Erica Hawkins

Postdoc at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk, investigating how starch is made in crop plants. I am also a mental health advocate. I have generalised anxiety disorder myself, and through blogging and social media, am trying to support a academic environment which speaks more openly about mental health issues.

Positives and negatives

The other week I was on Twitter scrolling through my feed when I saw several tweets of the following nature: “Can’t help but feel like I’m continually hearing the negative aspects of PhD life” and “I only see negative tweets about grad school/PhD experience and I’m trying hard to be Read more…

By Erica Hawkins, ago