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Researcher Wellbeing week: Resources from the sessions

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Researcher Wellbeing Week was a success with many researchers benefiting from the range of workshops and talks that took place. Not everyone was able to attend though, so we've collected resources from each of the sessions here, for you to access at any time.

The Balanced Researcher / The Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students – Hugh Kearns (Flinders, Aus): In The first of these workshops, Hugh described the most worthwhile strategies that researchers use to balance the many demands on their time. Includes being effective with your time, coping with email overload, and dealing with distractions and interruptions. In the second workshop Hugh discussed how to increase your effectiveness and outcomes in a number of key areas including, dealing with your supervisor, your attitude to your research and dealing with writer’s block.

Developing Academic Confidence - Charlotte Morris (Brighton): Charlotte identified the key challenges of researcher well-being and introduced strategies that can help with issues such as identity and status, isolation and lack of confidence and self-esteem.

Managing Professional Relationships – Catherine Reynolds and Jane Riley (Sussex): Catherine and Jane facilitated an introductory workshop for researchers who would like to communicate more clearly, listen more effectively, and be more confident in building and maintaining their professional and academic relationships.

Getting the Better of Technology – Cate Miller and Martin Eve (Sussex) / Step-by-step Wordpress for Academics - Martin Eve (Sussex): Cate introduced two useful (free) tools for academics: Zotero (bibliographic reference manager) and Evernote (for organising your research). Martin discussed managing your email and to do list with Producteev, and how to backup and archive your research files with Crashplan, and in a separate session introduced Wordpress as a tool for academics to communicate their research to the public and other researchers.

Inbox zero and Tech-Task Lists: getting things done on Prezi

Protecting Your Assets on Prezi

Step-By-Step Wordpress for Academics on Prezi