Election statement: Two years ago, I ran for election on an agenda that prioritized the rising mental health crisis. I am running for reelection to continue:
1. the work of PrecAnthro on academic precarity and anti-precarity organizing, particularly as it pertains to mobility and to international staff and students;
2. addressing the rising mental health crisis;
3. advocating with EU policy-makers on the value of anthropology and on research funding and regulations;
4. the work on ethics and scientific integrity within EASA;
5. revalorising teaching within hiring, EASA, and the discipline.
Concretely, I would like to build on the collaboration established with the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO): first, to publish a report on mental health struggles within social sciences, and second, to collaboratively draw guidelines that would promote healthier and thriving research cultures within anthropology, particularly within asymmetrical power relations (eg: supervisors-supervisees relationships). Moreover, building on our collaboration with ISE and EASSH, I would like to work towards establishing a sustainable working group on lobbying and advocacy within EASA that would ensure anthropology’s place at the (uneven) negotiating table. Thirdly, elaborating guidelines for the protection of scientific integrity and scholars reporting abuse would be a great next step for the EASA integrity committee.
Nominating member: Mariya Ivancheva (University of Strathclyde); Supporting member: Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven, Belgium)