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I almost chickened out, but I ended up getting coffee with the socially anxious PhD whom I recently met at a talk. I agonized over the meeting all morning and ended up…
In June 2017, I travelled to Bulgaria and Romania to collect samples for my PhD. A month earlier, I drove almost 1300 km across both countries in search of a perfect…
The period of completing the first draft was probably the toughest period I’ve ever had psychologically. I questioned every life decision I ever made. I was so lost in…
- Kim Goodwin
- April 29, 2019
In the media, an academic simply doesn’t look like me. They don’t come from the background I came from. While, this may seem like an overgeneralization, sometimes I feel…
This is an interesting take on mentors and mentees by Dr. Asli Telli is Associate Professor and a Research Associate through a remote fellowship at WISER, Witwatersrand…
- Asli Telli
- February 7, 2023
In exactly a week, I will be back at work and someone other than me is going to take care of my little rascals. I am not worried about my 4 year old, who has already…
This week was the last week of my clinical internship. And I was so sad to go. By some miracle, I was able to hold in my tears, until the next day anyway. I can’t…
- Elizabeth Mulherron
- June 4, 2019
When you are starting a career in academia, you are inevitably going to be working on a couple of short-term contracts. And these contracts can make you feel out of sync…
Fieldwork is full of dichotomies. It can be exciting but exhausting, fun but frustrating, challenging and yet calming. Work in my last field site ended up being both the…
Seven years ago, as a graduate with a Biology degree, I was at a career crossroads. Pursuing a doctoral degree was a very straightforward and tempting option. But I knew…