For PhD students
ThinkWell offers a number of services to PhD students, including:
- workshops
- books
- free templates and guides to help you plan and manage your PhD
Workshops
We offer a number of workshops for PhD students, including:
- Defeating self sabotage (masterclass and workshop)
- Turbocharge your writing (masterclass and workshop)
- The seven secrets of highly successful research students
- Preparing for the 3MT: Everything you need to know
- 3MT masterclass
- Staying well during your PhD
- More strategies for staying well
- The balanced researcher
- Time for research
- Presenting your research with confidence
- Presenting online
- Question time: Handling questions at a conference presentation
- Good Feedback: Asking for it; getting it; and responding to it
- Idea mapping / mind mapping
- How to plan your PhD
- Communicating the impact of your research
- Promoting yourself and your research
- Creative tools you can use
- The Imposter Syndrome: Why successful people often feel like frauds
- The PhD challenge
- Mentoring programs
- Customised programs
All workshops are organised through universities. Please check your university's professional development schedule or contact your Graduate Research Office for more information.
Books
We offer a number of books designed to help PhD students and early career researchers. These books include:
- PhD book set: 5 of our most popular titles (available in standard and ebook formats)
- The Imposter Syndrome: Why successful people often feel like frauds (available in standard and ebook formats)
- Planning Your PhD: All the tools and advice you need to finish your PhD in three years (available in standard and ebook formats)
- Time for Research: Time management for PhD students (available in standard and ebook formats)
- Turbocharge Your Writing: How to become a prolific academic writer (available in standard and ebook formats)
- Defeating Self-Sabotage: Getting your research finished (available in standard and ebook formats)
- The Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students (available in standard and ebook formats)
- The PhD Experience: What they didn't tell you at induction (available in ebook format)
- Presenting Your Research With Confidence: The step-by-step guide to powerful presentations (available in ebook format)
- Preparing for the 3MT: Everything you need to know (available in ebook format)
Free templates and guides
Our free downloadable templates will help you plan your PhD. Templates include:
- Planning tools:
- Thesis planner (moveable tasks or no tasks)
- Six month planner (moveable tasks or no tasks)
- Completion planner (moveable tasks or no tasks)
- Today list
- This week
- This six months
- The next thing
- Writing audit
- Meeting agenda
- Meeting notes
- Thesis planner (moveable tasks or no tasks)
- 3MT tools: