It is with great sadness that we confirm the sudden and unexpected death of two of our students following a major incident in #Nottingham city centre overnight. We are shocked and devastated by the news and our thoughts are with those affected, their families and friends. (1/2)

📢Important News📢 Confirmed panel session 'Developing Culturally Responsive Doctoral Supervisions' We will shine a vital spotlight on challenges faced by different #Postgrad groups and how supervisions can improve to meet their needs #PhDLife 📅28th June, 10am📅 🔗and details👇

Thank you to everyone who came to Djanogly Terrace today to remember Grace and Barnaby ❤️ Thank you to our University of Nottingham Students' Union for organising the vigil ❤️ #NottinghamTogether #WeAreUoN

Depression can impact all aspects of a person’s life. We’re supporting a team of researchers, including Dr Pattie Gonsalves, to study the effects of problem-solving and behavioural activation as early interventions for young people with depression 👇 | Sangath Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

So excited to be doing this at the University of Exeter today. 💜 Thank you to the wonderful @aparnamahiyaria for having me!

To pay for public sector pay deals (nothing for universities) the gvt has announced it will: 1. Increase the NHS surcharge. For students it will rise from £470 a year to £776 a year.  Work and visit visa costs will rise by 20%. Study visa costs will rise by "at least" 20%.

Updated post with new (and working🫠) contact details! We’re looking for 2 youth co-researchers to work as paid lived experience consultants on our #research project on #loneliness in marginalised young people. Deadline is 17/10/23 at 5pm, more info here: deliafuhrmann.com/2023/10/03/see…

Studies show that PhD students are six to seven times more likely to develop depression and anxiety than the general population (Evans et al., 2018). On World Mental Health Day, I gave a talk at Vienna BioCenter on mental health issues in academia and what to do about them. 1/n

Study (N=7,195) finds compared to men, women have 44% higher odds of being pushed out of academia due to workplace atmosphere than pulled to a better opportunity elsewhere. Even after receiving tenure, women were still at increased risk of leaving. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers go.nature.com/3Qtd4hI

Jason Arday talks about how studying race is painful and difficult because you’re listening to stories about people being denied. But it’s got to hurt you, he says, in order for change to happen. #ukcgeEDI

Keynote from Dr Maria Augusta Arruda, Director of Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory. “From power-hoarding to power-sharing: why do we need diversity for a healthier research culture”. #ukcgeEDI

** Disability research job opportunities** Come & work iHuman & join our exciting research community! We have FIVE positions coming soon within a new Wellcome project which will explore anti-ableist research cultures. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disabil…

There's pressure within universities to address student mental health. From a whole university perspective, this should include curriculum-embedded approaches. There WAS little research about how this should work until Dr Rebecca Upsher got involved... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

As someone with lived experience of mental health problems, if you want to engage with research, here are some of my quick questions to think about: Lots more thoughts and suggestions in the Student Mental Health Research Network engagement toolkit: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publ…

We're developing guidance for supporting Doctoral Researchers who teach and would like your opinion on what key guidance and recommendations might look like. Please fill in / share our survey to help us gather the relevant info (closes May 15th 2024). survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/gEDXgL

Deeply excited to explore the role of caste in educational aspirations. Inspiring work by Eklavya India Foundation for equitable justice in educational opportunity. Caste is explicit in India but often hidden in class barriers & other social structures in other contexts. Much to learn.

At the close of the first day of our EDI conference in Brighton, the Director of UKCGE, Owen Gower, Chairs a Keynote Panel Discussion on Managing funded projects that promote EDI with Dr Ifedapo Francis Awolowo, Snigdha Dutta, PhD and Dr Tiffany R Holloman, FRSA. #ukcgeEDI

Thank you to everyone who attended and spoke in Brighton at our 2nd UKCGE Conference on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in PG Research. We hope you found it useful and we look forward to seeing you again in the future. #ukcgeEDI