Postgraduates: Magnified challenges

Postgraduates have already been hit hard by Covid-19, and the months ahead look tough

Up and down the UK the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions put in place to tackle it have disrupted the work of thousands of researchers. Hardest hit in many ways have been postgraduate students, who have seen major blows to their plans and aspirations before their careers have really begun.

“It is a strange time to start a career in research and science,” says Pauline Münchenberg, an MSc student in clinical neuroscience at University College London.