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Get the balance right

Nature Energy volume 6, page 5 (2021)Cite this article

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Building an academic career increasingly calls for greater public engagement, particularly in subjects with more societal relevance such as climate change. Leah Stokes discusses some of the difficulties she has faced in striking a balance between her academic responsibilities and her public work.

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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  2. Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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  3. Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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Stokes, L. Get the balance right. Nat Energy 6, 5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00742-0

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