Faculty of Science

November 7, 2022 – Let’s Talk About Ph.D. Studies with Adèle Combes! Working Conditions and the Mental Health of Young Researchers: What Are the Findings and Solutions?

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Monday, November 7, 5:00 p.m.
, Lecture Hall 2, Building 36, University of Montpellier
Triolet Campus (main entrance at the “donut-sausage” roundabout)

The ecology and environmental research laboratories of DIPEE Occitanie-Est (https://www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/dipee-occitanie-est), with the support of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Montpellier, are pleased to invite you to a meeting with Adèle B. Combes, who holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology, is the founder of the “Vie de thèse” project and author of the book*How Does the University Crush Young Researchers? Precarity, Harassment, and the Code of Silence*(Autrement, 2022).

Through her survey of a panel of doctoral students from various institutions and disciplines, Adèle B. Combes has helped bring attention to a topic that is still too rarely discussed: the mental health struggles among young researchers and the abuse they sometimes face.

Adèle B. Combes’s lecture will last 30 minutes and will be followed by a 45-minute panel discussion on concrete solutions to improve the well-being and mental health of young researchers.
Several people will participate in this panel discussion:
–Ms. May Morris, CNRS Research Director at iBMM Pôle Chimie Balard Recherche, representative for Femmes & Sciences Occitanie Est, member of the Femmes & Sciences Board of Directors, and coordinator of the Femmes & Sciences mentoring programhttps://www.femmesetsciences.fr/

– Mathilde Maillard, Ph.D. in materials science, founder of Bien Dans Ma Thèsehttps://www.biendansmathese.com/

– Mr. Pierre-Olivier Antoine, professor at the University of Montpellier, deputy director of the ISEM laboratoryhttps://isem-evolution.fr/

The event will be moderated by Mr. Guillaume Bagnolini, a science journalist at Coscienceshttps://cosciences.net/.

We look forward to seeing you in person in Lecture Hall 2 of Building 36 on the Triolet Campus of the University of Montpellier on Monday, November 7, at 5:00 p.m. For those who are unable to attend in person, you can also watch the event on YouTube athttps://youtu.be/MeV-S1YwX9I. We hope to see many of you there!