careers
Why mutual support matters: surviving as Deaf/HoH graduate students at a predominantly hearing institution
The Mind Hears was excited to learn that Anne and Breanne are two deaf graduate students in the same School of Integrative Plant...
And I knew the silence of the world
"I am holding on with both hands and never letting go."
Three reasons why I chose industry research over academia
-Alex Lu After a long five years, my stint as a PhD student was finally reaching its end – and that meant I...
6 Ways to Dismantle Barriers for Disabled Faculty on Campus
-Stephanie Cawthon This is a repost from Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s blog, where she explores topics such as educational access, equity, attainment and deafness....
Eloquence is Overrated…and Exhausting
–Hi there. I’m Sara, and I’m almost deaf. As folks with hearing loss, we have been trained to speak clearly so that we...
Making your in-person and remote workplaces accessible for your deaf/HoH colleagues
The Mind Hears annual post on how to make your in-person and remote academic workplace accessible to deaf/HoH colleagues.
Navigating a masked world when you are deaf/HoH
-Ana While the pandemic rages around the world, I know I have been incredibly lucky. Like many, I have struggled to keep my...
“Moving Together”: Or Researching Health Care Access as a Disabled Academic
If my credibility as a researcher is in question, I’d rather people not focus on my social status, because the “ideal” academic researcher...
I owe my career to the invention of email
Academics even a few years my senior had to rely on telephones for networking.
When to tell? Applying for jobs when you are deaf or hard of hearing
-Ana Going on the job market was a fraught decision for me. As a postdoc considering tenure-track faculty positions, I relied on hearing...
