RIMLS introductory course: ''In the Lead of your PhD" Online and personal

With a bowl of home-microwaved popcorn, participants of last week’s RIMLS introductory course worked on personal development from a comfortable chair at home. The introductory course is called “In the Lead of your PhD”, and tries to do exactly that: put PhD candidates in the lead of their own learning process by discussions, assignments and coaching by peers.

The online course was very interactive: PhD candidates discussed with supervisors Raphaël Duivenvoorden, Jitske Janssen and René Bindels what supervisors expect from their PhDs and vice versa.  All supervisors put a lot of effort on team science, in line with new developments in Recognition and Rewards of researchers and the way the new research institute is heading in the Fit-for-the-Future direction, where the basic unit of research is a research group.  

The candidates coached each other in pairs on how to master certain competences necessary for a PhD, which gave valuable and practical ways to learn during the PhD trajectory. Also, the participants found their own strengths and elaborated on how they can use these strengths for a successful PhD.