Category: Soft Skills WiSe 2017/18

More than ever, sophisticated presentation skills were vital to one’s professional career in academia.

Junior scientists were regularly called upon to present the results of their research, rarely having been given formal training in presentation skills.

The main focus of this workshop was to help participants master the art of persuasive and compelling presentations and to enhance their rhetorical skills.

In this compact course participants got an introduction to the fundamentals of academic teaching. Special emphasis was put on teaching in natural sciences and on the “Four Laws”.

Careers in German universities and research institutes are difficult. Towards the end of your PhD or at the beginning of your postdoctoral years you need to decide whether you like to continue your career up to the professor or if you leave academia and public funded research institutes. This step is difficult to the biggest part of PhD-students because until then they did not find or try alternative career paths.

Every scientist doing research at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig University has to comply with the rules of good scientific practice.

In this workshop principles of good scientific practice, e.g. professional standards such as honesty and openness, as well as data preparation and documentation were discussed.
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