Upcoming DS activities for postdocs - 26/10/23
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Newsletter | October 26, 2023

This newsletter provides an overview of all upcoming activities, either organized specifically for postdocs or for postdocs and PhD students combined, and links to other potentially interesting events or information.

More details on, and registration links for, upcoming activities are available on the website of the doctoral schools. When you enrol for a doctoral school activity, make sure to take our cancellation & no-show policy into account. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us at all times on doctoralschools@uhasselt.be.


1. Interested to learn from the experiences and insights of a mentor? 

The mentoring programme at UHasselt is aimed at supporting junior researchers and tenure track professors in their further career development. It implies a one-on-one interaction between a mentor and a mentee on a regular base. In order to be eligible, you need to be appointed as a postdoc at UHasselt for at least 50%, for at least one more year. There are two possible tracks:
  • academic mentoring: mentoring towards an academic career, by a UHasselt professor (from a different faculty than yours).
  • civic mentoring: mentoring towards successfully entering the external labour market, by someone from a non-academic organization (company, government, hospital, social sector, ...).

Your mentor can act as a sounding board, but can also answer specific questions or give advice. The duration of the mentoring trajectory is typically one year. You need to be available on January 23, 2024 (13:00-18:00), for an obligatory introductory workshop during which you determine the profile of your preferred mentor. Application deadline: November 28, 2023. More details on the programme, the selection procedure and the timeline may be found here (as well as here).

2. Company visit Jaga

To build bridges between the world of research and enterprises, Hasselt University and Voka – KvK Limburg join forces by organising company visits, during which junior researchers are given the opportunity to discover the ins and outs of a company. Our second visit will take place at Jaga, where you'll explore the company's organisational structure and various job roles, and experience an informative guided tour of their production and services. The visit concludes with a networking lunch. The visit takes place on December 15, 2023 (10:00-13:00). For additional information and registration, click here.


Details & registration

1. Engaging with policy makers (all DS)

Takes place on 21/11/23 - 13:00-16:00
Registration possible until 05/11/23

2. Writing for non-peers and press (all DS)

Takes place on 04 & 11/12/23 - 09:30-17:00
Registration possible until 05/11/23

3. Gender & diversity seminar: Bystander intervention for researchers (all DS)

Takes place on 05/12/23 - 10:00-12:00
Registration possible until 08/11/23

4. Pronunciation and intonation in English (all DS)

Takes place on 19 & 26/01 and 02, 16 & 23/02/23 - 10:00-12:00
Registration possible until 19/12/23

5. Overcoming procrastination – getting things done (all DS)

Takes place (digitally) on 23/01/24 - 13:30-16:30
Registration possible until 07/01/24

Details & registration

1. Lecture and workshop Honoré D'Ô (DS BSH)

Takes place on 08/11/23 - 13:00-16:00
Registration possible until 03/11/23

2. Agents of concern - opening & lecture Florian Göttke (DS BSH)

Takes place on 16/11/23 - 14:00-22:00
Registration possible until 08/11/23

3. Agents of concern - lecture Christina Varvia (DS BSH)

Takes place on 17/11/23 - 18:00-20:00
Registration possible until 08/11/23

4. Effective coaching for internship supervisors (DS HLS)

Takes place on 24/11/23 - 14:00-16:30
Registration possible until 12/11/23

5. Meet the jury seminars 'Experiential evaluation and participatory design' (all DS)

Takes place on 01/12/23 - 10:30-13:00
Registration possible until 10/11/23

6. Show, don’t tell: Creating visuals about your research (all DS)

Takes place on 07 & 14/12/23 - 09:00-16:15
Registration possible until 08/11/23

7. How to get published (all DS)

Takes place on 07/12 & 11/12/23 - 09:30-17:00
Registration possible until 13/11/23

8. Method as critique: Two-day winter school on critical social science methodologies for studying power (DS BSH)

Takes place on 14 & 15/12/23 - 09:00-16:00
Registration is required

9. Mind the GAP (Good Academic Practices) (all DS)

Takes place online (permanently accessible)

Details & registration

1. Company visit: Jaga (all DS)

Takes place on 15/12/23 - 10:00-13:00
Registration possible until 01/12/23

2. Demonstrating your competences in your CV, LinkedIn profile & cover letter to convince your future employer (all DS)

Takes place on 19/12/23 (workshop: 09:30-16:30) & 16/01/24 (coaching online: 30 min per person) 
Registration possible until 12/11/23

3. Ready for take-off: Establishing a good basis for PhD supervision (all DS)

Takes place on 19/12/23 - 10:00-16:00
Registration possible until 20/11/23

4. Individual career coaching (all DS)

Continuous offer
Application is required

The doctoral schools partner with several other departments and organisations. Below is an overview of their upcoming activities. For more information regarding their course offer and acknowledgement in your doctoral school portfolio, please consult this webpage.

1. Education department

  • Wicked problem plaza: problems across boundaries - 08/11/23 - 13:30-15:30
  • Handling student groups - 12/10/23 - 14:00-16:00
  • Trivial pursuit: feedback edition - 23/11/23 - 13:00-15:00
  • How to bring group work to a successful conclusion? Tools for researchers & students - 05/12/23 - 09:30-12:00
  • GDPR in Bachelor's and Master's theses - 12/12/23 - 14:00-15:30
  • Collecting student feedback about your teaching practice: worthwhile or worthless? (hybrid) - 09/01/24 - 09:00-10:30
  • Discover Ans: Master UHasselt's Assessment Platform (hybrid) - 25/01/24 - 09:00-12:00
  • Start to teach - February-March 2024 - 10:00-12:00
  • Discover the possibilities of digital learning modules in your own teaching practice (hybrid) - 06/02/24 - 10:00-12:00
  • Diversity and inclusion: raising your (self)awareness - 20/02/24 - 09:00-12:00

2. Research data management (RDM) 

  • Data management plan (DMP) writing session - 07/11/23 - 13:00-15:00
  • VITO | Data Science Hub Lustrum Symposium - 10/11/23 - 09:00-17:00
  • Electronic research notebooks - 16/11/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Castor: Electronic data capture for clinical data - 28/11/23 - 13:00-15:00
  • Open Science for qualitative research - 30/11/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Data storage solutions & protection - 05/12/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Into the DMP - Sciences & Technology - 14/12/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Into the DMP - Behavioral sciences & Humanities - 14/12/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Into the DMP - Health & Life sciences - 14/12/23 - 10:00-12:00
  • Data management plan - DMP writing session - 14/12/23 - 14:00-16:00

3. HR Department

Hasselt University encourages personal growth and development among its staff by offering all kinds of trainings and courses throughout the academic year. Hungry for additional brainfood? Discover GoodHabitz, an online learning platform where you can choose from over 100 courses at your own pace and on your own schedule, available in 7 languages.

4. School of Expert Education (SEE)

Training for professionals, built on academic expertise with the aim of creating a unique learning environment to refine and broaden your expertise.

5. Flanders’ training network for methodology and statistics (FLAMES)

Courses on statistics and methodology, which take place throughout the academic year at all Flemish universities. The FLAMES summer school and courses organized at Hasselt University are listed in this newsletter; the others can be found on the FLAMES website.

  • Seminar: Transformations: The good, the bad, the ugly (digitally) - 08/11/23
  • Thematic analysis (basic) - 17/11/23
  • Qualitative data analysis with NVivo (digitally) - 20/11/23
6. Interuniversity course offer for young researchers

The doctoral schools of Hasselt University partner with the other four Flemish universities which results in an interuniversity course offer open for young researchers of the five partner universities.

7. EURECA-PRO

The EURECA-PRO Alliance consists of 9 partners who joined forces to enable students, researchers and staff to study, teach and research in the field of responsible consumption and production with the long-term goal of a joined virtual and integrated European campus until 2040. They also organize regular activities for (young) researchers.

8. Pitch Please

Pitch Please wil jongeren inspireren, informeren, uitdagen en ondersteunen om hun ondernemende kwaliteiten aan te scherpen. Een overzicht van de Pitch Please activiteiten kan je online terugvinden.

  • Infosessie: Hoe vind je een goed idee? - 13/11/23
  • Match making monday - 20/11/23
  • Pitch Please Hackathon - 01/12/23
  • Webinar 'Starten als student-ondernemer' (digitally) - 05/12/23
  • Pitch please speeddate ism JCI Limburg - 12/12/23

9. Flanders AI Academy (VAIA)

Courses and trainings on artificial intelligence for professionals and researchers in Flanders which take place throughout the academic year. In this newsletter only activities and trainings specifically organised or interesting for PhD students/posdocs are listed; the others can be found on the VAIA website.

  • Introduction to AI and Machine learning for biomedical research (digitally) - 06/11-07/12/23

10. Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC)

Trainings on many HPC-related topics which take place throughout the academic year.


1. EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion

2. EURAXESS - Smart Talks Podcast

3. SciMingo - Science Communication (SciComm) Academy

4. European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM)

5. CAJAL Advanced neuroscience training

6. European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) (PhD Days, courses, mobility grants, FENS/NENS)

7. NEURO courses UK

8. Academy for Rehabilitation Sciences (ACREHAB)

9. Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)

10. LifeLong Learning @ Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences KU Leuven (FABER)

11. Pro-Q-Kine

12. TUTECH academy

13. DocEnhance

 


1. Elective course Globalisation and Sustainable Development UHasselt - october - november/23

2. Online web series '#100PhDAlumniVoices' - Daria Bogdanova - 27/10/23

3. PhD Job Fair 2023 - 07/11/23

4. Euraxess webinar 'Discovery and validation with scientific method: the lean startup approach - 09/11/23

5. Wetenschapsbattle - application deadline: 13/11/23

6. Science meets Policy 2023 (Jonge Academie) - 14/11/23

7. Industry day - 14/11/23

8. Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship - application deadline: 15/11/23

9. ASML PhD Master Class - 17 & 18/11/23

10. BNS Nuclear Science Contest 2023 - 21/11/23

11. BCF Career Event Belgium - 23/11/23

12. Diabetes Liga research symposium - 29/11/23 (application deadline 20/11/23)

13. Ethical forum of the university foundation: ChatGPT & Co in higher education: to be cheered or feared? - 07/12/23

14. Science4policy - 12/12/23

15. Conference on innovative practices in management, engineering & social sciences (IPMESS-24) - 03-06/01/24

16. The global school in empirical research methods (GSERM) - 8-19/01/24

17. Biostimulants Europe 2024 summit - 17 & 18/01/24

18. Research to market - 25/01-02/02/24

19. Science4policy - 05/03/24

20. BioBusiness Summer School - 24-28/06/24

21. Online tool: Smart4Policy – Reflect about your work on policy!

22. Traineeships European Commission

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