40. On Being Unreasonable in academia with guest Kirsty Sedgman

07/17/23 • 74 min

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In this episode, I welcome Kirsty Sedgman, academic and author of On Being Unreasonable. We talk about Kirsty's fascinating route into her current academic role and what encouraged her to write a book about unreasonableness. We also discuss the tricky subject of what is considered "reasonable" within academia and how we can push boundaries to create our own meaningful paths.
In this episode, Kirsty Sedgman talks about her book On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the rules and making things better. She also briefly discusses her earlier works Locating the Audience and The Reasonable Audience.

She mentions several other scholars, including Eleanora Belfiore’s work on cultural policy practice, Jess Thom co-director of Touretteshero, Ellie Mackin Roberts and her TikTok work, Salamander Street Press, and Howard Zinn and his work on civil disobedience.
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The PhD Life Coach - 40. On Being Unreasonable in academia with guest Kirsty Sedgman

Transcript

Vikki: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 40 of the PhD Life Coach and we have another guest with us this week. I am super excited to introduce Kirsty Sedgman, the author of On Being Unreasonable, which we're going to be talking about in this episode. So welcome Kirsty. Thank you so much for coming.

Kirsty: Thank you for having me.

Vikki: No problem at all. So we first found each other on Twitter when we were talking about all things mindset and I came across your