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.

How many of you are doing a Dream PhD trajectory?How passionate are VUB PhD researchers?How well-developed are the supervision teams?

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

two day seminar on Theory and Practice of Questionnaire Construction and Analysis. The aim of this course is to train PhD's in scientifically preparing a valid and reliable questionnaire.  

DESIRE, the centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance (www.researchcentredesire.eu) organises a one-day PhD masterclass on discourse theoretical approaches to politics, society, communication and media. The PhD masterclass will take place on 6 February 2019.

In recent years, Beckett studies have also embraced new...

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.

Tuesday, February 12, 2019  Starts at: 14:30 h Various locations: See Program for details     Find out where your heart lies  Who is this event for?  This event is organized for students (Master, Bachelor) and young researchers (PhD candidates and postdocs) within the ...

Present your PhD research and win the Upcoming Scientist Award @ Innovation for Health | 14th of February 2019 | Rotterdam Do you want to present your research, gain insight in the life sciences & health sector, expand your network and win €1.000? Then join the PhD poster...

Activity type: Master Class / PhD_Research_review...

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

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...

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...

managing your time, confidence and resilience

Type 2 inflammation rich in eosinophils, basophils and mast cells and orchestrated by Th2 lymphocytes has been mainly studied in the context of allergies and immune responses to helminths. Since the discovery of type 2 innate lymphoid cells there has been a strong interest in...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Regression is one of the most often used techniques of statistical analysis. It allows to investigate the relation between one dependent and one or more independent variables. It can deal with variables at various measurement levels, and it serves as the basis for more advanced...

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...

The course will provide an introduction to the issues raised by missing data and it will illustrate the shortcomings of ad-hoc methods like deletion, recoding, complete case analysis for 'handling' missing data.  

After two successful editions (Jan 2015, Leuven and March 2017, Antwerp), VIB is proud to present the third edition of this Tools & Technologies conference....

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,...

Doctoral school NSE organizes his PhD day combined with the doctoral schools PhD cup pre-selections.

Statistics for research and data analysis2018-2019...

The Researcher Training & Development Office and the Doctoral Schools in collaboration with the VUB Career Center present the Career Coaching Course for PhDs!

Usually logical methods are seen as part and parcel of mathematical methods, but that view is too limited. Logic deals with an evaluation of the quality, including correctness, of all kinds of reasonings and argumentations, including as a borderline case, proof. Many examples will...

How many of you are doing a Dream PhD trajectory?How passionate are VUB PhD researchers?How well-developed are the supervision teams?

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.

This session will address:...

“Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights (focussing on the use of IP rights in the context of R&D collaboration with third parties and / or commercial exploitation of IP rights on research results, but anyone else interested might register too)”

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

Upon completion of this workshop, you should be able to position your PhD within the context of your research domain; to formulate unique and innovative research questions; to identify research objectives; to justify your chosen research methodologies; and to understand strategies...

The modern knowledge worker has to read more and more in our information society. Without proper training, our average/habitual reading speed of 250 words per minute would require more than 6 hours per day to remain up to date. New insights in how the brain processes information,...

two day seminar on Theory and Practice of Questionnaire Construction and Analysis. The aim of this course is to train PhD's in scientifically preparing a valid and reliable questionnaire.  

The course will provide an introduction to the issues raised by missing data and it will illustrate the shortcomings of ad-hoc methods like deletion, recoding, complete case analysis for 'handling' missing data.  

Statistics for research and data analysis2018-2019...

An intake test will be organized to measure your level of English*. You need to complete the test after preregistration, and then you will receive an email which course you are enrolled in....

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...

This session will address:...

The aim of this workshop is to guide young researchers through all stages of the publication process, allowing them to plan their writing and publication methods, and ultimately their career, with much greater care.

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...

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,...

Type 2 inflammation rich in eosinophils, basophils and mast cells and orchestrated by Th2 lymphocytes has been mainly studied in the context of allergies and immune responses to helminths. Since the discovery of type 2 innate lymphoid cells there has been a strong interest in...

After two successful editions (Jan 2015, Leuven and March 2017, Antwerp), VIB is proud to present the third edition of this Tools & Technologies conference....

Doctoral school NSE organizes his PhD day combined with the doctoral schools PhD cup pre-selections.

Statistics for research and data analysis2018-2019...

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

How many of you are doing a Dream PhD trajectory?How passionate are VUB PhD researchers?How well-developed are the supervision teams?

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

Present your PhD research and win the Upcoming Scientist Award @ Innovation for Health | 14th of February 2019 | Rotterdam Do you want to present your research, gain insight in the life sciences & health sector, expand your network and win €1.000? Then join the PhD poster...

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

two day seminar on Theory and Practice of Questionnaire Construction and Analysis. The aim of this course is to train PhD's in scientifically preparing a valid and reliable questionnaire.  

DESIRE, the centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance (www.researchcentredesire.eu) organises a one-day PhD masterclass on discourse theoretical approaches to politics, society, communication and media. The PhD masterclass will take place on 6 February 2019.

In recent years, Beckett studies have also embraced new...

managing your time, confidence and resilience

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...

Participants will leave this workshop with a completely different approach to negotiation skills. The workshop starts by exploring the biggest fears and blocks that accompany difficult situations and conflicts. It then moves onto revealing how proven techniques and psychological...

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,...

Participants will leave this workshop with a completely different approach to negotiation skills. The workshop starts by exploring the biggest fears and blocks that accompany difficult situations and conflicts. It then moves onto revealing how proven techniques and psychological...

Tuesday, February 12, 2019  Starts at: 14:30 h Various locations: See Program for details     Find out where your heart lies  Who is this event for?  This event is organized for students (Master, Bachelor) and young researchers (PhD candidates and postdocs) within the ...

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...

Young researchers are almost inevitably confronted with questions and...

Young researchers are almost inevitably confronted with questions and...

The Researcher Training & Development Office and the Doctoral Schools in collaboration with the VUB Career Center present the Career Coaching Course for PhDs!