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This workshop takes the approach that less is more. A brief overview of stress will equip you with an understanding of general stress responses, from which you'll identify how stress affects you on an individual level.

Having insight into your current landscape, you'll then work with three specific stress-management/resilience tools, in partnership with other researchers on the programme. You'll broaden your awareness of opportunities in your situation, and decide how to take small practical actions to focus on what is within your control, whilst better managing your reactions to what is not.

Learning outcomes

Engaging with this workshop will enable you to:

• Understand how the physiological stress response affects your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
• Clarify what you can control or influence, and take proactive steps to focus where your agency is strongest
• Explore your personal resilience and bust unhelpful myths in favour of strategies that will work for you
• Discover and deploy your personal strengths as super-powers to ease your experience of stress in the future

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers at all stages and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

Workshop theme

Grow workshops get you thinking about your personal effectiveness and career plans. Visit our Grow workshops page for more sessions.

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By: Alexander Aghajanian
Last updated: Tuesday, 13 January 2026