Academia

The spinning life of early-career researchers – twirling until out of sync?

Inês Pereira and Dr. Silvia Volante December 16, 2022

Abandoned mine. A soul-searching trip. Credit: Lukáš Falteisek (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In the GMPV blog team we are a group of early career researchers (ECRs*) in their PhD or early postdoc stages. As ECRs we know that permanent positions in Academia are scarce and that we may face long postdoc careers, potentially entailing a rootless life for several years to come. In this blog, we highlight the other side of the ECR lives that fewer people know about, and that occasionally leads ...[Read More]

Motherhood in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology Sciences

Inês Pereira September 29, 2022

By Eric Ward, CC license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_Portrait.jpg

Are you a mother in the fields of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology or Volcanology? Are you about to become a mother soon or have you just started to consider it? How many times have you considered it but thought that it wasn’t the right time? Starting a family can be challenging as it is, but juggling between starting one while managing a career in Academia can be frustrating and hard, especial ...[Read More]