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Less stress - better performance

Content: Stress is a challenge in many areas including research. It is a challenge in many ways. The first challenge is to talk about stress. For some people, stress is taboo. Other people talk too much about it. Different people understand the word stress differently. In this lecture, you will get a scientific approach to stress, that is quite well defined. You should accept the complexity of stress, and not try to simplify it into something biological and individual.

It is not sufficient to know what stress is. You will also get easily usable tools to help your PhD students not to get chronically stressed. Chronic stress both reduces the quality of research and personal life quality. You will even get some tools that you can use yourself to prevent and cope with your stress. Your stress has a negative impact on your research, and a stressed supervisor produces stressed PhD students.

After this lecture, you will have a better understanding of stress, and you will be inspired to do something to prevent stress and manage stress, both your own and your PhD students’. You will think differently about different things. Doing something different is not always enough. Thinking differently is often the solution. 

About the speaker: Bjarne Toftegård is an occupational psychologist from KU and has an MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology from the University of Liverpool. He is also an engineer from DTU, where he also made his PhD in chemical engineering. He has many years of work experience including 8 years as a leader at e.g. the National Police of Denmark and the Øresund Bridge. He changed his career from working as an engineer after he experienced burnout himself in the year 2000. He now gives management training, work environment courses, lectures, workshops, and individual stress coaching. Besides, he trains stress coaches and is the author of four books about stress and related topics. 

Time and date: Thursday 29 September 2022, 15.30-17.00.

Max. number of participants: 50.

Registration: Please register no later than 25 September 2022.

Venue: Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N, Maersk Tower, 15th floor, Foredragssalen, (7.15.92).

Organizer: Mia Dabelsteen, mia.dabelsteen@sund.ku.dk, Senior advisor, The Graduate School. 

The Graduate school now offers two PhD Supervisor Talks per semester. These are talks for PhD supervisors at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Other faculty members are also welcome.