Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Scientific Project Planning and Management 2 - Finishing your PhD
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3753-25-00-02	There are 20 available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 15/10/2025

Date and time	03.12.2025, at: 09:00 - 04.12.2025, at: 17:00
Regular seats	20
Course fee	3,720.00 kr.
Lecturers	Petrine Wellendorph
ECTS credits	1.50

Contact person	Marianne W. Jørgensen E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@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 ”Special rules apply for this course” The course is mandatory for PhD students in the graduate programmes DRA and MoMeD and therefore these PhD students have first priority. This means that all applicants will be put on the waiting list upon registration, and after deadline all participants will be notified whether they are given a seat. Please note that this course is similar to the PhD course “Finishing your PhD and planning your future career” (course number starting with 3782) Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. familiarise with the most important tools for finishing the PhD 2. get an insight into important tools for planning the future career Content The challenges for PhD candidates continously develop during the lifetime of the PhD. This course is designed to provide tools for tackling such challenges, typically ariseing about two years into the PhD. Over two days, participants have the chance to plan the finishing of the PhD and consider next steps in their career. The main topic areas covered are: Day 1 – Tools for finishing the PhD - Planning the final stages of your PhD (Planning and time management, how does the timeline to the end of your PhD look?) - Work-life balance (Dealing with/avoiding stress) - Handling conflicts - Keeping collaborations running after you leave the bench/lab - Practical planning before handing in your thesis; rules, regulations and responsibilities - How to coordinate the writing process in collaboration with your supervisor - How to write your thesis in practice – ideas and tips Day 2 – Tools for planning your future career - Strategic career planning and personal strategies: Tools that help you look beyond a one-year horizon - Making career choices (industry vs academia – who can help you weigh up your options?) - Networking and self-marketing - Fundraising in academia - Job seeking in academia and industry – which skills are needed? Participants PhD students who are around 2-2.5 years into their PhD project with priority to PhD students in MoMeD and DRA. This means that all applicants will be put on the waiting list upon registration, and after deadline, all participants will be notified. The course is aligned with the PhD course Scientific Project planning and Management 1 which is expected to have been taken at the beginning of the PhD studies. It does not make sense to take SPP2 directly after SPP1 but ideally 1-1.5 years later. 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: Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) Molecular Mechanisms of Disease All graduate programmes Language English Form A mixture of lectures, group work, discussions, exercises Course director Petrine Wellendorph, Professor, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, pw@sund.ku.dk Teachers Simon Golin, Dr, Golin Wissenshaftmanagement, Berlin, Germany Representative from Administration, Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Petrine Wellendorph, Professor, Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen Representative from industry An alumni PhD student Dates 3-4 December 2025 Course location PharmaSchool, Universitetsparken 2/Jagtvej 160, 2100 Copenhagen Registration Please register before 15 October 2025 Expected frequency Twice a year 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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