Yet how to manage time is rarely something that universities rarely teach young academics. Someone who helps researchers with this aspect of their work is Melanie Smith, a former law lecturer who now works as an academic coach, offering writing support for researchers at all stages of their careers.
“I have people come to me and say: ‘I’ve been working on this paper 8 hours a day and I’m just not making any progress.’ But with time tracking, they find that what they thought was 8 hours was really 45 minutes. The rest of the time was them sitting feeling emotional and writing e-mails, going on the Internet or pretending to do research,” she says. “Lots of time tracking is about breaking that delusion.
He also learnt how to adapt when things took more or less time than he expected. “As long as I felt organized, both hitting the deadlines and being late for them felt like part of the plan,” he says. Chen, who is from China, is studying consumer behaviour for her doctorate. She says she is “infatuated” with productivity and describes herself as a “small-time influencer”. Her videos on Bilibili, a Chinese variation on YouTube, in which she shares productivity tips and insights from her research, get an average of 50,000 views within a week of posting.
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