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Doctoral Study Programme

The Doctoral Study Programme at the Antwerp Doctoral School offers a range of courses and training opportunities for PhD researchers. The programme is designed to support the development of researchers' skills and knowledge, with a focus on communication, academic confidence, and career development.

Course Offer

The programme includes a wide range of courses, such as:

• Academic Confidence
• Active Bystander Training (English)
• Actieve Omstaandertraining (NL)
• Applying for a job
• Building your search strategy for systematic reviews
• Communicating effectively in an academic context
• Communication Skills Basic 14h
• Connecting Communication
• Creating a scientific poster (half day)
• Creating a scientific poster (full day)
• Creative Problem Solving
• Creating scientific visuals
• Effective Prompting (New!)
• Data visualisation
• E-sources for the exact sciences
• E-sources for the (bio)medical sciences
• E-sources for the social sciences & humanities
• Excel: Basics (new!)
• Excel: Formulas & Functions
• Excel: Intermediate
• Excel: Tables & Pivot Tables
• From self-insight to career impact (New!)
• Giving Academic Presentations
• Grow to Lead
• Grow your future career
• Grow your Network
• How to deal with media and journalists as a researcher
• Inside a company
• Intake to FAIR
• Intercultural competences: navigating foreign academic cultures
• Introduction to Data Management Plans
• Meet people not cultures
• Mindmapping
• Personal Development Plan PhD
• Personal Effectiveness
• Pitch your research
• Project management
• Snellezen (NL)
• Speed Reading
• Storytelling for Researchers (New!)
• The Art of Feedback
• The Basics of GenAI (New!)
• The basics of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• The Company+ (New!)
• Time management
• Under pressure (Dutch course)
• Under pressure (English course)
• Welcome to the real world
• Word Long Documents
• Writing Academic Papers
• Write an effective non-academic cv & cover letter

Speed Reading Course

The Speed Reading course is a brain-friendly method that allows readers to improve their reading speed, comprehension, and recall by at least a factor of 3. The course is based on experiential techniques derived from insights into how the brain processes information. Priority is given to international PhD researchers, while Dutch-speaking PhD researchers are recommended to take the 'Snellezen' course.

Practicalities

• Data and Location: Course HC03: 11 & 25 March 2026, 9h00 - 12h00, Campus Middelheim - Building G - Room G.016
• Teacher: Bernard Lernout
• Language of the Course: English
• Docop-points: This course counts for 0.6 docop-points.