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    Build Your Resilience and Take Your PhD in Your Stride
    Provider   Researcher Development Programme

    A PhD is a long, demanding project that tests everyone who takes on this challenge. The inevitable ups and downs of the process can threaten the confidence and motivation of all PhD students.

Duration 2 hours

Course Type Webinar

Booking Status Waiting List

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Target Audience: PGRs

A PhD is a long, demanding project that tests everyone who takes on this challenge. The inevitable ups and downs of the process can threaten the confidence and motivation of all PhD students. Understanding that PhD study will likely be one of the most difficult undertakings of your life and preparing to increase your resilience in order to be able meet this challenge is one way of ensuring that you can maintain your performance and your wellbeing during your studies and beyond.

In this webinar, participants will learn how their own mindset can increase or decrease their resilience in the face of the challenges of a PhD. They will learn what they can do to ensure they put in place the psychological foundations of resilience. They will also learn some simple, daily techniques to boost and preserve their resilience levels for the long haul. During this 2hr webinar participants will:

• Understand the psychological building blocks of resilience

• Learn techniques to foster a mindset for resilience and success

• Learn daily practices to boost their resilience levels



Delivered By: Fistral Training and Consultancy Ltd.

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend a course please cancel your place as soon as possible, with at least 3 working days notice via the online booking system http://bookings.strath.ac.uk/mybookings.asp.

Full details of booking conditions can be found at the link below.

PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development

All postgraduate research students are eligible to access the Researcher Development Programme workshops. This workshop can contribute towards the PG Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PG Cert RPD).

You can find credit and class information in the Researcher Development Programme Handbook and in NEPTUNE (Engineering, HaSS) or SPIDER (Science).

Please check with your department or Supervisor to confirm if you are enrolled on the PG Cert RPD and how many credits you are expected to achieve if you are unsure.