Adam Levy 00:04
Hello. I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers.
In this episode: loss and grief.
Death is a contradiction. On the one hand, when we experience the loss of someone in our lives, it’s an earth-shatteringly exceptional moment. But on the other, losing people is something we all know we will experience at points throughout our lives. But when it comes to dealing with these moments, our academic institutions are often woefully under-prepared.
Today, we’re going to speak with researchers about the losses that they’ve experienced and how they learnt to raise their voices, despite how uncomfortably silent we can so often be when it comes to death.
Later in the episode, we’ll hear from two researchers on the pain of losing a colleague. But now I’d like to introduce you to Krista Harrison, a social scientist at the University of California San Francisco in the United States. Her work has spanned multiple disciplines within the social sciences.
Krista Harrison 01:16
In addition, I was a hospice administrator for a few years, so I’ve had quite a bit of experiential training in palliative care as well.
Adam Levy 01:25
A few years ago, Krista experienced a series of losses that sent her reeling.
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