Workshop för doktorander "Finish on time"

Academic Productivity and Sustainable Work Methods: "Finish On Time" Workshop on the 7th of February 2024

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, those processes are important for finishing research projects and managing stress levels. Furthermore, as individuals, we often have a primary strategy or certain way of thinking and acting to deal with a variety of situations. Often, that main strategy works fine, but when we encounter new situations, we might 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, focusing on the end product, and working in units, and apply them to your own work situation. These tools serve to reinforce each other, are easy to implement, and provide powerful impact. You will also learn about what causes stress in academia and various coping techniques, and tangible methods to address common academic writing obstacles like perfectionism and procrastination.

Practicalities

Full-day workshop between 9.00–16.00 on campus Östersund, room G1353, on the 7th of February 2024. Free lunch and ”fika” included.

This workshop is arranged 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 sharing of best practices among participants.

A maximum of 40 participants. Sign up by the 26th of January at the latest.

If you are interested in the workshop but can't participate in Östersund on 7 February 2024, there may be another chance in Sundsvall autumn semester 2024. E-mail sara.haggstrom@miun.se to get information if / when we start planning for that workshop.

About Finish on Time 

At Finish on Time, our objective is to help PhD students, researchers, and advisors, as well as TA-staff to finish their work on time and feel good along the way. We do this by providing workshops and courses on academic productivity and stress management. For 15 years, the Finish on Time team has offered workshops at nearly all of Sweden’s universities and colleges. Over 10 000 PhD 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

About the workshop leaders

Åsa Burman is the founder and CEO of Finish on Time. She is Reader (Docent) in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, and the 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 did her doctorate at Karolinska Institutet and she is a licensed psychologist. She works at Karolinska University Hospital and her research area is digital treatment with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Previously, Jenny worked as a journalist and she 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 have to talk to someone: A guide to therapy (Natur&Kultur 2014).