Publications
Articles
Sathish C and Harzing A-W (2025) Let’s form a Positive Academia Collective Transformation: re-imagining our academic values and interactions, Management Learning DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13505076251351089
Books
Sathish C and Harzing A-W (2025)
White Papers
Harzing A.W. & Sathish, C. (2023). The art of academic writing. Available at https://christasathish.com/the-art-of-academic-writing/
Internal Blog Posts
(3) Little Ideas for Curious Academics: Rethinking what it means to want in academia
In academia, we often follow the mainstream to "build our brand," "climb the ivory tower," or "follow the norms." However, for many of us, it's hard to know what we truly want. This isn’t a failure of self-awareness or ambition; it’s a quiet, structural confusion...
(2)Little Ideas for Curious Academics: Reimagining Voice – Shaping Cultures through Expression
This week’s post builds on last week’s idea to move from production to construction by getting to know ourselves. However, while we may know ourselves, we desire that others understand us too. I argue that we do not always try hard enough to understand each other and...
Co-creating for Impact: Students as Co-Creators and Change-Makers Toward a Positive Academia Collective Transformation
We are excited to announce Season 2 of our Students as Co-Creators Project at the University of Westminster Business School. Co-creating for impact is an initiative that places students at the core of knowledge construction and enables them to influence outcomes that...
(1)Little Ideas for Curious Academics: Get to know yourself – shifting from production to construction
We are pleased to introduce the third Positive Academia campaign by Christa Sathish on Little Ideas for Curious Academics. We are building on last year’s Every Little Action Counts Campaign -see also our recently published booklet Every Little Action Counts in...
AOM 2025 – Copenhagen – Positive Academia was there!
After actively building Positive Academia since 2022, we have officially founded the Community Interest Company in 2024 and successfully published, in online first, our manifesto ‘Let’s form a PACT – reimagining our academic values and interaction’ in the Management...
Resource Bulletins
Material and resources that enable you to contribute with small acts to crafting and cultivating a more positive academia.
Sathish, C. & Harzing A.W. (2023).’Crafting & Cultivating Positive Academia – Happiness is a good flow of life, Zeno, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Bulletin-Draft-1_06072023_Final_Version.pdf
Sathish, C. & Harzing A.W. (2023).’Crafting & Cultivating Positive Academia – We are all different, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/PositiveAcademia_Bulletin_2.pdf
Sathish, C. & Harzing A.W. (2023).’Crafting & Cultivating Positive Academia – Creativity in academia, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bulletin-3-Positive-Academia.pdf
Sathish, C. & Harzing A.W. (2023).’Crafting & Cultivating Positive Academia – PGR Support, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bulletin-4-Supporting-PGRs-March-2024.pdf
How to Guides
By Christa Sathish
Sathish, C. (2022). ‘Social Media for Teaching How-To Guide’, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SocialMediaGuideForTeaching_V_13062022.pdf
I developed this guide focusing on the practical integration of specific social media tools and emphasising their practical application. The guide provides information about general features, main concerns, questions before you start, case studies, and useful links to various platform-specific resources.
Sathish, C. (2022). ‘Well-Being Activities for Teaching’, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/teaching-experience/well-being-activities-for-teaching/
In this document, I present various well-being activities that I integrated into my teaching of undergraduate students. I aim to develop an awareness of societal issues as well as emphasising the need to take care of students’ physical and mental well-being.
Sathish, C. (2023).’A Guide To Interconnected Learning’, Christasathish.com, Available at: https://christasathish.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/InterconnectedLearningGuide_29102023-1.pdf
This guide is a collection of my teaching approaches based on my ethos and values which reflect our being in the interconnected world. I have been inspired by Boix Mansilla and Jackson (2013) whose early research addresses the importance of developing students’ global competencies and the need to redefine learning for an interconnected world.
By Anne-Wil Harzing
Harzing, A.W. (2022) Writing effective promotion applications: Crafting your career in academia, Published by Tarma Software Research Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Available at: https://harzing.com/publications/writing-effective-promotion-applications
Want to progress in academia? Read this book for practical, step-by-step guidance on writing effective promotion applications, leaving you better prepared to climb the academic career ladder. You will learn how to evidence that your research, teaching, and leadership has made a real difference and demonstrates how to embed this evidence in an overall career narrative. I provide insights into how your promotion panel evaluates your application, explain why external promotion is easier to achieve than internal promotion, but also outline the advantages of internal promotion.
Harzing, A.W. (2022) Publishing in academic journals: Crafting your career in academia, Published by Tarma Software Research Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Available at: https://harzing.com/publications/publishing-in-academic-journals
Want to progress in academia? I provide you with step-by-step guidance on publishing in academic journals, leaving you better prepared to climb the academic career ladder. You will learn how to get started with paper writing through chapters on the four Ps of publishing, keeping up to date with the literature, doing a literature review with the Publish or Perish software, finding out which journals publish on your topic, and targetting the right journal. Find out how to get past the first hurdle in the peer review process, the desk-reject, focusing on titles, abstracts, introductions, and conclusions. Learn how to use references strategically, how to write a good letter to the editor, and get tips on all the other things you can do to improve your chances.
Harzing, A.W. (2023) Creating social media profiles: Crafting your career in academia, Published by Tarma Software Research Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Available at: https://harzing.com/publications/creating-social-media-profiles
Want to progress in academia? I provide you with practical, step-by-step guidance on creating academic social media profiles, leaving you better prepared to climb the academic career ladder. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of social media, and get familiar with Google Scholar Profiles, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Twitter, and Blogging, discovering how to get the best out of these social media platforms. Using plenty of examples, this guide will help demystify social media in academia and provide you with the tools to be successful in your own social media efforts.
Harzing, A.W. (2023) Measuring and improving research impact: Crafting your career in academia, Published by Tarma Software Research Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Available at: https://harzing.com/publications/measuring-and-improving-research-impact
Want to progress in academia? I provide you with step-by-step guidance on measuring, evidencing, and improving research impact, leaving you better prepared to climb the academic career ladder. You will learn about the multi-faceted nature of impact, how to measure, evidence, and improve it, but also about impactful research processes, with the values of equity, openness, collegiality, soundness, and community. Using plenty of examples, this guide will help to demystify the role of research impact in academia and provide you with the tools to be successful in your own efforts to improve your impact.
Harzing, A.W. (2023) Using the Publish or Perish software: Crafting your career in academia, Published by Tarma Software Research Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Available at: https://harzing.com/publications/using-the-publish-or-perish-software
This guide provides you with practical step-by-step guidance on using the Publish or Perish software. After reading this guide, you will know more about citation analysis than 99% of your academic colleagues! You will learn all about its user interface and multi-searches centre, the metrics that PoP calculates, as well as the eight data sources that the software interfaces with. The two most frequently used of these data sources – Google Scholar and Google Scholar Profiles – are discussed in detail in separate chapters.
External Blog Posts
By Christa Sathish
Reflections on the completion of AMR’s Bridge Reviewer Program
Positive Actions that contribute to the Amplification of Women’s Voices
Reflective blogging for impact: a pathway to employability, equity, and societal impact in Higher Education
Positive Academia – Forthcoming Edited Book Announcement: How to Cultivate Academic Heterotopias