Description
As a PhD candidate, you face many challenges: deliver first-class research that will qualify you to get the PhD degree, organise your own project, manage time and resources, facilitate cooperation with collaborators, cope with unexpected processes in your research, publish papers, write a thesis, and many more.
This online program provides you support, additional to your supervisor’s guidance, and skills, techniques, and specific strategies often required to enable you to conduct and complete a PhD study successfully.
What you learn
- How to plan and control the PhD project
- How to become a well-organised, highly efficient and focused PhD candidate
- How to organise the writing of each part of the thesis and how to write in the most productive way
- How to communicate professionally with supervisors and collaborators
- How to complete the project successfully
Content
This online program includes
- Weekly instructions and material for participants to study and progress with the PhD
- Educational video lessons and detailed worksheets from an e-learning platform to work on the materials individually
- Four live virtual sessions every 2-3 weeks
- A discussion group and cases based on real situations
- Close interaction with the programme instructor
Target group
All PhD students enrolled at PPHS or Biomedical Engineering.
We specifically recommend this program to students in the end of their first or within their second year. For PhD candidates who are further beyond, the program will provide useful strategies to bring the project to the finish line.
There is space for 20 participants.
About the lecturer(s)
Bärbel Tress (PhD) is an enthusiastic Research Career Expert. She has researched and taught at various universities and research institutes across Europe, served as an Associate Editor for an international peer-reviewed journal, and regularly has supervised students herself. For 14+ years, she has coached and advised PhD candidates from all fields to help them get successfully complete their PhD projects on time. She is a graduate of Heidelberg University (D), obtained a PhD in Landscape Ecology from Roskilde University (DK), and worked as researcher and lecturer at universities in Wageningen (NL) and Aberdeen (UK).
Workload
2 hours per week for 12 weeks, plus time for direct implementation in your PhD project. Total about 75 hours. The taught instructions overlap tremendously with what you have to deal with anyway during your PhD. Every hour will be relevant for your PhD process. Note, you will be flexible when you work on the course material and receive dates for the live sessions on program start.
The course awards 3 ECTS after you completed all modules and attended the live sessions. Students need to create a learning contract in advance.
