PhD(isabled)

What it's like doing a PhD with disability or chronic illness

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Experiences
  • Support & Advice
  • Comments Policy
  • Submissions Policy

Tag Archives: career researchers

Blue, purple and pink lights illuminate a metal tunnel with a flat escalator in Detroit

A Reflection on Chronic Illness and Graduate School

Featuredby phdisabled 6 Comments

I originally wrote the post below in June 2011. I had finished defending my PhD in English Literature in the fall of 2010 and I was depressed, in pain, and […]

Read Article →
Experiences, Postgraduate Research
A 1-foot wide mud bubble captured in greyscale mid-burst.

Even more Headaches & Heartbreaks

July 8, 2014by phdisabledguest1 3 Comments

This article is a follow-up to “The Headache and Heartbreak of doing Academia with Chronic Migraine” and is written by the same anonymous author. When you last heard my story, […]

Read Article →
Experiences
Against a red background, a skull screams, a malevolent creature sitting on its head

The headache & heartbreak of doing academia with chronic migraine

June 10, 2014by phdisabled 40 Comments

I’m a part-time PhD student, with a chronic illness and a family. I have a grant that pays my fees, but everything else I need to live on I must […]

Read Article →
Experiences
'Resting' by Dave DeHetre

How to do medical leave

April 1, 2014by phdisabled Leave a comment

Some disabled and chronically ill students will need to take periods of medical leave – also known as interruption in the UK – to rest and recover when the body […]

Read Article →
Support & Advice
'Equal Access' by Steve Snodgrass (Flickr)

Asking for Access After Declaring Disabled: An Interview Story

March 26, 2014by phdisabled 12 Comments

This week I was called to interview for a Research Council funding competition.  The application was part of a last-minute marathon attempt to restart my PhD research this Autumn. This […]

Read Article →
Experiences
Falling Down on the Job

Falling Down on the Job: Chronic Illness in Post-Graduate Workplace (Part 2)

November 15, 2013by phdisabled Leave a comment

(This post continues on from Falling Down on the Job: Chronic Illness in Post-Graduate Workplace Part 1).  What could anyone in my situation do to prevent what happened to me? […]

Read Article →
Support & Advice
A streetlamp at dusk

Premia: An Online Resource for Disabled PhD Students

October 18, 2013by phdisabled 2 Comments

Developed from an HEFCE-funded project at Newcastle University between 2003-2005, Premia provides masses of useful information for both PhD and other early career researchers with disability or chronic illness and […]

Read Article →
Support & Advice

Post navigation

  • Postgraduate Research
  • Postgraduate Taught
  • Undergraduate

RECENT POSTS

  • Remembering the light
  • On the dearth of disabled access information in philosophical events
  • PhDisappeared For a Year
  • Get Help: How the myth of self-sufficiency fails PhD students with mental illness
  • A Reflection on Chronic Illness and Graduate School
  • We Need to Talk About Student Mental Health More, Not Less
  • Help the NUS Support Disabled & Chronically Ill Postgraduate Applicants (UK)
  • Event Organizers: Give Access Information Up Front. Please?
  • When systems designed to support you, harm you
  • Disabled Student Allowance & PhD-Specific Doings: A Resource for Self-Advocacy

Tags

Academia academic culture Advice for Disabled Students career researchers chronic chronic illness disability Disabled disabled students Doctor of Philosophy experience hard work Health Higher Education mental health pain PhD PhD student PhD students Reasonable Adjustments stigma supervisors time to change University You are not alone

RSS

  • RSS - Posts
  • RSS - Comments

Archives

  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • November 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • November 2013
  • October 2013

DONATE

Donate to our blog via Paypal

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 5,525 other subscribers

TWITTER UPDATES

My Tweets

Recent Comments

  • Julie Furnell on Developing a Mystery Illness in Grad School
  • Making Animal Liberation Accessible – A How-To Guide – Earthling Liberation Kollective – ELK on Event Organizers: Give Access Information Up Front. Please?
  • Saumya on PhDisappeared For a Year
  • colleensharriskeith on PhDisappeared For a Year
  • michiexile (@michiexile) on PhDisappeared For a Year
Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • PhD(isabled)
    • Join 1,985 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • PhD(isabled)
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...