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)
Advanced Academic English Conference Skills	all DS	To be announced (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication, Teamwork, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS)
Presentation Skills	all DS	12 May to 9 June 2022 (ON CAMPUS) (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS)
English Proficiency for Presentations	all DS	To be announced (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Effective Slides	all DS	To be announced (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Academic Posters	all DS	13 and 20 May 2022 (ON CAMPUS) (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Science Figured Out	all DS	To be announced	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Writing Academic Papers	NS, LSM & BSE	To be announced	Communication skills	Communication (IS) Ethics and integrity (PR)
How to get published	all DS	To be announced (*rec.)	Communication skills	Communication (IS) Ethics and integrity (PR)
Turning research data into powerful visuals	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)
Writer Development Course	all DS	19 + 20 May 2022 & 23 June 2022	Communication skills	Personal Effectiveness (PL) Communication (IS)
Show, don't tell: creating visuals about your research	all DS	To be announced	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Scientific Presentation Skills	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)
How to deal with media and journalists as a researcher	all DS	23 + 30 June 2022	Communication skills	Communication, International & cross-cultural mindset (IS)
Let's Talk Science	all DS	5-7 July 2022	Communication skills	Communication (IS)
Female Brain Power	all DS	To be announced	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Informal leadership, Career development, Personal effectiveness (PL)
Personal effectiveness 2022	all DS	May-June 2022 (*rec.)	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Project management (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL)
Meeting skills	all DS	To be announced	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Personal effectiveness (PL) Teamwork (IS)
Grow to lead	all DS	To be announced (*rec)	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Informal leadership, Personal effectiveness (PL)
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)
Grow your personal brand	all DS	To be announced	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Informal leadership, Career development, Personal effectiveness (PL)
Grow your network with purpose	all DS	To be announced	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Personal effectiveness (PL) International & cross-cultural mindset (IS)
Stress and resilience for researchers	all DS	9 May + 7 June 2022	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Personal effectiveness (PL)
Handling your fear of failure	all DS	1 + 8 September 2022	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Personal effectiveness (PL)
What to know, see and do about burn-out	all DS	8 June 2022	Leadership & Personal efficiency	Personal effectiveness (PL)
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)
Faculty of Law and Criminology Research Training Program: how to conduct excellent research in law and criminology	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)
An introduction to Engaged Learning for PhD students	all DS	To be announced	Research & Valorization	Ethics and integrity, Community engagement (PR)
GDPR in research	all DS	To be announced	Research & Valorization	Research management (EX) Critical and analytical skills (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR)
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)
Speed Reading	all DS	To be announced (*rec.)	Research & Valorization	Critical and analytical skills (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL)
Data manipulation, visualisation and analysis in Python	(Bioscience) Engineering and Natural Sciences	8-10 June 2022	Research & Valorization	Critical and analytical skills (CT)
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)
	Arts, Humanities & Law and Social & Behavioural Sciences	To be announced (*rec.)	Research & Valorization	Research management (EX) Project management (CT) Ethics and integrity (PR)
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)
PhD Innovation Café 2022	all DS	17 May 2022	Career management	Informal leadership, Career development (PL) Communication (IS)
FWO Postdoc Grant Writing Course	all DS	To be announced	Career management	Specialised knowledge (EX) Project management (CT) Career development (PL)
Your career after your PhD	all DS	To be announced	Career management	Informal leadership, Career development (PL)
Project management 2022	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)
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)
Creative thinking	all DS	17+18 May 2022 (ON-CAMPUS) (*rec)	Career management	Critical & analytical skills, Innovation & creativity (CT) Personal effectiveness (PL)
Interuniversity Job Market for Young Researchers 2022	all DS	16 May 2022 (ON CAMPUS)	Career management	Informal leadership, Career development (PL)
Applying for a post-PhD job	all DS	May 2022 (ON CAMPUS) June 2022 (ONLINE) August - September 2022 (ONLINE) (*rec.)	Career management	Personal effectiveness, Career development (PL) Communication (IS)
Knowledge for growth Code kfg22FP for PhD's	all DS	18+19 May 2022	Career Management	Informal leadership, Career development (PL) Communication (IS)
Preparing for an international career	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
FLAMES Summer School	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
M10: Dynamic report generation with R markdown	February 11, 2022, from 9 am	IPVW (ICES)	IPVW (ICES)	Research & Valorization
M13: Upgrade your Python skills: data wrangling & plotting	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
M17: building interactive apps with Shiny© in R	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