From Surviving to Thriving 1: Developing Your Resilience
From Surviving to Thriving: strategies to do your research and wellbeing just a little bit better.
While a joyful curiosity might be the fuel of research, doing it day-to-day can be really tough. The purpose of this programme is to help researchers move – even just a little bit – from a sense of merely surviving within the research process to thriving within it. Eschewing the hyperbole of the self-help industry, this programme provides participants with practical tools and strategies grounded in the psychological literature to help you do your research and nurture your wellbeing just a little bit better.
Whilst this programme of five sessions has been designed as a set, with each building on the one before – as participants move from a sense of ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving’ – each individual session is standalone, meaning you can book and attend the whole series or just those which you think may be particularly useful.
Session 1: Developing Your Resilience
This first session might be useful if you have a sense of being stuck in a hole and want to stop digging. To do this, it explores what might be seen as the ‘Six Cs’ of Resilience. In the process, the session helps you, amongst other things, to: apply an essential three-step ‘coping mantra’ for when things go wrong; develop individually more useful perspectives about your research to boost resilience; formulate individual strategies to boost your senses of community and wellbeing.
This training is provided free of charge to postgraduate researchers, however, the cost of providing the course is £30 per participant.
All PhD students
Instructions will be sent out 3 working days in advance, along with link to join online
Number of sessions: 1
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer |
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1 | Mon 3 Feb 10:00 - 11:30 | 10:00 - 11:30 | Online | Matthew Lane |
Online session with some group activities and participation.
Matt is a co-director of The Researcher Development Partnership and a specialist in researcher development, with over 15 years of experience at world-leading institutions. His expertise lies in researcher wellbeing, writing, communication, and leadership development.
From 2010 to 2018, Matt worked as a Researcher Developer at the University of Cambridge, where he was recognised for his outstanding contribution to early career researcher development. He co-founded The Researcher Development Partnership to help alleviate the stresses of research and to promote a positive research culture. Matt holds certifications in learning and development, as well as MBTI and Belbin Team Roles. www.therdp.org
From Surviving to Thriving is a series of five online workshops. You can attend the whole series or individual workshops that particularly speak to you!
Please ensure you book each individual activity that you wish to attend. To ensure fairness bookings will be on a first come first served basis.
1.5 hours
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