In this 60-minute webinar, first broadcast stay in May 2020 and now accessible to view on demand, Nature speaks to researchers who had their world turned the other way up by the pandemic, and asks for a few of their recommendation.
Although many scientists are actually used to working from home after a yr of pandemic life, the webcast would possibly nonetheless maintain invaluable assist and options for some. Atma Ivancevic, a postdoctoral researcher on the University of Colorado Boulder, talks about her experiences being all of the sudden distanced from colleagues and associates, as properly as staying distant from the place she grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. “We need to focus on specific tasks we can get done and just be inspired when we see other people doing things — and cope with what we can do instead of expecting to do too much,” says Ivancevic. “I think, for myself, that expectation that I should be doing a lot right now was one of the struggles I had in the first few weeks.”
Melina Papalampropoulou-Tsiridou, a PhD candidate at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, speaks about discovering motivation — one thing that was briefly provide for a lot of researchers on the time, when the information was filled with the newest coronavirus statistics.
And PhD careers adviser Sarah Blackford, founding father of the BioScience Careers consultancy, primarily based in Wurzburg, Germany, describes her structured technique for growing resilience.
The webinar concludes with a Q&A session from attendees who registered to watch the stay occasion.
This occasion was initially screened as a part of a Nature Careers webinar collection.
