Oct 22, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
We can all have a good research year. Maybe two. But this week, Priscilla and Tara explore what a sustained research career looks like - and how to create one.
Every year is a big year for you, but this is a big year for you because you've got an enormous book that's been released, is being released through markets around the world.
Noting the great success that you've got at this period of your career, what advice would you offer to your younger self about academic publishing?
I think it's that... to to well i i think publishing is one part of it but then i think it's the whole of the whole attitude of being in academia and i think having come from a kind of studying drama and english and sociology at university and doing an honest during english and then and being quite kind of artsy and then going out and working and and coming back and doing social work and then going back and being a social worker and then entering academia
think the advice would be push back against those who kind of assume that you have no experience or no knowledge of anything else aside from academia.
I still hear that people say, but I used to be a manager and I used to, you know, and I was very high up.
And then there is this, I think because academia is so hierarchical, there can be an attitude that you're a clean slate when you come in.
I think that what helped me kind of think about the textbook that I wrote is that I was thinking about creative ways to approach social work education.
I was thinking about a different way of thinking and I was influenced by my research.
And so it was a kind of bringing together of all of my selves that have been in, you know, different educational contexts and different work contexts and kind of, you know, thinking about that in a way that, made sense to me and not necessarily to anybody else, aside from the commissioning editor who was keen when we first had a conversation about the idea that I'd had.
So, yeah, trust yourself and I think recognise that what you're doing will lead you on a path that you'll really enjoy and doesn't cancel out the other paths.
Every year is a big year for you, but this is a big year for you because you've got an enormous book that's been released, is being released through markets around the world.
Noting the great success that you've got at this period of your career, what advice would you offer to your younger self about academic publishing?
I think it's that... to to well i i think publishing is one part of it but then i think it's the whole of the whole attitude of being in academia and i think having come from a kind of studying drama and english and sociology at university and doing an honest during english and then and being quite kind of artsy and then going out and working and and coming back and doing social work and then going back and being a social worker and then entering academia
think the advice would be push back against those who kind of assume that you have no experience or no knowledge of anything else aside from academia.
I still hear that people say, but I used to be a manager and I used to, you know, and I was very high up.
And then there is this, I think because academia is so hierarchical, there can be an attitude that you're a clean slate when you come in.
I think that what helped me kind of think about the textbook that I wrote is that I was thinking about creative ways to approach social work education.
I was thinking about a different way of thinking and I was influenced by my research.
And so it was a kind of bringing together of all of my selves that have been in, you know, different educational contexts and different work contexts and kind of, you know, thinking about that in a way that, made sense to me and not necessarily to anybody else, aside from the commissioning editor who was keen when we first had a conversation about the idea that I'd had.
So, yeah, trust yourself and I think recognise that what you're doing will lead you on a path that you'll really enjoy and doesn't cancel out the other paths.
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