Welcome to Academic Chronicles!

A portal of stories drenched in tears, blood, sweat, and sheer resilience. This is a series of narratives about how Early Career Academics (ECAs) are living COVID-19 life. The ECAs are a vulnerable community during the best of academic years. Add a global pandemic and higher education budget cuts to this vulnerability and you get a scary picture of struggle. This portal is a space to record the life of these ECAs during COVID-19 life.  

Shout out to the amazing Early Career Academic Committee at the Faculty of Arts (University of Melbourne), who funded this project.

Special thanks to the wonderful ECAs who generously shared their insights through interviews and photos, despite the risk that it may trigger further trauma.