The Resilient Researcher

Presenter: Simon Moss

Resilience is an ongoing process of adapting to stress and adversity. It is a process that we can personalise, practice, and develop for ourselves.

For HDR students, nurturing and developing resilience is essential not only to meeting deadlines and overcoming inevitable setbacks, but to supporting health and wellbeing throughout the research journey and beyond. We cannot avoid stress, but we can find better ways to cope with and recover from stress.

This workshop helps us understand stress and its impacts and offers practical knowledge and strategies for cultivating and developing one’s own personal resilience.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand stress, its impacts, and signs of unhealthy stress
• Understand common challenges faced by research students
• Understand the factors, practical skills and strategies that contribute to resilience
• Identify personal goals for building an ongoing practice of resilience
• Know where to go for support at UOW

Accessibility:
67.101 is a wheelchair accessible lecture theatre. A number of blue badge parking spaces are available immediately outside building, and an accessible toilet is situated beside the lecture theatre.