Courses for PhD candidates at the Faculty of Science

01 September 2023 Educational news item

As part of the Graduate School programme, all PhD candidates can participate in the following courses.

These courses are available for all PhD candidates within the Faculty of Science and can be joined faculty-wide. Some courses are mandatory for completion of the program others are optional.

Courses	Trainer / Lecturer	Study load
Essential Skills to Manage your PhD project This course focuses on personal leadership, self-management, supervisor management, project management and personal communication skills. Combined, these will help you tackle the PhD challenges and take the lead in obtaining your PhD degree with confidence and self-determination. To sign up for this course email to IMM [at] ru.nl (IMM[at]ru[dot]nl)		24 hrs.
Practical Didactic Skills PhD-candidates in the Faculty of Science are often engaged in teaching activities, like individual supervision and small group teaching (practicals, tutorials, exercise classes etc.). In this course, you will learn about the basics of teaching in a workgroup or practical setting and during internship supervision. To sign up for this course see instruction below.	Lennert van Tilburg	12 hrs.
Scientific Ethics and Integrity Scientific integrity is high on the agenda of universities these days. There is a perception that the number of scientific scandals is on the rise, that the image of science is getting under additional pressure because of this, and that strict measures and procedures are needed. And how do scientists themselves understand and conceptualise concepts like ‘integrity’, ‘misconduct’, ‘good science’. To sign up for this course see instruction below.	Luca Consoli	12 hrs.
Find, manage and publish academic literature The Library of Science has constructed a course regarding searching, finding, managing, reusing and publishing scientific literature. Besides the basics, we also address Open Access and Research Data Management, since these topics are becoming more and more important for the visibility and dissemination of the outcome of your research. To sign up for this course see instruction below.	Marieke van der Eerden	12 hrs.

Sign up

You need to register for one of these courses:

Practical Didactic Skills
Scientific Ethics and Integrity
Find, manage and publish academic literature

Please indicate for which course you would like to gain access.

Select your timeslot

Upon registering, you will gain access to the Brightspace course. If you don’t have access to Brightspace, you can activate a Brightspace account.

Brightspace

You can enrol yourself in the course via the group self-enrolments feature and choose the timeslot that suits your schedule.

Within the Brightspace course, the trainer will provide you with additional information about the course. This will include announcements related to the upcoming meetings, relevant updates of the course content and guidance on how to prepare the meetings.

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Contact information

If you have questions, please get in touch with tipscience [at] ru.nl (tipscience[at]ru[dot]nl).

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