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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.

Dr. Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi

Dr. Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi

Mohammad is an associate professor in Knowledge, Information and Networks research group, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

His interest is to understand and help organizations and their associated communities to unlock their historical chains that prevent them from making a better future. Thus, he is researching how organizations unlearn their outmoded experiences, discontinue their obsolete information systems, learn and unlearn from their failures and incidents, and renovate their established business models to be able to tap the opportunities of new technologies such as big-data analytics.  

View the research profile of Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi

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

  • 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 2025 – April 2026 (Starting Period 2)
    • Credits: 2 ECTS
    • Tuition fee: €500 (20% discount for early bird registration)
    • 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.

Would you like to register or want to know more?

Please register with the Apply Now button at the top of this page. For more information please contact the course coordinator dr. Mohammad Rezazade Mehrizi

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