How to plan professional career - tips for young scientists

Timetable

The timetable for the course is included below:

Group K1

21 November, 14:00-15:30, room A (Faculty of Biology)

28 November, 14:00-15:30, room A (Faculty of Biology)

5 December, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

12 December, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

19 December, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

9 January, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

16 January, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

23 January, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

30 January, 8:00-9:30, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

2 February, 9:45-11:15, room 0.72 (Faculty of Biology)

 

Group K2

19 November, 10:00-11:30, room Mała Aula (Faculty of Biology)

26 November, 10;00-11:30, room B (Faculty of Biology)

2 December, 9:45-11:00, room AULA (Faculty of Biology)

9 December, 9:45-11:00, room AULA (Faculty of Biology)

16 December, 9:45-11:00, room AULA (Faculty of Biology)

7 January 13:00-14:30, room C (Faculty of Biology)

12 January 11:30-13:00, room L (Faculty of Biology)

21 January 10:30-12:00, room AULA (Faculty of Biology)

26 January 9:45-11:15, room C (Faculty of Biology)

4 February, 8:45-10:15, room A (Faculty of Biology)

Module aim (aims)

The course consists in workshops with strong emphasis on the acquisition of practical skills, which will help in the development of scientific career.

The specific aims include:

- specification of interests and creating a career plan

- finding of work/traineeship opportunities

- preperation of document for recruitment

- development of the communication/scientific communicaiton skills

- writing of team scientifc project

The participants will be evaluated on the basis of  five practical assessments.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Week 1: Educational and career pathway.

Week 2: Personal education/career plan.

Week 3: Introduction to graphical design of documents.

Week 4: Writing CV and motivation letter.

Week 5: Introduction to communication.

Week 6: Scientific communication.

Week 7: Scientific posters.

Week 8: Article Writing.

Week 9: Introduction to team work and project writing.

Week 10: Presentation of projects.

Reading list

1. Fischoff B., 2013. “The sciences of science communication”. PNAS 110: 14033-14039.

2. Mathews J.R. and Mathews R.W., 2008. “Successful Scientific Writing. A step-by-step guide for biological and medical science sciences”. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2008.

3. McGee P., 2009. “How to write a CV that works”. Published by How To Content. Oxford 2009.

4. “ERC Working Program 2017”. European Research Council established by the European Research Commission.