#39,5 - 2020 totals: 94 writing days; 84.739 words written

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 900 words written on the Preface of Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism, which I co-write with Alexei Sharov as second author. Final number of writing this autumn ends up at 39,5. This is more than the autumn of 2019, when I had 32 writing days. This Spring I had 54,5 writing days. In total in 2020 I thus had 94 writing days (a new record).

I have logged 39.578 words written this autumn, compared with ca. 27.000 words in the autumn of 2019 and 45.161 words this Spring. Year total for 2020: 84.739 words.

2019 registrations in Cristin; record number of activities reported

I have just completed my 2019 registrations in Current Research Information System in Norway (Cristin), cf. my profile. Altogether 44 posts, which is a new record. This includes 3 articles that should give publication points (2 authored alone, 1 co-authored), 8 scientific conference presentations, 7 appearances on national radio (2 of which also on national TV), and 6 more interviews in national media (altogether 13 appearances in national media). It also includes a new edition of a co-edited book (paperback) and a text book (e-book), some edited works, and popular science lectures.

Total number of posts in Cristin is now 252 (I started registering in Cristin in 2012).

Summary of work year 2019

In 2019 I ligged 3.073,5 work hours, which is 186% of the normal work year in Norway. My work week was on average 58,9 hours, up 2 hours from 2018 and up 4 hours from 2017. This is my longest average work week since 2012, and in other words my longest work week/year since I became a father.

About 31% of this time was spent on research, down 3% from 2017. Work with book-long texts was stable. UIS work (primarily as Vice-Dean of Research) was largest category, with 32% (+9%). I spent less time than ever on "other tasks" (4%); 77% on academic work; 19% on literary projects.

Utopian Realism: 378 posts in 2019

In 2019 I posted 378 posts in this blog. This is somewhat less than the last few years - though I may have reported as much as before, since I know often summarize or mention several meetings in one post.

To guest-edit special issue of JCSW

I will be one of four guest editors for a forthcoming special issue of Journal of comparative social work (a peer-reviewed open access  journal), due to be published next Spring.