Aligned to the following RDF domains: B1, B2, D1

Particularly recommended for: Early-stage researchers, Mid-stage researchers, Late-stage researchers

About the workshop

How can we manage, maintain, and increase our productivity during our doctoral studies? And how can we build our capability to manage our productivity more effectively now, and in our future careers?

This workshop is designed for doctoral students in all years of study and aims to offer some new and different ways of thinking about how we manage ourselves to become more productive, or, put another way, to enable us to be the best version of ourselves. If you have times when you find yourself challenged because you are occupying a negative head space or, lacking the ‘get up and go’ to meet a deadline or, holding anxiety around an aspect of your research, or, just generally feeling rather ‘stuck’ in your thinking, building your own ‘muscle or capability’ to notice and manage your emotional state more in the moment can be hugely powerful.

Inevitably, our productivity rates fluctuate all the time and sometimes we may experience this quite dramatically, not just on a single day of the week but many times in one day. There are many affecting factors including how we are feeling, what else is going on in our lives, as well as for those around us, for example, our research or project group, current team, or wider department, and how engaged we feel on any single day with our area of research.

In this workshop, we invite you to explore how we can raise our consciousness to better understand and notice our emotional state, and how we can manage this more effectively in different contexts. We will introduce you to two quite simple but highly effective tools that enable us to be more noticing of our emotions in the moment.

We will invite you to explore how through this raised consciousness, we can:

manage how we show up in our work, and lives more broadly
deepen our understanding of when and how we perform as our best selves
develop strategies for moving from a negative state to a positive one
deepen our awareness of how our behaviours and emotions impact on others
become more curious about what is going on for others to build greater insights and connection in our relationships.

Preparation required

None

Facilitator(s)

Sarah Williment, Farleigh Performance.

Accessibility

Please contact us at doctoraldevelopment@bath.ac.uk if you have any special requirements.

Increasing our Productivity