• Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide

  • By: Zoe Ayres
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Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide

By: Zoe Ayres
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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.


    The book goes beyond typical mental health discussions (where the focus for improving mental health is placed on PhD students to become “more resilient”) and explores some of the often unspoken environmental factors that can impact mental health. These include the PhD student-supervisor relationship, the pressure to publish, and deep systemic problems in academia, such as racism, bullying and harassment.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.


    Narrated by Gabriella Kountourides


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  • Chapter 12: Thriving, Not Just Surviving

    Chapter 12: Thriving, Not Just Surviving
    Aug 19 2023

    This chapter looks at how to get help for mental illness, based on the author's experience.


    The book was written by Dr Zoë Ayres, edited by Dr Petra Boynton, and narrated by Gabriella Kountourides. Cover art by Hana Ayoob.


    "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" was originally published in print by Springer, and can be purchased here.


    This podcast is entirely free. If you are able to, you can BuyMeACoffee. This helps keep me going helps support future projects.


    For full early access to the podcast (ahead of the 12 week release schedule), you can purchase this through my BuyMeACoffee commission.


    Please find the full reference list for the book here.


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    30 mins
  • Chapter 11: The High-Walled Rose Garden - Understanding there is life outside the academy

    Chapter 11: The High-Walled Rose Garden - Understanding there is life outside the academy
    Aug 12 2023

    This chapter looks at the uncertainty of "what comes next" after PhD study, and the alternatives to academic careers.


    The book was written by Dr Zoë Ayres, edited by Dr Petra Boynton, and narrated by Gabriella Kountourides. Cover art by Hana Ayoob.


    "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" was originally published in print by Springer, and can be purchased here.


    This podcast is entirely free. If you are able to, you can BuyMeACoffee. This helps keep me going helps support future projects.


    For full early access to the podcast (ahead of the 12 week release schedule), you can purchase this through my BuyMeACoffee commission.


    Please find the full reference list for the book here.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    22 mins
  • Chapter 10: Publish or Perish - On the Myth of Meritocracy

    Chapter 10: Publish or Perish - On the Myth of Meritocracy
    Aug 5 2023

    This chapter explores the overwork culture in academia and the pressure to publish.


    The book was written by Dr Zoë Ayres, edited by Dr Petra Boynton, and narrated by Gabriella Kountourides. Cover art by Hana Ayoob.


    "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" was originally published in print by Springer, and can be purchased here.


    This podcast is entirely free. If you are able to, you can BuyMeACoffee. This helps keep me going helps support future projects.


    For full early access to the podcast (ahead of the 12 week release schedule), you can purchase this through my BuyMeACoffee commission.


    Please find the full reference list for the book here.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    30 mins

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Really helpful book.

Really useful, wish I had this at the start of my PhD! Sure it will be very helpful to future generations

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