Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

NeuroGrad Winter School 2022 (1st year students) (Online)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3764-22-00-01	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 03/01/2022

Date and time	10.01.2022, at: 09:00 - 20.01.2022, at: 17:00
Regular seats	35
Course fee	2,160.00 kr.
Lecturers	Nanna MacAulay
ECTS credits	1.60

Contact person	Nanna MacAulay E-mail address: macaulay@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content The NeuroGrad Winter School is designed to stimulate networking between PhD students affiliated with the graduate program in neurosciences (NeuroGrad) at University of Copenhagen and networking between PhD students and senior researchers in neuroscience. It offers a chance for the PhD students to discuss their project with other PhD students and supervisors. Furthermore, the graduate students will obtain transferable skills relevant to the stage of progress of their PhD study and project. This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1st year graduate students 1. Critically evaluate poster presentations 2. Critically evaluate oral presentations 3. Apply correct scientific writing and structure an abstract 2nd year graduate students 1. Create an efficient poster 2. Apply poster presentation skills to their poster presentations 3rd year graduate students 1. Present at discuss their research project orally 2. Apply communication and presentation skills to oral presentations Content *Day 1* consists of workshops of different skills relevant to the different stages of the graduate studies. 1st year students will attend the course on ‘writing skills in academia’: Writing is an integral part of academia, and includes specific genres such as the abstract, manuscript or the thesis. This workshop contents are: • Structure your writing • Abstract style and format • Legible scientific English The goal of the workshop is for all participants to understand the structure and contents of a good scientific abstract, and to have developed their own abstract during the day in preparation for next year’s winter school. Teacher: Nicolai Paulsen, language consultant 2nd year students will attend the course on ‘PowerPoint Training – Design your own Poster’: Designing a scientific poster requires a good understanding of the features in PowerPoint and a sense of designing flow, models and graphic overview. This workshop combines the technical part of designing with PowerPoint - and the conceptual part of communicating though your own design. This workshop contents are: • Designing in PowerPoint – beyond the default slideshow • Prioritizing and structuring your scientific poster • Build graphic models that underlines your messages • Choose the colors scheme that creates focus and a balanced design • Personal feedback on your draft poster The aim of the workshop is to make you feel comfortable with the PowerPoint features and provide you the skills and understanding for working with poster design independently. After the workshop you get the possibility for personal feedback on your first poster in a 1-1 online meeting. Teacher: Mads Svaneklink, Virtual Lead Trainer & Advisor, Softworld A/S. *note; there will be an optional half day course 10 January 2022 9-12 AM that will cover the basics of PowerPoint (which will not be covered on 11 January 2022) 3rd year students will attend the course on ‘Communication & presentation in the academic context: How to be confident and persuasive’: Whether small talk or academic subject presentation – the ability to present oneself adequately and to communicate one’s concerns effectively is a deciding factor of career related success in academia. With a few fundamental strategies for communication and presentation techniques, it is possible to illustrate complex data in a context relevant way, to convince others, to win supporters and thus reach the respectively set goals. In this workshop the participants engage with their personal communication strategies. Through exercises and role-plays they familiarize themselves with established presentation techniques and train their communicative competencies. The workshop contents are: • Communication basics: Good communication presumes set goals • Presentation basics: Preparation is key • Go public – go scientific! The context makes the difference • Everything under control? Dealing with difficult situations • Role-play: Presentation situations in practice • Minima rhetorica: Tips & tricks on the art of oratory • Communication & presentation:My next steps Teacher: Dr. Warren-Kretzschmar, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement The goal of the workshop is to acquire great presentation skills and get clear ideas of how to prepare your slides for the following week and how to communicate your message in a concise manner. Graduate students affiliated with the graduate program in neuroscience (or other graduate students working in the field) participate in day 1. Day 2** contains plenary lectures and presentations from the PhD students in the graduate program in neurosciences: 2nd year PhD students present their research projects on posters and 3rd year PhD students present their projects orally. The presentations will be evaluated by the 1st year students (for posters, under guidance of a group of supervisors in the graduate program). Plenary lectures by: BrainPrize winner 2021 Professor Jes Olesen, the Headache Center, Glostrup Hospital: ”40years of migraine research” Jan Hellesøe, illusionist: “Get mindfucked with Jan Hellesøe” Prizes will be given to best presentations. Graduate students and supervisors affiliated with the graduate program in neuroscience (or others working in the field of neuroscience) participate in day 2 (which is followed by the NeuroDinner) Participants* The course is intended for PhD students affiliated with the graduate program in Neuroscience, but PhD students in the field of neuroscience, but associated with other graduate programs, are also welcome. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programs at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Neuroscience Language English Form Mixture of plenary lectures, workshops, discussions, oral and poster presentations. Preparation PhD students must prepare either an oral presentation (3rd year), a poster (2nd year), or a light first draft of an abstract + prepare to act as poster/oral presentation reviewers (1st year). Course director Professor Nanna MacAulay, Department of Neuroscience Email address: MacAulay@sund.ku.dk Course administrator Trine Lind Devantier (TLDE@sund.ku.dk) Teachers ‘Writing skills in academia’ is taught by Nicolai Paulsen ‘PowerPoint Training – Design your own Poster’ is taught by Mads Svaneklink, Virtual Lead Trainer & Advisor, Softworld A/S. ‘Communication and presentation in the academic context’ is taught by Dr. Warren-Kretzschmar, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement. Dates 1st year students: 10 January (9-17) + 20 January (9-17 (followed by dinner)), 2022 2nd year students: 11 January (9-17) + 20 January (9-17 (followed by dinner)), 2022 + Optional half day basic power point course 10 January 9-12, 2022 (All 2nd year students registered for NeuroGrad Winter School will be asked whether they want to participate in this extra part) 3rd year students: 10 January or 11 January (9-17) + 20 January (9-17 (followed by dinner)), 2022 Course location Online Registration Please register before 3 January 2022. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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