Tutorial 1: Healthy and Sustainable Productivity Habits for Academics

As academics, we often grapple with an overwhelming workload and a multitude of roles. Our responsibilities span teaching, research group management, student supervision, funding acquisition, paper writing, and complex administrative duties—all while striving to maintain a private life and mental well-being. This challenge is exacerbated by an avalanche of emails and a seemingly endless stream of meetings that consume a significant portion of our time.

Unfortunately, we receive little guidance on how to manage these demands effectively. Many of us default to strategies that served us well during our student and PhD years: being primarily driven by deadlines and extending our hours into evenings and weekends. This approach is unsustainable, leading to an unhealthy work-life balance and, ultimately, burnout. The consequences are severe: frustration, demotivation, and disillusionment with our academic work. Moreover, as research group leaders, we inadvertently transmit this toxic work culture to our teams and students.

This workshop aims to break this negative cycle and help you to establish healthy, sustainable productivity habits. We will introduce an alternative approach on how to think about your role in academia. We will provide modern tools to define your own, sustainable working style so that you can be highly successful, while at the same time be happy and fall again in love with your academic work.

Main Contact: Prof. Helmut Hauser, Bristol University

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