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What does resilience for Researchers mean now?

Research is challenging, not just in itself but in its impact on our wellbeing as researchers. There are techniques

that we can apply to help us recognise our stress and to maintain our wellbeing.

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and is a very important part of maintaining wellbeing

and continuing to be productive.

Some people are equipped with a natural sense of how to maintain resilience but for others those same skills can

be learned. This experiential workshop will give you the opportunity to learn about stress and its effects as well as

a range of techniques for maintaining your personal resilience, including where to find help when it is needed.

By the end of the workshop, you should be able to:

路 Apply Stoic exercise to build resilience

路 Understand the importance of taking a break to get different angle on the problem

路 Understand how to reframe your problems

路 Develop learning goals as a help towards resilience

路 Understand the importance of self-reflection for development of resilience

or contact the Wellbeing Team /services/wss

Are you struggling to concentrate and lacking in motivation? Is your writing constantly interrupted by your inbox, social media and trips to the kitchen? Write Here, Write Now (our session based loosely on the Pomodoro Technique) is back with a modified format, online, to help you focus on your writing.

Join us on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30am to kick-start your working from home!

Not sure you want to stay in academia? Think you might be able to use your skills better elsewhere? Want more stability in your chosen career?

Writing for non-academic audiences (press, websites, blogs) 

This workshop is intended for academics who would like to think about communicating their research to non-academic audiences and are wondering where to start. The workshop will focus on some typical pieces they may need to write. These include press releases, op-eds (and pitching op-eds), and press kits in case of larger projects. The goal of the workshop is to encourage PGRs to think of how they can publicise their work and why this is important. And then to give them some tools to widen their audiences and be well-prepared to write short articles, blog posts or press releases. Delivered by an ex-journalist and political cartoonist and current blog writer.

Workshop plan:

• Discussion on what is the non-academic landscape. Why is it important to the PhD community? Does it overlap with your 鈥渁cademic鈥� career? Your experiences.
• Discussion on how your work is important outside of academia/universities?
• Writing for 鈥渢he press鈥�

• Press releases
• Preparing press kits
• Pitching an article or Op-Ed
• How are blogs different from opinion pieces and how to think about writing them?

• Storytelling strategies
• What we can learn from reporters in journalism, including the structure of articles and the necessary components of an opinion piece.

• Photo stories.

Take a break from your studies, grab a free tea or coffee, and chat to other postgraduates at PG Tips!

Each week at PG Tips we'll be joined by two of our , who are on hand to give advice on any aspect of postgrad life, whether it's academic study or services on campus or life in the local area.

Design for academics 2: Application of design elements

(posters, flyers, social media etc.) 

This workshop will help participants think of applications of design concepts to materials they may need during their academic career, like posters, conference flyers, etc. The participants are encouraged to bring to the workshop any work they may have designed, like conference posters, if they would like to discuss improvements or troubleshoot any issues they have come up against. The workshop will focus on what 鈥済ood鈥� design is, acknowledging that this is subjective. It will also demonstrate how software like PowerPoint can be used to manipulate and edit images. The goal of this workshop is to create a space for open discussion about the problems faced in academia, as well as to provide a thoughtful critique. Additionally, the goal is to direct the participants towards helpful practices and resources that can make graphic design an easier task and assure them that they are entirely competent to create what they need to communicate their work, and already have the tools to do so. No prior knowledge of any design software is needed. (The workshop is the second in the series but has no pre-requisites).