Are you struggling to concentrate and lacking in motivation? Is your writing constantly interrupted by your inbox, social media and trips to the kitchen? Write Here, Write Now (our session based loosely on the Pomodoro Technique) is back with a modified format, online, to help you focus on your writing.

Join us on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30am to kick-start your working from home!

Networking for Researchers (online and F2F):

Networking – love it? Hate it? We have to do it, otherwise how do we meet people who are interested in our research. And now we have to network online. The session will start with some basic guidance on how to make networking work for you in Face to Face situations; then it will look at how you can apply that knowledge to the online networking experience. Join us on 26 November for networking session online.

Keep in touch with your postgraduate community!

Every Tuesday afternoon 3pm-3:45pm, the Postgraduate Community Engagement Team and one of our Postgrad Mentors will be online via Microsoft Teams to answer questions, discuss any issue, or just to provide a friendly face to chat to.

Resilience for Researchers

Research is challenging, not just in itself but in its impact on our wellbeing as researchers. There are techniques that we can apply to help us recognise our stress and to maintain our wellbeing.

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and is a very important part of maintaining wellbeing and continuing to be productive. 

Some people are equipped with a natural sense of how to maintain resilience but for others those same skills can be learned. This experiential workshop will give you the opportunity to learn about stress and its effects as well as a range of techniques for maintaining your personal resilience, including where to find help when it is needed. 

By the end of the workshop, you should be able to:

· Apply Stoic exercise to build resilience

· Understand the importance of taking a  break to get different angle on the problem

· Understand how to reframe your problems

· Develop learning goals as a help towards resilience

· Understand the importance of self-reflection for development of resilience

Also take a look at the online Wellbeing Thesis  https://thewellbeingthesis.org.uk/

This masterclass provides you with a snapshot of strategies and tips you can use to improve your own wellbeing. You can explore the topic in your own time with our masterclass video. The aim is to give you tools you can use to reflect on your own experiences during, and after you have taken part.

How to take part

• Join us at an online face to face session
• Watch our masterclass video in your own time
• View the slides from the video