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Researcher Development : Emotionally Challenging Research - impacts, coping and proactive interventions

Description

Theme:

Education and Research

Category:

Education and Research.

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This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers.

This session will be DELIVERED VIRTUALLY - joining instructions will be provided beforehand.

About this course:

Equip yourself and/or your team with knowledge and tools essential for maintaining emotional wellbeing in research on emotionally challenging topics (eg death, illness, war, crime, extreme poverty).

The online workshop introduces a practical toolkit, inviting you to use the free Researcher Wellbeing Project (RWP) resources and guidance to support researchers, supervisors and institutions in managing the emotional aspects of their work and help your institution progress towards a strategic approach to researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics.

It is structured into three sessions.

The first session will explore the possible impacts of emotionally challenging research.

The second session will discuss coping mechanisms and interventions and introduce you to some tools you might find helpful.

The third session outlines the RWP resources, including giving you a chance to start to write your own wellbeing plan.

The fourth session provides an overview of a risk assessment process for an emotionally challenging research project.

Learning outcomes:

As a result of attending this course, you will:.

- gain a deeper understanding of the potential impacts of emotionally challenging research.

- learn about effective individual team and institutional supports to navigate these challenges.

- start to develop your own Researcher Wellbeing Plan.

- understand how to do a risk assessment for emotionally challenging research.

Who should attend this course:

This activity is for Research active staff and would be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers as well as people who do/supervise emotionally challenging research.

If you have accessibility requirements, please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk in advance to discuss further.

Presenter(s):

Dr Tina Skinner, University of Bath and leader of the Researcher Wellbeing Project.

Tina is an award-winning Associate Professor at the University of Bath (eg Excellence in Doctorial Supervision), and Senior Fellow of the Advanced Higher Education academy (AdvanceHE).

Tina has undertaken/supervised projects on gender based violence, and dis-ability/gender/work and wellbeing.

Bringing these two fields of research together, Tina now directs the Researcher Wellbeing Project ( and GW4RWELL (the Great Western 4 Researcher Wellbeing Evidence and Learning Lab).

Before the course:

No preparation is required for this course.

A joining link will be provided beforehand.

Learning provider:

This course is administered by Researcher Development; please contact researcherdevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details.

If you register for any of our sessions, it is expected that you will attend.

If you are not able to attend please log in to the `iTrent' online system to remove your name from the relevant activity before it is due to take place.

You will be expected you to attend for the whole session and for ease of administration, attendance registers will be taken at the end of each session.

Should you need to leave a session early or you experience ongoing technical issues, please email ResearcherDevelopment@exeter.ac.uk.

This course occurs on the following dates
DateLocationStartFinishCostTrainer(s)Places
Available
04/11/2026 Delivered Virtually 09:30 13:00 Free Tina Skinner 10
24/02/2027 Delivered Virtually 12:30 16:00 Free Tina Skinner 10
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