All CAM-DTP (Doctoral Training Partnership) courses

This is a workshop for PhD students who have reached the point where they need to consider what to do next after their doctorate. Provision from the Careers Service, the Postdoc Academy and the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences will highlight both academic and non-academic career options with Q&A sessions for students to explore ideas. There will be tea and coffee provided at the start, and a lunch at the end for students to have the opportunity to share plans with each other and there will be a session with some alumni who will discuss their internship/fellowship experiences. The aims of this session are for PhD students to: · Have a better understanding of how they can use their doctorate · Be aware what are the different pathways open to them both in academia and outside

Many of us are now spending more time online than ever before — both for our work, as well as our personal and social lives. In these strange and sometimes perplexing times, it can all feel like too much. In this session, we will cover helpful strategies and best practices that can help you in your life online and offline.

Topics to be covered include:

Managing digital productivity

Tools and strategies to help build a useful daily online routine

Thinking about how we spend our time online: the good, the bad, and the unexpected

Tips for using online news and social media that help us find a healthy balance

Venue: Tower Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane

This workshop takes a broader approach to doctoral fieldwork focusing on emotional support for the planning of fieldwork, being in the field and transitioning back to academic life. This workshop has been structured around a facilitated forum for doctoral social science students to share their plans and experiences, along with some invited short talks providing guidance and key advice.

This module comprises a series of six workshops based around a range of multimedia that will enable participants to build a professional identity both online and offline. By the end of this module, participants should have an actionable, usable portfolio.

• What is your story? (Simon Hall and Tyler Shores)

This workshop contains tips on constructing a compelling and powerful narrative, along with soundbites that can make important points around your research stand out. This session focuses on using social media, how to write a post that will pull people in and come away with a clear idea of how to sell your research:

• Crafting your online and social media identity • Knowing your potential audiences • What do your audiences *really* need to know? • Beyond Google searches: how to be discoverable online

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Dr Julia Hayes will lead this session focusing on imposter syndrome. She will explore what imposter syndrome is and how it can affect the feelings and performance of people on a day to day basis. The session will give participants the opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which imposter feelings affect them, before Julia describes the ways in which it can be managed. Participants will leave the session with a greater awareness of the situations that increase their imposter feelings and have strategies to manage them.

A teams link will be sent to all those who have signed up a few days before the workshop.

How do you protect time to focus and manage workload? In this 1 hour session delivered by Tiny Pause you will learn to:

• Establish a method that works for you to enhance focus for the most important work (Deep Work)

• Reduce distraction and prioritise more effectively

• Establish daily 'Protective Pause', to relieve stress, reduce self criticism and strengthen resilience - mini mindfulness

• Create the space to recognise your achievements each day - increase self awareness and confidence

This will be a live webinar, delivered by Sam Thorogood from Tiny Pause. Sam combines proven neuroscience & mindfulness based techniques into useful daily habits. The overall aim will be to help attendees convert proven techniques into useful habits, as well as enhance focus, reduce stress and strengthen resilience.

Please use the below link to register.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudOGvrTsuHdT5gwnWCk6I3vaEuW6XzV6V#/registration

As we know, PhDs can sometimes become delayed through unexpected circumstances. Students will be presented with information about sources of help from the University as well as wider suggestions for how to support themselves when their mental wellbeing is challenged.  

The small group sessions (maximum 15 people) provide a supportive space for students to reflect upon their PhD thus far before identifying the personal and contextual barriers that might prevent their timely finish.  As a very practical session, students will use a combination of structured planning tools (solution focused techniques, productivity tool ideas) and within-group support to explore ideas for how they might overcome the barriers they face to finishing on time.

For further details about what these groups offer see our webpage https://ppd4phd.com/small-groups-and-individual-consultations/

As we know, PhDs can sometimes become delayed through unexpected circumstances. Students will be presented with information about sources of help from the University as well as wider suggestions for how to support themselves when their mental wellbeing is challenged.

The small group sessions (maximum 15 people) provide a supportive space for students to reflect upon their PhD thus far before identifying the personal and contextual barriers that might prevent their timely finish. As a very practical session, students will use a combination of structured planning tools (solution focused techniques, productivity tool ideas) and within-group support to explore ideas for how they might overcome the barriers they face to finishing on time.

The session agenda will include:

-Introduction to the ups and downs of PHD process – your process is your process, not a competition, not linear -Self-identification of barriers: What is likely to stop your progress? (In yourself, your current context, wider system) -Problem solving Group ideas for overcoming common barriers: share ideas, explore ideas -Practical strategies to keep you on track: -Using solution focused techniques to support your process -Using scaling to reflect upon where am I now, where do I want to be, good enough and next steps -Productivity tools and seeking help -Coping with unexpected events -Personal plan: small steps, what I will I need to keep me accountable

At the start of a doctorate metaphors appear to abound, with casual and repeated references to ‘journeys’, ‘rollercoasters’, ‘marathons’ and more. This workshop is designed to provide an informal and playful time and space at the start of the doctorate to explore metaphors. We will critically evaluate the metaphors we have already encountered, and that may be established within the institution, and how we want to position ourselves in relation to these metaphors. Plus, we will have time to reflectively and reflexively create metaphors that resonate for us, as individuals, considering how these metaphors might support us through the doctoral ‘journey’.