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Researcher Development workshops – Grow (Personal Effectiveness)
By: Alexander Aghajanian
Last updated: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
In January and February we have moved into our Grow theme, delivering workshops to get you thinking about your personal effectiveness and career plans.
Engaging with these trainings essential for postgraduate researchers aiming to enhance their personal effectiveness and career planning. These sessions, aligned with the second domain of the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (Personal Effectiveness), and cover topics such as maintaining productivity in academic writing and addressing perfectionism and imposter phenomenon.
Participating in these workshops provides valuable strategies to navigate common challenges in the research journey, thereby fostering both personal and professional growth.
Explore the workshops on this page or visit our scheduled events listings for sessions that are currently open for booking.
The productive researcher: How to keep writing
Date: Friday 31 January 2025
Time: 11am - 1pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: Academic writing can be hard at the best of times. It's especially challenging when there’s so much going on. In this interactive session, you’ll discover how to make writing more manageable, even under difficult circumstances.
Take 5: Digital productivity for postgraduate researchers
Date: Monday 10 - Friday 14 February 2025
Time: Self-directed
Location: Canvas course online
Description: Take five online bitesized courses are short, facilitated, self-study courses. Hosted on Canvas, the courses are designed for those who may be too busy to attend a one or two hour workshop - each day of the course can be completed during a lunch break or spare time.
Careers planning, including reviewing common destination and networking for PGRs
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2025
Time: 1 - 2.30pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: This workshop is for PGRs looking to discover practical steps for Career Planning and how to take action to get started in achieving the future you want.
Handling perfectionism and imposter phenomenon
Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 10am - 1pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: This workshop will introduce you to an array of techniques that help you minimise, address, and (with practice) overcome the unhelpful thinking patterns that underpin perfectionist behaviours and imposter feelings, increasing your capacity to effectively handle these issues as they arise in the future.
Wrangling your workload
Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025
Time: 10am - 1pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: This workshop will help you review your 'rules' of how you work, and adapt them to serve you better. You’ll review what really matters to you, and what that means for prioritising your workload in any given moment.
PGR CVs, Applications and LinkedIn
Date: Friday 28 February 2025
Time: 1 - 2.30pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: This workshop will help you review your 'rules' of how you work, and adapt them to serve you better. You’ll review what really matters to you, and what that means for prioritising your workload in any given moment.
PGR interviewing for success
Date: Tuesday 4 March 2025
Time: 1.00 - 2.30pm (UK)
Location: Online via Zoom
Description: In this workshop we will discuss and answer your questions about what to expect at recruitment interviews, how to give a convincing performance, and help you feel confident about your interviews.