9. Feb 2022
[IAMO/IPB GS] Successfully shaping the doctoral phase (February-April 2022 | online)
There are free slots in this workshop series organised by the IAMO Graduate School and Leibniz Research School PlantBioChem at IPB.
A productive and professional supervision relationship makes a decisive contribution to the success of the doctorate. The workshop series aims to empower supervisors and doctoral researchers in establishing a fruitful supervision relationship. Considering the specific needs and tasks of supervisors and doctoral researchers, the workshop series has a two-track approach:
The Track for Doctoral Researchers aims to support doctoral researchers to manage their doctoral project and the challenges of the academic world successfully as well as to contribute their share to a successful supervision relationship. This track explores topics like productivity and provides tools to structure the day in a way that it aids concentration and focus; it provides strategies for managing well-being in research; it helps to identify procrastination loops and drivers of motivation; it discusses how to interpret feedback, to manage expectations, or to navigate different types of supervisors.
Workshop: Rethinking productivity (February 24, 2022)
Thursday, 24.02.2022 | 10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. | Online
Registration: https://events.ipb-halle.de/e/PhD-Productive2022
Format: Zoom-Meeting (Zoom link will be provided ahead of the workshop)
Target group: Doctoral researchers
Organizers: IAMO, IPB
Contents
Learn to see productivity through a well-being lens. Learn how to structure your day in a way that aids your concentration and focus, rather than constantly detracting from it.
- Creating productive routines, rhythms that help one’s productivity
- (Realistic) planning, benefitting from to-do-lists and other tools
- Recognizing drains on productivity, what stalls one’s work or rhythm
- The role of breaks and recreation for productivity
- Productivity in a supervision relationship: Getting to know different (learning, working) styles and needs (of both sides)
- Balancing family/civic/other roles and research
Workshop: Motivation and Procrastination (March 17, 2022)
Thursday, 17.03.2022 | 10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. | Online
Registration: https://events.ipb-halle.de/e/PhD-Motivation2022
Format: Zoom-Meeting (Zoom link will be provided ahead of the workshop)
Target group: Doctoral researchers
Organizers: IAMO, IPB
Contents
Procrastination is a way of easing our own discomfort. Discomfort because the task is too hard, too boring, too big, too scary. The difficulty with procrastinating is that it makes you feel better for a moment, which makes it very reinforcing (and therefore more likely that you will do it again next time), but it does nothing to fix the reason the task feels uncomfortable to begin with. It is still too big, too hard, too scary, or too boring the next time you sit down to do it. So, the cycle repeats. We will discuss:
- What drives one’s motivation
- Identifying cycles of procrastination
- Identifying underlying thought patterns, ways/tools to deal with/reframe them
- Strategies/tools to alleviate the discomfort that causes procrastination
Thursday, 28.04.2022 | 10.30 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. | Online
Registration: https://events.ipb-halle.de/e/PhD-Supervision2022
Format: Zoom-Meeting (Zoom link will be provided ahead of the workshop)
Target group: Doctoral researchers
Organizers: IAMO, IPB
Contents
Learning to navigate the supervisor/supervisee relationship is critical to positive outcomes in our PhD/Postdoc experience. This dance is not necessarily always easy.
- What is and how to create and foster a healthy relationship in doctoral supervision
- Navigating different types of supervisors/supervision and personality styles
- Managing expectations, setting boundaries
- Communication and active listening
- Interpreting feedback rightly (vs. taking it personally)
- Assumptions, thoughts and behavior patterns that aren’t helpful
- When is it time to get help from outside? Or to walk away?
About the trainer
Desiree Dickerson, PhD is a former postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience and a clinical psychologist and is working since 2018 as an Academic Consultant with a focus on Mental Health & Well-being. Her research has been published, e.g., in Translational Psychiatry and Frontiers in Behavorial Neuroscience. Her editorial articles on mental health and other topics have been featured in Nature and Science.
