Frane Vusio

Psychologist by profession, Frane Vusio is currently a third year PhD student at the University of Warwick, Medical school. His work focuses specifically on urgent and emergency mental health service provision for children and young people. Besides this, Frane is interested in relapse, recovery, post-crisis self-management, early intervention, prevention and psychological/psychiatric models, and interventions for mental health crises.

Since 2018, Frane has been involved with RD teaching and its delivery of workshops for post-graduate students. Frane’s decision to become involved with ‘Getting it done’, and post-graduate research development primarily stemmed from understanding the importance of investing in one’s knowledge and skills. These, in return, can help you not just throughout your PhD, but also later in your career to achieve your goals. Investment into your professional development is the best investment that you can make.

Claire French

I am a performance maker and researcher, interested in multilingual, applied and autobiographical performance practices. My interests in PhD development came through PhD research at Warwick which focused on approaches to facilitating actors’ dynamic linguistic resources in performance-making and rehearsal processes. This research informed embodied pedagogies that I have engaged throughout my teaching experience at Warwick, but more critically and rigorously with the PhDs. I love working with PhDs during this rich and challenging period of development. I enjoy the dialogic opportunities for learning that find ways to be both bolstered and destabilised within this vast and diverse thinking community. In 2019/2020 I find myself in post-submission phase, as an IAS Early Career Fellow and teaching across a number of departments.

Tina Janssen

Tina is in the final stages of her PhD in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Her research is on eighteenth-century translated literature. Before she started her PhD journey, she worked as a secondary school teacher, and she uses this experience outside academia in her sessions.

Acknowledging the importance of community and sharing experiences during what can sometimes feel like a lonely process, Tina's sessions revolve around using the knowledge of all attendees in helping each other forward. Based on her own experience, she has a particular interest in themes like recognising your own strengths and skills, and beating procrastination and perfectionism. But if you're just joining for a chat and some moral support, you're also very welcome. If there's one thing she would like you to take away from her sessions, it's this: You don't have to do it alone!