How do you achieve work/life balance in academia?

At the Naturejobs Career Expo in London this September, a panel of four academics got together to discuss their wildly different careers. Jim Usherwood from the Royal Veterinary College only spends his time doing research. Anita Hall from Imperial College London only does teaching. Lorraine Kerr and Louise Horsfall from the University of Edinburgh split their time (with different percentages) between research, teaching, business and management.

With these very different careers, our audience had a few questions for them. “How do you achieve work/life balance in academia?” was one of them. Here are their responses.

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