We are excited to bring you two seminars this spring about career management for PhD students. The presenters are Asst. Prof. Dr Casey Kennington from Boise State University, US and Prof. Dr Artur Lugmayr from University of Western Australia (UWA) & Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. Both are distinguished researchers with broad experience within the academic field. More info can be found below.
We hope you will take this opportunity to learn and to develop your future career as a researcher!
Seminar 1: Skills for Managing your Academic Self and Dissertation Writing Casey Kennington, PhD.
Dissertation writing can be an invigorating and enjoyable process. In this talk, I will give some tips and strategies for preparing for, managing, and writing your dissertation. I will also talk about how those skills generalize to managing yourself in an academic setting, a setting with many complex facets including teaching, writing, researching, service, networking, among other things. I draw upon my own PhD experience and my experience as an assistant professor since 2016.
I received my bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brigham Young University. My master’s work was done in the Erasmus Mundus European Masters in Language and Communication Technology program, where I spent my first year at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, and my second year at Nancy 2 University (now Lorraine University) in Nancy, France. I graduated with a PhD from Bielefeld University in Germany advised by David Schlangen. During my PhD studies, I spent 3 months as an intern at Honda Research Institute, supervised by Kotaro Funakoshi. My post-doctoral work was in the KogniHome project at Bielefeld working on dialogue management for an intelligent apartment project. I am currently an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department of Boise State University.
Seminar 2: Science Management “for Dummies” – Tools for Successful Early Career Scholars Artur Lugmayr, PhD.
This motivational talk is addressed towards early career researchers, doctoral students, and others at the beginning of their scientific careers. This talk should help future scholars to succeed in their future careers, as others should learn from our mistakes or successes. The talk will briefly discuss 1) management and personal skills; 2) getting cited and publishing in the best for a; 3) working and management in universities; 4) improving teaching skills and designing curricula and lectures, and 5) collaboration with industry and other stakeholders.
The talk is targeted towards any discipline and will help early-stage future scholars in understanding the ‘job’ researcher. For senior staff and supervisors, this talk helps to keep the team motivated and on track to generate high-level scientific outputs.
We would like to invite you to the Autumn grand meeting of the PhD branch of the NTK student union. We encourage you to participate and be active in your PhD life, and this is a great opportunity to meet fellow doctoral candidates from different departments!
During the meeting, we will inform you about some recent news regarding PhD studies, have some discussion, and elect part of the board.
Don’t miss the chance to socialize with other PhD candidates as well as the chance ofplaying for free and get burger at a reduced price! If you are interested, please fill this form, so that we can book a table in advance for you 😊 (please register by 29th of November).
PhD section of student union (NTK) would like to welcome new PhD students to Umeå University. Umeå is a great place to study and live and we hope that you enjoy being here. The Umeå Student Union of Science and Technology, NTK, is the student union for everyone studying engineering, science, architecture or design at Umeå University.
We would like to invite ALL PhD students at Umeå University to our social gathering on Saturday, 28th September on the campus area. For new PhDs, this is a chance to meet other fellow PhD students and to know more about NTK activities/supports. The weather forecasts show quite good temperature for that day (around 13C). We will prepare some BBQ food and provide some snacks and you bring your own drinks. We will hang out and play Swedish group-games such as “kub” and “bränboll”.
Please come to this event with your friends and families and enjoy the weekend with the fellow PhD students.
Please sign-up here no later than 27th September at 12:00.
What: Social event with BBQ and games
When: Saturday, 28th September, 16:00-18:00
Where: In front of the pond inside the university campus.
If you have any question, please ask by responding to this email.
Summer is almost here. Please join us for a lunch picnic to feel (or try to feel) the summer in Umeå!
The Board of the NTK PhD section is happy to invite you for a barbeque picnic as an end of semester event. On the picnic, we will have a summer inspired picnic friendly lunch ready for you (Sallad, bread, fruit, vegetables, barbeque stuffs etc.). Don’t miss out the opportunity to socialize with your fellow doctoral colleagues and enjoy some free food (if you are not member of NTK, then you need to bring your own foo for barbeque, but we will provide drink, sallads and bread).
We would like to invite you to the Grand meeting of the PhD branch of NTK student union. We encourage you to participate and be active in your PhD life, and this is a great opportunity to meet fellow doctoral candidates from different departments! The meeting will be held in English.
During the meeting we will inform you about the most recent issues regarding PhD studies, elect a new board, and we also have several positions that you can apply for (you will get prolongation days or salary of your employment depends on the position), here you can find more information!
If you are interested in any of the positions, please send an email before the meeting to sharmin.ahmed@umu.se
We will offer a free lunch for NTK members, Register Here (The last date of registration is 10th May)
Please join us for Afterwork to enliven from the darkness in Umeå!
We will start at 17:30 in Rött (Axtorpsvägen 32, Berghem, near ICA) on Wednesday, December 05. You may order food and/or drink, or simply join to get to know your fellow doctoral colleagues from different departments.
If you decide to join, please contact us via email or just notify in FaceBook event, so that we can book table beforehand.
The Board of the NTK PhD section (Umeå student union of science and technology) is happy to invite all doctoral candidates (members who are, or would like to be become, active within NTK) to attend our autumn grand meeting. The event will be held in English. On the event, we will serve lunch. Don’t miss out the opportunity get to know NTK PhD section activities AND meet with your fellow doctoral colleagues while having lunch.
When: Tuesday, October 16, 11:00-13:00
Where: NA326, Naturvetarhuset (Icelab).
Register: To register for the lunch, please fill the doodle no later thanFriday October 12, 16.00. Use this link to register:
