If you are a working professional seeking a coach to help you find meaning at work (and, crucially, outside of it!), I have a handful of online openings ⬇️ www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/lifecoaches/...

This is rather nice: www.linkedin.com/posts/profes... #edusky #academicsky #psychology #workpsychology #psychscisky

I was lucky enough to lead ResPeo, one of the partners delivering the independent evaluation of @theqcommunity.bsky.social led by @pickereurope.bsky.social. Read a summary of our report and its recommendations here ⬇️ @chrisgrahamuk.bsky.social @amytallett.bsky.social

We’re delighted to share the summary findings from our independent evaluation of the Q Community, delivered with Researching People and Healthcare Priority Solutions. [1/2]

Redundancies in Higher Education ⬇️ My article from the City Research Series below:

Redundancies in Higher Education ⬇️ My article from the City Research Series below:

"[O]ur institutions have become toxic, performative, and mechanistic .... To subsist and survive, too many of us respond by concealing, isolating, and pushing ourselves to breaking points" (Kenworthy et al., 2025) #HigherEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’ – Retraction Watch share.google/uZ1yPleb40hd...

My new book explores our working lives through a range of concepts drawn from existentialist philosophy. www.routledge.com/Being-at-Wor...

This was storytelling perfection capturing the beauty and healing to be found in mundanity. My 14yo daughter loved it too. A life affirming elixir, especially for those starting afresh post divorce.

Picked this up at the big Tesco @chrischibnall.bsky.social. It was brilliant! Loved all the characters and their interwoven lives. I found the sentence structure a bit hard to follow initially, probably because the author writes for TV, but got used to the staccato short sentences. Unputdownable!

I watched this & the obstinacy of man (esp. of my fellow countrymen & women!)is simultaneously a marvel and a tragedy. Beautiful scenery & stellar recreation of perilous mountaineering. Slow moving which was a pleasure with today's info. overload, but the tense music score was a little clichéd.

My website has had a refresh: www.mariakordowicz.com

Join my Tues 02.12 talk on redundancy in higher education - link in the invite. www.linkedin.com/posts/city-i...

Beautiful words from Elif Shafak in her essay "Storyland" in the World of Interiors mag. Akin to the wistfulness I carry for Warsaw. 'We do not leave our motherlands behind (...) They seep into our dreams, they reside in the silences of our sentences; they are there, in those tiny, lonely gaps.'

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

Museum of Broken Dreams actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

Our new paper making the case for shared medical appointments in primary care is now published by Qeios inviting open peer review. ⬇️ www.qeios.com/read/J42BCH

Early career researchers who narrowly miss out on funding should be encouraged to try again because their work is often cited more than those whose research is funded first time around, a major international study has recommended #AcademicSky #highered

We have a new paper 🎉 'Ambulance Staff Experiences and Perceptions of Medical Emergencies in Care Homes in the East Midlands, United Kingdom: A Qualitative Interview Study' ⬇️ @nsiriwardena.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What I love about time passing is seeing my childhood friends lead such creative and impactful lives. Fills my heart and I'm so proud of and inspired by so many of them.

Book writing.

Read “Tackle Burnout Through Mentoring“ by Prof Maria Kordowicz on Medium: mariakordowicz.medium.com/tackle-burno...

My website has had a refresh ✨ Mariakordowicz.com

Radio 4 this morning blaming men's problems on women's post war return to work 🙄

Love this from @thespectator1828.bsky.social www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d... I also disagreed with Bryson's anti self publishing stance.

Sharing my reflections on being a woman on #IWD respeo.com/blog/f/inter...

Sharing my reflections on being a woman on #IWD respeo.com/blog/f/inter...

This one was terrifying. Couldn't put it down. #booksky 💙📚

Latest Left Book Club arrival 🙌 #booksky💙📚

I like this idea!

Our latest publication "Private Practice or Violation of Patient’s Rights in Public Healthcare Organizations in Pakistan" is available on @sagepub.com Sage Business Cases. sk.sagepub.com/cases/privat...

A plug for mine and @nsiriwardena.bsky.social Quality Improvement in Healthcare book. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/qu... #booksky 💙📚 #academicsky #nhs #qualityimprovement #health @theqcommunity.bsky.social

Our latest publication "Private Practice or Violation of Patient’s Rights in Public Healthcare Organizations in Pakistan" is available on @sagepub.com Sage Business Cases. sk.sagepub.com/cases/privat...

This was laugh out loud funny along with being pretty gory and macabre at times. A movie worthy character in Dr Fife. I did find extended conversation excerpts a bit tricky to follow. Witty, twisted and nicely cynical. #booksky 💙📚

Gained the Change Management Practitioner qualification this week ✅🎉

We are excited at www.respeo.com to be facilitating this as the @theqcommunity.bsky.social evaluators, led by @pickereurope.bsky.social ✅

I co-wrote a chapter on Resilience for this Encyclopedia - edited by my wonderful colleague Prof Bal. Check it out 👇 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Enjoyed this. Key takeaway for me is that we are judged against the most farcical of societal expectations. Captures the comforts to be found in the mundanity of life. I read it as affirming of autism as a panacea for the absurd and illogical. #booksky 💙📚

Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 18: "The question (overt or implied) now asked by the professionalist student, the State, or institutions of higher education is no longer ‘Is it true?’ but ‘What use is it?’" (Jean-François Lyotard: The Postmodern Condition)

Our 'A Way Out of Absurdity and Hypernormalization' chapter has reached 200 reads according to Researchgate. You can find the full text there 👇 www.researchgate.net/profile/Mari... via @researchgate

No other books have made me laugh out loud and simultaneously reflect on the absurdity of my academic existence as much as the Campus Trilogy did. RIP. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Dear friends, I am running my first marathon, the London Marathon, in April, to support the charity I am chairing, the Psychiatry Research Trust psychiatryresearchtrust.org. Please donate to support me - so that you can make me suffer and sweat! 2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/carmine-p...

I returned to NHS mgt after years as an academic/consultant to the NHS. While I lovingly continue with some scholarship, I am enjoying being back & feel like I fit. The NHS has its own challenges; the marketisation of the academy & breaking down of academic professions will take time to heal from.

Another excellent absorbing read - great procedural. Lots of interwoven themes which could detract from the plot but instead enhance it skilfully. I hope there's a part 3 coming @nicklouthauthor.bsky.social. 📚💙

Just finished. Found the characters uninteresting & unappealing (which was partly the point); I think this would be engrossing for a younger age bracket. Found the tension was well-constructed throughout, with clever & emotive descriptions of place. Not my kind of read. #booksky 💙📚

Happy New Year everyone 🥂💐🎉🎈 Let's make 2025 shine bright with kindness and love.

Christmas Day walk with my loves 🤗.

Merry Christmas everyone! As I reflect on whom and what I wish to become in 2025, resharing some of my old musings: Read “The Joy of Qualitative Research“ by Prof Maria Kordowicz on Medium: mariakordowicz.medium.com/the-joy-of-q...