“Help. My mind’s gone blank. It’s a huge effort to even write a sentence. Any routine I get into I stop the next day. I don’t think I have anything worthwhile to say. I just feel anxious ALL the time. What’s the point?”

Do these sound familiar? It’s tough. Dr Heim (supervisor and writer) and Dr Heim (psychiatrist and music lecturer) unravel the huge pressures placed on you while researching and how these can affect your mental health. This will be one of the most important talks for you (and your supervisor!) to gain vital information on mental fitness in this Covid-fatigued world.

Dr Caroline Heim, Senior Lecturer in Drama, QUT

Caroline is a senior lecturer and international author who has supervised numerous HDR students. Before entering academia she was an award winning actor in New York. Caroline is a certified Lifeline counsellor and facilitator

Dr Christian Heim, Clinical Psychiatrist, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, UQ

Christian is an award-winning Psychiatrist, Music Professor (yes, he understands the creative industries) and a Churchill fellow. He speaks from a place of deep compassion and authority on 21st Century and Covid Mental Health issues that affect us all: anxiety, depression, suicide, trauma and addictions.

Danger In The Past – Sub-cultural Histories and Ways of Telling Them

John Willsteed has been playing in bands since 1977. When it came time to legitimize his life as an academic, he developed ‘It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity’, a PhD performance at Brisbane’s Powerhouse full of the things that matter – songs, text, posters, super8s, polaroids and memories. He has performed a number of similar stories about this particularly vital period in Brisbane’s cultural history, when the shadow of Bjelke-Petersen loomed over the land. His current project is Cut Copy at State Library of Queensland, an exhibition of Brisbane band/venue posters 1977-87.