EDICa’s workstream on the career lifecycle focuses on the gap in research on menstrual health – this includes normal and problematic menstruation and (peri)menopause. In this seminar EDICa postdoctoral research associate Chiara Cocco shares initial findings from our evidence review and 50+ interviews of people with lived experience. Ellie Honan – polar scientist and PhD researcher in snow petrel movement and diet, Vice President of UK Polar Network -shared her work on raising awareness and understanding in this area. See BBC article on her tackling of taboo periods. Dharma Reyes Macaya – Senior Technician in palaeoceanography and biogeochemistry in the Lyell Centre for Earth & Marine Science & Technology and PhD researcher at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany – shares her experience of menstruation and conducting fieldwork on research ships. Ashmika Motee, PhD researcher, explains her research on problematic menstruation and remote work environments. Juliet Nwafor, PhD researcher, introduces her research on menstruation in the banking sector of Nigeria. And Gabriella Goodrich, PhD researcher, shares her research project on menstrual health in the hospitality sector.

Closed captions have been carefully corrected on the hearing version, and we have had a BSL interpretation provided on a separate recording.