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Target Audience: Research staff and any staff with a current or future team leadership role.

This course is a 'one off' and will not run again.

It is a live - online session.

Course Description;

No-one likes being rejected. Unfortunately, rejection is a part of life as an academic researcher, whether journal articles rejected by reviewers, conference paper submissions rejected by editorial boards or funding bids knocked back by research councils. Additionally, even successful work brings with it exposure to rigorous and sometimes bruising criticism from peers, as part of academic discourse. Anyone hoping to build a research career has to find ways to handle this constructively to avoid getting ground down or discouraged. Just toughing it out isn’t a long-term strategy, as it can leave us vulnerable to stress and burnout.

Instead, this course will introduce participants to practical ways to harness the power of their own minds to cope better with rejection and respond constructively. Using these techniques over time will build the resilience to take setbacks in their stride, and embrace academic rejection as part of the path to professional excellence.

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

By the end of this 3-hour online session participants will have:

• Learned and applied ‘self-talk’ techniques, to reduce the negative impact of (potential) academic rejection
• Learned and applied the Mindset framework as a structure around which to reconfigure responses to setbacks and shift to constructive responses to rejection in the short and long-term
• Understood the importance of ‘action’ and ‘control’ as practical strategies to bounce back from rejection

Accessibility;

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For online activity:

• The session will take place on Zoom, setup by Fistral
• Auto-captions will be available
• There will be audience participation, however this is voluntary
• You can keep your camera off if preferred, however we encourage cameras-on as it’s a better learning experience
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• There will be several short screen breaks throughout the session
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants upon request.
• Any other accessibility features offered by Zoom should be available
• For attendee privacy and ‘safe’ sharing in the room we do not record sessions and it is not possible to save the chatroom
• We allow screenshots of the live webinar, however provide guidance regarding how to do this while respecting everyone’s privacy i.e. full-screen, close the chatroom/participant view etc
• [Any other access info, e.g. live captions available, BSL interpretation]
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* charge to your Department / School if you do not attend your place on the course. There will be no charge as long as you cancel your booked place before the event or notify our staff at osdu@strath.ac.uk that you can no longer attend.

A Department / School is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary prerequisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you are expected to attend ALL parts of the course.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of a course of 1-day duration or less. For some courses, there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.