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Advisor's Guide: Wellness & wellbeing

This guide is designed to assist research advisors find information about their role and the scholarship of supervision

This page provides useful resources to help identify,understand and assist with wellbeing and wellness issues for research students.

Graduate Research School Resources

Mental Health Program for HDR Candidates

University Resources

Communities

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Articles

Contribution of the doctoral education environment to PhD candidates’ mental health problems: a scoping review
Doctoral students’ access to non-academic support for mental health
Examining burnout in employed university students
Making social scientists, or not?: Glimpses of the unmentionable in doctoral education
Normalizing struggle: dimensions of faculty support for doctoral students and implications for persistence and well-being
The role of gratitude in enhancing the relationship between doctoral research students and their supervisors
A survey and a positive psychology intervention on French PhD student well-being
Wi-Fi the ivory tower: reducing isolation of the law PhD student through social media networks
Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students

Books

The 7 secrets of highly successful PhD students
Defeating self-sabotage : getting your PhD finished
The imposter syndrome : why successful people often feel like frauds.
Raising mental health awareness in higher education : emerging research and opportunities

Reports

Videos

Websites and Blogs

Podcasts

Prioritising care and compassion in learning and teaching during the COVID-19 crisis
The first 30 mins of this podcast by Sally Kift focuses on the first year experience

What's happening in your discipline

Discipline specific considerations

Last Updated: Jul 14, 2020 10:24 AM
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