Angela Hug

Course Director, York University

Held a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada at McMaster University from 2017-19

Making sacrifices and muddling through: Life as a PhD parent

When my daughter was born, I was in the middle of teaching a third-year course online. I could have gone on maternity leave, but the union rules for sessional lecturers at my institution were such that anyone who filled in for me would be deemed qualified to teach it in the future, or maybe even replace me. So I couldn’t just go on leave and had to come up with an alternate plan.