• Question: How has the pandemic affected your job and your mental health?

    Asked by ease449get on 2 Feb 2022.
    • Photo: Chris Budd

      Chris Budd answered on 2 Feb 2022:

      The oandemic has meant that much of my job has gobe online. It has also meant that I am doing much longer hours as I and my team work to use mathematical modelling to fight Covid-19. My mental health has been good as I am convinced that we are all doing something very worthwhile and important, even though it is a lot of work!

    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 2 Feb 2022:

      In my job we do a lot of meetings online now that used to happen in person. A lot of the scientists in our lab that mainly work on computers now also work pretty much exclusively at home.

      Mentally it was very stressful especially at the beginning because I had just finished my PhD and was looking for a new job but I could not go and see labs and people in person so I was worried I’d never find a good job. At the time the US also allowed no-one in and while I initially wanted to move there for my next job I was not able to.

    • Photo: Valerie Vancollie

      Valerie Vancollie answered on 2 Feb 2022:

      The pandemic has essentially become my job as what I was doing at the start was winding down even as we went into the pandemic. I now work for a team that performs genomic surveillance of the virus, so we monitor how it’s changing in people who get sick in the UK to see if there are any new variants appearing. We also check to see what people who get sick on vaccine trials have, or what variant people who’ve tested positive after being abroad have.

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