Courses and events

The courses of the Doctoral School in Environmental, Food and Biological Sciences are directed to all doctoral candidates within the school. The aim is to help doctoral candidates to earn the skills necessary for professional researchers, as well as experts in other scientific positions. Discipline-specific courses are offered by the doctoral programmes within the school. The majority of the courses are in English.

Attending a course normally requires pre-registration. After closing the course registration applicants will receive a notification about participation in the course. If the number of course applicants exceeds the number of available seats, the selection of attendees is based on:

status and affiliation of applicants (1st priority: doctoral candidates within the YEB Doctoral School)
motivation and need for participating in the course (stated in the course application form)
order of submitting the registration form

Please note: *no-show*means that registered participants do not inform the organizers in time if they decide to skip the course/event they have signed up for, despite of the fact that cancellation of participation is typically very simple and requires only an e-mail to the organizers. Such behaviour is a huge waste of all resources, thus the YEB Board decided on September 14 2016 that if a doctoral candidate has *no-shows* it may have influence to get travel grants in the next application round.

Spring 2017

Autumn 2017

Spring 2018

Spring 2017

Conference Presentation (2 credits)

Presenting at a conference:beginning, proceeding, distressing, summarising, ending. Dealing with audience questions appropriately and clearly. Lectures combined with in-class presentations by participants. 80% attendance and assignment completion required.

Time: 21.4.–26.5. on Fridays 9.00–12.00
Teacher: Vanessa Fuller
Place: 21.4, 28.4. 5.5,12.5 and 26.5. Metsätiet.talo, sali 341 (seminar room 12), NOTE: 19.5. Seminar Room 540 (sh13), Latokartanonkaari 7

Project management and leadership (1.5 ECTS)

Time: 17.–19.5.2017 at 8:30–17
Location: Viikki:, 17.5.2017 Biocenter 2, Room 2012 (Viikinkaari 5), 18.5. Biocenter 3, room 1402, and 19.5. Biocenter 3, room 2402

Teacher: Sergey Nesterov

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: What can writing a research paper in 2017 have in common with sending a man to space in 1961 or building a pyramid in 2560 BC ? All the three are projects—temporary endeavours aimed at creating unique outcomes. Projects have a scope, a schedule, a budget, a certain level of quality, etc.; to animate them, somebody needs to manage and lead the team. This course in Project Management and Leadership consists of 10 lectures and 3 practical sessions delivered in three days. The course will give you a solid grasp of the Project Management discipline and possibilities for its application to projects in different fields. As practice shows, anyone from a PhD student to a practicing Project Manager will benefit.

Registration is closed

Autumn 2017

Esiintymiskurssi

Syyskuu, 9.00–13.45 (Teoria + harjoituksia: 7.–8.9; 13.–15.9; 21.–22.9.2017)

Esiintymistaidon kurssi on tarkoitettu jatko-opiskelijoille, jotka haluavat varmuutta esiintymistilanteisiin, kuten luentojen, esitelmien ja puheiden pitämiseen. Kurssilla voit valmistautua väitöstilaisuudessa esittämääsi lektioon. Tarkoitettu erityisesti opiskelijoille, jotka väittelevät vuoden sisällä.

15–25 osallistujaa

Kurssin sisältö jakaantuu kolmeen osa-alueeseen:
1. Hengitys- ja puhetekniikkaan
2. Rentoutusharjoituksiin, joilla voi lieventää jännitystä
3. Esiintymiseen teknisenä suorituksena.

Kurssin opettaja on TeM Mia Pätsi, www.miapatsi.com.

Ilmoittautumislomake on auki 17.4.–30.6. 2017.

Principles of business for Bioscientists (2 credits)

Time: 4.10.–1.11.2017
Applications

How to prepare for applying for a job (2 credits)

Time: November–December 2017

This course will prepare you for applying for a job outside academia. You will learn how to write a cover letter for a job application and get real life experience from a job interview. Students participating on this course will get three to four job advertisements and prepare an application to two of them.

Teachers: Career Councelor Leena Itkonen from Career Services

YEB Science communication (2 credits)

Time: 11.10.2017 at Viikki 9-14: Pirjo Koskinen, Petri Nummi: Lectures and instructions for workshops

and

31.10.–2.11.2017 (9–18), Place: Kallio-kuninkala, Järvenpää: TV workshop + rhetorics, presentation skills, popular writing, poster workshop

Nice time together, activities!

Programme below:

Teachers: Pirjo Koskinen, Mika Hietanen, Petri Nummi
OBS: max 30 participants
Applications

Conference presentation

Carol Norris, Thu 14.00–17.00 / 14.9.–19.10.

Scientific writing

Alyce Whipp, Fri 9.00–12.00 / 3.11.–8.12.

Grant writing

Vanessa Fuller, Fri 9.00–12.00 / 22.9.–6.10.

Academic Pitching

Vanessa Fuller, Fri 9.00–12.00 / 13.–27.10

Spring 2018

Conference presentation

Carol Norris, Thu 14.00–17.00 / 25.1.–1.3.

Scientific writing

Alyce Whipp, Fri 9.00–12.00 / 20.4.–25.5.

Grant writing

Vanessa Fuller, Fri 9.00–12.00 / 9.–23.3.

Peer Review

Vanessa Fuller, Tue 9.00–12.00/13.–27.2

Project management and leadership

21.–23.3.2018, every day 9–17

Data exploration, regression, GLM & GAM (2 credits)

19.–23.3.2018

Teachers: Dr Alain F.Zuur and Dr. Elena Ieno, Highland Statisticsby HighlinR-course and GLM- statistical courses
Place: Minerva, Siltavuorenpenger 5A, atk K219
Time: 9–16:30
Registration opens: autumn 2017