Voices of Academia
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
30. Trying to Feel Good Enough | Dr. Jennifer Paxton
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jennifer Paxton acknowledges that her feelings of inadequacy had always been there but were amplified during the transition to motherhood. She ope...
29. Parenting as an Academic during COVID-19 | Dr. Jennifer Paxton
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Lecturer, PI, wife and mother, Dr. Jennifer Paxton, opened up about feelings of embarrassment, guilt, anger and acceptance in response to profe...
28. Preventative Care for PMDD | Elana Gloger
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
5th year Health Psychology PhD Candidate and creator of the Dear Grad Student podcast, Elana Gloger, chats about maintaining wellness - creating space...
27. Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and a PhD | Elana Gloger
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Elana Gloger, who opens up about how premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) impacted her life and PhD before it was well managed. TW/...
26. Challenging Intrusive Thoughts | Dr. Andy Fraass
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Andy Fraass, who opens up about support for anxiety that comes from his wife and daughters, improved sleep hygiene, and challengi...
25. Being Your Own Worst Critic | Dr. Andy Fraass
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Andy Fraass, who opens up about social anxiety, learning he couldn’t trust his own self-perception, and the impacts of academia...
24. SPECIAL 1YR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE – How To Change The System That Sets Us Up To Fail | Andrea Hayward
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TW/CW: Bullying and abuse Emily chats with Andrea Hayward, a Project Manager for the CACTUS Communications ‘Joy and Stress Triggers: A global survey...
23. Medication and Social Media Support | Seda Battilani
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Seda Battilani, who opens up about juggling medication trials with work, disclosing medication use to a supervisor, and social media ...
22. Anxiety, ADHD, and Living Abroad | Seda Battilani
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Seda Battilani, who was drawn into research in linguistics after learning about the field during her undergrad. She became fascinated...
21. Person-centred Mentoring | Dr. Kartik Aiyer
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Academic bullying and abuse Emily chats with Dr. Kartik Aiyer, who opens up about the benefits of a good academic mentor and support network on me...
20. A Toxic Power Dynamic | Dr. Kartik Aiyer
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CW: Academic bullying and abuse Emily chats with Dr. Kartik Aiyer, who opens up about the impact a poor Faculty relationship had on his mental health ...
19. Preventing the Panic Cycle | Dr. Viviana Re
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Viviana Re, who opens up about using therapy, the physical and meditative teachings from yoga, and essential oils to help calm th...
18. Panic as a PostDoc | Dr. Viviana Re
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Viviana Re, who opens up about experiencing panic attacks during her PostDoc and how they restricted her personal and work behavi...
17. Master of your own destiny | Henry Powell-Davies
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Henry Powell-Davies, who tried a PhD and decided it wasn’t for him, choosing to exit with a Masters. He discusses what supported hi...
16. Exiting a PhD with Masters | Henry Powell-Davies
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Henry Powell-Davies, who opens up about how the isolation he experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated lockdowns, led ...
15. I will not be silenced | Dr. Clare Griffin
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CW: OCD and bipolar disorder Emily chats with Dr. Clare Griffin, who opens up about medical treatments for OCD and bipolar disorder, strongly advocati...
14. Living without Diagnoses | Dr. Clare Griffin
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CW: OCD and bipolar disorder Emily chats with Dr. Clare Griffin, who opens up about the delays in her diagnoses of OCD and bipolar disorder, and how t...
13. Dancing for Freedom | Dr. Malik Boykin
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Fatal and racist violence in the U.S. Emily chats with Dr. Malik Boykin, who opens up about how dancing, writing hip hop rhymes, and challenging h...
12. Professor under threat | Dr. Malik Boykin
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Depression, loss, and racial discrimination Emily chats with Dr. Malik Boykin, who opens up about early life experiences, how they lead him to bec...
Taking a break! Back Aug 11 :)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hi everyone! I'm taking a short break from releasing episodes but will be back on August 11. That's just enough time for you to catch up on past episo...
11. Depression as a Warning Sign | Tonja Wright
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Depression Emily chats with Tonja Wright, who opens up about how her PhD supervisors supported her when she was depressed, her discovery of the be...
10. Withdrawing from a PhD | Tonja Wright
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Depression Emily chats with Tonja Wright, who opens up about treatment-resistant depression, the difficult decision to leave her PhD, and how she ...
9. Entrepreneurship & volunteering as healing | Dr. Mohamad Nadim Adi
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Mohamad Nadim Adi, who debunks the myth that it’s impossible to leave then return to academia. Nadim discusses the mental healt...
8. Confidence Chasm | Dr. Mohamad Nadim Adi
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Dr. Mohamad Nadim Adi, who opens up about feeling the pressure to be perfect, the detrimental health impacts of a micromanaging Postd...
7. Taking Time Off | Jess Marshall
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Sexual assault, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with recently-minted Dr....
6. Loss during a PhD | Jess Marshall
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Divorce, sexual assault and suicidal ideation. In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with recently-submitted PhD Candidate, Jessica M...
5. Mindfulness: not some 'Buddhist chant' | Daniel Ranson
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily chats with Ph.D. Research Fellow, Daniel Ranson (@mrdanielranson), who is now a convert to mindfulness as a coping mechanism for anxiety, in add...
4. Perfectionism & OCD | Daniel Ranson
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with PhD Research Fellow, Daniel Ranson (@mrdanielranson), who opens up about perfectionism and OCD...
Disability & The Power of Acceptance | Syreeta Nolan
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with undergraduate senior, Syreeta Nolan (@nolan_syreeta), about how learning to accept her disabil...
Navigating Invisible Disability | Syreeta Nolan
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Voices of Academia, Emily chats with undergraduate senior, Syreeta Nolan (@nolan_syreeta), about the mental health impacts of navig...
Why an academic mental health podcast? | VoA team
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Suicidal ideation In this episode, the Voices of Academia concept and the team are introduced. Academics Dr. Marissa Kate, Dr. Zoe Ayres, and Emil...
Launching 2021: Voices of Academia
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are you an academic team leader, research assistant, postdoc, student or any other type of researcher? We want to hear from you. Share your expe...