The Ph.D. as Traumatic Experience, Part 2

In this episode, Tyll and Katharina talk to Jessica about her
experience of writing and defending her Ph.D. thesis and the severe
strain it put on her mental health. In the second part of this
interview, we talk about the genderedness of discourses of
resilience and suffering and why it is so difficult to acknowledge
traumatic experiences involved in pursuing an academic career.
Finally, Jessica tells us more about how she exercised agency to
create her actual Ph.D. defense as a situation of security and
support for herself by inviting students, colleagues and friends.