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How to build an Academic Career

This course is organized as a series of workshops designed to equip PhD candidates with the important knowledge and skills required to build an academic career. Each workshop targets various aspects that become relevant at a different phase of the PhD trajectory. The first workshop focuses on managing the PhD research project. Workshop 2 attends to academic networking and Workshop 3 focuses on the publication process. Workshop 4 prepares the PhD candidate for the job market.

The course consists of 4 workshop sessions (3-4 hours each) distributed throughout the academic year (September – July). Each workshop will entail an interactive panel with experienced faculty members from different ABRI tracks. Before each workshop module, course participants will complete preparation assignments. Each module will be concluded by a brief reflection report.

Course participants are not expected to complete all course modules within one year. PhD candidates can join the various workshop modules at different stages of their trajectory, i.e., when the offered content will be most relevant.

Prof. dr. Maria Tims

Prof. dr. Maria Tims

Maria Tims is a full professor at the department of Management and Organisation at the VU Amsterdam since 2014. Previously she worked as an assistant professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she obtained her PhD cum laude in 2013.

Her scientific and practical expertise lies in the areas of  employee proactivity and work design (at the individual and team level, such as self-organizing teams), and workforce analytics.

VENI research grant from NWO for research project "Looking for the “I” in teams while still functioning as a team: Individual job crafting and its relationships with individual, team, and organizational outcomes."  

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Course Description

This course is organized as a series of workshops designed to equip PhD candidates with the important knowledge and skills required to build an academic career. Each workshop targets various aspects that become relevant at a different phase of the PhD trajectory. The first workshop focuses on managing the PhD research project. Workshop 2 attends to academic networking and Workshop 3 focuses on the publication process. Workshop 4 prepares the PhD candidate for the job market.

Please download the course manual here.

Study Characteristics

  • Study period: November 2024 – February 2025 (Period 1)
  • Credits: 2 ECTS
  • Tuition fee: €500 (20% discount for early bird registration)
  • Registration deadline: 29-8-2024 (early bird registration: 29-07-2024)
  • Recommendation: Spread modules Year 1 and 2.
  • Teaching methods: interactive session
  • Assessment: Workshop participation, Completion of 4 preparation assignments, Completion of 4 reflection reports
  • The course “How to build an academic career” is open to ABRI PhD candidates as well as PhD candidates from the VU and other Dutch and international universities engaged in research projects broadly related to business and management or organization studies.
  • Course Description & Study Characteristics

    Course Description

    This course is organized as a series of workshops designed to equip PhD candidates with the important knowledge and skills required to build an academic career. Each workshop targets various aspects that become relevant at a different phase of the PhD trajectory. The first workshop focuses on managing the PhD research project. Workshop 2 attends to academic networking and Workshop 3 focuses on the publication process. Workshop 4 prepares the PhD candidate for the job market.

    Please download the course manual here.

    Study Characteristics

    • Study period: November 2024 – February 2025 (Period 1)
    • Credits: 2 ECTS
    • Tuition fee: €500 (20% discount for early bird registration)
    • Registration deadline: 29-8-2024 (early bird registration: 29-07-2024)
    • Recommendation: Spread modules Year 1 and 2.
    • Teaching methods: interactive session
    • Assessment: Workshop participation, Completion of 4 preparation assignments, Completion of 4 reflection reports
    • The course “How to build an academic career” is open to ABRI PhD candidates as well as PhD candidates from the VU and other Dutch and international universities engaged in research projects broadly related to business and management or organization studies.

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