Academia is a game of whack-a-mole. It can feel like a war of attrition between your passions and your responsibilities, a career in which success and satisfaction can mean two very different things.
Laura helps you clarify what it is you really want out of academic life and works with you to achieve it. Set your own agenda. Act instead of react. Know where you draw the line. Decide for yourself what fulfillment looks like.
One of Laura’s specialities is working with academics going on sabbatical. Laura helps with establishing agendas, setting and maintaining boundaries, revising habits, and re-integrating into work once the sabbatical ends.
When you work with Laura, there is very little you need to explain. As a former academic who has worked in both the US and UK, Laura has an intimate understanding of the ups and downs of academic life. She has been a tenure-track assistant professor, a permanent lecturer, and a year-to-year postdoc. She knows well the pressures to publish and secure funding, the brutality of the job market, the politics of disciplines and departments, the ticking of the tenure clock, the opaqueness of the promotions process, the machinations of peer review, the agonies of the REF, and the fact that, no, you don’t actually get summers ‘off.’ She also understands the sense of freedom, purpose, connection, creativity, satisfaction and joy that can be found in academic life as well, and will help you find it again if you’ve lost it.