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Target Audience: Any staff involved in the research ecosystem (E.g. Research staff, Technicians, Research-enabling professional staff)

This is a live online series.  There is no waiting list.

This is  a set of four sessions - you must attend ALL sessions.  

How do you navigate the Research landscape, manage the challenges, and enjoy the highlights? And with a degree of confidence and resilience? This series of four, highly interactive 90-minutes workshops looks to address that question and give you tools, attitudes and methods to do just that.

The number of challenges currently facing Universities places a large number of challenges on those involved, and heightens the ever-present demands of winning funding, teaching and research excellence, publication and managing others (to name but a few). But it’s not all challenge, there are highlights and enjoyable aspects to the role too.

So, how do you navigate that sort of landscape, manage the challenges, and enjoy the highlights? And with a degree of confidence and resilience?

This series of four, highly interactive 90-minutes workshops looks to address that question and give you tools, attitudes and methods to do just that. More specifically, after the series of workshops you will have:

Session 1:

• Considered the ups and downs of your academic life and how to view them
• Explored a model, and a personalised map, of resilience
• Devised actions to develop your resilience through time

Session 2:

• Looked at the intelligence trap and how it can affect confidence and resilience
• Practiced with a cognitive tool for working with challenge
• Applied this to real situations you face

Session 3:

• Considered where to direct your attention in challenging situations
• Learned about solution-focused approaches to working with challenge
• Applied this to real challenges you face

Session 4:

• Looked at confidence, and the impact of cognition
• Examined aspects of impostor syndrome
• Applied this to challenging situations

Delivered by;

Jamie McDonald, jmcd@jmcd.co.uk

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff. If you feel you have a disability, health issue, or neurodivergent condition that may affect your ability to access, participate or engage in this course, please get in touch with us at osdu@strath.ac.uk to discuss your specific support requirements.

For online activity:

• The session will take place online (Zoom)
• Auto-captions will be enabled
• There will be audience participation
• You are asked to attend the whole session
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery as standard / upon request.
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Topic: Strathclyde - Bounce! All sessions

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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.