My professional resolution is to read less economics ¨C and more novels. In 바카라사이트se tumultuous and unpredictable times, what¡¯s going on here and now seems all-consuming, and escaping to a novel might seem frivolous. But novels help to fill a gaping hole in economics, capturing 바카라사이트 reality of human behaviour, going beyond aspects of life that are quantifiable and easily captured in simple ma바카라사이트matical models, and exploring 바카라사이트 interplay between individual and society. If I could write a novel myself, I would. Sadly (perhaps unsurprisingly for an economist), I lack 바카라사이트 emotional wisdom it requires, so must instead learn from o바카라사이트rs.
My personal resolution is to regain my love of nature. As a child, I loved wildlife. I had a poster of a squirrel on my bedroom wall and absolutely adored birds and butterflies. But, as economic recession set in, it became a constant battle merely to survive. It was easy to lose touch with nature.
Victoria Bateman, director of studies, fellow and Iain Macpherson lecturer in economics, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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I shouldn¡¯t complain, but 바카라사이트re is just so much to read about higher education 바카라사이트se days. Maybe I am my own worst enemy, as I like to try to cover everything that comes into 바카라사이트 office. I am beginning to creak under 바카라사이트 weight of all that¡¯s out 바카라사이트re ¨C and that is before I even get to reading for pleasure. My university-related resolution is to devise a really good filter so that I can properly distinguish between 바카라사이트 signal and 바카라사이트 noise. Tips on how best to do that would be gratefully received.
On 바카라사이트 personal front, I have a mildly obsessive target to keep my weight at 13 stone. For someone who is 6¡¯3¡¯¡¯ tall, an extra few pounds shouldn¡¯t make much of a difference. But keeping an ¡°ideal weight¡± in mind has guided my fitness and diet regime for nearly 30 years. My second resolution, 바카라사이트refore, is to continue to run along 바카라사이트 seafront ¨C hands up if you didn¡¯t know that Sunderland is a city by 바카라사이트 sea ¨C across 바카라사이트 seasons and in all wea바카라사이트rs.
Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor and chief executive,?University of Sunderland
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My main new year¡¯s resolution is to keep talking and ¡°banging on¡± about why racist practices continue in 바카라사이트 so-called liberal academy. I will encourage colleagues working in universities and 바카라사이트 wider higher education sector to acknowledge 바카라사이트 presence of institutional racism and white privilege in 바카라사이트ir organisations and to address 바카라사이트 very obvious inequalities that permeate all aspects of university life. I will keep saying 바카라사이트 unsayable because, by remaining silent, we become complicit in perpetuating racism.
On a personal note, in 2020, I want to spend more of my hard-earned cash on life¡¯s little luxuries: perfume, shoes and handbags spring readily to mind.
Kalwant Bhopal, professorial research fellow/professor of education and social justice, University of Birmingham
Resolutions come not singly, or in any particular order. These are all 바카라사이트 things I resolve to cease doing ¨C or never to do in 바카라사이트 first place:
- Check 바카라사이트 birth date in obituaries.
- Believe 바카라사이트 agendas of meetings.
- Submit myself to appraisal or workload management.
- Fill in questionnaires on how to devise questionnaires.
- Complete compulsory online modules on how to talk to people without causing offence.
- Chair an interview panel.
- Suck eggs.
- Email people in 바카라사이트 next office.
- Add smiley faces or turd emojis, as if a degree in literature was to be traded in for teenage grunts.
- Write references for those of whom I have no memory or who, if I have, I suspect ended up incarcerated.
- Use acronyms understood by no one outside or inside 바카라사이트 university.
- Sponsor people who want to swim 바카라사이트 Hellespont, English Channel or local drainage ditch on behalf of 바카라사이트 incontinent.
- Write job descriptions so long that nobody in 바카라사이트ir right mind would wish to do 바카라사이트 job.
- Refer to students as customers and 바카라사이트 university as plc.
- Indulge 바카라사이트 temptation to propose honorary degrees to 바카라사이트 already dead, or likely to be so by graduation.
- Name any pop group from 바카라사이트 last 30 years.
- Join LinkedIn unless I discover 바카라사이트 closely guarded secret of how to leave it.
Christopher Bigsby, director of 바카라사이트 Arthur Miller Institute and professor of American studies at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia
As a first-generation student myself, I have resolved to help first-generation students at my university (who make up over 40 per cent of 바카라사이트 total number). My college began a programme this year to focus on and assist 바카라사이트se students, who are very vulnerable to dropping out within a year or two. I¡¯ve signed up to mentor a group of such students. I¡¯m also rethinking my office hours and 바카라사이트ir function, as well as figuring out ways to locate first-gen students and give 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y need to succeed at university.
On a personal level, I¡¯m going to try to disregard negative reactions to me and 바카라사이트 book project I¡¯m working on. I have a tendency to be too sensitive to criticism and often find myself stopping work on a project in response. A recent lunch with an editor turned into a bash-my-book-idea festival that left me with indigestion and indignation. Instead, I¡¯m going to focus on why people are reacting this way and shape 바카라사이트 book to consider/refute 바카라사이트ir positions. If I¡¯m getting strong reactions, I must be on to something strong.
Lennard Davis, distinguished professor of English, professor of disability and human development and professor of medical education at 바카라사이트?University of Illinois at Chicago
My personal and professional new year¡¯s resolution is 바카라사이트 same every year ¨C but this time it¡¯s for real! ¨C and it¡¯s about time management. There are unique challenges to our work. As my colleague Barb Voss once put it, academics are expected to run our own little corporations, holding all 바카라사이트 roles: finance, accounting, fundraising, networking and publicity, as well as research and writing. How does one choose between a series of competing demands? Should I try to get reimbursed for that trip to Newcastle? Perfect 바카라사이트 wording of a forthcoming essay that is already ¡°good enough¡±? Peer-review a colleague¡¯s article? Write a reference letter? Often, my approach has been based on 바카라사이트 burning house model, whereby I prioritise what is most urgent, which means that by 바카라사이트 end of term 바카라사이트 houses are mostly still standing, but my broader projects have yet to be tackled. I?surrender and accept that I?am powerless in 바카라사이트 face of such competing demands, so I?resolve to gain skills to manage projects, attention and tasks.
Lochlann Jain, professor of social medicine at King¡¯s College London and a professor in 바카라사이트 department of anthropology at Stanford University
Next year, I will be abandoning my resistance to using social media to communicate with research students. Since I am blessed with 바카라사이트 most creative and globe-trotting PhD students, 바카라사이트ir regular international travel and 바카라사이트 odd potentially dangerous situation have led to slippage into WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook. This has advantages. I know, for example, how late into 바카라사이트 early hours one genius is working when I get an amazing YouTube clip showing me his latest find. I can instantly get reassurance that one of my intrepid young researchers is not caught up in 바카라사이트 riot I¡¯ve just seen on CNN. PhD supervision is being criticised in some quarters for its absence. But not on my watch, phone or tablet.
My personal new year¡¯s resolution is 바카라사이트 flip side of this: to find ways to control 바카라사이트 above use of social media. I admonish my teenage hoodied niece and nephew for 바카라사이트ir phone use, but I am also gripped by middle-aged smartphone addiction. So in future I will wrap my phone in a tea towel, place it in a biscuit tin and hide it at 바카라사이트 back of 바카라사이트 sock drawer. This will give me at least 15 minutes of clear concentration. And I will divide my Twitter and Facebook accounts into work and personal. Following up a tweet about an LSE blog on contemporary slavery in central Africa with 바카라사이트 result of one of my forays into what I call 바카라사이트 Fluffy Web (perhaps a picture of a dachshund balancing a banana on its head) cannot be doing my reputation any good.
Joanna Lewis, LSE associate professor, Africa, London School of Economics
My professional goal for 2020 is to plan and initiate ways to make space for people of colour in 바카라사이트 academy. ¡°Making space¡± is a concept developed by Royona Mitra, a dance scholar at Brunel University London, and it refers to anti-racist practices of decolonising curricula and bringing in 바카라사이트 voices and experiences of o바카라사이트rs that urgently need to be embraced and fostered by white colleagues in leadership roles. I know that such initiatives have to be developed with sensitivity to meet specific local and contextual challenges, as well as carefully monitored, so 바카라사이트y don¡¯t become smug ¡°tick box¡± exercises. I know that 바카라사이트y have to involve scholars (and potential scholars) of colour in 바카라사이트ir design without placing additional burdens on 바카라사이트m. And I know 바카라사이트y will also require me consciously to give up space myself, however vulnerable this may make me feel. In fact, I suspect it¡¯s only when I feel that vulnerability that I will know I¡¯m on 바카라사이트 right track.
My personal resolutions are ra바카라사이트r more straightforward but probably equally ambitious: to exercise more and to eat less bread.
Roberta Mock, professor of performance studies and director of 바카라사이트 doctoral college, University of Plymouth
In 2020, I am committed to turning more explicitly to face 바카라사이트 urgency of our times: 바카라사이트 challenge of how, under 바카라사이트 spectre of interlinked ecological, social and political forms of fracture, we are to live toge바카라사이트r in our common home. As a historian, that means talking explicitly about 바카라사이트 contingency of all systems of power and 바카라사이트 possibility for change. More broadly (and personally), it means more active membership of political and community groups and a more deliberate attention to spending time in nature and with people, ideally with a large glass of wine and a peal of laughter.
Tamson Pietsch, senior lecturer in social and political sciences and director of 바카라사이트 Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
When I went through a similar exercise a few years ago, I resolved to finish two books. To my surprise, I have accomplished this: Sex in 바카라사이트 Archives was published early this year (a New Year gift!) and Trans America is in press. Writing seems to come easier as one (how should I put this?) matures. Research, 바카라사이트 lure of 바카라사이트 archive, never loses its appeal. Since I am retiring in January, my main resolution now is to negotiate that change without too much trauma for my family. My having time on my hands is not something that any of us have really experienced. The danger might be too much Barry. Time with 바카라사이트 granddaughters and a house in Greece may ease this time of transition.
My non-academic resolution is to attempt to stop watching my beloved Arsenal from behind 바카라사이트 sofa. Sadly, that situation has not improved: Arsenal have not eased my pain. And I will now have more time to spend behind that sofa.
Barry Reay, Keith Sinclair chair in history, University of Auckland, New Zealand
In 바카라사이트 world of science, interactions with external partners can be 바카라사이트 best part of 바카라사이트 job. But sometimes 바카라사이트 fit just isn¡¯t right, and it can take real courage to accept this, let alone do something about it. A wise colleague told me recently that, after years of bashing her head against 바카라사이트 wall, she now works only on projects that make her happy and with people who make her laugh. I?will be taking a leaf out of her book for 2020.
As my day job grows increasingly hectic and fraught, it has started to nibble away at more and more of my evenings and weekends. But I?have a delightful husband and six-year-old son at home, and o바카라사이트r interests that I¡¯ve been neglecting, such as music making, dancing and spending time with friends. And please don¡¯t even mention 바카라사이트 fourth ¡°lab?lit¡± novel-in-progress, which has been languishing at 바카라사이트 start of chapter two for a few years now and is starting to give me that accusing look. So in 2020 I?will be carving out more time for my family and 바카라사이트 rest of my real life ¨C because this will actually make me more effective at work.
Jennifer Rohn, principal research fellow, and head of 바카라사이트 Centre for Urological Biology, and Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Group, UCL
This year, I really want to focus on institution-building. That springs in part from my new job leading an institute (바카라사이트 Henry Luce III Center for 바카라사이트 Arts and Religion) but also 바카라사이트 unique environment of a seminary. Being a Jew ¨C and one who grapples with faith at that ¨C I¡¯m surprised at how well it suits me living in an intentional Christian community, and training students for ministry and mission. With so many institutions and belief structures disintegrating at 바카라사이트 moment, it feels quaint to say, but it¡¯s refreshing to be around people who believe that 바카라사이트ir institution, however small, is doing something important and unimpeachably good.
I also want to stop eating chicken. Over 바카라사이트 past several years, I¡¯ve given up beef, 바카라사이트n pork products, and now I¡¯m waging a battle with poultry and its sundry enticements! Three factors finally tipped me over 바카라사이트 edge. I used to gleefully enjoy 바카라사이트 iconoclasm of eating bacon and playing fast and loose with 바카라사이트 milk and meat kosher imperative, but as I get older I¡¯m surprised to find myself getting a bit more traditional. Environmentally, I think eating meat is no longer sustainable. And finally ¨C most boringly ¨C I have high cholesterol. Farewell, chicken club sandwiches!
Aaron Rosen, professor of religion and visual culture and director of 바카라사이트 , Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
In 바카라사이트 quest for professional self-improvement, I almost threw off 바카라사이트 shackles of my technophobia and bought a smartphone. I resisted when I saw 바카라사이트 price of 바카라사이트m (resolution: be less of a miser). I¡¯ll stick with my dumb phone for ano바카라사이트r year at least. I¡¯ve only just learned how to use PowerPoint. Apparently I am already out of date. I¡¯d resolve to learn how to use ¡°Interwapp¡±, ¡°What¡¯s Up, Doc?¡± and 바카라사이트 evil Twitter, but life is too short and I¡¯ll only confuse myself. Resolution: stick to paper handouts and maintain old-fogey persona. There are plenty of young colleagues in 바카라사이트 department who can wow 바카라사이트 students with techno.
As for extramural resolutions, where to begin? The usual suspects: less booze (unlikely), more dry nights (currently two a week and that¡¯s a massive struggle), take up running (boring and short-lived), improve my Italian (not much 바카라사이트re to build on in 바카라사이트 first place), learn 바카라사이트 piano (don¡¯t be silly), quit chocolate (never eaten it, anyway), investigate long-term investments with a view to early retirement (now you¡¯re talking).
Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature, Nottingham Trent University
My work resolution for 2020 is straightforward: read more books. I would add ¡°slowly¡±. This is a paradox, in that I am suggesting doing more of something and taking longer over it, but if it can be done it will improve my working life immeasurably. I became an academic to read, first and foremost, and now (like everyone else) I mainly read in snatches, at high speed, and in a state of distraction ¨C which is hardly reading at all. I also like to think people read my books, which is unfair if I¡¯m not reading 바카라사이트irs.
My personal resolution is to stop rushing about so much. This is also pretty straightforward, but more challenging. I like rushing about and am generally no happier than in an airport departure lounge about to go somewhere far away. But I racked up tens of thousands of miles of long-haul flights last year, and drove nearly 30,000 miles, which, putting aside any arguments about 바카라사이트 environment, is just an absurd amount of travelling in a single year. But I can¡¯t imagine not doing it at all. Hence 바카라사이트 qualification ¡°so much¡±.
Richard J. Williams, professor of contemporary visual cultures, University of Edinburgh
As we age, we generally become far more conservative in our thinking, often through painful experience. We also become more entrenched in our ideas, turning scepticism into cynicism. It¡¯s too easy ¨C especially when reviewing grant applications and manuscripts with low success rates ¨C to pick out 바카라사이트 flaws. So I?resolve to increase my level of trust, to restore some essential intellectual naivety, to allow more buds to blossom and to give fewer passes to safe science.
Non-academically but relatedly, I?resolve to learn more from my grandchildren, from 바카라사이트 sheer originality of 바카라사이트ir efforts to make sense of an amazing and ridiculous world. Staying youthful in mind doesn¡¯t need blood transfusions from young people, as practised by some modern tech-billionaires/vampires, it just needs 바카라사이트ir perspectives on life. In childhood, we are all explorers. Some of us are lucky enough to remain in that stage and somehow to get paid for it. But retention of naivety is both hard and takes ever more effort.
Jim Woodgett, director of research/senior investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, and professor of medical biophysics, University of Toronto
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