Mental Health & Wellbeing for Scientists: Support Pack

Mental Health & Wellbeing for Scientists: Support Pack

Experiencing rejection and feelings of inadequacy will affect most scientists at some point in their career, and the pressure of publishing, obtaining grants and getting results can trigger ‘imposter syndrome’ and affect the mental wellbeing of even the most experienced of researchers.

But it may help you to know that you are not alone and that there are lots of people out there, including your colleagues and peers that have been in similar situations themselves, and who want to help.

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to get the latest updates and please do let us know if there is a topic you would like to see in this Support Pack. And of course, if you are moved to share your story or advice with your peers in an article of your own, we would love to hear from you.

Supporting your mental health and wellbeing

Thanks to our extremely honest and supportive guest authors and a dedicated team at Hello Bio, we have some resources that aim to guide and support your mental health and wellbeing, wherever you are in your scientific career. New resources are being added all the time and you can see them all here. Take a look below at some of our most popular articles:

Building Resilience & Coping With Rejection

• The Life Scientists’ Guide to Coping With Rejection
• Resilience & Success In Science: A Researcher’s Perspective
• Building Resilience in Scientific Research & Academia
  
  

Balancing mental health & wellbeing as a scientist

• The Life Scientists’ Guide to Wellbeing
• Workplace Wellbeing For Life Scientists
• Scientist Talks: Heema Vyas
• How To Manage The Expected Pace Of Work In Scientific Research
• Under Pressure: Breaking Free from the Stress of Your PhD
  
  

Imposter Syndrome & Feelings of Inadequacy

• Dealing With Feelings Of Inadequacy During Your Research Career
• “I can’t believe they’re letting me write this blog”: Imposter Syndrome, Science, and the Rest of the World
  
  

Important relationships & connecting with others

• My PI & I: What Makes A Good Student-Supervisor Relationship?
• Why Scientists Need Great Mentors
  
• Interviews with Scientists: advice from researchers

View all the resources to help with mental health and wellbeing here

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If you enjoyed this article, why not check out the other resources available on our blog. We are passionate about supporting life scientists, early career life scientists and PhD students - with really low- priced reagents and biochemicals, early career scientist grants, and resources to help with both personal and professional development. We know how tough it is - so we hope you find these helpful!

More General Support for Life Scientists

And if you are looking for more general help writing papers, presenting at conferences, networking or lots more, we have a huge range of articles covering lots of topics - just click below:

Finding That Perfect Product...

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• Enzyme inhibitors and activators
• Epigenetic tools
• Ion channel modulators
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• Signaling tools

Technical resources

Try our Molarity Calculator: a quick and easy way to calculate the mass, volume or concentration required for making a solution.

Try our Dilution Calculator: an easy way to work out how to dilute stock solutions of known concentrations

And finally, don't forget to check back in with our blog regularly for more PhD focused content! If there’s something you’d love to contribute to the community, whether that’s an interview or article, drop us a line at hello@hellobio.com

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