Researcher Well-being events, February 2012

The New Year sees many of us making resolutions about things we want to do, often surrounding our health, such as start a diet, be more healthy etc., but it’s the ideal time to think about your well-being as a researcher too.

February marks the beginning of a series of events designed to provide you with advice and suggestions on ways to effectively balance your many work and research demands.  All the sessions are open to doctoral researchers and staff, so come along to one or all of them, and start your New Year as you mean to go on…

The Balanced Researcher – Tuesday 7^th Feb, 9.30-12.30

Internationally recognised researcher, educator and public speaker, Hugh Kearns, describes the most useful strategies that thousands of researchers have found helpful in balancing the many demands on their time.  Covering areas such as being effective with your time, coping with email overload, and dealing with distractions and interruptions.

The Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students – Tuesday 7^th Feb, 1.30-4.30pm

In his second session, Hugh Kearns discusses how to increase your effectiveness and outcomes in a number of key areas including, dealing with your supervisor, your attitude to your research and dealing with writer’s block.

Developing Academic Confidence: A workshop for doctoral researchers and those involved in their learning journey – Weds 8^th Feb, 2.00-4.00pm

This session from Charlotte Morris, Research Officer in the Centre for Learning & Teaching at the University of Brighton, identifies the key challenges of researcher well-being and introduces strategies that can help with issues such as, identity and status, isolation and lack of confidence and self-esteem.

Getting the Better of Technology – Thurs 9^th Feb, 2.00-5.00pm

This workshop introduces the technology available to help you better manage your time and research and deals with managing email overload, backing up your work, managing bibliographic data and organising your research.

Managing Professional Relationships – Weds 15^th Feb, 10.30-12.30

This introductory workshop is suitable for anyone who would like to be able to communicate more clearly, listen more effectively and be more confident in building and maintaining their professional and academic relationships.