Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

LinkedIn and X (Twitter) Networking for Health Scientists
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3794-25-00-00	There are 15 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 26/02/2025

Date and time	26.03.2025, at: 09:00 - 09.04.2025, at: 13:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	1,080.00 kr.

Contact person	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@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 NorDoc member faculties. 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. Understand how to use LinkedIn and X (Twitter) to expand their global network within a specific research field 2. Identify personal routines, augmented by automation, that can monitor news and ideas from specific research areas 3. Network efficiently at events and conferences using LinkedIn and X (Twitter) 4. Get other people involved in their own research 5. Disseminate their own research to a wider specialised audience Content This is a practical, hands-on workshop in health science communication and the use of social media platforms LinkedIn and X (Twitter) for networking and dissemination. Social media platforms such as LinkedIn and X (Twitter) can allow researchers to network with other international colleagues within a highly specialized niche area. Participants in this workshop will learn how to break out of the filter bubble of their own social media newsfeed, and open up to new collaboration partners and ideas. The workshop will introduce participants to the latest techniques and best practices in the tracking and sharing of content on social media in the health science area. It will be mostly focused on the platforms LinkedIn and X (Twitter), but will also touch on other platforms. Participants PhD students in health science Relevance to graduate programmes The workshop 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 Form Two half-days (4 hours), consisting of short lectures interspersed with in-class exercises, discussion, and in-class group work. There will be preparation (2 hours before the course) and homework (4 hours) between the two half-day sessions. Course director Mike Young, Director, Mike Young Academy, mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk Teachers Mike Young, Director, Mike Young Academy, mike@mikeyoungacademy.dk Dates 26 March 2025 09:00-13:00 9 April 2025 09:00-13:00 Course location 26 March 2025 - Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N. Room 7.15.149 (Top of Maersk Tower) 9 April 2025 - Panum, Blegdamsvej 3b, 2200 Copenhagen N. Room 7.15.149 (Top of Maersk Tower) Registration Please register before 3 March 2025 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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