This course helps doctoral candidates and early-career PhDs understand the research environment and find their place in it.
It alternates between theory and hands-on scenarios.
Programme
Settling in successfully
- Getting to know your environment.
- Becoming familiar with the roles and expectations of everyone involved in a doctorate: the candidate, the thesis director or supervisor, the doctoral school and others.
- Making a success of your doctorate.
Running your doctoral project
- Adopting a professional approach and becoming autonomous.
- Communicating with flexibility and assertiveness: good practice in a professional setting, and how to frame a
- request.
- Putting it into practice.
- Getting organised.
Looking after yourself
- What stress is, and the different
- ways it shows itself.
- Recognising your needs: identifying them so you can respect them.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- map their professional environment;
- identify career opportunities.
Teaching methods
Collaborative workshops, slides and case studies. Each participant receives a course booklet.
Assessment and follow-up
Learning is assessed by a multiple-choice test at the end of the session, followed by a review meeting after three months.
