Fostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context

Fostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context

Lead: Azadeh Moladoost, Applied Linguistics

Co-leads: Nusrat Gulzar, Applied Linguistics and Elyanora Menglieva, Applied Linguistics

Summary

This project aims to enhance the well-being, sense of belonging, and research outcomes of doctoral researchers (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs) at Warwick by addressing challenges related to productivity, well-being, cultural adaptation, and motivation within the international academic community. We seek to co-create a space for PGRs and ECRs from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to engage in meaningful exchanges about their experiences, challenges, success stories, and aspirations in their doctoral and research journeys at Warwick. Through adopting a personalized approach, we plan to carry out activities involving storytelling or narrative sharing using different modalities (e.g., zine making, posters, PechaKucha), brief presentations, workshops, peer-led discussions, and lightning talks, the project explores how PGRs and ECRs navigate their identity, self, well-being and belonging in interculturally diverse contexts.

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