Series
Self-care for researchers
As a researcher there is a lot you need to deal with, not to mention balancing your research with the demands of your personal life. Often, in the struggle to navigate academic life, researchers neglect themselves. One thing you can do to manage your own physical and mental well-being is practice self-care. In this series we bring you a set of posts that talk about self-care in academia and how you can go about taking care of yourself.
Who do you have the longest, actually a lifelong, relationship with? Yourself! This Valentine’s Day, we would like you to be your own valentine and take care of yourself, to feel more confident…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- February 11, 2020
We may get so accustomed to the presence of stress, anxiety, and self-doubt that some subtle, yet telling, changes in our thought patterns and daily…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 12, 2020
Self-care is a rather broad concept and if you’ve never consciously focused on yourself, it might be difficult for you to know how to practice it. Did you know that there are several types of self…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- February 16, 2020
If you’ve not practiced self-care from an early age, you may find it difficult to practice. After all, it is more than just a checklist with boxes to be ticked off. Here are some apps that’ll help…
- Aayati Sengupta
- February 19, 2020
Scientific laboratories expose researchers to a potentially hazardous environment. Along with safety measures undertaken by laboratories, individual researchers also…
- Kakoli Majumder
- February 27, 2020
Whether working in a wet-lab or a dry-lab, scientists need to be aware about the risk of Repititive Strain Injury (RSI). Sabrina Pei Qin discusses the ways that researchers can avoid RSI and…
- Sabrina Pei Qin
- February 28, 2020
We asked four researchers how they dealt with life as an international/overseas researcher and asked…
- Alyssa Lobo
- March 2, 2020