Sophie Inge
The Times of Higher Education
Originally published on April 4, 2018
Fresh calls have been made to tackle a crisis of overwork and poor mental health in academia in the wake of two worrying new studies.
US academics who conducted a global survey found that postgraduate students were more than six times more likely to experience depression or anxiety compared with the general population, with female researchers being worst affected.
Meanwhile, a survey of more than 5,500 staff in Norwegian universities found that academics reported higher levels of workaholism than their administrative colleagues and revealed that the group appears to be among the occupations most prone to workaholism in society as a whole. Young and female academics were more likely than their senior colleagues to indicate that this had an impact on their family life.
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