Making the Most of the Journey to Your PhD

Join Dr. Leela Viswanathan, author of The Deliberate Doctorate: A Values-Focused Journey to Your PhD, for a motivational webinar on making the most of your doctoral experience.  After completing this webinar, you will have more insight into identifying and optimizing your skills, building supportive networks and relationships, and working through the emotional aspects of your PhD journey so that you can define success on your own terms. If you are launching your PhD journey, this webinar will get you started in reflecting on your PhD as an experience – not simply a destination, but a journey – to align your goals with what matters the most to you. And if you are further along your PhD journey, then this webinar offers you an opportunity to reflect and connect with the purpose of your PhD. No matter where you find yourself on your PhD journey, or what academic discipline has become your home, you this webinar will help you to build a values-focused journey to your PhD, and beyond.

Registration:

Registration is required through Portal to receive a link to the live event. 

About the Speaker:

At the time she embarked on her PhD, Dr.  Leela Viswanathan had already spent a decade as a community planner and policy analyst. She earned her degree in 2007 and, in 2015, obtained tenure as an associate professor at Queen’s University. Currently an adjunct associate professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s, Dr. Viswanathan is also the founder and principal of Viswali Consulting, a planning and advisory firm that supports individuals, organizations, and institutions to change systems and practices through policy, research, and planning. A lifelong learner, Viswanathan is an accomplished and innovative educator, mentor, and researcher. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

To find out more, visit: https://leelaviswanathan.com and https://ubcpress.ca/the-deliberate-doctorate

To follow Leela:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leela-viswanathan-phd-rpp-fcip-5bb41b20/
• X (formerly Twitter): @Leela_Vis

Accessibility:

Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs and the University of Waterloo are committed to achieving barrier-free accessibility for persons with disabilities who are visiting, studying, or working at Waterloo. If you have questions concerning access or obtaining workshop content (when applicable) in alternative formats, or wish to request accommodations for our programming, please let us know. For this event we have arranged for: closed captioning. If you require other accommodations, please reach out to us by e-mail at gradventure@uwaterloo.ca. Please note that some accommodations may require time to arrange.