Travelling Inwards: Wellbeing agency as a shifting priority for pandemic-impacted young researchers

As a team member of the Global Young Academy‘s (GYA) ‘Sasha Kagansky’ Interdisciplinary Grant Award 2021/22 research project ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and the personal experiences of global young researchers’ as well as an Executive Committee Member of the GYA, I consider that there is a growing need to further explore a thriving ecosystem of analyses about the (post?)pandemic — young researchers’ wellbeing nexus. Indeed, young scholars worldwide are reclaiming the stage to encourage a moment of reflection as well as new ways of confronting their shared precarity and their volatile positions. The meeting point of all these calls for action is, very significantly, an appeal to own their wellbeing agency.