In this blog I’m going to share with you some tales of my experiences with student mental health and welfare in academia. I’m a newly independent researcher at a large institution in the UK. I’ve had almost a decade of experience supervising all kinds of students, mostly undergraduates but a few masters and PhDs, but recently more of them have been turning up with mental health issues. For anyone who suffers from anxiety or depression, I’m going to pre-warn you I will probably get things wrong, but I will do my best.
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