2019: Dealing with critical feedback and rejection: How to navigate Academic Smack Talk

If you’ve submitted a journal, a grant application, or a learner evaluation of teaching survey, chances are you’ve encountered Academic Smack Talk. These comments are often irrelevant, hyperbolic, personalised, and unconstructive. They can end up making you feel like a fraud.

Identifying Academic Smack Talk and being able to differentiate it from constructive criticism can be tricky. Sometimes Academic Smack Talk can even deliver a useful perspective on our work disguised in unfair characterisations.

This workshop, led by experienced psychologist and career development expert Dr Shari Walsh, will provide a safe space to discuss your experiences of Academic Smack Talk and its harsh-but-fair cousins, learn how to extract what is useful, and give you resources to become more resilient in the face of what is not.

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