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Mental Health and Wellbeing Support and Resources for Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs): Bibliography and Further Resources/Reading

Bibliography and Further Reading

Brown and Leigh (2018) Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics? Disability and Society, 33(6), pp., 985-989.

De Picker (2020) Rethinking inclusion and disability activism at academic conferences: strategies proposed by a PhD student with a physical disability. Disability and Society, 35(1), pp. 163-167.

Hannam-Swain (2018) The additional labour of a disabled PhD student, 33(1), pp. 138-141

Talking about your Mental Health at Work (https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-talk-to-work-about-mental-health-challenges-5112602)

Lau (2019) You are not your PhD: Managing stress during doctoral candidature. Wellbeing in doctoral education. Springer Link, pp. 47-58.

Levecque, et al. (2017) Work organisation and mental health problems in PhD students. Research Policy, 46(4), pp. 868-879.

Metcalfe, Wilson, and Levecque (2018) Exploring wellbeing and mental health and associated support services for postgraduate researchers (https://re.ukri.org/documents/2018/mental-health-report/)

Milicev, Biello and Gardani (2020) Evaluating mental health and wellbeing of postgraduate researchers: Prevalence and contributing factors. 

Morris (2021) "Peering through the window looking in": Postgraduate experiences of non-belonging and belonging in relation to mental health and wellbeing. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 12(1), pp. 131-144.

Panayidou and Priest (2021) Enhancing postgraduate researcher wellbeing through support groups. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 12(1), pp. 42-57.

Rakestraw (2017) How to stop feeling like a phone in your library: Recognising the causes of the Imposter Syndrome, and how to put a stop to the cycle. Law Library Journal, pp. 465-476.

Sherman (2013) Imposter syndrome: When you feel like you're faking it. American Nurse Today, 8(5), pp. 57-58.

Williams (2015) The emotional side of carrying out a PhD: A Guide for Psychology Postgraduates: Surviving postgraduate study. British Psychological Society, pp. 31-34.

Wilson and Cutri (2019) Negating isolation and imposter syndrome through writing as product and as process: The impact of collegiate writing networks during a doctoral programme. Wellbeing in Doctoral Education, pp. 59-76.

White and Nonnamaker (2008) Belonging and mattering: How science doctoral students experience community, NASPA Journal, 45(3), pp. 350-372.

Websites

5 Ways to Mental Wellbeing - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/five-steps-to-mental-wellbeing/ 

https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-information-and-support/get-help-for-myself/how-to-tell-someone-you-have-an-eating-disorder/

https://choosementalhealth.org/25-grounding-techniques-for-anxiety/

https://www.hearing-voices.org/

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/

https://www.studentminds.org.uk/supportforme.html

The Wellbeing Thesis - An online resource for postgraduate research students to support your wellbeing, learning and research - https://thewellbeingthesis.org.uk/ 

Jonathan's Voice - https://charliewaller.org/resources/protecting-your-mental-health-a-practical-guide-for-postgraduate-research-students-in-stem

Books, Podcasts, and Other Resources

Mental Health Books:

  • "We've been too patient": Voices from Radical Mental Health (L. D. Green and Kelechi Ubozoh)
  • This Too Shall Pass: Stories of Change, Crisis, and Hopeful Beginnings (Julia Samuel)
  • Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting (Terri Williams)
  • Maybe You Should Talk To Someone (Lori Gottlieb)
  • Your Happiness Toolkit: 16 Strategies for Overcoming Depression, and Building a Joyful, Fulfilling Life (Carrie Maxwell Wrigley)
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Made Simple (Seth J. Gilliham)
  • Be Calm: Proven Techniques to Stop Anxiety Now (Jill Weber)
  • Own Your Anxiety: 99 Simple Ways to Channel Your Secret Edge (Julian Brass)
  • Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide (Christopher Catarine)
  • Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure (Patricia Matthew)
  • Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutierrez Muhs; Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Angela P. Harris)
  • The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career (Katie Rose Guest Pryal)
  • Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education (Katie Rose Guest Pyral)

 

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