This blog relates to an on-going piece of research about the plight of the doctoral researcher.
Much has been written on the matter, such as a piece last year in Nature (Depression and anxiety ‘the norm’ for UK PhD students https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03761-3) to the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) (https://tinyurl.com/35d3xzd9).