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ArticleeLife2024

Using reflective practice to support PhD students in the biosciences.

Jennifer Tullet, Jennifer Leigh, Brandon Coke, David Fisher, Johanna Haszczyn, Steven Houghton, Johanna Fish, Laura Freeman, Isabella Garcia, Stefan Penman and 1 more

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Jennifer TulletDivision of Natural Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-526X
Jennifer LeighSchool of Sociology, Social Policy, and Social Research, Division for the study of Law, Society, and Social Justice, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3672-1462
Brandon CokeSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0847-6885
David FisherCrop Science and Production Systems, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, East Malling, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7947-3366
Johanna HaszczynSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7012-7125
Steven HoughtonSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9568-3769
Johanna FishSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-9946
Laura FreemanDivision of Natural Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-8112
Isabella GarciaDivision of Natural Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8208-8355
Stefan PenmanSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Emma HargreavesDivision of Natural Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7887-2018

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council EDI Implementation Funding BB/T008768/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postgraduate study can be mentally, physically and emotionally challenging. The levels of anxiety and depression in postgraduate students are much higher than those in the general population, and isolation can also be a problem, especially for students who are marginalised due to gender, race, sexuality, disability or being a first-generation and/or international student. These challenges are not new, but awareness of them has increased over the past decade, as have efforts by institutions to make students feel supported. Under the umbrella of a Doctoral Training Partnership, we developed a programme in which reflective practice is employed to help postgraduate students navigate work environments, deal with difficult supervisory or professional relationships, and improve their work-life balance. Additionally, this reflective practice is allowing the training partnership to tailor support to its students, enabling them to effectively nurture our next generation of bioscientists.

Indexed as

Cognitive ReflectionStudentsAnxietyAnxiety DisordersEmotionsHumansgraduate studentsmental healthreflective practicereflexivityresearch culturewellbeing

Identifiers

PMID38261371
PMCPMC10805382

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