Category Academic Output & Impact
Everything about publishing, visibility, and getting your work the recognition it deserves in and beyond academia.
Five Things Every Rejected Paper Has in Common. And How to Avoid it though Productive Academic Writing
I keep a list. Every time I review a paper that gets rejected from a top venue, I write down why. After eighty entries, a pattern jumped out at me. The rejections rarely had anything to do with intelligence or effort. They came down to five structural problems, and the same five kept showing up no matter the field.
From Lecture Halls to Financial Freedom: How Academics Can Craft a Scalable Teaching Path
External lecturing often carries a stigma of instability, low pay, and career stagnation. Yet, as I've discovered, it can become a surprisingly effective pathway toward financial freedom—if you approach it creatively, strategically, and intentionally.
PhD Funding: Why the Money Is Not the Most Valuable Part
Most PhD candidates think about funding in one dimension: financial support. But the most valuable part of PhD funding is not the money — it is the network and stakeholder buy-in that the process builds around your research.
PhD Funding: Why Writing A Proposal Always Pays Off
A PhD funding proposal strengthens your dissertation whether it succeeds or not. The process builds research clarity, external credibility, and a network of collaborators — all of which belong to you regardless of the outcome.
What a PhD Prepares You For — and What It Doesn’t
A PhD proves you can research independently. That is a real and significant achievement. But it is not the same as expertise — and confusing the two may be quietly holding back your development on the academic job market.
Academic Entrepreneurship: When Your Research Tool Needs a Funding Model
You built a brilliant tool from your PhD – but how do you fund it sustainably? A practical guide to academic entrepreneurship for researchers who care about impact and stability.
Automated transcription to speed up online course creation
transcribing, and editing, or simply because you use the edited transcript as a script for your teleprompter recording. Additionally, this text can be used to create study guides and quizzes, or even embedded directly into your course website. In short, transcription services can help ensure that your course content is accurate and easy to understand, making the process of creating an online course simpler and more efficient.
Dyck (2016): Beyond Satisfaction (Book Notes)
These are my notes for the book “Beyond Satisfaction: The Secret to Crafting a Profitable Online Course That Will Change Lives” by Breanne Dyck. Section 1: Overview The book “Beyond Satisfaction: The Secret to Crafting a Profitable Online Course That…