How to manage your PhD project

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Introduction

A day with colleague PhD’s that will zoom into the question: How to be in charge of your PhD? What should you manage and how can you be productive and stay motivated?

There will be lots of interaction. We will discuss tools to apply on your project and insights to profit from while doing your PhD research. This is a very interactive, lively and goal-oriented workshop

Course information

ECTS: 1.5 
Number of sessions: 1
Hours per session: 7
Course fee: 

Key Facts & Figures

Type
Course
Instruction language
English
Mode of instruction
Offline

What will you achieve?

  • After completion of this course you will be able to differentiate between different styles of communication.
  • And you will be able to manage your time in a more effective and efficient way.
  • And you will develop a workable and productive work-life balance.
  • After completion of this course you will be able to make a proper Risk Analysis of your PhD Project.
  • After this course you will be able toAcknowledge the pitfalls and motivational setbacks within your PhD.
  • And you will realize that you’re not the only one sometimes struggling with this challenging position (PhD).

Start dates

Edition 1 (offline)

November 8 (Friday) 2024
09.30-16.30 hrs
Mandeville building (campus map), room T19-01

Edition 2 (offline)

March 7 (Friday) 2025
9.30-16.30 hrs
Mandeville building (campus map), room T19-01

Entry level / Relevance

Attending this workshop does not require any pre-existing knowledge or skills. The workshop is however designed and particularly useful for PhD candidates who are at the beginning of their project. Ideally, PhD candidates attend the workshop after 3 months after starting their project (so that they have a more substantive idea of what their project is about and how it can or should be organized) and not later than 1 year and a half after the start of their project (so that they can sufficiently apply the lessons and skills they learned in the workshop on their project).

Instructor

  • Portrait of Jan Pieter Weening
    Jan Pieter Weening knows his way around the world of Academia. He is an experienced trainer/consultant in personal, team and organisational development. In his work he is always looking for better, smarter, cheerfuller ways of leadership and working together. He is very much connected with PhD’s of different universities in the Netherlands, providing chairmanship, guidance and training them in taking charge in their projects. In combining confrontation, authenticity, sense of humour and context his training programmes are often viewed as vivid and purposeful.

Contact

Facts & Figures

Fee
  • free for PhD candidates of the Graduate School
  • € 300- for non-members
  • consult our enrolment policy for more information
Tax
Not applicable
Offered by
Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities
Course type
Course
Instruction language
English
Mode of instruction
Offline

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