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Dr. Susan Wardell

My undergrads often have no idea about what I do, other than pop up to gives lectures once a week. My postgrads, who want to get into academia, aren't always well informed about what that means either. So I started drafting this. What say you, #AcademicTwitter? What'd I miss?

The image is a colourful infographic, with a circle at the centre, split into three sections: teaching, research, and service. The title of the infographic is "Academic life; what does a lecturer do?"
Radiating out from each section of the chart are a list of different tasks and responsibilities. There is a notes box in one corner, stating that this may vary for a variety of reasons.

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Dr. Susan Wardell

Thanks for all your responses. I used your feedback to makes some updates. While it feels like the list could go on forever, this version at least gives an immediate sense what a multi-faceted job this is! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #AcademicLife #lecturer #Academia

This image is titled "Academic Life: What does a "Lecturer" Do?"

It presents a diagram showing a circle with three parts, labelled teaching, research, and service. Radiating out from each section is a list of different tasks involved, some with bulletpoints.

There is a box of notes specifying that this may vary for a number of reasons.

There is a box stating the content was created by Susan Wardell (Twitter: Unlazy_Susan) 22nd June 2021, with a creative commons attribution licence.

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Wow, this response!

We really do have complex jobs, huh? My doctoral research was on burnout, & I won't say that is UNRELATED to the graphic either. Here's a slightly updated version. And as per requests, link to a PPT version you can download & adapt bit.ly/3jicrr8

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@KatieEAnderson5

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an updated version yet!

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Dr. Michael Mullarkey

A picture is worth a thousand blog posts Unreal seeing all* of the roles academia demands people play in one place *Definitely not all, which is even wilder

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Very nice graphic!! A while ago I posted a list of scientists' commonly needed skills onto github, I got good feedback with many more things scientists are supposed to know

GitHub - philippbayer/Things-a-scientist-is-suppposed-to-know: A comprehensive and long list of...

A comprehensive and long list of things a modern scientist is supposed to know - GitHub - philippbayer/Things-a-scientist-is-suppposed-to-know: A comprehensive and long list of things a modern scie...

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#Academic Life: What Does a "Lecturer" Do? 學術生活：「講師」有什麼職責？ by Dr. Susan Wardell

PPT you can download & adapt: bit.ly/3jicrr8

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Shoshanah Jacobs

@shoshanahjacobs

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Great list! Would be super fun to overlay the tasks for which we are actually trained during our formal education

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Melissa Petrakis

OMG yes!

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Cynthia Kallenbach

@CynthKallenbach

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Yes! Plus accountant.

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Joshua Charana®

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And surely this is the brain behind

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Thank you for making this and sharing it - so often we try to communicate all the aspects of the job but it’s really hard for anyone to appreciate the breadth. This is so good for visualising that.

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have you missed off Recruitment activities, open days, clearing, college & school events

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thank you for sharing this

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Thank you so very, very much.

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Michel Tsamados

@micheltsamados

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Ha ha it does feel sometimes that we are like orchestra men/women (love the job though

) credit image: Ultimate Orchestra Man | juan camilo useche flickr.com/photos/juanuse

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Michel Tsamados

@micheltsamados

I should add that I do not condone this way of running a business or organisation that is too commonly seen in academia that sometimes revers and rewards the individual above the team, collective, etc

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Janet Montgomery

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Thank you Susan - very useful!

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Green Nanomaterials

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Fantastic work Susan. Many thanks for doing this. It also resonates with our recent article on "plate spinning":

figshare.shef.ac.uk

Plate Spinning: A Beginner’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving as an Engineering/Science Academic

[When printing, please note that the document is in A5 format, so fits 2 pages in A4]This document is intended as a frame of reference and a quick-start guide for new appointees in Science and...

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Thank you so much for taking the time to make this (no idea how you managed it!) and sharing it freely!

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Donato Giovannelli

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Fantastic work! Still missing are fieldwork and related like: sampling permits, export permits, travels, logistics, equipment shipment, safety and security training and planning, carrying out actual field work, etc...

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Johannes Borgstrom

See under "gathering data": "fieldwork".

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Adrienne Lester King, PhD

@ALesterKingphd

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Thank you for this!

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Prof. Carlos Grohmann

@CarlosGrohmann

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Amazing. Thank you for sharing

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Thanks for sharing this! Fantastic!

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So true. I wonder how people cope with the burnout…

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Hm, plus add mental health specialist/counselor...

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Lisa Levitt, MBA MHSA #hcldr #TelemedNow #HCP #BLM

Definitely. Especially while teaching in pandemic epicenter!

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Well here’s a new ‘service’ role: just got an email asking all staff to go and manually update the official ‘staff directory’ portion of the uni website with their room number, office extension, & email address

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Dr Tracy McCaffrey (she/her)

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Thank you for sharing this and making it available via Creative Commons Licence

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Dr. Matthias Krämer

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"copy editing" may fall under "writing and publishing". There is a "coure" instead of "course" at position 11:55h.

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So Good !!

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taciano l milfont

@TacianoMilfont

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This is gold. Thanks

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Thank you for share...

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noa-witheringly

@noawitheringly

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Thank you so much for this.

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Dr Niamh NicGhabhann

@Niamh_NicGhabh

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This is really great, thank you!

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Great job! Something most of us always wanted to do perhaps, but never had the time or courage to face and cope with the overwhelming picture! Folded hands

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Superb! Helps me to reflect on my activities. #research #sabbatical

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Someone else might have said - but increasingly find establishing and maintaining professional and policy links essential for both research and teaching.

Dr Susan Blum (pronounced BLOOM; Pronouns she/her)

@SusanDebraBlum

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Magnificent. Also, I'm tired

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