By Dr. Anupoma Haque What we want to say: The ReMO COST Action stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. We add our voices to the joint declaration of Eurodoc and the Marie Curie Alumni Association and strongly condemn the Russian Federation’s acts of violence and aggression against the…

By Dr. Anupoma Haque We are very happy to share the Call for Papers for ReMO 2022: 1st Conference of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory. The focus of the conference is on “Bridging Research and Practice in Fostering Healthy Academic Workplaces”. The Conference will take place in Budapest on the…

By Dr. Anupoma Haque A truly amazing work of systemic organization has been done by Milica Vukelic on the ReMO Zotero Library, a growing, crowd-sourced resource composed of researcher mental health related articles from the year 2000 onwards. Milica did an amazing work of analyzing, organizing and presenting over 350…

By Dr. Anupoma Haque I know, you already know about the millions of academic articles with research data on diet, health and their impacts from world class top institutions. This is not one of them. This is an honest, realistic, and practical experience of a problem-solver with 19 years experience…

By Dr. Anupoma Haque Researcher and Science communicator, Dr. Federica Bressan, started a podcast series on behalf of ReMO which is now generating interest and being noticed. The Euroscientist website, recently published an article on the ReMO podcast series on mental health in Academia and the great work being done…

By Anupoma Haque The Researcher Mental Health Observatory COST Action hosted a webinar on October 28, 2021 entitled ‘Organisational misconduct in academia and whistle-blowers’ mental health.” Whistleblowing is reporting any type of irregularity found within an organization, which could harm the organization itself, its employees and/or society. Individuals within an…

By Anupoma Haque Mental health problems are on the rise among academics in different countries amid the pressures of greater job insecurity, constant demand for results and an increasingly marketized higher education system, and finally, CoViD pandemic. A report from the Guardian stated that “University counselling staff and workplace health…

If you want to know more about the ReMO Researchers Mental Health Observatory and its working groups, you can watch the kick off videos here or directly on YouTube. Janet Metcalfe of Vitae introduces how ReMO’s Working Group 1 will work to: 1: Address researcher mental health at a…

By Anupoma Haque We tend to think that the smartest people work in research. Yet, precarity of career in research seems to be only increasing in all economies. We are already have situations where the academia cannot absorb the number of annual graduates and post graduates that they are…