Trialling a basic habit tracker
There are habits that I know from personal experience (or can justify on the basis of evidence-based health practices), that I should have embedded into […]
Psychological Tools
A better (enhanced) way to say 'thank you'
Could you say thank you better? Seems you might be able to. Just a quick post today looking at some research by Park et al […]
There is a Be Well Plan program starting 15th July you can join
The Be Well Plan is a mental health focused program that teaches you to create your own mental health and resilience strategy. It is like […]
How to be supportive
Despite training as a psychologist, I kinda suck at a number of aspects of human-human interaction (to be clear, I am totally fine with human-plant […]
Studyology is coming (but one week later)
A reminder that I will be running Studyology (a 5 x 1 hour program designed to help you tackle procrastination) in August. Full details can […]
Next Studyology for procrastination starts on the 19th August
Studyology is a 5 x 1-hour session program that teaches you psychological techniques for tackling procrastination. It is built on the foundations on Acceptance and […]
A reminder about Studyology and Mindfulness for Academic Success
When you get this update, I will be on a couple of weeks leave. Sorry, is that gloating? Just because I am away though, doesn’t […]
Interruptions, prospective memory and mental fatigue
Simple tips for better study outcomes, drawn from techniques to improve performance in high stakes workplaces. As part of my membership of APS, I get […]
Mindfulness for Academic Success - July/Aug 2021
Just got notice from Maureen that Mindfulness for Academic Success is running again in July This very popular program teaches mindfulness principles in the context […]
When adding wellbeing activities to our life feels like just another chore
At last night’s Be Well Plan session, a dominant theme was the challenge of building wellbeing activities into one’s life when one’s life is already […]
10 pieces of advice for PhD students (which are probably ok for other stude...
I was fortunate the other day to spend 90 minutes with some relatively new PhD students talking about mental health. I must have enjoyed it […]