{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F8173fc52-368e-424b-88c0-5646a990ca09","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Janet Read on charm bracelets, finish tape & the work to be a complete academic","description":"Janet Read is a Professor in Child Computer Interaction at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Janet\u2019s path to academia was via maths teaching, and then falling into a PhD after she had a family. Our discussions are wide ranging and throughout she is incredibly thoughtful, reflective and proactive in how she goes about unentangling processes and challenges. Because this ends up being a long conversation, I\u2019ve added some notes on the web about the high level topics and talk about it two parts. \nIn the first part, up to about the hour, she explores her own journey learning how to do research, how to supervise students, and how to support good learning experiences. She has some really interesting things to say about today\u2019s university process-driven culture and argues that we need to do much better at understanding students and how to better support the learning experience, not equating attendance with learning. \nIn the second part, she talks about being a complete academic, that one of the challenges is that no-one really knows what an academic actually does. She talks about how she deals with the demands on her time, the potential costs of being too efficient, being proactive and looking after your own needs, creating a collaborative group culture, wishing for encouraging and supportive leadership and saying \u2018well done\u2019. \nSee http://www.changingacademiclife.com/blog/ 2018/ 5/17/janet-read for a time-stamped overview of the conversation and related links.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2038a41a-b490-465e-8b17-47e05eb2fd5b/img-7420-2-jpg.jpg"}