One thing that no one ever tells you about academic research is that you often bounce around from one project to the next based on different deadlines and more pressing needs. This week for me that means picking up on the literature review that I was working on for our online recruitment during war article back in May. Since I traveled with students, moved for a new job, and turned in the final round of revisions for my book I was busy all summer working on other things. Then I got a revise and resubmit on another article which pushed that to the front of my research queue, so it ended up being almost three months before I could come back to this literature review.
Thankfully I left good notes for myself about where I left off reading the literature so I can easily pick things back up...now I just have to remember what all of the literature said (but thankfully I wrote notes on that for myself too). Sometimes going back and forth between projects feels a little like whip lash and it does take a bit of time to get back into things. Hopefully with the near completion of my second book I won't have as many long term book-length projects in the future!
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