Wellbeing within the Institute - Annual Report 2022

21 April, 2023

PARTICIPANTS WHO ATTENDED THE ‘DEVELOPING HEALTHY HABITS FOR RESILIENCE AND WELLBEING IN THE WORKPLACE’ MODULE

We continue to implement the recommendations from our 2020 Wellbeing Report by celebrating student and postdoc success via our internal newsletters, collecting information via our exit interviews (online and via Zoom) for graduating and departing students and postdocs, and supporting individual training sessions for personal development run by Associate Investigator Dr Emilia Nowak from Massey University.

As part of the recent Career and Relevant-to- Industry Skills Programme (CRISP), this year we held a hybrid in-person and zoom ‘Developing Healthy Habits for Resilience and Wellbeing in the Workplace’ module, facilitated by Julene Hope of Brightspot Consulting. Attendees were led through a day of evidence-based learning about wellbeing and resilience in the workplace, and supported to apply these immediately through the creation of individual wellbeing plans. As part of the follow up process, participants were asked to consider resilience and wellbeing within their research experience and to provide feedback on how we can further assist in improving wellbeing within the Institute.

Feedback from both this wellbeing module and our exit interviews provided the basis of a 2022 addendum to the original 2020 Wellbeing Report. This addendum summarised progress since the original report and identified new potential initiatives. It was a valuable exercise to reflect on the efforts made by the Institute to improve wellbeing over the last two years and showed that despite the challenges of COVID, researcher and student views and experiences of the Institute had remained positive.