Supervisor Afternoon Workshop - Strengthening your PhD’s resilience (28 May 2026)

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

More information will follow

 

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: TBA

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