Everyone knows that to undertake a PhD is stressful. Long hours of work, results, and data that don’t meet your expectations, deadlines and more deadlines, the pressure to publish with…
Written by Luana Chiquetto
The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
I finished my PhD in 2016. It was the longest 4 years of my life but at the same time, the years passed in a blink of an eye. It…
How can we help academic colleagues to stay healthy? Experience & ideas
Recently, I wrote about mental health in academia. I said that we need to talk about mental health, and our struggles with it, so we can end the stigma. I…
Mental Health in Academia: Lets talk about it.
Let’s talk about mental health in academia. I know we sometimes don’t like to talk about it much. We’d rather talk about anything else than talk about mental health –…
Relocation, relocation, relocation: The art of moving
Our correspondent in Brazil shares her experiences of relocation and offers helpful tips as well as motivational thoughts. I just recently moved to a new city again. We all know…
Being on the receiving end of “no”. How do you handle it?
Our Brazilian correspondent reflects on the early career researcher’s frequent experience of rejection, at the very end of our month looking at “saying no“. What’s it like to be on…
How to write in a language that is not your own
I believe that everyone in academia, especially those who are not English native speakers, has to, once in a while, write in a language that is not their mother tongue…
I got a PhD: Now what? Discovering the post-phd career landscape
I’m not the only one living in this situation, right? The setting is simple: you have invested three to five years to get your bachelor degree. Then you became part…