Stress Reduction Techniques/Creative Thinking in Research

This session will cover ‘Stress Reduction Techniques in Research’ in the morning & ‘Creative Thinking in Research’ in the afternoon

This course for PhD students is designed to help with developing techniques for self-care around the research process and within the research process while self-isolating or under lockdown.

It focuses on developing resilience in research and includes the following:

• Mindfulness approaches to time-management
• Stress reducing approaches to the research process such as note-taking at early stage research and in other contexts
• Reducing anxiety that causes academic writer’s block
• Using the body as a way to reduce stress and facilitate enhanced creative thinking in research
• Gamification techniques to reduce stress in research using hand/eye coordination
• Approaches to enhancing sleep which is important for concentration and emotional balance
• Group sharing about stress
• Emotional self-care in the context of managing research responsibilities
• Mindfulness approaches to planning
• Mindfulness approaches to academic writing
• Research engagement-peer support in research practice-sharing

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course students will have an enhanced confidence in:

• Reducing anxiety around the research process
• Time management
• Planning
• Building resilience
• Self-care around and within the research process

Schedule

• Session One- ‘Stress Reduction Techniques in Research’. Duration: 10-1.
• Mindfulness Tea Break: 10.30-10.40
• Lunch-1-2
• Session Two- ‘Creative Thinking in Research’. Duration: 2-5 (online pop-up research exhibition at the end).
• Mindfulness Tea Break: 3.30-3.40