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Bullying is something that everybody understands is bad, but it remains rife in many fields, including in medicine, the military, and primary or secondary education…
- David Burbridge
- August 25, 2022
It is no secret that academia has a dark, expansive history of bullying. Over the past few years, a growing body of evidence has suggested an alarming rate of bullying…
- Andrea Hayward
- August 8, 2022
A survey report published by University and College Union (UCU) this month revealed the poor working conditions and the dipping employee-satisfaction level in one of UK…
- Malvika Gaur
- April 1, 2022
Only one in three researchers in the world is a woman, according to recent estimates by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Men continue to dominate science,…
- Sunaina Singh
- March 25, 2021
The voice of women in academia is growing stronger and yet the gender gap continues to be a prominent issue even today. Women often have to shoulder more…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 15, 2021
Wouldn’t it be interesting to take a peek into how academic mothers managed their work while also taking care of their kids during the pandemic? We spoke to three…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 10, 2021
As a researcher, you must be familiar with feelings such as anxiety, depression, self-doubt, failure, rejection, struggle, fatigue. Haven’t you wished you had someone to…
- Kakoli Majumder
- March 26, 2020
We asked four researchers how they dealt with life as an international/overseas researcher and asked them to talk about their relationship to self-care.
- Alyssa Lobo
- March 2, 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…
- Sabrina Pei Qin
- February 28, 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