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New Year’s Resolutions

September 5, 2008 by Gavan 1 Comment

It seems to me that September, and the start of a new academic year, is a more significant mark of the passage of time and the beginning of the new than January 1st.  This academic year also holds to be more significant than my previous years: working on research and writing a dissertation are the end-moves to a long term project like a PhD. I’m thinking that in order to be successful this year, I need to establish some resolutions and deadlines. Here’s what I’m thinking right now I would like to complete for this time next year:

Goals

  1. Two publications in the pipe-line, one peer-reviewed and one other kind of publication
  2. Present a paper at an 5th World Environmental Education Congress, one other conference presentation1
  3. Dissertation submitted and ready to be defended
  4. Application in for at least one post-doc2, one academic job and one non-academic job

Deadlines after the jump.

  1. even better-turn these papers into publications, see goal #1 [↩]
  2. the 2009 SSHRC post-doc is out of the question because I have to submit evidence of a dissertation exam by April 09–something that will not be happening. It makes more sense to apply for 2010 [↩]
Posted in: Academia Tagged: Academic, deadlines, goals, resolutions

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Gavan Watson headshot Work life? Director, Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning & Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning at Memorial University with a Ph.D. in environmental education. Home life? Father, naturalist, photographer, husband, philosopher, & member of a hybrid human-dog pack.

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