Heidi Gardner

PhD Applied Health Sciences (Public Health)

MSci Pharmacology with Industrial Placement; Research Assistant, University of Aberdeen

If academic life is so difficult, why do I do it?

I feel that academic life is notoriously insecure. It seems like we’re constantly scrambling for grant funding, pushing manuscripts through the arduous process of peer review, and attempting to find pots of money to fund conference attendance so that we can leave our desks behind for a few days. So if academic life is so difficult, why do I do it?