Women? What about it?

The third post in July Special Issue: Women Clinician Academics comes from Chantal Camden. In writing this, Chantal had not seen the two previous posts, was about to go on leave

Can clinician academics have kids?

I have have been drafting this post since mid-April, writing it in several different ways. None if seems quite right, and my back stage editors keep taking issues with it… But now the July Special Issue: Women Clinician Academics is at hand…

Adventuring beetle

If I was to describe my lived experience of my everyday working life, it would be something like this: imagine a small beetle with the pondering brain of Winnie the Pooh (a brain where everything is entirely possible) and the energy of Tigger.

Grant-writing submission

This post is an update on the grant writing frenzy – I feel I owe this to all those who read that post and became completely traumatised….

Straddling two worlds

I was pleased to be asked to write something for this blog, especially when I read the first posts and saw the aim of this blog: opening up the “black box of being a clinician academic”. Then I started thinking:

Grant-writing frenzy

A lot of clinician academics, including me, only have a job if we bring in grants that pay our salaries. A lot of the time this means working my socks off to ensure I will have a job in 12 months time.

Great People

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog – a blog about being a clinician academic – for some time. I’ve had the idea, and I know what I want from this blog. But what should be in the very first post?!?