Workshop for PhD students "Finish on time"
Welcome to the PhD workshop "Finish on time". The goal of the workshop is to give you as a doctoral student strategies and a toolbox for increased academic productivity, a more sustainable way of working, support in finishing your academic work on time while feeling good along the way.
Practical information
The workshop is organized by the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media and the Faculty of Human Sciences. The workshop is led by two workshop leaders from "Finish on time".
The day consists of theory on productivity and stress management and practical applications, as well as the exchange of best practices between the participants.
WHEN: Full-day workshop between 9:00–16:00 at campus Sundsvall, room M210, on 2 October 2024
- Free lunch and coffee included
- Presentations and group discussions will be held in Swedish
- Travel and accommodation for those who travel to Campus Sundsvall are booked on your own througt Mid Sweden Universities travel agency
- Maximum 40 participants. Application deadline 25 September. First come, first served!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact john.hakansson@miun.se
Some voices from the last workshop that was arranged in February 2024 at Campus Östersund:
"I think that all doctoral students can benefit from this workshop, either you will be inspired on how to better plan and carry out your work or it confirms that you are doing the right things in the right way, And that can also be nice." PhD student at HUV.
"The workshop somehow gave me a calm and good tips on how to think and that everything starts with small steps. The most valuable thing was to meet other doctoral students, discuss, talk openly about the stress and demands that are expected." PhD student at NMT.
About the workshop
At the "Finish on Time" workshop, our goal is to help you as a doctoral student, researcher and supervisor as well as TA staff to complete your work on time and feel good along the way, by providing workshops and courses on academic productivity and stress management. For 15 years, we have offered workshops at almost all of Sweden's universities and colleges. Over 10,000 doctoral students, supervisors, professors and researchers have participated in our workshops. The tools are based on knowledge from the University of California, Berkeley, management consulting and stress research: www.finishontime.org
In academia, we focus on the "what", on the content of our work, but we sometimes forget to pay attention to our own work process or how we work, think and act. However, these processes are important for completing research projects and managing stress levels. Additionally, as individuals, we often have a primary strategy or a certain way of thinking and acting to deal with a variety of situations. Often, that main strategy works well, but when we encounter new situations, we may need a greater variety of options. This workshop is designed to provide you with new strategies applicable to academic work.
More specifically, you will learn productivity tools such as the 80/20 principle, focus on the final product and work in units, and apply them to your own work situation. These tools serve to reinforce each other, are easy to implement and provide powerful effect. You will also learn about what causes stress in academia and different coping techniques, and concrete methods for addressing common academic writing obstacles such as perfectionism and procrastination.
About the workshop leaders
Åsa Burman is the founder and CEO of Finish on Time. She is an Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and author of the Doctoral Student Handbook: Master Effectiveness, Reduce Stress and Finish on time. She has recently published a new philosophy book Nonideal Social Ontology (Oxford University Press 2023).
Jenny Rickardsson received her doctorate from Karolinska Institutet and is a licensed psychologist. She works at Karolinska University Hospital and her research area is digital treatment with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Jenny has previously worked as a journalist and is still driven by the desire to convey exciting and important psychological knowledge in an understandable and useful way. She is the author of the book I think I must talk to someone: A guide to therapy (Natur&Kultur 2014).