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Dr Becky Carlyle - Building Labs Where It's Safe to Fail
Dr Becky Carlyle narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Failure in academia gets treated here as a structural problem before it gets treated as a personal one. The starting point is that this is one of very few careers where a run of setbacks can genuinely end the job, so the emotional weight attached to ordinary professional rejection is not a resilience deficit, it is a symptom of the environment. From there the focus shifts to what group leaders can actually do. Being open enough about small mistakes that they get discussed rather than hidden.
Training junior team members…
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