University administrators and mental health clinicians have raised concerns about
depression and anxiety among Ph. D. students, yet no study has systematically synthesized …

Background Data from studies with undergraduate and postgraduate taught students
suggest that they are at an increased risk of having mental health problems, compared to the …

Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical
transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and …

High dropout rates, delay, and dissatisfaction among PhD students are common problems in
doctoral education. Research shows that many different factors are associated with doctoral …

The University Mental Health Charter is the product of a significant amount of work by
people across the Higher Education sector and beyond. We are very grateful for all of the …

Drawing on 12 semi-structured interviews with Black, Latina, and white graduate women
who either continued or discontinued their STEM doctoral degrees, the present study …

Success and impact metrics in science are based on a system that perpetuates sexist and
racist “rewards” by prioritizing citations and impact factors. These metrics are flawed and …

This study aimed to establish what is known about the mental health of researchers based
on the existing literature. There is limited published evidence on the prevalence of specific …

Psychological distress is prevalent in doctoral degree training and affects students'
completion time. It is crucial to monitor the amount of distress experienced and understand …

In this thoroughly revised second edition of Publish or Perish, Imad A. Moosa extends and
develops his analysis of the continual pressure to publish research which plagues the …