domain. Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Recovering Academics. Its mission: to explore different and new industries. To seek out life outside of academia To boldly go where no former academi...

Season 3 episode 10: Value
March 20, 2019

In this episode the recovering trio discusses how to ask for more when academia train us not to negotiate/request what your time is actually worth. How do you put a dollar value on your time. Entrepreneur Amanda has so many great things to say,

Season 3 episode 9: Interview with Gary McDowell
February 10, 2019

In this week of the Recovering Academic podcast we talk with Dr. Gary McDowell and his journey outside academia. Gary is the executive director of The Future of Research, a non-profit organization created for and by early career researchers to make the...

Season 3 Episode 8: Surprises
January 28, 2019

On this episode, we talk about what surprised us the most about the transition from academia to our post-academic lives. What has surprised you the most when leaving academia? Was it the difference in working life?

Season 3 Episode 7: Cynicism
January 09, 2019

Drought Crack Life Survival Flower Desert How to avoid cynical feelings of feeling helpless. "Always wear shorts under your skirt so you can go to the monkey bar" —@ladyscientist Mentioned in this episode:

Season 3 Episode 6: Holiday Episode
December 20, 2018

The Recovering Academic trio takes some time to reflect about the past year and make plans for 2019. We also discuss how it is hard to find motivation and focus during this time of the year, but we give some tips about how we can trick ourselves to ...