International workshop series for PhD candidates: “Staying on track during the pandemic” (May 2021)
The University of Bayreuth’s Gateway Offices in Melbourne, Shanghai and Bordeaux, together with the Bayreuth-Melbourne network and the University of Bayreuth’s Graduate School are launching their series of webinar to help PhD candidates stay productive and healthy throughout the pandemic. A good opportunity to benefit from the experience of professional facilitators and to meet fellows across the world while sharing with them practice and thoughts! 4 sessions between May 5 and May 26.
Program
Time for all sessions: 8-9:30am CEST / 4-5:30pm AEST / 2-3:30pm CST
May 5 – Navigating uncertainty during COVID times
Speaker: Desiree Dickerson, PhD
May 12 – Coping strategies and how to set boundaries for COVID-challenges
Finishing a doctoral thesis can be a milestone in your life story, but the way there can also be laborious and exhausting. How do PhD candidates and recent PhD graduates deal with these demands and obstacles?
In this workshp, we want to highlight various success factors and hurdles on the way to awarding a PhD and focus on the opportunities for your personal development during this period.
Speakers: Dr. habil. Helmut Strobl & Dr. Philipp Laemmert
May 19 – "Stuck in the Arctic: how I developed coping strategies and used them during the COVID lockdown"
A doctor in glaciology, Lydie Lescarmontier is 34 years old and after almost 10 years of research (including a French-Australian post-doctorate), she is now a scientific manager in a foundation for education on climate change under the auspices of UNESCO.
Her guiding and photography work has led her to travel for the last 6 years through the fantastic territories of Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland, the Russian Arctic, the Sub-Antarctic Islands, Alaska and the Antarctic ice cap. An adventure that will make her experience sea sickness, the cramped spaces and social relationships, the omnipresent vital risk and the insignificance of man in an environment as hostile as it is suffocatingly beautiful.
In this session, she will tell us how she experimented her lockdown in the Arctic and how it helped her go through the COVID-lockdown.
Storytelling by Lydie Lescarmontier, PhD
May 26 – Learning from intercultural perspectives
Yixin Qiu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Chair of Strategic Management and Organisation at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Her research agenda focuses on organisational innovation management and entrepreneurship, specifically the changes derived from collaborative workspaces and digitalisation. Since she mostly investigated Chinese firms and entrepreneurial teams, the pandemic has brought significant changes to her research projects and unexpected opportunities. She would like to share her own experience in addressing the restrictions and making use of the new norms in Covid time.
Xin Huang is a PhD student of Central China Normal University, and also a visiting student at City, University of London for one year supported by China Scholarship Council. The major he studies is Mathematics, precisely, the representation theory of finite groups. In his talk, he will introduce the situation of PhD students studying in China in 2020. After that, he will share his research experience in China and in UK under the Covid-19, and discuss the influence of the pandemic on his research, mentality and living. He will also share how he overcame these difficulties.
Registration and contact
To contact us: melbourne@uni-bayreuth.de
For PhD candidates enrolled in institutions in Bordeaux, please contact the corresponding Gateway Office:
+33 6 45 85 11 42