Managing your Mental Health during your PhD
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-14193-5 (ISBN)
The author discusses tips and tricks she wished she had known at the start of her PhD process for managing mental health, such as managing imposter feelings, prioritising workload, and self-care strategies to help others throughout their own journey.
The book goes beyond typical mental health discussions (where the focus for improving mental health is placed on PhD students to become "more resilient") and explores some of the often unspoken environmental factors that can impact mental health. These include the PhD student-supervisor relationship, the pressure to publish, and deep systemic problems in academia, such as racism, bullying and harassment.
Finally, the book is a call to action, providing tangible improvements from the author's perspective that university institutions can make to ensure that academia is a place for all to thrive.
Zoe Ayres (PhD) is an analytical scientist by background, with a PhD in electrochemical sensor development. After spending several years as a postdoctoral researcher in academia post-PhD, she now works in industry as a Senior Scientist. Additionally, Zoe is a mental health advocate, spurred on by experiencing mental illness herself during her PhD. Her advocacy work focuses on improving mental health in research settings, primarily focusing on PhD mental health. She raises awareness of the common issues PhD students face through various campaigns and initiatives, and can be found under the handle @zjayres on Twitter.
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Part I: Defining The Problem
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Challenging Perceptions - What is mental health anyway?
Chapter 3: Setting the Scene - Understanding the PhD Mental Health Crisis
Part II: Mindset Matters
Chapter 4: Self-Care: Without you there is no PhD
Chapter 5: Not another yoga session - University Wellbeing programs and why they so often miss the mark
Chapter 6: "I'll read it later" and other lies we tell ourselves - Managing Expectations and Guilt
Chapter 7: Why you earned it - Fighting the Impostor.- Part III: Environmental Stressors
Part III: Environmental Stressors
Chapter 8: Dismantling the Ivory Tower - Systemic Issues that Might Impact your Mental Health
Chapter 9: Perhaps it's not you it's them: PhD Student-Supervisor relationships
Chapter 10: Publish or Perish - On the Myth of Meritocracy
Chapter 11: The High-Walled Rose Garden: Understanding there is life outside the academy
Part IV: Seeking Help
Chapter 12: Thriving, not just surviving
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XIX, 199 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 343 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| Schlagworte | #AcademicMentalHealth • Mental Health • PhD • postgraduate • Research • Survival • well-being • workplace stress |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-14193-8 / 3031141938 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-14193-5 / 9783031141935 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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