Mental health: Doctorate students fear visiting counselling centres shared with undergraduates

Mental health: Doctorate students fear visiting counselling centres shared with undergraduates

Although some researchers have supportive mentors and colleagues with whom they can share their struggles, others experience further mental-health challenges owing to hostile work environments. In the 2019 Nature survey of PhD researchers worldwide, 21 per cent of respondents said they had experienced harassment or discrimination in their programmes. Female...

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Star-crossed and lovesick Princess Diana had a habit of picking wrong men

Star-crossed and lovesick Princess Diana had a habit of picking wrong men

Days after the unveiling of Princess Diana Statue in Kensington, London, on what would have been her 60th birthday, the media delved, once again, into her private life and reminded the world of her rarely talked about relationship with Hasnat Khan, a Pakistani surgeon. According to OK, an entertainment magazine,...

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Report details how mental health of graduate students is sorely overlooked

Report details how mental health of graduate students is sorely overlooked

Graduate students around the world need more support to manage the mental-health issues, such as depression and anxiety, that they are experiencing at worrying rates, according to a report from two US non-profit organizations. The study was co-produced by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in Washington DC and the...

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