Session 3: How to survive your PhD

15 April, 2025
17:00-18:00 CEST

Chair: Dr Augusta Beech (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Speaker: Dr Amanda Dandanell Juul (Odense S, Denmark)

Learning objectives:

• Learn techniques on how to deal with challenges during a PhD
• Understand skills needed for writing a PhD thesis
• Learn how to defend your thesis in the PhD viva
• Understand the other opportunities one should consider whilst undertaking a PhD

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Webinar series overview

Many ERS Early Career Members would like to pursue a career in research or are currently pursuing careers in research. High-quality webinars on a career in research are scarce. Therefore, a webinar series on careers in research will be invaluable for early career members interested in research.

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Educational aims:

• The webinars will give honest and practical advice on how to strive towards a successful career in academic respiratory medicine.
• Webinars will either focus on how to perform specific types of research (such as systematic reviews or scientific communication) or will focus on important applications in an academic career (such as PhD funding applications or interviews for a research position).
• Benefits for participants include learning from renowned respiratory researchers and recent successful applicants to competitive research programmes.
• The webinars will also signpost attendees to current ERS guidance and initiatives relevant for each topic covered. This will help participants to have their own successful careers in research.

Topics and schedule:

• Session 1: How to undertake a systematic review (19 February, 2025)
• Session 2: How to succeed in a PhD grant application (13 March, 2025)
• Session 3: How to survive your PhD (15 April, 2025)
• Session 4: How to succeed in your interview for a research position (7 May, 2025)
• Session 5: How to deliver scientific communication (10 June, 2025)
• Session 6: How to set up your own lab (2 July, 2025)

Target audience:

• Trainee clinicians (hospital physicians, surgeons and primary care physicians)
• Clinicians who have completed training (hospital physicians, surgeons and primary care physicians)
• Basic science researchers
• Translational researchers
• Clinical researchers
• University students
• Post-graduate students, including Masters Students and PhD students
• Post-doctoral researchers

Learning outcomes:

Following this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to create a search strategy for a systematic review.
• Learn how to screen abstracts for a systematic review.
• Understand important statistical techniques for systematic reviews.
• Learn how to plan projects for a PhD and find supervisors.
• Understand how to write a PhD grant application.
• Learn about common pitfalls made by PhD grant applicants.
• Learn techniques on how to deal with challenges during a PhD.
• Understand skills needed for writing a PhD thesis.
• Learn how to defend your thesis in the PhD viva.
• Learn how to prepare for an interview for a competitive research position.
• Understand common pitfalls made by interviewees.
• Learn techniques for answering difficult interview questions.
• Learn about techniques needed to write a manuscript intended for publication in a high-impact journal.
• Learn tips on how to prepare a high-quality oral or poster presentation.
• Learn about the use of media in promoting your research.
• Understand how to formulate your own research projects.
• Learn about how to set up your own research team, including what different skillsets are needed and how to select the correct applicants.
• Learn how to form research collaborations, including with the pharmaceutical industry.

CME credits

An application will be submitted to the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP) for CME accreditation of this event. The number of credits that you will receive will correspond to the time you spend viewing the sessions live.

Recordings

Video recordings of each session will be made available to registered participants within two weeks after each session.

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