Do you feel that you never have enough time to get to your research, particularly the writing part? And that other things demand all your time? This workshop shows you how to guarantee you spend high quality time on your research outputs. It covers prioritising, goal setting and managing competing demands in a university context. If you want to increase your research output without compromising your work/life balance, then this workshop is for you. Key aspects of this workshop have featured in the journal Nature.

This workshop will show you how to:

• take control of your time
• prioritise
• stop procrastinating and stay motivated
• avoid distractions
• say NO (and understand why it is so hard to do so)
• balance competing demands
• manage email and paperwork
• work the slightly less hard way
• think more realistically about your research productivity

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for academic/research staff and PhD students who wish to manage their time better so they can increase their research productivity.

Venue

Kelburn Campus - MY 220

Presenter

The workshop presenter, Dr Maria Gardiner, of ThinkWell Australia, is a leading coach, psychologist and researcher who has worked with many of Australia's medical and academic leaders over the last 15 years. She specialises in the psychology of high performance and works with leading research groups at universities around Australia and New Zealand.