Dear Fellow Grad Students and Post Docs,

We all know that the pursuit of a PhD is a difficult and often lonely journey filled with obstacles both professional and personal. There are however very few formal support structures to help students. So in the hope of quantifying some of these issues, I have created a short anonymous survey about the stress levels in PhD program and the support structures available to deal with it. It is aimed at current and former graduate students. I believe this is a great opportunity to express your personal views about the realities of grad school.

The goal is to start an honest discussion, get grad student’s voices heard and maybe create some initiatives to help students!

In summary, please take the survey :) Every response counts.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8SD8QLB

Also please do pass it on to your friends and coworkers at your university. As you know more responses will improve the quality of the survey.

Thank you !