Changing Academic Life Geraldine Fitzpatrick

Volkmar Pipek was a highly influential researcher from Uni of Siegen who sadly passed away in Jan 2024 after a long illness. This short episode draws from a written interview he gave to Mateusz Dolata on the occasion of his 2023 EUSSET-ISSI Lifetime Achievement Award. I read an extract where he shares his advice about becoming and being a researcher: Be curious. Be who you are. Be curious who you are. Wise advice for all of us.
Read the full interview with Volkmar Pipek
Interview conducted by Mateusz Dolata, University of Zurich
Text accompanying the EUSSET-ISSI Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 to Volkmar Pipek
EUSSET: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies
ISSI: Institute for Social Informatics
Volkmar Pipek, University of Siegen and Volkmar’s publications


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Liam Bannon is a Professor Emeritus and founder and director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland.
Liam has been a hugely influential thinker writer and researcher since the 1980s, along with various collaborators, in shaping work around technology and design.   
Recorded in-person in 2017, he reflects on his interdisciplinary journey and contributions, covering areas such as AI, HCI, CSCW, human-centered design, and collaboration. Liam’s experiences exemplify the challenges and rewards of crafting a unique academic career largely outside the box, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and a commitment to improving human-technology interactions, while also highlighting the importance of personal fulfilment and being able to think broadly.
Related Links:
Liam at the Interaction Design Centre, Uni of Limerick
Some of the people & papers he mentions:
George Miller
Zenon Pylyshyn, (1973). What the mind's eye tells the mind's brain: A critique of mental imagery. Psychological Bulletin, 80(1), 1–24. 
H. Rudy Ramsey and Michael E Attwood (1979) Human Factors in Computer Systems: A Review of the Literature, Technical Report SAI-79-111DEN
James Jenkins, Uni of Minnesota
Don Norman, Human Centered Design, UCSD. See also  https://jnd.org
Kjeld Schmidt 
Lucy Suchman
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics 
Susanne Bødker, Aarhus Uni; see also our 2023 podcast conversation
Mike Cooley, Engineer Lucas Aerospace
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition, A New Foundation for Design, 1987, Addison-Wesley.
Bannon, L. & Bødker, S. (1991) Beyond the Interface: Encountering Artifacts in Use. Book Chapter in J.M. Carroll (Ed.) (1991) Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, pp.227-253. (New York: Cambridge University Press) (See also an a href="https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/ENS/FundHCI/2016/papers/BannonBodker-91.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

Jean Paul is a senior scientist at the Medical University of Innsbruck. In part 2 of our conversation, Jean discusses her experience leading an impact-led transcdisciplinary research project focused on supporting families with mental health issues. She highlights the challenges of stakeholder engagement, distributed team management, and transdisciplinary research. Jean emphasizes the importance of community engagement, virtual team collaboration, and fostering diversity in academia. She also reflects on the skills she brings to this role and the importance of investing in the team set up from the very beginning.
Overview
[00:29] Introducing Part 2
[02:23] Recap from Part 1
[07:27] Working with stakeholders
[13:35] Leading a distributed international interdisciplinay project team
[14:59] Learning leadership from diverse experiences
[18:25] The transferrable skills – listening and learning
[20:04] Supporting diverse career paths
[25:16] Insights for parents in academia
[29:22] Leadership, organisational design and virtual team management
[34:33] Making virtual collaboration work
[39:08] Future directions and reflections
[41:57] End
Related links:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute/Gesellschaft
The sandpit-funded project – The Village Project
The Healthy Minds project
Dr Ghislaine Caulat – consultant on virtual leadership development 
Simon Martin – consultant for their organisational design in a transdisciplinary project with stakeholder involvement 
Project Design principles:
The design principles that came out of the oganisational design workshops:
Effectively coordinate and involve a wide (but manageable!) network of stakeholdersBe clear on expectations, results and deliverables within the teamKeep momentum, trust and energy going across the project timeline for the core team and wider stakeholdersMake sure that the perspectives of people with lived experience are heard clearly throughout the project (capturing the voices of people impacted by perinatal mental illness and those who are treating and working with the affected person and their families)Enact high ethical standards in our research (especially when listening to personal stories of mental illness and challenges)Demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary research partnerships with stakeholders, and challenge the landscape of traditional research and methodsEffectively lobby and influence (local and national policy makers), and raise awareness in society / politics through making our topics and results visible.


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Jean Paul is a Senior Scientist at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria. Jean discusses her involvement in a unique research funding process called a sandpit or an ideas factory. Having then taken on the leadership of the project, she provides insights into the challenges and benefits of transdisciplinary research, stakeholder engagement, and arguing for their impact-focused approach. Jean also shares her academic background in social science, health and genomics research work in Australia.
Overview:
[00:29] Introduction
[03:03] Jean's PhD, Post-Doc Journey & Backup Plan
[11:23] From Australia to Austria: Applying for research funding sandpit
[18:00] The Sandpit Experience
[27:47] Getting Funded, Becoming a Team
[32:08] Leading the Project and Ongoing Project Support
[40:20] Transdisciplinary Research
[48:29] Wrapping up Part 1
[49:36] More on Jean's PhD and Post Doc Projects
[56:40] Final Wrapping Up
[57:47] End
Related links:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute/Gesellschaft
The sandpit-funded project – The Village Project


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This episode is an edited extract from a ‘Beyond Phrenology’ podcast episode where Dr Madhur Mangalam chatted with me about the impacts of research funding challenges on academic culture and individual well-being. The conversation addresses the need for a shift towards more supportive and diverse cultures, the complexities of academic career paths, and the importance of leadership, mentorship and job crafting. We also discuss the implications of international academic norms on individual career choices.
Overview:
[00:00:43] Research Funding Challenges and the Unsustainability of Current Models
[00:04:57] Promoting Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in Academia
[00:15:14] Navigating Career Paths Across Contexts
[00:24:38] On Privileged Positions and Playing the Game
[00:29:02] Wrapping up
[00:30:53] End
Related Links:
Madhur Mangalam, University of Nebraska at Omaha
BeyondPhrenology (YouTube)
BeyondPhrenology (Spotify)
Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence
CAL99 episode: On research identity, meaningful work and funding
TEDx talk from 2016: The craziness of research funding. It costs us all.  
Online Academic Leadership Development Course – sign up by March 7 2024!


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Taking this time to celebrate CAL100 – the 100th episode for the Changing Academic Life podcast series (actually 109th episode if we count the nine related work episodes) and thanks to all the people who have been part of making it happen.
To update and correct the information about Dr Paddy Barrett who inspired this podcast:
His original podcast was called 'The Doctor Paradox'. He is a preventive cardiologist not an anaesthetist as I stated. And he is now working in Ireland not the US!


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