Listen "PhD Wellness"
Episode Synopsis
A central theme across these impactful teaching tactics we’ve explored in these time-outs is the value of focusing on relationships in our classrooms. For this episode, I wanted to focus exclusively on the value of a strong mentoring relationship between advisors and graduate students; this is teaching also, sometimes in a classroom, sometimes in a lab, and sometimes over coffee or on a walk around campus. The way we mentor and teach our graduate students has a significant impact on their mental health and well-being.
Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4089
The PhD Experience: A review of the factors influencing doctoral students’ completion, achievement, and well-being
https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4113
The long lonely job of homo academicus
https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/faculty-time-allocation/#:~:text=The%20first%20phase%20of%20the,unrelated%20to%20teaching%20and%20research.
Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4089
The PhD Experience: A review of the factors influencing doctoral students’ completion, achievement, and well-being
https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4113
The long lonely job of homo academicus
https://www.boisestate.edu/bluereview/faculty-time-allocation/#:~:text=The%20first%20phase%20of%20the,unrelated%20to%20teaching%20and%20research.
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