| Abstract |
The poster presents the outcomes of the Catalyst Fund project to support PGR mental health and wellbeing at Queen Mary:
- A weekly PhD Support Group over eight weeks, facilitated by a Counsellor and a Researcher Developer. Participants showed significant increase in: confidence in timely completion; work-life balance satisfaction; having someone to talk to about day-to-day problems (PRES questions). Participants' average wellbeing score increased by 5 points (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale).
- Introduction of training sessions on emotional resilience / resourcefulness during the annual PhD Cohort Days, and expansion of the ‘Survive and Thrive’ training programme (329 participants).
- Development of the workshop ‘Supporting mental health and wellbeing in PGRs: a guidance for supervisors’. First offering ran with 33 participants, who gave overwhelmingly positive feedback.
- A wellbeing campaign that included an event raising awareness of mental health issues among PGRs and two weeks of activities across the 5 dimensions of wellness (244+162 registrations).
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