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31 May 2018 | 18:12 GMT

Universities struggle to offer crucial mental-health support to PhD students

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Diversity, PhD

Universities struggle to offer crucial mental-health support to PhD students

A report from Vitae, a non-profit science-career advocacy organization in Cambridge, UK, found that while UK universities are seriously considering the mental health of PhD researchers, gaps and shortcomings in the graduate-programme system continue to keep many students from getting help.  Read more

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  • PhD

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15 Mar 2018 | 08:00 GMT

Depression and anxiety are common among graduate students

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, PhD, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, US

Depression and anxiety are common among graduate students

More than 40% of respondents to the voluntary survey had anxiety scores in the moderate to severe range, and nearly 40% of respondents showed signs of moderate to severe depression. Both rates were more than six times greater than those found in the general public using the same standardized questionnaires.  Read more

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  • anxiety
  • depression
  • graduate student
  • mental health
  • Mentor
  • PhD student
  • stress
  • time management
  • work-life balance

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11 Oct 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Turning scientific scrutiny on science itself

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Collaboration, Competition, Featured, People Management, Perspectives, Research

Turning scientific scrutiny on science itself

Naturejobs journalism competition winner Jiska van der Reest  … Read more

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  • academia
  • competition
  • diversity
  • expo
  • fix
  • issues
  • jiska van der reest
  • journalism competition
  • mental health
  • proactive
  • problems with academia
  • publishing
  • reproducibility
  • scientific scrutiny
  • winner
  • writing competition

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17 Jul 2017 | 13:00 GMT

The three-year PhD program: good for students? Or too good to be true?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Collaboration, Communication, In the news, Mobility, PhD, Research, Scientists on the move

It will be harder to get PhD extensions under the new model.

PhD students are the backbone of the research industry, often responsible for compiling precious datasets for their lab and learning the cutting-edge techniques required for analysis. But completing a PhD is hard, and getting harder as scientific standards creep steadily upwards. It takes over a year longer for current students to publish their first scientific paper than those 30 years ago because of the increasing data requirements of top journals. Across Europe and Australia, this is one reason why students are taking an average of four to six years (or longer) to complete their PhDs, despite candidature contracts usually being a maximum of four years, and government scholarships lasting at most three and a half years.  Read more

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  • adam cardilini
  • alice risely
  • Better PhD
  • extensions
  • job market
  • mental health
  • modern PhD
  • new phd
  • papers
  • peer review
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  • publishing
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09 May 2017 | 10:43 GMT

Mental health problems: Should you tell your boss?

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Careers articles, In the news

Mental health problems: Should you tell your boss?

A survey of more than 1000 UK adults to mark Mental Health Awareness Week found that almost half are unlikely to tell their boss about problems such as anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder.  Read more

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  • counselling
  • mental health
  • psychiatric services

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08 May 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Being proactive about mental health during your PhD: a very short guide

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Communication, In the news, People Management, Perspectives, Relationships, Research

Being proactive about mental health during your PhD: a very short guide

When I started out in my PhD I was excited about the challenges I would face. Two and a half years later I’m still excited about my research, but, like most PhD projects, it‘s not all been smooth sailing. Rather than let how I was feeling derail my progress, I decided to use my training as a psychologist to develop ways to be proactive about managing mental health during the course of a PhD.  Read more

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  • awareness
  • burn out
  • health
  • karra harrington
  • mental health
  • overworked
  • perspective
  • PhD
  • research
  • self development
  • stress
  • too busy
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30 Mar 2017 | 10:00 GMT

Degree and depression

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Academia, Career paths, Communication, People Management, PhD, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, UK, Uncategorized

Degree and depression

The study, published online in March in Research Policy, found high levels of mental distress among students. More than half of respondents reported at least two mental-health symptoms in recent weeks, and 32% reported four or more symptoms. Common complaints included feelings of constant strain, unhappiness, worry-induced sleep problems, and an inability to enjoy everyday activities.  Read more

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  • counselling
  • depression
  • graduate student
  • mental health
  • PhD
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28 Dec 2016 | 11:18 GMT

Ten top science career tips for 2017

Posted by David Payne | Categories: Careers articles, Featured, Scientists on the move

Ten top science career tips for 2017

Scientific irreproducibility — the inability to repeat others’ experiments and reach the same conclusion — is a growing concern.  Read more

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  • career mobility
  • mental health
  • peer review
  • presentation skills
  • stress

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23 Sep 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Preparing researchers to manage traumatic research

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Communication, In the news, People Management, Postgraduate, Relationships, Report

Preparing researchers to manage traumatic research

Earth is destabilizing rapidly. Terrorism, conflict, genocide, human displacement, socio-economic disruption, rapid global environmental change, slow emergencies and natural disasters are more common than at any point in history. Consequently, opportunities exist for researchers to investigate the causes, consequences and potential management solutions arising from this instability. For this to happen, we need a well-trained workforce equipped with the skills and capabilities to work with ‘traumatic’ research content, people and places.  Read more

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  • anxiety
  • Conflict
  • dale dominey-howes
  • danger
  • danielle drozdzewski
  • disaster
  • event
  • events
  • fieldwork
  • guest contributor
  • health
  • investigation
  • mental health
  • PI
  • research
  • science
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20 May 2016 | 12:00 GMT

Failing to fail gracefully

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Ask the expert, Blog, Career paths, Chemistry, Communication, CV, Faculty, Funding, Perspectives, Research, Tenure

Failing to fail gracefully

Guest contributor John Tregoning  … Read more

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  • career paths
  • communication
  • coping with
  • CV
  • dark souls
  • dealing with
  • fail
  • Failure
  • funding
  • grant rejection
  • grants
  • guest contributor
  • health in academia
  • John Tregoning
  • mental health
  • mental health awareness week
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