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Managing your Mental Health during your PhD: A Survival Guide 1st ed. 2022 Edition

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This book explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a “survival guide” for current and prospective PhD students. The book investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students, who have found balancing mental wellness with the PhD endeavour challenging.

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.

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.

• ISBN-10 3031141938
• ISBN-13 978-3031141935
• Edition 1st ed. 2022
• Publication date September 15, 2022
• Language English
• Dimensions 6.1 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
• Print length 220 pages
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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, prioritizing workload, and self-care strategies to help others throughout their own journey.

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Zoë 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, Zoë 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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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2022 edition (September 15, 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031141938
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3031141935
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.1 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.5 x 9.25 inches
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A Survival Guide

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• Explores environmental factors that impact mental health
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This book explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a “survival guide” for current and prospective PhD students. The book investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students, who have found balancing mental wellness with the PhD endeavour challenging.

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.

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.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front matter, defining the problem, introduction.

Zoë J. Ayres

Challenging Perceptions: What Is Mental Health Anyway?

Setting the scene: understanding the phd mental health crisis, mindset matters, self-care: without you there is no phd, not another yoga session: university wellbeing programs and why they so often miss the mark, “i’ll read it later” and other lies we tell ourselves: managing expectations and guilt, why you earned it: fighting the impostor, environmental stressors, dismantling the ivory tower: systemic issues that might impact your mental health, perhaps it’s not you it’s them: phd student-supervisor relationships, publish or perish: on the myth of meritocracy, the high-walled rose garden: understanding there is life outside the academy, seeking help, thriving, not just surviving, back matter, authors and affiliations, about the author.

Zoë 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, Zoë 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.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title : Managing your Mental Health during your PhD

Book Subtitle : A Survival Guide

Authors : Zoë J. Ayres

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14194-2

Publisher : Springer Cham

eBook Packages : Biomedical and Life Sciences , Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

Copyright Information : The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

Softcover ISBN : 978-3-031-14193-5 Published: 15 September 2022

eBook ISBN : 978-3-031-14194-2 Published: 14 September 2022

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XIX, 199

Number of Illustrations : 1 b/w illustrations

Topics : Clinical Psychology , Psychotherapy and Counseling , Biomedicine, general

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