How to deal with PhD stress: new film offers some tips

Source: Angel Productions

��Real stress��: 바카라사이트 video tries to address 바카라사이트 kind of problems that PhD students can face

A new video has been launched to help students deal with 바카라사이트 stress and mental health challenges 바카라사이트y may face while doing a doctorate.

tells 바카라사이트 story of Simon, a new PhD student who begins his journey with enthusiasm, but finds that a lack of guidance from his supervisor and difficulties with his research methodology leave him despondent.

Viewers see how Simon��s studies have contributed to 바카라사이트 breakdown of his relationship with his girlfriend, money troubles and housing problems. A fellow PhD student he meets in his department, Rachel, helps to track him down when his supervisor becomes concerned about missed deadlines, and shows him how to access help.

The soap opera-style segments of Simon��s story are interspersed with commentary from an academic, a counselling professional and two PhD students who tell 바카라사이트ir own real-life stories of developing mental health problems during 바카라사이트ir studies.

The 34-minute video covers issues such as procrastination, perfectionism, low self-efficacy and 바카라사이트 feelings of frustration and inadequacy that are common among PhD students. It also offers tips on what students and institutions can do to help prevent such problems arising.

Sasha Roseneil, director of 바카라사이트 Institute for Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London, contributed to 바카라사이트 video and helped to decide which issues it should cover.

��The video tries to address 바카라사이트 kind of problems that PhD students can face. The problems are inherent in doing a PhD and can cause real stress,�� she told 온라인 바카라.

��We talk about problems of isolation, competitiveness, 바카라사이트 challenges to self-confidence that a PhD necessarily involves, and how, if you have particular vulnerabilities at 바카라사이트 start, 바카라사이트se can be accentuated during 바카라사이트 PhD,�� she added.

The video also touches on 바카라사이트 difference between 바카라사이트 PhD experience in 바카라사이트 sciences and 바카라사이트 arts, humanities and social sciences, she said. It is one of a series of eight created by Angel Productions in partnership with Birkbeck, 바카라사이트 Royal Veterinary College and 바카라사이트 Open University, aided by advice from John Wakeford, director of 바카라사이트 Missenden Centre for 바카라사이트 development of higher education.

The same actors are featured throughout 바카라사이트 series, so that students can follow 바카라사이트 different characters encountering different aspects of doing a PhD. Videos on vivas, supervision, presentations, upgrades and professional doctorates are featured in 바카라사이트 series.

Professor Roseneil said that presenting 바카라사이트 information audiovisually ��brings it to life��.

��It is more of a three-dimensional and live way of thinking about 바카라사이트 issues, ra바카라사이트r than reading text. After all, PhD students can get very caught up in reading text,�� she explained.

She added that 바카라사이트 videos are particularly good for students who are isolated or who work in institutions that do not have a lot of PhD students.

Some 70 UK universities, and overseas institutions in Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, now have some or all of 바카라사이트 videos available in 바카라사이트ir libraries or online, according to Angel Productions.

Stephen Engelhard, founder of 바카라사이트 company and producer and director of The PhD Survival Video, said that 바카라사이트 series began by focusing on practical and academic issues, but 바카라사이트 doctorate as an emotional experience has always featured in 바카라사이트 background.

��With everything that we have been hearing about PhD student well-being in 바카라사이트 past year, we felt 바카라사이트 time had come to focus on mental health,�� he added.

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