PhD training offer

Bi-weekly friday afternoon seminar sessions (15.30) at the VUB Jette Campus

A space to build qualitative research expertise by sharing and learning from each other.

During this training, we will introduce computational approaches that are at hand to analyze, integrate and interpret omics data. We target scientists with no or limited knowledge on omics data integration, more advanced levels will be addressed in following sessions in 2019....

The largest career fair for Bio, Chemistry, Food & Pharma in Belgium.

This workshop presents a short demo on how to use the Web of Science for research information retrieval using several search strategies.

How to captivate your audience, get your message across and avoid that no-one gets distracted while you are presenting? 

After a successful first edition of the VIB Conference “Metabolism in cancer and stromal cells” in September 2015, we are pleased to announce the second edition that will take place in the beautiful and historic city of Leuven....

How do you structure and write your research paper to give it the best chance with a journal? Learn about the conventions of research paper styles and find out ways to make your writing clearer and more concise.

 Anthropology of Religion, Ethics and Commodification...

Convinced  that robots, machine learning, AI are the primary ICT technologies? Or will it be something else? 

"Publishing is an essential part of science, as it enables others to learn from your work, build on it, and give you credit for it. But many research papers fail to present the results and conclusions and their importance clearly and engagingly, and so they get fewer readers and...

A global movement where people share stories of professional failure. This edition will focus on failures of researchers and what we can learn from it. They will tell their story in 7 minutes using 10 images.

This one-day workshop for researchers seeking to publish in international peer-reviewed journals focuses on the key criteria involved in journal editors’ selection processes and peer-review.  Based on the inside knowledge of an experienced academic publisher, it is designed to...

A one-day intensive training session on writing research abstracts - a key form of scholarly communication - in the humanities and social sciences.

Setting up the research question should be the result of trial and error accompanied by the literature study. Too often, the research question is either seen as the climax of a literature study, or vice versa, as a means to expand the initial research question into other fields....

Activity type: Content Seminar / Workshop...

We all find it easy to deliver positive messages to people that we like, but can find it extremely difficult to do the same with negative messages (saying no to something, for example). This gets even more difficult when we have a strained relationship with someone; a boss,...

Description of the activity: Workshop for young researchers with mentorship by a team of international experts

Ever wondered what wonderful things you can do with your Life sciences PhD? Come and have breakfast with interesting speakers.  Career stories will be shared, career choices will be explained, tips and tricks about getting into industry with your PhD will be given, and most...

The Central PhD Office organises a workshop on the use of MS Excel in an academic context.  

What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness...

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

Basic Toolkit for PhD-Students: Preparing for the transition into the job market

Have you heard about Portfolio but you don’t know how it works? ...

Would you like to publish an opinion article based on your research expertise? This is the half day workshop for you. We start from a draft you bring yourself: this can be anything from the 5 opening lines to a full text. We investigate how to craft a strong key message that is...

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

The HPC team of the VUB-ULB Shared ICT Services Centre (SISC) is pleased to announce another series of training session, in collaboration with the Vlaams SupercomputerCentrum (VSC) and the Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif (CECI), focussing on young and/or early stage...

As a Post-Doctoral researcher, your ultimate goal is to be an expert in your field. However, in order to be recognized as such and to have impact with your knowledge, communication and influencing skills are essential. Both for a career within academia as well as outside of the...

The training programme “Managing my PhD” is specifically designed for PhD students who have been working on their PhD project during 6 to 12 months. These sessions are for students of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences. 

Qualitative research may be defined as a research process that uses inductive data analysis to learn about the meaning and experiences that participants hold about a problem or issue, by identifying patterns or themes....

As the name suggests, the Introduction Day is meant to welcome starting PhD candidates and gives them essential information about the VUB’s research culture.

Join the introduction to Portfolio and we will instruct you how to make the most of it!

This workshop presents a short demo on how to use the Web of Science for research information retrieval using several search strategies.

Setting up the research question should be the result of trial and error accompanied by the literature study. Too often, the research question is either seen as the climax of a literature study, or vice versa, as a means to expand the initial research question into other fields....

The Central PhD Office organises a workshop on the use of MS Excel in an academic context.  

How do you structure and write your research paper to give it the best chance with a journal? Learn about the conventions of research paper styles and find out ways to make your writing clearer and more concise.

This one-day workshop for researchers seeking to publish in international peer-reviewed journals focuses on the key criteria involved in journal editors’ selection processes and peer-review.  Based on the inside knowledge of an experienced academic publisher, it is designed to...

A one-day intensive training session on writing research abstracts - a key form of scholarly communication - in the humanities and social sciences.

"Publishing is an essential part of science, as it enables others to learn from your work, build on it, and give you credit for it. But many research papers fail to present the results and conclusions and their importance clearly and engagingly, and so they get fewer readers and...

This course aims at teaching researchers how to find and select essential scientific information to make a scientific presentation (e.g. preparation of research proposal, writing of an assignment, report or thesis, thesis findings to be presented in an international conference),...

How to captivate your audience, get your message across and avoid that no-one gets distracted while you are presenting? Conferences, workshops, interviews, competitions… you will face plenty of situations during your career where you need to present your work and convince your...

Presenting your research at an academic conference can be a daunting experience.  Even before you get there, there is the question of identifying the right conference to make your debut, submitting an abstract and getting accepted - and of course writing the paper.  What makes an...

Writing is one of the most important tasks of researchers: during your career you will see yourself drafting journal and conference articles, applications, proposals, reports, thesis, etc. You may have noticed that scientific articles are often hard to read though. Most of the...

Would you like to publish an opinion article based on your research expertise? This is the half day workshop for you. We start from a draft you bring yourself: this can be anything from the 5 opening lines to a full text. We investigate how to craft a strong key message that is...

This 1 day workshop gives you background and practical tips to deal with the media as a researcher. How and when do you contact the press? What if they do not contact you? What if they do? We look at how you can prepare yourself for an interview by a journalist from written press,...

During this training, we will introduce computational approaches that are at hand to analyze, integrate and interpret omics data. We target scientists with no or limited knowledge on omics data integration, more advanced levels will be addressed in following sessions in 2019....

After a successful first edition of the VIB Conference “Metabolism in cancer and stromal cells” in September 2015, we are pleased to announce the second edition that will take place in the beautiful and historic city of Leuven....

How do you structure and write your research paper to give it the best chance with a journal? Learn about the conventions of research paper styles and find out ways to make your writing clearer and more concise.

Convinced  that robots, machine learning, AI are the primary ICT technologies? Or will it be something else? 

Bi-weekly friday afternoon seminar sessions (15.30) at the VUB Jette Campus

During this training, we will introduce computational approaches that are at hand to analyze, integrate and interpret omics data. We target scientists with no or limited knowledge on omics data integration, more advanced levels will be addressed in following sessions in 2019....

The largest career fair for Bio, Chemistry, Food & Pharma in Belgium.

How to captivate your audience, get your message across and avoid that no-one gets distracted while you are presenting? 

A space to build qualitative research expertise by sharing and learning from each other.

 Anthropology of Religion, Ethics and Commodification...

A one-day intensive training session on writing research abstracts - a key form of scholarly communication - in the humanities and social sciences.

Activity type: Content Seminar / Workshop...

The training programme “Managing my PhD” is specifically designed for PhD students who have been working on their PhD project during 6 to 12 months. These sessions are for students of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences. 

managing your time, confidence and resilience

This year, the round table will be organised in cooperation with ULB. The round table will focus on selection of PhD candidates. Four supervisors will share their experience on the topic. Then, the discussion will be open to the audience.

As a Post-Doctoral researcher, your ultimate goal is to be an expert in your field. However, in order to be recognized as such and to have impact with your knowledge, communication and influencing skills are essential. Both for a career within academia as well as outside of the...

The whole program is about getting things done from others and achieving your goals by conducting ‘positive politics’. Instead of having aggressive meetings, or avoiding a  discussion, you will benefit by learning how to build positive coalitions with the right people in the best...

In this training we build up knowledge and experience on creativity and the creative process. The purpose is not to achieve a technical or artistic innovative output during the training. The focus is on how to stimulate creative thinking in a group. Therefore we practice a number ...

In this course, you learn to map your position within the international team and within your network of international relations, interests and stakeholders. This will help you to understand who you are and what you want to achieve, what others expect from you and how you can manage...

Heb je de indruk je meer in je hoofd leeft in de plaats van in het hier-en-nu? Vind je het moeilijk om los te komen uit je gedachtenwereld? Lukt het je niet om tot oplossingen te komen? In de training leer je om beter om te gaan met je piekergedachten. Hierdoor kan je op termijn...

We all find it easy to deliver positive messages to people that we like, but can find it extremely difficult to do the same with negative messages (saying no to something, for example). This gets even more difficult when we have a strained relationship with someone; a boss,...

The largest career fair for Bio, Chemistry, Food & Pharma in Belgium.

An excellent opportunity to find out what kind of employers are looking for researcher profiles, what kind of jobs they have to offer and a great way to determine your own set of criteria to define what may make a match for you!

This course aims at teaching researchers how to find and select essential scientific information to make a scientific presentation (e.g. preparation of research proposal, writing of an assignment, report or thesis, thesis findings to be presented in an international conference),...

Ever wondered what wonderful things you can do with your Life sciences PhD? Come and have breakfast with interesting speakers.  Career stories will be shared, career choices will be explained, tips and tricks about getting into industry with your PhD will be given, and most...

Basic Toolkit for PhD-Students: Preparing for the transition into the job market