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

Timing: lectures at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays 4.10-1.11.2017 and Thursdays 5.10-26.10.2017. First week of November for completing the group assignments with the help of course coordinators / supervisors.

Objective: After completing this course the student has learned the state of art business models and management tools acquired in start-up and modern businesses these days. The course will acquaint students with different terminologies related to the business. The basic principles of business concepts are useful for all bioscientists, no matter what career is chosen.

Contents: The emphasis of the course is in implementing science and research to the business. Here the customer value perspective is central with the marketing and sales management concepts and practices. Other segments of management are also introduced including human resources and operations management. In addition, forms of business ownership, financing and key strategies for reaching global markets will be discussed. Visiting lectures with real research-business cases will introduce how the management models and strategies are implemented in practice.

Study material and literature: Material will be provided during the course. Books: Running lean: iterate from plan A to a plan that works / Ash Maurya. Best Cases in B2B Sales Management / Juha Mattsson ja Petri Parvinen

Completion: Lectures, Group Assignment, No exam

Evaluation: Grading scale: 0-5

Responsible persons: Ph.D. Jani Holopainen, Ph.D. Osmo Mattila (Contact person)

Other information: Teaching in English.

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: 19.10.2017 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

LEADING A CREATIVE ORGANIZATION

1,0 ECTS

Time: Tue 24.10.2017 at 9.15-16.30, Tue 7.11.2017 at 13.15-16.30 and Tue 21.11.2017 at 13.15-16.30

Organizer: Doctoral School in Biological, Environmental and Food Sciences

Place: Viikki

Registration 17.8.- 4.10.2017 at: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/81585/lomake.html

The objective of the training is to give the participant tools to understand the characteristics of a creative person, a creative process, emotions attached to creative work, special characteristics of a creative organization with multiple creative individuals, and finally, the dynamics of supporting creative expert work by leadership.

The course is a practical hands-on workshop and includes introductions, exercises, discussions, student projects and seminars. As projects students will find practical solutions to challenging work and leadership situations.

TEACHER: Virpi Haavisto is a professional coach, leadership advancer and a specialist in facilitating creative work. She is a certified coach by International Coaching Federation ICF. Haavisto has graduated as M.Sc. from Helsinki University of Technology HUT. She has been a Visiting PhD Scholar at Stern School of Business at New York University (Management and Organizational Behavior)

Conference presentation

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

applications: coming soon

weboodi YEB-103

Scientific writing

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

Oodi: YEB-104

Grant writing

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

Oodi: YEB-105

Academic Pitching

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

Oodi: YEB-106

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

University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

Courses and events

Spring 2017

Conference Presentation (2 credits)

Project management and leadership (1.5 ECTS)

Autumn 2017

Esiintymiskurssi

Principles of business for Bioscientists (2 credits)

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

YEB Science communication (2 credits)

LEADING A CREATIVE ORGANIZATION

Conference presentation

Scientific writing

Grant writing

Academic Pitching

Spring 2018

Conference presentation

Scientific writing

Grant writing

Peer Review

Project management and leadership

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