Seminar for PhD Candidates: Maximizing Efficiency and Thriving in Your Doctoral Journey
Welcome to a seminar designed to help PhD candidates maximize their efficiency and thrive in all areas of life.
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Are you looking to maximize your efficiency and make the most of your time? Curious about what sets top performers apart and how you can join their ranks while still enjoying other aspects of life?
For the past three years, The Occupational Health Service at UiB has been helping early career researchers tackle these very questions. Drawing from these experiences and feedback at UiB, as well as international research and best practices from top universities worldwide, the seminar is crafted and designed to address these topics.
The aim of the seminar is to help you become the best version of yourself during your doctoral journey, thriving in all areas of life. Attend this seminar and dive into engaging topics and exercises, including:
- Shared challenges for researchers: You are okay!
- Effective work techniques and self-care go hand in hand: Promoting productivity, creativity, and grit
- Clash of cultures: How to thrive in Norway and in the academic setting
- Communication skills for collaboration
- Networking opportunities across disciplines
The seminar is in English.
Please note that this seminar is not eligible for ECTS credits in the PhD training component.
Limited capcacity.
Duration of seminar
A full-day seminar.
The program begins at 08:30, with the first 30 minutes dedicated to registration and coffee. It ends at 16:30, after which participants are welcome to stay for informal mingling.
Tentative program
| Registration and coffee | 8:30 – 9:00 |
Welcome with vice-rektor Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt | 9:00 – 9:10 | |
Icebreaker | 9:10 – 9:25 | |
| Overview of program | 9:25 – 9:35 |
| Excellence in Work | 9:35 – 10:20 |
| Break | 10:20 – 10:35 |
| Individual – Self care | 10:35 – 11:15 |
| Break | 11:15 – 11:30 |
| Group – Power of connections | 11:30 – 12:10 |
| Lunch | 12:10 – 13:30 |
| Interactions – Supervisor relationship | 13:30 – 14:10 |
Break (Hand in bingos) | 14:10 – 14:20 | |
Hierarchical communication exercise | 14:20 – 16:00 | |
Wrap Up | 16:00 – 16:30 | |
Mingling time à go and have a pizza! | ??? |