how universities can help to resolve research’s mental-health crisis

Researchers working in academia are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than are members of the population at large, as we report in a Feature investigating the mental-health crisis in science. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on researchers, as it has on many in wider society, but it is clear that a major factor common in academia is a toxic work environment.

A proliferation of short-term contracts, low salaries (particularly for early-career…