Introduction
Key terms: professional skills, peer support, academic resilience and wellbeing, coping with stress and uncertainty in academia, feedback literacy, intervision, relevant for students in any phase of the PhD trajectory
ECTS: 1
Number of sessions: 3
Hours per session: 75 minutes for session 1, 60 minutes for session 2 and 3
This course offers PhD candidates a structured peer-support setting in which they can reflect on challenges that arise during the PhD trajectory. Using an intervision format, participants bring in real cases from their own work and discuss them with peers in a safe and supportive group.
The course aims to deepen reflective practice, strengthen peer support, and promote sustainable working habits. Open to all EGSH members, it offers a rare chance to explore shared challenges and solutions across faculties through interdisciplinary discussion.
Because trust, continuity, and peer exchange are central to the course, attendance in all sessions is strongly recommended.
Practical information
- Multiple Start Dates (3)
- First date: Wednesday 30 Sep 2026
- Price
- Free and paid
- Micro Credential
- No
Who is this for?
This course is accessible to and relevant for PhD candidates in any phase of the PhD trajectory.
Relations with other courses
This course complements How to manage your PhD project, which focuses more broadly on organising PhD work, motivation, time management, and work-life balance, especially at the beginning of the trajectory.
In addition, this course connects well with Bounce back: handling the mental and emotional challenges of doing a PhD, which focuses more specifically on resilience, stress, and emotional coping. It also complements the course Personal power during and after your PhD: Using your inner compass as a signpost, which focuses on utilising personal values and autonomy at work. This intervision course is more practice-based and peer-led, using participants’ own cases as the main learning material.
Sessions and preparations
There are three sessions. Each session starts from one case presented by a case holder. Participants then share impressions, reflect on their own experiences, and jointly explore alternative ways of handling the situation.
Participants will be asked to prepare for three discussion points and related cases before the first session. Other preparations are not required.
Start dates
Edition 1
Session 1: September 30 (Wednesday) 2026 | 14.45-16.00 hrs | Offline (Mandeville building, room T19-01)
Please note that sessions 2 and 3 last 1 hour each. The instructor will schedule the dates for session 2 and 3 together with the participants during session 1.
Edition 2
Session 1: November 18 (Wednesday) 2026 | 14.45-16.00 hrs | Offline (Mandeville building, room T19-01)
Please note that sessions 2 and 3 last 1 hour each. The instructor will schedule the dates for session 2 and 3 together with the participants during session 1.
Edition 3
Session 1: February 10 (Wednesday) 2027 | 11.00-12.15 hrs | Offline (Mandeville building, room T19-01)
Please note that sessions 2 and 3 last one hour each. The instructor will schedule the dates for session 2 and 3 together with the participants during session 1.
Instructor
- Dr. Wei Li is a PhD officer at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, where she supports PhD candidates and serve as their first point of contact for questions throughout their PhD journey. She leads the development of PhD-related policies and coordinates their implementation, working closely with colleagues and committees to support high-quality PhD education. She has extensive experience designing reflective learning environments and facilitating peer exchange on topics such as workload, writing, feedback, supervision, and wellbeing. In this course she will guide participants in using intervision as a structured method for shared reflection and mutual learning, helping you translate insights into sustainable working practices. Her background includes a PhD in developmental psychology with a focus on wellbeing and the interaction between child development and environment across life phases, which informs her approach to emotional support and resilience-building.
Contact
- Enrolment-related questions: enrolment@egsh.eur.nl
- Course-related questions: li@eshcc.eur.nl
Telephone: +31 (0)10 4082607 (Graduate School)
Facts & Figures
- Multiple Start Dates (3)
- Wednesday 30 Sep 2026 | 14:45 - 16:00
Wednesday 18 Nov 2026 | 14:45 - 16:00
Wednesday 10 Feb 2027 | 11:00 - 12:15 - Price
- free for PhD candidates of the Graduate School
- € 250,- for non-members
- consult our for more information
- Tax
- Not applicable
- Micro Credential
- No
- Instruction language
- English