PhD Students Well Being

Your are not a fraud, you are not alone

Doing a PhD is hard. If not, it would not be PhD. Nevertheless, there are many sort of difficulties and some are not mandatory. If sometimes you feel like you are not up to the task, start reading this article: https://medium.com/@astroloic/research-frustration-and-moving-forward-2812a308fe36

Talk about it, to your friends, colleagues, other PhD students, or the GAD. Just anybody, but talk about it.

Where you can find help, or just talk

• The GAD (http://ipag.osug.fr/twiki/bin/view/Ipag/Intranet/RhDoctorantsCT) is a group of permanent researchers who are volunteering to ensure PhD thesis are going well. If you have any problem, with your environment at IPAG, your team, your supervisor and you feel like you need to talk to someone, you should contact them.
• The PhD support group or Thésards anonymes is a format group parallel to the GAD. It should allow a better communication between students about their problems (which are most of the time common to all!).
• The health center (Centre de santé) on the campus. There you will not only find medical doctors but also psychologists, support group (to learn to deal with stress or bad eating...) and more. http://sante.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/

Documentation

• Evaluation of the PhD well being at IPAG, the 08/01/2015: PhD_student_meeting.pdf (in prevision of the HCERES evaluation)
• sante_doctorants.pdf: Etude statistique du centre de santé sur la santé des doctorants à Grenoble en 2012

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