Summing up the work year 2025

I have just summed up my work year in 2025 based on my log of working hours. 2025 was my second shortest work year in living memory (with my work log going back to 2009), with an average work week of 46,2 hours all weeks in the year included. This amounts to 2409 work hours, which compares to 143% of an ordinary work year. 

This year I also summed up my work/life balance, focused on sleeplessness, karate training and meditation.

Overall, the work year was characterized by making room for finishing the manuscript for my book originally titled Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement and now titled Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. I so did, in early August 2025. In my work log, this is reflected in the fact that book projects had the highest share of total work on record, and ended up as the largest category of work for the first time. Moreover, the share of my work time I spent on research plus book projects was the highest ever. Book projects was also the category whose share of all work hours increased the most from 2024. 

See also:

Summing up the work year 2022

2024: Shortest work year in living memory, at "only" 138% of normal work year

Done as Head of department

Yesterday I had my final day as Head of department at Department of social studies, University of Stavanger (at Faculty of social sciences). I have hold the post since January 1st 2021, and was originally supposed to stay in the post until the end of 2024. However, on October 5th, 2022, I resigned (see the post "Quitting as head of department at UIS"), after increasing sleep problems (for a first sign, see the post "All appointments cancelled due to work-/stress-related sleep deprivation" from May 2022). Spread out over October - November - December I had about one month of sick leave altogether due to stress-related sleep deprivation issues.

Among the things I got done yesterday was deciding the action plan (handlingsplan) for the department for the period 2023-2026 (in effect a revision of the plan for 2022-2025). I also made a decision about not using supervisors for bachelor theses and master theses as internal examiner starting next academic year.

From today onwards, I am back in my ordinary position as Professor of philosophy.

All appointments cancelled due to work-/stress-related sleep deprivation

Today I have cancelled/rebooked all 5 appointments I had, as a result of work-/stress-related sleep deprivation. Second time this happens this Spring.