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I am incredibly lucky. Not only do I get paid for doing what I love, but every day I get to bring my infant son with me, too. I don’t have to choose between work and…
The second year of my PhD taught me that the 'mid-PhD' lull really exists. It has also suddenly dawned on me that I am actually doing a PhD, something that requires hard…
- Brianna Le Busque
- April 25, 2019
I have spent the majority of my working life as a lecturer in a mid-ranking university, and I’ve been reasonably successful at my job. However, I didn’t particularly…
November and early December were a bit of a blur for me. I found myself socially, physically, and mentally withdrawing from anything that wasn’t getting my work done…
I feel stuck and I don’t know why. I’m going to my dream grad school. I’m working in a discipline that I love. And I’ve successfully survived my first year. I’ve even…
The year 2017 was always going to be a pretty stressful year for me. It symbolised the culmination of four years of hard work, continuous mental angst with the imposter…
- Daniel Morse
- June 26, 2019
My postdoc hadn’t worked out. The first sign that things were going wrong came before my official start date, but it wasn’t until approximately 2 months into the postdoc…
- Claire Jarvis
- May 16, 2019
I left academia about a year ago and started working in biotech, selling analytical equipment to researchers. It was a painful process, and at first I didn’t really want…
- Cleyde Helena
- May 8, 2019
This story is an extract from an interview with Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt, where he talks about how he missed an important step in his research and went on to make a…
- Tim Hunt
- September 21, 2018
To say that my boat ride to Small Gobal island in the Middle East was an adventure would be an understatement. Due to the high winds, the boat was uncomfortably vertical…
- Lyndsey Tanabe
- June 20, 2019