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.
You can also seek support at any time through these options:
The Mind Matters: Cultivating Wellbeing as a HDR Candidate series of workshops have finished for 2024. We look forward to bringing you the next series in 2025.
📚 What to Expect
The 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 2024 the series will offer four 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.
You may also be interested in the Habits for HDR Success Power Hour which will offer useful tools that you could apply to building wellbeing habits.