This is one part of a series of four events, ‘From Surviving To Thriving’, that runs 31st Jan – 21st February 2022.

The series aims to help researchers do their research and wellbeing just a little bit better. Participants will gain most benefit from these sessions if they are able to attend all four events, but subject to availability, you will need to register for each event separately***.

Presented by Dr Matt Lane, The Researcher Development Partnership Cambridge

While a joyful curiosity might be the fuel of research, doing it day-to-day can be really tough.

This four-week programme aims to help researchers move just a little bit from a sense of merely ‘surviving’ within the research process to ‘thriving’, being just a little bit more productive and happy.

Eschewing the hyperbole of the self-help industry, this programme provides participants with practical tools and strategies grounded in the literature.

Although every module is predominantly self-contained, each one builds a foundation for the next; so it is advantageous to participate in all four of the 3 hour weekly sessions hosted on Zoom, with each distilling the ‘essentials’ of the topic.

Week 4: Nurturing Your Happiness - on Monday, 21 February 2022, 09:30 - 12:30 hours (UK Time).

Please complete a short registration form here to register for this session!

Continuing the programme’s move towards ‘Thriving’, this session uses the psychological literature’s definitions of happiness – and its proven practical strategies – to help participants become just a little bit happier.

Reminder: while each workshop is the foundation for the next, they are also sufficiently self-contained. Participants will gain most benefit from these sessions if they are able to attend all three events. Subject to availability, you will need to sign up for each individual session.

Participant feedbacks

...Your course has been so helpful and given me lots of prompts and ideas of how to cope with the final stages of the PhD. I am left feeling a lot more upbeat about the whole thing, where it has previously only invoked a sense of dread. I would recommend this course as essential to every PhD student!

...I really enjoyed all your courses. I found them interesting and they made me look at things in a different way. I also found them helpful as they gave practical advice. It is a pity they have come to an end.

The RDF Ref: This workshop offers opportunities to gain skills outlined in the RDF Domain B, Personal effectiveness, subdomains B1 and B2 and the Domain C, Research management (C2).

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From Surviving to Thriving, Week 4: Nurturing Your Happiness