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Researcher Development : From Guilt to Strategy: Planning your Writing without Punishing yourself

Description

Theme:

Education and Research

Category:

From Guilt to Strategy: Planning your Writing without Punishing yourself

About this course:

This activity is for all Research Staff and may be particularly useful to Early Career Researchers.

This course is delivered online and joining instructions will be circulated beforehand.

This course will explore why standard productivity advice fails academics psychologically, and what a values-aligned approach to writing planning looks like instead.

With this course you can expect Clarity on what matters to you both professionally and personally.

Practical tools to set work boundaries that actually stick in academic environments.

Strategies to protect your wellbeing while still delivering quality work.

Emotional support and understanding.

Confidence to make decisions to support your future personal and professional life.

Who should attend this course:

This course is recommended for Research Staff.

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

Presenter(s):

This session is delivered by Dr Wendy Nicholls, Coaching for Academics.

Wendy is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist who spent 23 years in UK higher education, progressing from PhD student to Reader and Associate Director of Online Learning, supervising over 20 doctoral students along the way.

She now coaches academics and researchers who are at a cross roads in their career.

As an applied psychologist and researcher, she works at the intersection of psychological research and practical strategy, and speaks from the inside of an experience she knows well.

What previous participants have said about the course:

She helped me to reach a place where I was more confident in my career as an academic and my own abilities, knowledge and skills and what I have to offer.

After Wendy's coaching, I feel like I am in the career where I belong.

Not only that, Wendy helped me to reach for more and get there! She helped me to reach a place where I was more confident in my career as an academic and my own abilities, knowledge and skills and what I have to offer.

After Wendy's coaching, I feel like I am in the career where I belong.

Not only that, Wendy helped me to reach for more and get there! I cannot thank Wendy enough for the help and support she has given me during my career.

She is incredibly well-organised and systematic in her approach to tackle challenges.

She pushes people to fulfil their potential by recognising their strengths and nurturing a positive attitude.

Before the course:

No preparation is required for this course.

A joining link will be provided prior to the course.

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.

Details
DateLocationStartFinishCostTrainer(s)Places
Available
01/07/2026 Delivered Virtually 11:00 12:30 Wendy Nicholls 46
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