CSI Seminar: Anxiety and Depression in Academia
November 4, 2025 @ 14:30 – 15:00 CET
Academia can be both inspiring and overwhelming. The pressures of research, teaching, publishing, and constant evaluation can take a significant toll on mental health. Join us for a seminar on anxiety and depression in academia, where we’ll explore the factors that contribute to these challenges, how common they truly are, and why academics may be at increased risk. We’ll look at how anxiety and depression can manifest – emotionally, cognitively, and physically – and discuss practical ways to cope, seek support, and begin to heal. Whether you’re a student, researcher, faculty member, or simply interested in understanding more, you are warmly invited to join this important conversation.
We will begin with a ~ 20 min talk, held in Solna and over zoom. Then proceed with a reflection and discussion held on-site. We encourage other sites to form watch parties, by listening in together to the talk and then hold their own discussion afterwards. Hopefully seeding many local chapters of CSI.
To help facilitate discussion and reflection, consider the following starter questions:
Awareness: where do we experience rejection in our lives already?
Analysis: how well do I currently interact with rejection?
Alternative: how could we relate to rejection in academia, for ourselves and others?
Action: how will knowledge of rejection in academia change my decisions going forward?
sami.saarenpaa@scilifelab.se
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