Society & Economicsarticle2026-09-08

Somebody has to 'step up' and do the hard leadership jobs in academia

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Abstract

Renowned Chemist Catherine Murphy, Department Head at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, talks about the all-important job of being a Department Chair or Head. This is a copy of a post published in the Epistimi blog series at: https://www.epistimi.org/blog/somebody-has-to-step-up-and-do-the-hard-leadership-jobs-in-academia

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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-09-08

Authors: Catherine J. Murphy, Patricia Maurice

Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Notre Dame