Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

I help academics build their confidence to do the work they find meaningful and find the time to do it.

This podcast includes a whole range of topics: strategies for protecting your time, writing and editing advice, thoughts on careers and the wider context, preventing overwork and burnout, etc.

Pursuing a scholarly career is tough these days. I firmly believe that your academic career has the potential for joy as well as success.

I also believe that you can pursue your scholarly work in whatever situation you find yourself in, even if it's not ideal. You don't have to, but if it's important to you, you don't have to wait for someone else to create the ideal conditions.

For more audio tracks, we started posting over on Soundcloud before beginning this distribution journey. We'll be adding more to the platforms you love as soon as we can!

Enjoy your writing

JoVE

Podcasting since 2019 • 283 episodes

Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

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You need a writing practice

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January 16, 2026 • 19:23

End of summer writing panic

It is tempting to use the last week before teaching starts again for One Last Push on your writing projects, risking undoing all the resting and recharging you've also been doing over the summer. In this track, I discourage you from doing this ...

January 15, 2026 • 4:39

Hyperfocus and intensive writing styles

Do you prefer to write in longer, intense, sessions? Does some of the advice out there make you feel like you shouldn't? You don't have to become someone you are not. In this track, I talk about how this kind...

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