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#20 Mary: Identifying and dealing with the Imposter Syndrome
How to befriend your imposter? Mary K. Kobia is a Senior Global Mobility Consultant at the University of Copenhagen and she works with supporting international researchers and their spouses on developing their talents and careers. Over the years, Mary noticed in her work that many international researchers struggle with: Imposter Syndrome Determining/acknowledging their transferable skills Understanding Danish culture and communication What is the Imposture Syndrome? Psychological patterns where individuals doubt their accomplishments and constantly think they are a fraud and will get exposed eventually. They feel inadequate and believe they don’t deserve their achievements. If somebody suffers from it and he/she accomplishes something they think that was due to luck…
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#19 Diana: Using LinkedIn to accelerate your career
How to broaden your network and get the job you want – following your own path?! Diana Lund Nordstrøm is a dual career consultant at the International Office of the University of Copenhagen and she helps people reach their next career goals. In this episode we talk about: How you can brush up your LinkedIn Profile to make it more ‘you’ and at the same more attractive for your potential future employer How to use LinkedIn for networking, knowledge sharing and gathering, and in a way that suits your personality and intentions Some ‘quick and dirty’-tips for you – for the full insight check out the podcast episode 🙂 Follow…
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#17 Søren: Building a career in the life sciences
How to find a job you love and thrive in ? Søren Spanner Bach holds a PhD degree from the University of Copenhagen and is the founder of Life Science Talent Solutions. He helps people educated in the life sciences to find jobs that fit their talents and personalities. In this episode we talk about: Why it can be hard to find a job you actually love and how your strengths and personality can be translated into a career Why it is important to think about your career every once in a while, and how you can approach that Tips for PhDs: Try talk to people in positions you find…
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#14 Hendra: Teaching in higher education
How to be and become a good teacher? Hendra Agustian is an Assistant professor at the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen. He teaches teaching staff at the university how to teach and helps them improve their teaching. He also conducts research on teaching and aims to improve the learning experience of students. What is pedagogy? The prefix ‘peda’ means children but nowadays it encompasses teaching of adults as well (if we want to be very precise, we can call teaching adults: andragogy) It is science of teaching & can include aspects of student well-being What is didactics? The content of teaching; i.e. the structure of a…
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#13 Louise: Combating and valorising food waste
How can food waste be reduced and food production become more sustainable? Louise Bartek is a PhD student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). She examines ways to combat food waste where possible and how to valorise it where necessary. Department & Group: Department of Energy and Technology Supervisors: Mattias Eriksson (main supervisor), Ingrid Strid, and Pedro Brancoli Dissertation title (as for now 😀) Environmental assessment of food waste recovery and valorisation of food by-products Topic – in brief Sustainable food systems and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) How can we produce more food from the resources we already have? And how can we decrease the environmental impacts of…
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#12 Mark: Presentation skills
What does it mean to be a presenter and how can we feel better about being one? Mark Simpson is a consultant at and co-owner of Global Denmark, a company that offers proofreading and editing of English texts and that coaches people in becoming better at communicating – be it in presentations or in writing. What is a presentation? A piece of communication, where the presenter is the leader. Consider yourself as a leader, when preparing for and giving presentations. What is best for the audience? Think of your audience, when preparing a presentation: What is relevant for them to know?Make sure you know what you are responsible for –…
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#11: Courtney: Becoming a Twitter Savvy Scientist
How to use Twitter to grow your scientific network, learn something new and have fun on the way? Courtney’s motivation to use Twitter Getting in touch with the scientific community beyond her own lab and project Getting new ideas, learn about latest papers Getting started: Passive engagement, see what other people tweet about Figure out whether that is something you would also like to tweet about – or maybe not and define the person you would like to be on twitter Start tweeting about events you attend. That might feel less scary than providing content from scratch – this may calm your nerves and might make you realise that it’s…
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#10 Louis: Soil microbial responses to land use change
How do changes in land use and plant community affect the activity of soil microbes and their carbon use efficiency? Louis Dufour is a PhD student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Science (SLU). He conducts field experiments to see how microbial communities in the soil respond to changes in plant communities in terms of their activity and carbon turn-over. Department & Group: Department of Soil and Environment, Group of Nutrient Cycling, SLU Supervisors: Anke M. Herrmann, Johanna Wetterlind, Martin Weih, Stefano Manzoni, Naoise Nunan Dissertation title (as for now 😀) Responses of microbial physiology to changes in land management: a bioenergetics approach Topic – in brief Testing whether changes…
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#9 Catarina: Orchard manure fertilisation, vineyards and satellite images
How can manure replace mineral fertilisers in apple orchards and how can satellite images help improve vineyard fertilisation? Catarina Martins Esteves is a PhD student at the University of Lisbon and part of the EU Horizon 2020 project Nutri2Cycle. Department and Section: Instituto Superior de Agronomia University supervisors: Henrique Ribeiro, David Fangueiro and Ricardo Braga Dissertation title (as for now :D) “Valorisation of organic materials and composts for precision fertilisation of orchards and vineyards” Topic – in brief Assessing the impacts of manure fertilisation on apple orchards – in terms of emissions and apple yields. Catarina compares the effects of mineral and manure fertilisation to provide farmers with recommendations on…
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#7 Nelly: Phosphorous fertilisation, plant-availability and use-efficiency
Nelly is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She conducts research on organic and mineral forms of phosphorus fertiliser. She explores its plant-availability and models its fate in the soil to optimise its application. Institute: Department of Geoscience and Natural Ressource Management – Geography Nelly did her PhD at the University of Copenhagen, then went to Australia to do a first postdoc and now returned to Denmark to do a second postdoc. Let’s start with her PhD research Dissertation title: (link) Potential for increasing phosphorus bioavailability of thermally treated sewage sludge using phosphate solubilising fungi Methodology In vitro lab-experiments with different combinations of ashes derived from wastewater sludge…
