Description
Pre-requisites
None, although researchers may well find it beneficial to also attend
the workshop, ‘Project Managing Your Research Degree’.
Overall aim of course
The aim of the workshop is to help postgraduate researchers to find ways
to improve their time management. You should be able to leave the
workshop with a range of ideas to have a go at implementing so that you
can use your time better to achieve the things you want to achieve, be
it more time for research or more time for leisure!
Outcomes and benefits
A research degree is a demanding challenge with much to achieve in what
can appear at first to be a more than adequate length of time. However,
as the research develops, alongside all the other aspects of life that
take up our time, it is not unusual for time to become pressed
particularly in respect of completing the research degree within the
standard period of study. This workshop encourages you to take a look at
yourself and how you use your time, providing a range of tools and
techniques for you to consider to help you manage your time better.
The session will cover:
• Finding motivation to change the way you manage your time
• Understanding yourself and which time management techniques will
work for you and which ones are unlikely to
• Tools and techniques
• Avoiding procrastination
• Decision making
Format of the session
The session will include group work, discussion and presentations
Tutor:
Tony is responsible for the ‘core’ postgraduate researcher professional
development programme at the University of Leeds. Originally obtaining a
PhD in Materials Science, Tony has been delivering professional
development for postgraduate researchers since 2002. Tony is also
associate editor of the International Journal for Researcher Development
and has published work on the evaluation of researcher development
activity and new pedagogical approaches.
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