Journey through Academic Ups and Downs: Resilience and Growth

Chronicling a professor's tumultuous academic journey over three decades, facing job losses, department changes, and conflicts. Despite challenges, the individual perseveres, adapting to diverse roles and responsibilities in academia.

• Academic resilience
• Career challenges
• Professional growth
• Academic journey
• Adversity management

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1. How to live, die and resurrect in Academia

2. Lessons learned over 30 years

3. Probably the only full professor at SDU who has

4. Getting fired the first time 1993 1995 MA, Humanities (Major Classical Studies, Minor Middle East Studies) Phd- student in information Retrieval First academic position (The Library project that nobody wanted) 1993 Fired for the first time 1998

5. Getting fired the second time 1998 2004 2012 2015 Assistant professor at the new journalism program Area of expertise: Information retrieval and various types of sources in journalism => Expert sources/Researchers Journalism merges with Political Science Change of department Marketing & Management Fired the second time Full professor of Communication and assistant dean of research at Emir s University in Dubai (unpaid leave from SDU) Associate proferssor at the journalism program Area of expertise cooperation (or lack of) between journalists and researhcers Conflict with powerfull professor 2000 2010 2014

6. Getting fired the third time 2016 2018 2022 Head of Department for Research and Analysis, The University Library, Personal management of 15 faculty Also10% Professor of Scholarly Communication at Health June 8th at 10:00 AM Also Head of Researcher Services ,The University Library. Functional management of 50 librarians 2018 Also Director of Research, The University Library, research group with 18 members 2019

7. How did I survive?

8. Scholarly communication

9. Thank You chw@health.sdu.dk