Focuses on personal and skills development. Browse our Personal Effectiveness workshops Focus | Plan | Do It! This workshop looks at time management and approaches to organisation and will help to identify strategies to manage a busy and complex workload. Seven Secrets of a Highly Successful Research Student This workshop explores evidence-based key habits that will make a difference to how quickly and easily you complete your PhD. Topics include dealing with your supervisor, time management, writer’s block, getting the help you need and motivating yourself. Staying Well and Being Productive during your PhD A PhD is both exciting and challenging, filled with highs and lows like isolation and setbacks. This workshop offers evidence-based strategies to maintain wellbeing, covering topics like workload management, resilience, and procrastination. The Imposter Syndrome: Why successful people often feel like frauds This workshop explains why high performing people often doubt their abilities and find it hard to enjoy their successes. It shows the links to perfectionism and self-handicapping strategies such as procrastination, avoidance and over commitment. Speed Reading This workshop provides you with the tools to help you read academic literature more quickly, strategically and critically. Think Strategically Respond Rapidly This workshop focuses on responding quickly to opportunities as they arise, such as last-minute conference invitations, grant announcements and journal calls. Managing yourself, your goals and your PhD This workshop introduces different time management and goal setting models to improve your working life. The Inner Game - Exploring Stress, Balance, Resilience and Self-Belief This workshop explores stress-coping mechanisms, confidence building, personal resilience, and the importance of a healthy work-life balance. Creative Problem Solving for Researchers This workshop will explore a range of methods for problem solving and discuss how to apply creative techniques to real problems researchers experience. It's About Time...Managing Time Personal Efficiency and Effectiveness This interactive workshop provides strategies, tools, and techniques for effective personal time management and dealing with procrastination, helping you prioritise and focus efficiently. Survive and Thrive as a Part Time PhD Researcher This session offers a supportive, coaching approach to help part-time doctoral candidates, looking at strategies for managing time, colleagues, and expectations. Research Question Design through Visual Thinking This workshop enhances research question design by integrating visual thinking, urban design, academic research and critical enquiry. Effective Remote Working Remote research, whether for a distance PhD or fieldwork, requires rethinking how to maximize effectiveness and efficiency. This session will explore routines and strategies to help you thrive as a remote researcher. Team Building and Leadership Fundamentals This workshop focuses on understanding team dynamics, leadership, and conflict resolution in collaborative research. You'll learn to identify your strengths, components of successful teams, and strategies for effective management. An Introduction to Postgraduate Leadership An introductory leadership workshop for late-stage PhD students interested in exploring leadership and developing their expertise as they consider future leadership positions. This workshop aims to introduce postgraduate researchers to leadership concepts and their applicability to the research context. This article was published on Thursday 30 July 2026