PhD students: how to survive through 2021? Learn to flatten your own mental health curve so that you can make it on the long run
Category: Mental Health
PhD students: know your public holidays, for a good start into 2021
For Happy PhD Students in 2021: write down your public holidays into your calendar now, avoid unnecessary frustrations and keep a healthy work/life balance!
Overcoming Isolation During your PhD & CUSO video series “Doing a PhD… And then what?”
CUSO interview-video series “Doing a PhD… And then what?”: here I am talking about overcoming isolation during the PhD with community and soft skills!
PhD Students Mental Health and Career Prospects
Studies show that career perceptions influence PhD students mental health. The inside vs outside academia debate doesn’t matter. What matters is to inform about both.
What is the mental health crisis in academia?
What is the mental health crisis everyone talks about in academia?
The taboo around this subject is so strong, but awareness is already increasing 🙂
Coaching program for PhD Students in Fribourg (CH)
The Centre Did@cTIC of UniFr offers professional coaching training to its PhD students, with group and individual coaching sessions, in English, for free!
Highlights of a review about the PhD experience (Sverdlik et al., 2018)
highlighting the points which strike me the most in the review about the “factors influencing PhD students’ completion, achievement, and well-being”
Checklist to clarify supervisor and PhD student expectations
Clarifying PhD expectations with this checklist of questions to ask if you’re a PhD student, or points to discuss with your student if you’re a supervisor
How project management can help reducing PhD students’ anxieties
Project management techniques helped me plan my PhD graduation and reduce my anxieties, about clarifying long-term expectations and mental health
Lack of communication about soft skills training programs in academia
it is only by welcoming direct discussions about soft skills within institutes and with all academics’ levels that new PhD students can find the training and mental support they need
How to know which soft skills training is best for my career?
You can’t know for sure what is best, but it’s OK, we’re all in the same mess. It’s like an experiment for yourself, it will help no matter what life brings you
Academics: you already have more soft skills than you think and you can prove it
Create your Skills Portfolio for when it will be time to apply for the next position, and to remember all the shitty stuff which happened to you in academia
Who Can I Talk To?
A story on the lack of communication from my Swiss university about the mental health support services it already has and which a PhD student highly needed
How a doctoral program saved my PhD
Evans et al., 2018 “Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education”
My doctoral program provided me with mental support and work organization skills