Dept of Social and Policy Sciences

Emotionally Challenging Research: impacts, coping and proactive interventions

Researchers embark on explorations of diverse topics, aiming to deepen our understanding of the numerous issues impacting individuals in today's society, a journey that often leads them into the more disturbing and distressing aspects of the human experience (e.g. war, death, violence, crime, poor mental health, poverty).

This training workshop guides participants in the use of the resources on our Researcher Wellbeing Project webpages. The webpages are designed as a practical toolkit, providing resources and guidance to support researchers, managers and institutions in managing the emotional aspects of their work and progressing towards a strategic approach to researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging topics.

Our upcoming online workshops will be held on:

Wednesday 4th November 2026 - 9.30 to 13:00 (staff)

Thursday 5th November 2026 - 09:30 to 13:00 (student)

Tuesday 9th February 2027 - 09:30 to 13:00 (student)

Wednesday 24th February 2027 - 12.30 to 16:00 (staff)

We are pleased to announce a 2026 Famine Studies Conference that will be hosted online by the University of Bath and Wageningen University in December 2026.  We invite submissions that explore the broad conference theme of the ‘The Politics of Famine’.  If you would like to submit an abstract and bio, please use the link on the Famine Studies Conference website.  The deadline for submissions is Friday 14th August 2026.

A £60 participation fee applies to all participants to help meet organisational and technical costs. Limited free or subsidized spaces are available upon request based on financial needs.  Priority for these spaces will be given to scholars from contexts where famine is or has recently occurred.

If you have any queries, please email famine-studies-conf@bath.ac.uk

The Conference will run between 2^nd and 4^th December 2026.  Sessions will be daily from 10:00 - 11:30 and 16:00 - 17:30 BST.

Please note, only one delegate allowed per booking.