Mental health and wellbeing of candidates
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Additional Language, Additional Experience? Insights from the EAL-PGR Lived Experience Project
How do multilingual researchers experience the relationship between their languages and their research journey? If Universities took steps towards understanding this relationship more fully, could we support this group of PGRs more effectively?
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Activity Handbook: Building Healthy Work-Based Practices
This activity workbook, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Vitae, aims to support postgraduate researchers in developing healthy work-based practices.
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Developing a Growth Mindset
This interactive workshop, hosted by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and The Diversity Trust, explores how adopting a growth mindset can support a PGR’s personal development, career goals, and research journey.
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Understanding and Managing Imposter Syndrome
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and The Diversity Trust, exploring what imposter syndrome is and how to overcome it.
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Building Resilience
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and The Diversity Trust, focuses on what resilience means, why it matters, and practical ways to strengthen it.
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Why resilience isn’t a sticking plaster
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diverse Minds, aims to explore the link between mental health, wellbeing, and resilience.
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Signposting and Supporting Peers with Appropriate Boundaries
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diversity Minds, supports PGRs in developing, learning about, and enacting appropriate boundaries while in postgraduate education and beyond.
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Getting Appropriate Cultural Support for your Mental Wellbeing
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diversity Minds, will support PGRs in accessing culturally appropriate support for mental health and wellbeing.
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Tools to Manage Stress and Anxious Feelings
This slide deck — created by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey as one of the 13 Research-England Funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — aims to support PGR’s in identifying stress and anxiety, how to manage these feels, and where to go when you need more support.
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Defining Mental Health and Wellbeing
This interactive workshop, developed by Transitions and Transformations: The Black Researcher’s Journey — one of the 13 Research England-funded projects focused on racial equity and access to postgraduate education — and Diversity Minds, provides and introduction to defining mental health and wellbeing.