A Year of Academic Writing - A Blog by David Larsson Heidenblad

This is a blog about academic writing and postdoctoral experiences. It was originally written in Swedish 2019–2020, got quite popular, and was published as a book in April 2020. Readers requested a translation to English and here it is! This blog will publish the content with a two year delay, from February 1, 2021 to February 1, 2022. New blog posts are published every Monday 7.30 during the Swedish academic calendar year. Sometimes more often. Enjoy!

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Sunday, March 13, 2022

From me to us

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  At the beginning of the 2019 fall semester, Johan Östling, Anna Nilsson Hammar and I went to a spa and conference center called The Lodge....
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Listen, don't listen

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  Academics operate in a world where the rules of the game are not fully known to the players. In addition, they are in a state of constant ...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Four-week planning

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  Every Friday, typically immediately after lunch, I sit down and make a four-week plan. I start by taking a blank A4 sheet of paper and put...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Less but better

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One of my favorite books – all categories – is Greg McKeown’s Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (2011). This is a book I return...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

Assessments and being evaluated

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An element of an active academic life consists of assessing others and being assessed. It runs like a common thread from the first exam as a...
Sunday, February 6, 2022

The list

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In January 2019, I made a list of things I knew I wanted to blog about. This list included experiences and working methods, books and schola...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Ending things

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It’s sometimes said that a thesis is never completed – it’s abandoned. There is some truth to that expression. Many research projects end lo...
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