C of Care
Research groups face increasingly larger waves in the sea of neo-liberalism that threatens our physical and work environment at the university (Busher & Fox, 2020; Nordbäck, Hakonen, & Tienari, 2022). Our study stemmed from the need to understand how we can maintain our balance and mental stability in our research group Elkarrikertuz in the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU (Correa et al., 2010). We felt the need to combine two opposite but necessary situations while conducting research: loneliness, on the one hand, and academic interaction, on the other. People usually link university positions with research exclusively, leaving the chores of teaching and service in a secondary position.
