Motivational Stories

When I accepted my first academic job as an assistant professor of criminology, I packed up my home and left my friends and family to begin a new chapter of my life 250 miles away. The new…

2020 has brought with it many, many challenges, draining away my passion for my work. So, I decided to back track, and go right back to why I fell in love with the ocean in the first place and why…

The internet is full of advice—maintaining physical and mental health; homeschooling; reading, watching, listening lists; connecting while social distancing; creating timetables for family…

But then my way of life was disrupted abruptly and terribly — I suffered a stroke while I was at home, eagerly waiting to start my PhD in the US.

My advice to anybody who is feeling depressed in their research journey is to try as much as possible to look for a mentor, even among friends…

I was happy and ready to take on the world. Little did I know the year ahead would have the biggest professional hurdle of my life.

I always wanted to be sure I would always have something to fall back on. With my structures of certainty, I could do anything. That was, until I lost just about everything.

Whilst in some ways I feel I have adjusted a little too well to lockdown life, other aspects are very difficult to get used to. For instance, the passage of time.

Because I was experiencing mild flu-like symptoms, I started self-isolating 2 weeks before official restrictions were introduced. My…

In the meantime, life had of course not stopped elsewhere. My landlord back in Nigeria persistently messaged to inform me that he had sold the building where I was…