Mental Health in PhD students: The role of graduate schools, the integration of international students and impostor syndrome
2022: Second Conference on Mental Health in PhD students
Vulnerable groups in academia: How are mentally healthy working conditions and scientific excellence compatible
Thursday 28 October from 10.00 till 16.00 (online)
This year, we focus on vulnerable groups in academia and discuss how mentally healthy working conditions and scientific excellence are compatible. The conference will take place online on 28 October. The event will be held in English and the participation is free of charge. Afterwards, we would be happy to have an in-person gathering in Berlin to connect and discuss with other ECRs. The exact location of the gathering will depend on the number of registrations and announced in a separate email. The conference will incorporate a creative keynote lecture, different workshops, and a panel discussion to set the stage for health-related changes in the academic system. The conference was initiated by Scholar Minds, the Berlin Cluster of Excellence Science of Intelligence and the Techniker Krankenkasse. The whole event is a collaborative project of mental health initiatives and guest speakers from across Germany. We are very happy to include many different voices of academia in our keynote lecture: We will present short interviews with representatives from different vulnerable and underrepresented groups in science. Further, we offer workshops on a selection of re-current topics for early career researchers such as power abuse in academia (Dragonfly), academic mindsets on trial (Scholar Minds), a roadmap of helping offers in Germany (Techniker Krankenkasse), and stress management (Innerminder). Last but not least, there will be a panel discussion on the topic “(How) are mentally healthy working conditions and scientific excellence compatible?” opening the stage for different representatives from the academic and the health care system such as Ulf Tölch (Berlin Institute of Health, Charité Berlin), Elisa Filevich (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), David Surges (Techniker Krankenkasse), and Mareike Bayer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
You can find the program information here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lceUqHb8bpxfU9qAWvWnCfkcLfvrCiFl/view -- program changes are always possible -- as well as register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDugNqGUL8hS_LgaC17SL1V1KqvLzuAFyl_8iFhBwLx1pCrA/viewform.
Scholar Minds
Mental health initiative for PhDs in Berlin
Homepage: www.scholar-minds.net
E-mail: scholar-minds@charite.de
Twitter: @BerlinMinds
2021: First Conference on Mental Health in PhD students
The role of graduate schools, the integration of international students and impostor syndrome
Thursday 19 October 2021 from 10.00 till 18.00
The event will be held in English and is free of charge. The event will incorporate keynotes, workshops, and hackathons to work on improving the current situations for early career researchers. The conference was initiated by Scholar Minds & the Berlin Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence” (SCIoI) and is a collaborative project of several mental health initiatives across Germany.
Keynote: We are pleased to present a keynote lecture by Gordon Feld who will give an overview of how Germany needs to address the structural challenges of the academic system to best promote early career researchers.
Workshops: Further, we offer workshops on a selection of recurrent topics for early career researchers such as impostor syndrome (Mental Health Collective), stress management (Innerminder) or how to coordinate your projects (Scholar Minds).
Another highlight of the conference will be several hackathons tackling current challenges of the academic world such as how to improve the situation for international early career researchers in Germany (MATH+), bridging mental health and academic (N2 Network) or how the perfect graduate school (Dragonfly Mental Health) could look like.
Panel discussion: Last but not least, there will be a panel discussion on the topic "Towards sunnier days: How to overcome the mental health crisis in academia?" opening the stage for different players of the academic system such as Jule Specht (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Martin Grund (Max Planck Institute Leipzig), Ralf Kurvers (Science of Intelligence), and Aite Kashef (Lise-Meitner-Gesellschaft).
Program: You can find the preliminary program for the conference here (pdf). Feel free to share this invitation with others.
Registration: Please use this link to register: bit.ly/mh-event2021
Scholar Minds
Mental health initiative for PhDs in Berlin
Homepage: www.scholar-minds.net
E-mail: scholar-minds@charite.de
Twitter: @BerlinMinds
We are "Scholar Minds", a group of PhD students at Charite and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Through sharing resources, surveying the status quo, and organizing mental health events, we hope to promote awareness, destigmatize mental health struggles, and empower PhD students.
For more information, check out our website: www.ecn-berlin.de/mental-health/scholar-minds-184.html
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