Your Personal Development during your PhD Track (2023-II)

Target audience

This course is for first year or early second year PhD candidates.

Course description

To do a PhD is a wonderful learning opportunity. You will grow to be an independent researcher. However, you can get overwhelmed by the amount of work, resulting in a low priority on developing competences. Here you will start to take the space to focus on you and you development, aside from your research. A clear set of competences that are thought to benefit PhD candidates in their future career was established. During this workshop you will work with this PhD Competence Model to plan your personal development, to optimally equip yourself for your next step after obtaining your PhD.

Learning objectives

During this course you will gain the insight what your focus is, what is valuable to you to work towards. With that in mind you will name the competences you need during your PhD and where you can find your chances to develop yourself. You will learn how to deal with bumps on the PhD-road by learning about yourself as a person en gain more trust in your future.

You will be able to recognise which qualities you have already developed and which could use some more attention. You will make a clear plan to develop the needed competences to make your way through your PhD.

Instructional method

The workshop is a mixture of practical and reflective exercises guided by the trainer. If you would like to learn about yourself, you will have to focus on the complete picture: what you want, need and feel. We will do so individually, in pairs or small groups.

Trainer

Drs. Simone Schut was graduated as a behavioral biologist. After a few years as a consultant she worked for 15 years with students of Biology and Biomedical Sciences in Amsterdam and in Utrecht, teaching soft skills and self-awareness. During that time she became a coach and trainer to help individuals with their development and personal leadership.

Group size

8 to 12 participants

Number of credits

0.2 EC

Course schedule

Study load

In addition to the scheduled session, you should take into account an extra study load of 1/2 hour in total.

Course certificate

You will receive a course certificate after actively participating in the full course session.

Cancellation and No-show policy

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. This is our policy:

• You may cancel free of charge up to 4 weeks before the start of the course. After this date you can only cancel if you have a GSLS PhD candidate to replace you in the course. Send the name and contact information of your replacement to pcc@uu.nl, at least 2 working days before the start of the course;
• We expect that you actively attend the full course, but at least 80%. It is mandatory to attend the first session. If you are absent the first session you cannot follow the remaining of the course;
• Not meeting the above requirements means you will be charged a no-show fee (€ 50). We will send the invoice after the course has ended. We are unable to make any exceptions, unless you have a valid reason (i.e., illness or death in the family 1^st/2^nd degree or partner). Your supervisor has to send an e-mail to pcc@uu.nl indicating the reason.

Unfortunately we don’t offer this course for participants not part of the GSLS. Our courses tend to be fully booked by GSLS PhD candidates.