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Physics in the pandemic: ‘A lack of childcare hugely reduces productivity’

05 May 2020 Margaret Harris

Rose Waugh is a final-year PhD student at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she studies stellar magnetic fields for low-mass stars. If you want to compare notes about parenting as a PhD student or early-career researcher, you can contact her at rw47@st-andrews.ac.uk or on Instagram (@astrophysics_rose).

This post is part of a series on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the personal and professional lives of physicists around the world. If you’d like to share your own perspective, please contact us at pwld@ioppublishing.org.

Rose Waugh holds her baby son while standing in front of a blossoming tree
Human whirlwind: Rose Waugh and her 11-month-old son. (Courtesy: Rose Waugh)
In many ways, I’m fortunate. Most of my work is computational, and I have no teaching duties this

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