Episode 3: PhD wellbeing (Part 2) - Isolation, Cost of living and Covid

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Episode 3: PhD wellbeing (Part 2) - Isolation, Cost of living and Covid

Teaching Matters Edinburgh

18 minutes 16 seconds

1 year ago

Episode 3: PhD wellbeing (Part 2) - Isolation, Cost of living and Covid

In the second part of this two-part podcast, which is a continuation of last week's episode on PhD students' wellbeing, Sibyl Adam, student wellbeing adviser at the Student wellbeing service and Lorna street, a lecturer at the School of Geosciences discuss some of the practical difficulties in PhD life, such as isolation, cost of living crisis and the pandemic effect and how that can impact student well-being. Transcript of this episode↗️

Timestamps:

(0:44) ‘going into an academic job is not for the faint hearted’

(03:48) impact of disruptions, cost of living, isolation, pandemic

(10:43) Implications of transition to Doctoral training centre model from prior models of PhDs being associated with larger research projects

(14:26) Going forward what can be done to offset PhD student isolation