Stefan Björk Ψ @drbjork@scholar.social

By way of #introduction, I could also mention that I am also a #GenderStudies scholar and #feminist.

I'm a #PhD of #Psychology and work #psychologist at the Swedish National Employment Service. I have a keen interest in #PhilosophyOfPsychology, #PhilosophyOfMind, #CriticalPsychology, #HistoryOfPsychology and #Phenomenology. I blog (in #Swedish) at https://fenomenologen.se. Is that enough as an #introduction?

Another job interview today. I'm not worried at all. Maybe because it's a job I don't really care if I don't get.

I hope they don't know about Mastodon. 😜

Interview done. I didn't screw up at least. Now just wait and see.

Job interview coming up tomorrow. I usually screw them up by saying stupid things.

What are your best advice not screwing things up?

Give me some classical job interview questions I can prepare answers to.

Just met and said goodbye to one of my clients that I guess I have helped the most of all people I have met at the Swedish Public Employment Services. Feel very sad and empty.

Scheduled for two job interviews next week!

I'm summoned to a job interview at my alma mater and I'm totally thrilled and excited. Its not an ordinary academic position but a positon as a licensed psychologist, with clinical assessment, teaching and supervision in the job description.

This is a job that I really, really want. Please, God (or whoever is out there), let me not screw up this job interview!

Publishing open access usually means paying a rather large fee to the publisher. From where can an independent scholar get such money? Is that a potential problem with open access? It excludes independent scholars?

I got my PhD in 2016. I did everything wrong careerwise: I conducted my own research project and wrote a monograph in Swedish, so my publication list is useless and I have no contact with other research groups. Further, I was in a terrible state after six years as PhD student and also faced a divorce. Since then, I've been trying to rebuild my life and have worked as a licensed psychologist.

Question: how to get back to academia from this point? All advice welcome.

Writing an application for a lectorship but it gives me nothing but anxiety. Since I don't think I'll get the position anyway (my academic CV is too short), maybe I should just give up on the whole thing?

- Hanna Meretoja
- Sebastian Luft
- Shaun Gallagher
- Sara Heinämaa

Top ten writers who has influenced me a lot. No priority.

- Hans Skjervheim
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Sandra Bartky
- Linda Alcoff
- Janis Bohan
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Dan Zahavi
- Daniel N. Robinson
- Jerome Bruner
- Kurt Danziger

Was that ten names? I need a longer list… and I might change my mind anytime.

Heading for a job interview and is nervous as h***. I have no problems standing before an audience but I have always hated job interviews.