PhD supervision workshop: Supporting PhDs in reducing stress and strengthening their resilience

In recent years we can see that PhDs are being encountered with an additional set of challenges (e.g. high teaching load, publication pressure, consequences of the COVID pandemic, social media pressure). The consequence is that many experience more stress and a reduced resilience to cope with challenges at the workplace and beyond.

The question is how you as supervisor can support your PhD candidates in reducing stress levels and enhance their resilience. This half-day workshop focusses on the manner in which supervisors can do this.

We start off with identifying the various challenges that PhDs encounter and which factors prolong their PhD-trajectory, to accordingly identify what the responses can be to enhanced challenges. We then focus on how supervisors can identify whether their PhDs are experiencing stress and finally we address the manner in which supervisors can support their PhDs in reducing the stress and enhancing their resilience to cope with the challenges.

General Information

Target Group:	Staff
Group size:	25 max.
Course duration:	1 afternoon
Language:	English
Name lecturer:
Venue:	ORION: B4015

Programme

The workshop is from 13:30 to 17:00 containing the following elements:

1: Why low resilience and high stress?

2: Response to a crisis of the candidate

3: How do you identify that the PhD is stressed?

4:How can a supervisor help? / prevent stress and increase resilience

5: What are the support structures in Wageningen that offer support 

6: Synthesis of the session

Fee: 

The workshop is free of charge but when no show a fee of € 100,- will be charged.

Information

For more information please contact:

• Claudius van de Vijver (Claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl) or
• Fennie van Straalen (Fennie.vanstraalen@wur.nl)