Higher degrees by research (HDR) can present unique challenges as well as exciting opportunities and benefits. Research indicates these challenges can include dealing with uncertainty, encountering research obstacles, the competitive research culture, working in isolation, financial pressures, all while also managing the rest of your life.
Proactively maintaining your mental health and wellbeing can enable you to work through these challenges to grow personally and professionally throughout your HDR. The Mind Matters workshops offer an opportunity to connect with HDR candidates across UniSA and to explore wellbeing themes relevant to the research degree experience.
📚 What to Expect
The online workshops in the Mind Matters: Cultivating Wellbeing as a HDR Candidate series are facilitated by the experts at UniSA Counselling Services and tailored to the HDR context. Each workshop will raise awareness of how particular challenges may be impacting you, offers a supportive environment to discuss experiences and provide strategies to improve your mental health and wellbeing.
You may choose to attend one workshop, all of them, or as many as you would like.
In 2025 the series will offer four online workshops:
📅 Commitment
Each workshop is a 1.5 hour commitment. To enable a safe space to be created, workshops are not recorded and participants are asked to maintain confidentiality regarding information shared.
💻 Location:
Online
📝Registrations:
Register for each workshop via the links above.
Other support options:
Not sure if you can make it to a workshop, but would like support? Make an appointment with a UniSA Counsellor, contact the Employee Assistance Program, or access the UniSA Counselling Services online resources.