Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

PhD Supervisor Talk: Impostor Syndrome in Higher Education and Strategies for Addressing It
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3993-25-00-02	There are 78 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 21/10/2025

Date and time	28.10.2025, at: 15:30 - 17:00
Regular seats	80

Contact person	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration SUND E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This Talk is for PhD supervisors at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Other faculty members are also welcome. In this interactive session you will learn: • What the impostor phenomenon is and how it differs from low self-esteem • Key sources of impostor syndrome • How academic culture fuels self-doubt in students, faculty, and staff • The role of competence distortions • Behaviors associated with impostor syndrome • Individual and organizational costs of impostor feelings • Differences in male and female students’ perceptions of ways faculty advisors can help to raise confidence • Steps faculty can take to mitigate impostor feelings in their students and themselves • Steps the department/university can take to address needless impostor feelings in students and faculty About the speaker • Valerie Young, Ed.D. is a global thought leader on impostor syndrome. In addition to speaking at over 100 universities in the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the UK including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, and University of Copenhagen she’s spoken at such diverse organizations as JP Morgan, Google, Pfizer, Boeing, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute. Valerie’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, and other prominent publications worldwide. And her award-winning book The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women and Men (Random House 2011/2022) has been translated into nine languages. In 2020 she co-founded Impostor Syndrome Institute to help organizations address the avoidable consequences of impostor syndrome. Moderator • Nanna MacAulay is head of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, NeuroGrad, at the PhD school at Faculty of Health and Medical Science and has in this role for nearly a decade been involved in organizing workshops focusing on increasing competences and well-being among graduate students. She is a professor in molecular neurophysiology at Department of Neuroscience and her research interest is within cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in health and disease. Time and date: Tuesday 28 October 2025, 15:30-17:00. Registration: Please register no later than 21 October 2025. Venue: Panum, Blegdamsvej 3B, building 16, 6th floor, room 16/Faculty Club, (16.6.16). Organizer: Mia Dabelsteen, mia.dabelsteen@adm.ku.dk, senior consultant, The Graduate School.

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