Transferable Skills Seminars
New dates courses University Language Centre (UCT) - see below.
Seminars in Transferable Skills (co-)organised by the Doctoral Schools
Subject / Course Title |
Doctoral School (DS) |
Academic Year 2021-2022/Dates (*rec. = recurring each semester) |
Cluster | Competencies as defined in the competency matrix for PhD students* |
Advanced Academic English Writing Skills |
Arts, Humanities and Law |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) |
Social and Behavioural Sciences |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
(Bioscience) Engineering |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
Natural Sciences |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
Life Sciences and Medicine |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
all DS |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication, Teamwork, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) | |
all DS |
12 May to 9 June 2022 (ON CAMPUS) (*rec.) |
Communication skills |
Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) |
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English Proficiency for Presentations
|
all DS |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) |
all DS |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
|
all DS |
13 and 20 May 2022 (ON CAMPUS) (*rec.) |
Communication skills | Communication (IS) |
all DS | To be announced | Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
NS, LSM & BSE | To be announced | Communication skills |
Communication (IS) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
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How to get published | all DS |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Communication skills |
Communication (IS) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
all DS | To be announced | Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
Developing and Refining Academic Research Writing (on themes of Conflict, Rights and Justice) |
AHL & SBS | 15 + 16 February & 16 March + 19 April + 11 May + 7 June 2022 | Communication skills |
Communication (IS) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
all DS | 19 + 20 May 2022 & 23 June 2022 | Communication skills |
Personal Effectiveness (PL) Communication (IS) |
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all DS | To be announced | Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
all DS |
To be announced |
Communication skills | Communication, Teamwork (IS) | |
Intercultural communication: Meet people, not cultures & practice communication styles |
all DS | 9 + 16 November 2022 | Communication skills | Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) |
Popular scientific writing: reach readers outside of academic walls (Previously know as 'Science Communication: writing for non-specialists and press') |
all DS | To be announced | Communication skills |
Communication, Teamwork, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) Community engagement (PR) |
Intercultural competences: navigating foreign academic cultures |
all DS | To be announced | Communication skills | Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) |
all DS | 23 + 30 June 2022 | Communication skills | Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) | |
all DS | 5-7 July 2022 | Communication skills | Communication (IS) | |
all DS | To be announced | Leadership & Personal efficiency | Informal leadership, Career development, Personal effectiveness (PL) | |
all DS |
May-June 2022 (*rec.) |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Project management (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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Meeting skills | all DS |
To be announced |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Personal effectiveness (PL) Teamwork (IS) |
all DS |
To be announced (*rec) |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Informal leadership, Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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Communication Skills basic + follow-up Modules Conflict management + Negotiation skills |
all DS |
March-June 2022 (*rec.) |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Informal leadership, Personal effectiveness (PL) Communication, Teamwork (IS) |
all DS |
To be announced |
Leadership & Personal efficiency | Informal leadership, Career development, Personal effectiveness (PL) | |
all DS |
To be announced |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Personal effectiveness (PL) International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) |
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all DS | 9 May + 7 June 2022 | Leadership & Personal efficiency | Personal effectiveness (PL) | |
all DS | 1 + 8 September 2022 |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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all DS | 8 June 2022 |
Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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From PhD to SME 2022: a 1-year leadership programme developed by VOKA |
all DS | From Feb 2022 to Nov 2022 |
Communication skills + Leadership & Personal efficiency + Career management |
Career development (PL) |
AHL: Faculty of Law and Criminology |
AY 2021-2022 (recurring) |
Research & Valorization + Communication Skills |
Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR) Communication (IS) |
|
all DS |
To be announced |
Research & Valorization | Ethics and integrity, Community engagement (PR) | |
all DS | To be announced | Research & Valorization |
Research management (EX) Critical and analytical skills (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
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Expedition DO! (counts as specialist course + 1 transferable skills seminar) |
all DS |
March-October (*rec) |
Research & Valorization |
Innovation & creativity (CT) Teamwork (IS) Career development (PR) |
all DS |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Research & Valorization |
Critical and analytical skills (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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(Bioscience) Engineering and Natural Sciences |
8-10 June 2022 |
Research & Valorization |
Critical and analytical skills (CT) |
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Research Data management: a practical course | (Bioscience) Engineering and Natural Sciences |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Research & Valorization |
Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
Life Sciences & Medicine |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Research & Valorization |
Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
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Arts, Humanities & Law and Social & Behavioural Sciences |
To be announced (*rec.) |
Research & Valorization |
Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR) |
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Next-level searching for scientific information | all DS |
April, May, June, September, October and November 2022 |
Research & Valorization |
Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL) |
all DS |
17 May 2022 |
Career management |
Informal leadership, Career development (PL) Communication (IS) |
|
all DS | To be announced | Career management |
Specialised knowledge (EX) Project management (CT) Career development (PL) |
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all DS | To be announced | Career management | Informal leadership, Career development (PL) | |
all DS |
27/04 + 12+25/05 + 15/06/2022 9+20/05 + 1+16/06/2022 (*rec) |
Career management |
Project management (CT) Informal leadership (PL) Communication (IS) |
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Bounce! Working with confidence, slip-ups, stress and resilience |
all DS |
To be announced (*rec) |
Career management | Personal effectiveness (PL) |
From the definition of a realistic career plan to an effective job search strategy |
all DS | To be announced | Career management | Informal leadership, Career development (PL) |
all DS |
17+18 May 2022 (ON-CAMPUS) (*rec) |
Career management |
Critical & analytical skills, Innovation & creativity (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL) |
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Interuniversity Job Market for Young Researchers 2022 | all DS |
16 May 2022 (ON CAMPUS) |
Career management | Informal leadership, Career development (PL) |
all DS |
May 2022 (ON CAMPUS) June 2022 (ONLINE) August - September 2022 (ONLINE) (*rec.) |
Career management |
Personal effectiveness, Career development (PL) Communication (IS) |
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Code kfg22FP for PhD's |
all DS |
18+19 May 2022 |
Career Management |
Informal leadership, Career development (PL) Communication (IS) |
all DS |
1+2 June 2022 |
Career management |
Informal leadership, Career development (PL) Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS) Ethics and integrity, Community engagement (PR) |
*Every competency corresponds to a skill cluster: EX: Expertise; CT: Critical Thinking; PL: Professional Leadership; IS: Interpersonal Skills; PR: Professionalism
Selection of other courses
PhD students who want to include one of the courses listed below or any other course in their Doctoral Training Programme are required to submit an application for recognition (AfR) .
Subject/Course title | Academic Year/Dates | Organiser | Registration | Cluster |
5-16 September 2022 | FLAMES |
FLAMES |
Research & Valorization | |
M6: Leverage your R skills: data wrangling & plotting with tidyverse |
January 25 and 27, 2022, 1.30 pm | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization |
M9: Getting started with NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis |
February 10, 2022, 9 am | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization |
February 11, 2022, from 9 am | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization | |
March 7, 10, 14, 17 and 24, 2022, 5.30 pm | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization | |
M15: Mastering R skills: selected topics for successful programming |
April 4, 7, 11 and 14, 2022, 5.30 pm | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization |
April 19 and 26, May 3, 10 and 17, 2022, 5.30 pm | IPVW (ICES) |
IPVW (ICES) |
Research & Valorization | |
Tutor LISa-teams 2022 | 19, 20 & 21 April 2022 | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, HoGent & Artevelde Hogeschool | Organiser | Research & Valorization |
Courses & training in AI | 2021-2022 | Flemish AI Academy (VAIA) | Organiser | Research & Valorization (if minimum conditions are met & AfR is approved) |
Knowledge Transfer skills for Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts | 2021-2022 | Ghent University, Technology Transfer | Organiser | Research & Valorization |
Introduction to Technology Transfer skills | 2021-2022 | Ghent University, Technology Transfer | Organiser | Research & Valorization |
Dare to Venture | 2021-2022 | Ghent University | OASIS course code E076460 | Leadership & Personal efficiency |
Co-supervise the "Climate Neutral City Mission," a challenge-based, interdisciplinary ENLIGHT course | 2021-2022 | UGent, ENLIGHT | Organiser | Career management |
Co-supervise the Global Engagement Module, a challenge-based, interdisciplinary ENLIGHT course | 2021-2022 | UGent, ENLIGHT | Organiser | Career management |
Dare to Start | 2021-2022 | Ghent University | OASIS course code E076470 | Career management |
Online Onderwijstraject voor Assistenten (in Dutch) | 2021-2022 | Office for Educational Quality Control | Search for the course title in the UTOP course catalogue. | Career management |
Seminaries Onderwijskunde (in Dutch) | 2021-2022 | UGent, HoGent, Arteveldehogeschool, Howest | Organiser | Career management (attend at least 3 seminars; note that the annual Onderwijsdag also counts as a seminar) |
Strategies in qualitative data-analysis from a grounded theory perspective | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Ethnographic research | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Literature Reviews with NVivo | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
A Practical Introduction to Data Science | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Qualitative Comparative Analysis | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Narrative analysis | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
From the field to the headquarters: Doing ethnography in centres of power | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Design and Analysis of Observational Studies | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Statistical Modeling Using R | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Introduction to R | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Strategies in qualitative data-analysis from a Grounded Theory perspective | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Photovoice: the use of participatory photography in qualitative research | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Intervision session for advanced PhD students | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Introduction to databases for young Researchers | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Writing up your findings: the principles of getting your wrok published - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Communication skills |
Introduction to Python for statistical data analysis - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Theory and Practice of Questionnaire Construction and Analysis - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis with R - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Interviews (basic) - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
SPSS for beginners | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Creative with interviews - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Global classroom arts-based research - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Method in Research Design - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Exploratory data analysis with R - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Method in Data Collection - ONLINE | 2021-2022 | FLAMES | FLAMES | Research & Valorization |
Related information
- Structure of the Ghent University Doctoral Training Programme
- Registration, recognition and funding procedures