Impostor Syndrome Podcast

By: Samuel Westwood
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  • Summary

  • Impostor Syndrome is characterised by a set of feelings of self-doubt about ones skills, talents, and competence, and/or a persistent fear of being "found out" or exposed as a "fraud". From time-to-time or throughout their career, academics suffer with Impostor Syndrome, forcing some to never reach their potential and others to leave academia altogether. In a series of monthly interviews I shall interview academics from across different career stages and disciplines to learn how they have coped with their own experiences with Impostor Syndrome. By hearing from a variety of viewpoints, I aim to help listeners overcome challenges they might face as they progress through their career and in so doing provide a much-needed antidote to their Impostor Syndrome.
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Episodes
  • Should I stay or should I go? A discussion on leaving academia with Drs Karolina Urbanska, Jade Pickering, and Ian Hussey

    Should I stay or should I go? A discussion on leaving academia with Drs Karolina Urbanska, Jade Pickering, and Ian Hussey
    Feb 28 2023

    Everyone seems to be leaving academia, so let's explore reasons why that might be with three academics who have recently left academia (one of whom came back!). They are Drs Kaolina Urbanksa, a Senior R&D Psychologist at the Chemistry Group (thechemistrygroup.com), Jade Pickering, Head of Customer Success at Gorilla (gorilla.sc), and Ian Hussey, a meta-scientist based at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
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    47 mins
  • Dealing with rejection and failure with Dr Dan Quintana and Prof Siri Leknes

    Dealing with rejection and failure with Dr Dan Quintana and Prof Siri Leknes
    Jun 13 2022

    Rejection. It happens to us all, whether applying for a grant or submitting a paper for peer review. Yet, despite rejection being part of academia, academics (me included) can find rejection very difficult to cope with. To talk about issues surrounding rejection and how to cope with it, I am joined by Dr Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) and Prof Siri Leknes (@sirileknes).
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    43 mins
  • Being an early career researcher feminist in open science ~ Drs Maddi Pownall & Alex Lautarescu

    Being an early career researcher feminist in open science ~ Drs Maddi Pownall & Alex Lautarescu
    May 31 2022

    In today's show I will be chatting with Drs Maddi Pownall (@maddi_pow) and Alex Lautarescu (@AleLautarescu) about their recent paper, Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers (link below). We cover the barriers and support that open science presents for feminist researchers at the junior stages of their academic careers before touching on the idea of Impostor Syndrome and how it can have shortcomings as a term to describe self-doubt in academia.

    Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…16843211029255

    Please follow via Twitter: @ImpostorPod
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    59 mins

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