Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Performance training - get ready for your teaching, presentations or PhD defense
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3922-22-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 10/01/2022

Date and time	08.02.2022, at: 09:00 - 16:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	1,800.00 kr.
Lecturers	Nicole Schmitt
ECTS credits	0.90

Contact person	Nicole Schmitt E-mail address: nschmitt@sund.ku.dk

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

Aim and content 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: 1. Identify personal communication patterns 2. Understand rhetorical and performative principles 3. Apply the obtained knowledge on own cases Content The aim of this course is to improve the oral communication capacity of the individual participant, so that you are better equipped for presentations, teaching activities, communication to peers or external collaboration partners, foundations and decision-makers, etc. The course will cover aspects such as use of voice, body language, storytelling technique, dramaturgical methods for building a presentation, the use of visual instruments and structural tools. The course emphasizes the practical element of the dissemination, and is based on the PhD students' own research. Case-based work is carried out where you work with own cases – i.e. communication tasks you are about to solve. In this way, the course taps into a busy everyday life and serves as preparation for a given presentation activity. It should be pointed out that although the teaching is based on rhetorical and performative disciplines, it is not a question of making the participant an actor – but strengthening the your performative preparedness (e.g. handling nervousness) skills and not least impact. Participants Participants should have a presentation task to solve which may span everything from classroom teaching, scientific presentation for peers or at conferences, or PhD defense. Before the start of the course, each participants is asked to send a brief description of their own communicative challenges and purpose of participating in the course (the personal learning goal). Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language English or Danish, dependent on participants Form The course alternates between presentations, workshops, exercises, student presentations, feedback, individual coaching and group work. Prior to the course, the students receive a short video where they get a brief introduction to the course. The participants are expected to prepare a short oral presentation (duration max. 5 min.) prior to course. The topic must be either a presentation of the own research project in general or of a central part of the own PhD project. The presentation must comprise start, middle and end and target the other course participants, i.e. fellow PhD students not necessarily familiar with the topic. Course director Nicole Schmitt, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH, nschmitt@sund.ku.dk Teachers Bent Nørgaard, communication consultant and stage director, www.bentnørgaard.dk Dates 8 February 2022 Course location Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The Panum Instititute, room number tba Registration Please register before 10 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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