ECTS: 1.5
Course leader: Jens Larsen
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Course fee: 1,800.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2026
Application deadline: 15/12/2025
Cancellation deadline: 05/01/2026
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 26/01/2026
Administrator: Lena Melchior
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The course A334/ Become a productive and joyful researcher is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2026.
Criteria for participation: Postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).
Requirements for participation: Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!
Aim:
- Time to write on your paper
- Write efficiently by using essential tools
- Share challenges
- A productive writing praxis
- More motivation and less stress
Learning outcomes:
- Learn how to create a more productive and joyful writing praxis.
- Learn how to deal with stress related to writing your thesis
- Learn how to create writing goals, and overcome writers block.
- Learn how to use storytelling to develop your text.
- Learn how to create your own academic writing group.
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 18 hours
Content:
Doctoral students can be stressed, and many experience a need for more productivity. Using simple tools and establishing good writing habits can make the PhD and the research process more enjoyable and rewarding. The writing workshop focuses on you and your challenges; you have time to write your own text. Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!
Program
Day 1
09:00-10:00 Introduction to writing processes and the first writing tool: The art of setting goals for your writing
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-12:00 Writing session 1and 2
12:00-12:45 Break
12:45-13:15 How to approach the text and avoid writers block: Content, structure & language
13:15-14:15 Writing session 3
14:15-15:00 Break & walk´n talk and reflecting on writing goals
15:00-16:00 Writing session 4
Day 2
08:30-08:50 Good morning and warm-up writing-exercise
08:50-09:45 Writing session 5
09:45-10:00 Break, brain and body exercise
10:00-11:00 Writing sessions 6 and tool: rethorical reading
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10‐12:30 Storytelling in academic writing, presentation & group work
12:30-13:15 Break
13:15-14:15 Writing session 7
14:15-14:30 Break and brain and body exercise
14:30-15:20 Plan your writing and walk´n talk
15:20-15:50 Writing snacks – the last and very important tool
15:50-16:00 Evaluation and wrap up
Instructors: Jens Larsen PhD coach, co-founder WriteConcept.dk, storytelling researcher and author.
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 26 January 2026 09:00 - 16:00
- 27 January 2026 09:00 - 16:00