Many Postdocs are highly motivated and driven to succeed in the academic field. But while their minds are buzzing with brilliant ideas, the pressure to perform and the uncertainties in the academic field can take a toll on their well-being and productivity. If approached effectively, these challenges can also be the beginning of a deeply transformative personal and scientific maturation process that paves the road to sustainable success.
The aim of this workshop is to empower participants to manage their energy effectively, step into the unknown of the research process with curiosity and have confidence into their own capacity to overcome obstacles along the way.
AI-based tools enable researchers to work more efficiently and effectively. However, it is important for researchers to use these tools judiciously and with an understanding of their limitations and considering the policies of the funding agencies.
Although the range of tools is currently expanding exponentially, at the current stage the workshop will discuss and use tools, such as perplexity.ai, elicit.org, explainpaper.com, app.litmaps.com, researchrabbit.ai, deepl.com/write, or chat.openai.com/chat.
Arguably the most important part of communicating own research is identifying the key message. Projects are defined by a beginning and by an end. However, in research in spite of time-delimited funding, the end of research projects is often ill-defined. To this end it is important to well define the unique selling point of a project, the beginning of applying and to understand the fundamentals of project management. With this input in mind, the participants work on their central messages on a peer-to-peer basis
An executive summary succinctly encapsulates the research, emphasizing its importance and potential impact. Strategies will clearly convey the central theme of a project, tailored for an audience that includes funding agencies and interdisciplinary review panels. The aim is to equip participants with the skills necessary to craft a professional and effective executive summary, enhancing the important first impression of their grant applications.
A graphical abstract is one single‐panel image that is designed to give reviewers an immediate understanding of the take‐home message of the scientific paper, poster, project, grant application a.s.f. The ideal graphical abstract should be self-explanatory. The reviewer should quickly understand it and get an overview over a grant project. Working on graphical abstracts will be considered on participants’ demand.
The workshop will focus on the following essential project management tools:
* SMART goal setting
* What are priorities in a project? (“MoSCoW” analysis)
* SWOT contingency planning
* Graphical representation of the timeline with a GANTT chart
* What are milestones and deliverables?
* Why to identify stakeholders? How to handle them?
Budgeting
In this module participants will discuss why and how to construct budgets backwards instead of forwards. How to find out how much total sum proposals should apply for? How to distribute funding between salaries, consumables and investments? What are “overheads”? After this block, participants will dispose of the PM armamentarium required for successful grant writing.
Many Postdocs are highly motivated and driven to succeed in the academic field. But while their minds are buzzing with brilliant ideas, the pressure to perform and the uncertainties in the academic field can take a toll on their well-being and productivity. If approached effectively, these challenges can also be the beginning of a deeply transformative personal and scientific maturation process that paves the road to sustainable success.
The aim of this workshop is to empower participants to manage their energy effectively, step into the unknown of the research process with curiosity and have confidence into their own capacity to overcome obstacles along the way.
Sonstiges 15.07.2024, 10:00 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr, WST-B04.05, Berliner Platz 6-8, 45127 Essen
Promovieren macht Spaß - und kann gleichzeitig ganz schön frustrieren. In der Gruppe entstehen oft neue Perspektiven, Erkenntnisse und Handlungsoptionen, die für mehr Klarheit sorgen, die Motivation steigern und die Zielerreichung fördern.
Das moderierte kollegiale Coaching für Promovierende der UDE unterstützt Sie daher auf dem Weg zur Promotion und bei der weiteren Karriereplanung durch Selbstreflexion, Feedback und überfachliche Kompetenzentwicklung.
Supervisorin: Valentina Vasilov, Graduate Center Plus
Um die eigene Forschungsgruppe erfolgreich zu leiten, ist eine klare Ausrichtung und Struktur des Arbeitsbereichs von zentraler Bedeutung.
Im Workshop lernen Sie mit dem sogenannten „Managementhaus“ ein Steuerungswerkzeug für eine effiziente und effektive Gestaltung Ihrer Einheit kennen.
Durch eine tiefe Reflexion und Auseinandersetzung mit fünf Bereichen des Hauses: Vision/Strategie, Aufgabenverteilung/-steuerung, Prozessgestaltung, Regelkommunikation und Werte/Normen entsteht für Sie ein Gesamtbild Ihres Führungsrahmens. So wird für Sie sichtbar, wo Sie ggf. „nachsteuern“ sollten.
Über den Austausch mit den anderen Teilnehmer:innen erhalten Sie Ideen, wie Sie Ihrem Forschungsteams besser Orientierung geben können, sowohl individuell als auch in der Zusammenarbeit.
Scientific and research group work-processes are more and more based on project-work, sometimes with widely disparate and diverse members. This needs competences in two areas - project management skills and also the knowledge of how to build a team and to be able to cooperate with a variety of different personalities. In this seminar we teach you how to combine these two abilities.
Scientific and research group work-processes are more and more based on project-work, sometimes with widely disparate and diverse members. This needs competences in two areas - project management skills and also the knowledge of how to build a team and to be able to cooperate with a variety of different personalities. In this seminar we teach you how to combine these two abilities.
