Impostor Syndrome Podcast: Recent Episodes
Samuel Westwood
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.
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.
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).
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
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Open science is a set of reforms that seek to improve the quality of research, both in practice and culture. They address the publish or perish and fund or famine culture, and generally make the scholarly enterprise more accessible and transparent to all. Though necessary and worthwhile, advocating and practice open science is not without its challenges. My guests with discuss these challenges, drawing upon their personal experience in promoting Registered Reports!
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Are you an academic? Do you suffer from self-doubt? Maybe you want to improve academic research culture? Well, this podcast is just for you!
Join me every month to hear interviews from academics across the world who will talk about their struggles with Impostor Syndrome and how they're trying to push for positive change in academia!