ReMO Podcast
9 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA podcast on mental health in academia. SECOND SEASON. Experts talk about the reality of academia today, both at personal and systemic level, commenting on what works and what doesn't, and most importantly, on how to move forward. FIRST SEASON. Stories of young researchers who struggle in today's academia.
Host and producer: Federica Bressan - http://federicabressan.com
Additional audio editing: Jeff Willens (season 1) and Davide Linzi (season 2)
Artwork: Amil Orahovac
Music: http://pixabay.com
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Episodes
Mental health in academia - Mateja Erce 2/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 23:16 - 25 minutes - 16.1 MBToday's guest is Mateja Erce, a PhD student in Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments at the University of Primorska in Slovenia and a ReMO Ambassador. In the second part of our conversation, Mateja presents a description of what a healthy, functional, reasonable and realistic scenario for a PhD journey would look like in her opinion. Cooperation vs. competition, clear expectations and support throughout the process are the pillars of this scenario. Thank you for listening to ...
Mental health in academia - Mateja Erce 1/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 23:11 - 14 minutes - 9.68 MBToday's guest is Mateja Erce, a PhD student in Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments at the University of Primorska in Slovenia and a ReMO Ambassador. In the first part of our conversation, we talk about some of the challenges that researchers face in their careers, both at personal and systemic level, including a misleading perception of the job, which leads to wrong expectations. We talk about the pressure to produce as much as possible, without a ceiling, a clear notion of ho...
Mental health in academia - Wainer Lusoli 2/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 23:07 - 23 minutes - 15.2 MBToday's guest is Wainer Lusoli, Deputy Head of Unit of the European Research Executive Agency (REA), and we talk about METASCIENCE. In the second part of our conversation, Wainer talks about what may be positive about the megatrends mentioned in the first part of the conversation, such as speed, the mechanization of science, the professionalization of science, the monetization and the industrialization of science - and what we may want to keep in planning our way forward, in trying to ori...
Mental health in academia - Wainer Lusoli 1/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 23:05 - 24 minutes - 15.7 MBToday's guest is Wainer Lusoli, Deputy Head of Unit of the European Research Executive Agency (REA), and we talk about METASCIENCE. In the first part of our conversation, Wainer points out some of the megatrends that define the scientific ethos, such as speed, the mechanization of science, the professionalization of science, the monetization and the industrialization of science. Ethics plays a big role, too. Ethics that is not written in stone, but co-evolves with society. In the second part...
Mental health in academia - Luca Viganò 2/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 22:56 - 22 minutes - 14.6 MBToday's guest is Luca Viganò, Professor in Cybersecurity at King's College London and we talk about MENTORSHIP. Besides being a professor in cybersecurity, he is an experienced supervisor as well as a former coordinator of a PhD school. In the second part of our conversation, we talk about the strategies that may be adopted to improve a critical situation between mentor and mentee, about whether a mandatory training for supervisors may be helpful, and finally whether we should expect that...
Mental health in academia - Luca Viganò 1/2 PODCAST
November 18, 2022 22:46 - 22 minutes - 14.6 MBToday's guest is Luca Viganò, Professor in Cybersecurity at King's College London and we talk about MENTORSHIP. Besides being a professor in cybersecurity, he is an experienced supervisor as well as a former coordinator of a PhD school. In the first part of our converation, Luca outlines what the job of a supervisor is and what it is reasonable to expect from a supervisor. He shares some of the common complaints that he has received from PhD students when he was serving as the director of a ...
Camilla's story
November 15, 2021 00:04 - 25 minutes - 30.6 MBThis podcast is about researchers and their journey through the challenges of today's academia. In this episode, we meet Camilla, a multidsciplinary globetrotter with a determination to become a university professor. Someone who has always seen higher education as the way out of her past, a way to independence. Blessed with the capacity for great insight, Camilla is someone who really knows what works for her as an academic - and what doesn't. Camilla's story is interesting, because she is ...
Dilara's story
November 08, 2021 07:36 - 23 minutes - 27.9 MBThis podcast is about researchers and their journey through the challenges of today's academia. In this episode we meet Dilara, a PhD student who found herself confused and isolated during the writing of her master thesis. Finally someone stepped forward and helped her through that difficult time, and now, as she is busy with the PhD thesis, she makes a point of connecting with younger colleagues and always offering them support and a safe place to be heard. Dilara's story is inspiring bec...
Carla's story
October 28, 2021 08:25 - 24 minutes - 28.8 MBThis podcast is about researchers and their journey through the challenges of today's academia. In this episode we meet Carla, a postdoc, a mother of two, and someone who once had the courage to say enough and to leave a toxic situation, as well as her PhD. She eventually went back, finished her PhD and decided that science is what she really wants to do, but without the toxicity. I am Federica Bressan, host and producer of this podcast. Join me on this journey.