UiB Ferd Courses
UiB Ferd supports Early-Stage Researchers in their career development. An important part of this support are the courses the career center offers, and below you will find a brief overview of the various courses. The courses will be shown in UiB's calendar and on UiB Ferd's website and in the Newsletter when the time and place have been decided.
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About Career competence and career awereness
Target audience: PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows
Aim of the course: increase understanding of the concepts of careers and career awareness, reflect on your own career opportunities and identify personal motivational factors. Schein's Careers Anchors will also be used for identifying your own preferences.
Language: English
How to sell your skills to a non-academic audience and how to develop a non-academic CV
Target audience: PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows
Aim of the course: to provide an introduction to the concept of translator competence — how to make external audiences understand what competence UIB candidates possess. Contribute towards better mastery when writing CVs, interview situations, self-presentation/pitching and applying for jobs, etc.
Language: English
Research Management
Target audience: postdoctoral fellows, researchers and associate professors
Aim of the course: good management is a prerequisite for well-functioning research groups. This course covers a wide perspective ranging from the general principles of management to top topics which include focusing on the critical start-up phase, research management and the strategic and long-term development of research circles.
This course is open to those who are new to the role of research group manager, but also those who have 1-3 years of experience in the role.
Language: English
How to improve your academic writing and presentation skills in English
Target audience: PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, researchers and associate professors
Aim of the course: to provide participants with knowledge and skills relating to academic writing and presentations in English that enable them to communicate easily, but elegantly, in an academic context.
Language: English
Self-management and time management
Target audience: PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, researchers and associate professors
Aim of the course: to provide information on how to develop healthy work habits that can help us to manage our own time, and not least our feelings about time, our motivation and our focus. Tips will also be provided about specific tools that can support us in our development of good habits.
Language: English
