PhD Supervisor Afternoon Workshop - Strengthening your PhD’s resilience (28 May 2026)
Course schedule
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28 May 2026
Topic: Strengthening your PhD’s resilience
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13:30 | 17:00 | Phenomea, room Plaza, Address: Bornse Weilanden 9, Building 125, 6708 WG Wageningen | Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) | 18 / 25 | Registration ended at 20/05/2026 |
Course description
Strengthening your PhD’s resilience
In recent years we can see that PhDs and EngDs are being encountered with an additional set of challenges (e.g. high work load, publication pressure, 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 or EngD 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 PhD and EngD candidates encounter that cause stress and reduce resilience. Accordingly we identify what the responses can be and how these can be identified by the supervisors. Finally we address the manner in which supervisors can support their PhD’s in reducing the stress and enhancing their resilience to cope with the challenges.
Programme
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Time |
Activity |
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13:30 |
Welcome and introduction |
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13:40 |
Group activity: Why low resilience and high stress? (group discussion and feedback) Personal (2 min.) a sub-group discussion (10 min.), synthesis |
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14:10 |
Experiences of the trainers (Occupational Social Work, the Deans Office and Graduate School) |
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14:40 |
Break |
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15:00 |
How do you identify that the candidate is stressed? / What are the symptoms? (Irene) |
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15:30 |
Response to a crisis of the candidate |
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15:50 |
Group activity: How can a supervisor help? / Keep them in the flow? / Prevent stress and increase resilience Personal (2 min) a sub-group discussion (15 minutes), synthesis |
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16:30 |
What are the support structures in Wageningen that offer support? |
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16:40 |
Synthesis of the session |
Target group: PhD/EngD Supervisors
Group size: 15-25 participants
Language: English
Organizers: Claudius van de Vijver (WU, PE&RC), Janneke van Seters (WU, Dean of Research office)
Guest Speaker: Irene de Jong (WU, Occupational Social Work)
Fee:
The workshop is free of charge but in case of a no show a fee of € 100,- will be charged.
Information
For more information about the course content, please contact: claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl or janneke.vanseters@wur.nl
For more information about registration and cancellation, please contact wgscourses@wur.nl
