I have just finished reading "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD — A Survival Guide" by Zoë J. Ayres (@Zjayres) and found it to provide an empathetic, authoritative and practical guide to managing mental health that is contextualised to the experience of a PhD student.

My review is online here: https://www.academic-marginalia.org/2022/11/managing-your-mental-health-during-your.html

#AcademicMentalHealth #PhD #Research #Wellbeing

cc. @phdstudents @seresearchers

Selfdiagnosis (self-dx) is valid! No one knows you better that you do, and -honestly- who would want to be pretend-autistic just for shits and giggles.

This goes for ADHD as well.

I’m saying this as someone with “official” dx’es. Not everyone has the privilege or access to get dx’ed. Not everyone would want one.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD

#introduction

Hi! 👋 I'm Merel.

I'm interested in how people reflect on their #learning. What do #scholars learn academically and personally from teaching? What do #students think they learn from different types of education? How can a #reflective start help students' transition into higher education? I work as assistant professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. I enjoy #gardening (talking about learning!), #reading, and #cycling along #rivers.