This month, we chat with Dr. Alex Gapud, a cultural and organisational anthropologist, who received his doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, where he was also a Teaching Fellow. Alex is a two-time, University-wide, award-winning tutor, and his mission statement is 'to make work not suck for people.'

In our conversation with Alex, we use the emergent term 'quiet quitting' as a jumping off point for broader discussion around work-life balance within academia. We touch on Alex's doctoral research on legacies of colonialism in the United Kingdom; the challenges of maintaining a healthy relationship to work as a social science researcher; the unhealthy normalisation of unpaid labor in today's economy; the need to redefine productivity; the role of supervisors in encouraging healthy work-life balance amongst their supervisees; and the politics of postdocs and alternative employment opportunities post-PhD.

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You can read more about Alex's work on his forthcoming website Anthropology at Work (launching late November 2022), or on his LinkedIn where he regularly publishes articles and opinion pieces. He has also published a piece on imperial trade legacies in Bristol, available here.

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