We have a great reading list compiled for you this weekend. We have all the bases covered with pieces on post-partum depression and doing a PhD, to learning how to set realistic targets when you are living with depression, from notes on managing uncertainty and perfectionism in academia, to a piece on how academic advisors … More Reading round-up: Post-partum depression & PhD, ECR’s guide to managing perfectionism, advisors responding to trauma and many more

Catch up on what we’ve been reading at the Collective this month. We have articles touching on the growing evidence of particular mental health vulnerabilities among graduate students, the challenges and triumphs of discussing one’s mental illness in academia, the unique experience of receiving feedback whilst dealing with a mental illness, the unique challenges facing … More Reading Round-Up – the student feedback whilst having depression, challenges and triumphs of discussing one’s mental illness in academia, and many more

“Me too”: Mental Health and Disclosure as an Early Career Researcher (Institute of Mental Health – University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Blog) In this blog researcher Emma Nielsen talks about the power of disclosing one’s mental illness beyond the polite reference to it in the past tense. She weighs in on the risks it … More Link Round-Up: Life as an Anxious Scientist, Survey on Faculty Mental Health Culture, Human Cost of Postdoctoral Research, and More

Summer is well underway, and some of you may be feeling the stress of the “summer slump”… … More Link Round-Up: The “Summer Slump”, Anxious Black Women in Academia, Berkley Mental Health Initiatives, and More

Here at the AHMC, our goal of fostering mental health leads us to envision an academic environment that is healthy and safe for people from a variety of marginalized backgrounds, including people of colour, people from poor and working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. This week, we are watching … More Reading Round Up: The “Muslim Ban”