In this category you can find realistic accounts of the ‘PGR experience’ including the visceral anxieties we may experience every day. You may also find research-driven wellbeing reflections and lifestyle tips.
Since the Covid-19 Lockdown was enacted, I have not given myself credit for the progress made towards my doctoral thesis. For months, I have been hyperaware of the daunting Annual Review that dictates my future as a University of Edinburgh postgraduate research doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology. Ironically, I have …
From March this year, the joyful clamour of celebration for mental health awareness and wellbeing should have been ringing out across Edinburgh. PosiFest 2020, a new festival created by a group of University of Edinburgh postgraduates, was set to fill central Edinburgh venues with positivity. Instead, these venues—the Pear …
Let me introduce myself under these circumstances…My name is SiennaMarisa Brown. I am a doctoral candidate of clinical psychology through the School of Health in Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. I earned a bachelor’s degree from a small mid-Western university in the States. I achieved a master’s degree …
I am lucky to have a robust support system. My husband is my personal chef and mixologist. My cat snuggles with me and lessens my anxiety. My parents are my best friends and call me every day. My supervisory team is sympathetic to my inactivity and mental health issues during …
It is challenging to write about my real experience with the COVID-19 situation because every day is so different. I guess my overall lesson from this experience is to observe my mood and feelings and be compassionate with myself. Some days are more comfortable, and I have enough energy to …
Life has become centred around our flat and we have found a way to make it feel less like “being stuck” and more like a temporary challenge. I am lucky because I live with people I consider close friends. We all enjoy similar things and we have enough space in …
Like many, I have been mentally spiralling. Calmly panicking. Since locals started ‘panic buying’, I have been suffering from indefinite indifference. As many international students, my mind is preoccupied with mine and my husband’s wellbeing, as well as my parents’ in the States. Being an ocean away from my primary …
2020 did not start like a normal year. Many things were happening around the world. Me, along with other PhD students, are doing our best to develop our projects, study, and work. We all had plans in the short, medium and long term. Then COVID-19 happened, and, with it, Britain´s …
If I did not turn around that day, the event may have never happened. It all started on 12th September at the School of Health in Social Science’s Welcome Session. After a few entertaining group icebreakers, and informative presentations by faculty and staff about the bits and bobs of being …
In 2018, I graduated from a prestigious, high-ranking UK university with a MSc in Sociology. The graduation was surreal. The overall experience was HORRIBLE. That university’s attitude, in my experience, was dreadful. From superficial ‘formal dinners’ full of overdressed, drunk postgrads complaining about how much they hate the pretentious environment …
