GradWell
GradWell
Podcast Description
GradWell is a limited series podcast that explores various ways the University of Michigan can support its graduate students in their journey to greater wellbeing in their everyday lives. Created for graduate students, by a graduate student—brought to you by the Rackham Graduate School.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers diverse themes related to graduate student wellbeing, including environmental, emotional, intellectual, social, and professional wellness. Specific episodes focus on topics such as designing academic spaces for neurodiversity, managing mental health routines, embracing failure in intellectual growth, fostering community engagement, and enhancing career development in academia.
GradWell is a limited series podcast that explores various ways the University of Michigan can support its graduate students in their journey to greater wellbeing in their everyday lives. Created for graduate students, by a graduate student—brought to you by the Rackham Graduate School.
How can the University of Michigan best support its graduate students in their journey to greater well-being?
To wrap up the season, this episode will provide an overview of well-being at Michigan for graduate students with Elizabeth Rohr, Rackham’s Well-being Advocate. Explore the behind-the-scenes approaches Rackham takes to graduate student well-being and what the future may hold for graduate wellness.
Resources
- Resources on the Graduate Advisor Relationship
- Resources on Cultivating a Sense of Belonging
- Michigan Doctoral Experience Survey
- Transition Points: Well-being and Disciplinary Identity in the First Years of Doctoral Studies – Paper based on Michigan Doctoral Experience Survey
- Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities & Colleges
- Well-Being Collective
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Guest Bio
Elizabeth Rohr is the Well-Being Advocate and senior manager of the Well-Being Advocate Program of the Rackham Graduate School, partnering with Rackham graduate program faculty, staff, and students to identify and address structural issues that impact graduate student mental health and well-being.
Elizabeth is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, with an emphasis in interpersonal practice and mental health. She also holds a BS in Sociology with a minor in History from Northwestern University.
Elizabeth has had an eclectic professional journey. She’s worked in the private sector as a corporate project and event manager; was a Public Allies Americorp member in Chicago working with HIV+ women and children, an intimate partner and sexual violence prevention peer educator in San Francisco, and helped conduct research and develop new programs for nontraditional graduate students at the Center for the Education of Women (CEW+) here at U-M. Prior to joining Rackham, she worked directly with undergraduate students to develop their mindful leadership skills at the LSA Barger Leadership Institute for 5 years.
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