Course The Talented Researcher

ECTS: 3

Course leader: Kamille Smidt Rasmussen

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: ClinFO

Course fee: 3,600.00 DKK

Status: Course is open for application

Semester: Spring 2024

Application deadline: 05/02/2024

Cancellation deadline: 19/02/2024

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 13/03/2024

Administrator: Lena Melchior Villadsen

100% presence is mandatory

The participants must prioritize the course and be present 100% in order to pass the course

The course C205/24 The Talented Researcher is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2024.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Recommended knowledge for participation: In order to assemble a group of mixed participants, all applicants are placed on a waiting list. We seek to have a group with newly enrolled PhD students, experienced PhD students, and preferably PhD students with different backgrounds.

Aim: Increase your personal and professional success by learning how to lead yourself, your project and your important relations.

Learning outcomes: By the end of the course, you should have learned about and strengthened your awareness of own strengths and challenges to enhance leadership in both work and your everyday life. You should have strengthened your project management skills in order to better control and plan your project and PhD-education with respect to deliverables, milestones and schedules.

As a specific outcome, all participants will have a plan with deliverables, milestones, and schedules for their PhD project.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 56 hours.

Content: The course will cover: Personal planning, motivating yourself and others, Project management, managing your supervisors and other important relations, networking and how to chair meetings.

Between Module 1 and Module 2 you will meet in a triad group discussion at the university. Furthermore, you will have a supervisor meeting on our last course day where your supervisor will be invited to join us from 14:30 – 15:30.

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

Course dates:

  • 13 March 2024 08:00 - 16:00
  • 14 March 2024 08:00 - 16:00
  • 22 May 2024 08:00 - 16:00
  • 23 May 2024 08:00 - 16:00