Health And Wellness

Episode 1. "Who Am I to Talk About Impostor Syndrome?"

Does it sometimes feel like other grad students have it all together in the classroom and in the lab...while you don't have a clue what you're doing? You're not alone. Impostor syndrome is one of the most common, and least talked-about, struggles in graduate student life. In our inaugural episode, we ask why grad students are so vulnerable to these feelings and share some strategies for addressing them.

Suman Varghese and Rob Desjardins - 9 November 2020

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Resources

  • Explore the following references:

    • Clance, Pauline R. "Impostor Phenomenon (IP)," Pauline Rose Clance, PhD, ABPP [website], https://paulineroseclance.com/impostor_phenomenon.html.
    • Cohen, Emma D. and Will R. McConnell. "Fear of Fraudulence: Graduate School Program Environments and the Impostor Phenomenon." The Sociological Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2019): 457-78.
    • Jostl, Gregor et al. "When Will They Blow My Cover? The Impostor Phenomenon Among Austrian Doctoral Students." Zeitschrift fur Psychologie 220, no. 2 (2012): 109-20.