Training
The doctoral training programme aims to broaden and deepen your knowledge of the research field and to encourage the development of diverse competences that will enhance the quality and efficiency of the doctoral research being undertaken and/or help advance your professional career within or outside the University.
The doctoral training programme of Psychology and Educational Sciences consists of a common core (“truncus communis”) and a complementary component. More information about the content of the common core can be found on the webpage of the doctoral training.
The complementary component of the doctoral training programme consists of additional activities and training opportunities which you can select according to your research interests and career plans within or outside the University. You can adjust this complementary component to your own interests, provided it does not conflict with your position as a doctoral student and does not affect negatively the duration or quality of the doctoral research.
The following training initiatives can be choosen as part of the complementary component.
Training initiatives of the Faculty
Research seminars
Research seminars are organised by the research groups of the Faculty and give the opportunity to a member of that research group (ZAP, postdoctoral or doctoral student) to present his/her research activities. In general the members of that research group participate but also colleagues from other research groups are welcome to join. Anncouncements of research seminars appear in the Faculty Agenda.
P0B58A Seminarie voor gevorderde data-analyse (Seminar for advanced data analysis)
(Taught by: Prof. Francis Tuerlinckx en Eva Ceulemans)
The goal of this course is to discuss with doctoral students a more advanced topic from statistics and data analysis that has not yet been covered at Bachelor/Master level. The content of the course will change from year to year. An important component of the course is hands-on training. Themes that have been covered in the past are “Hierarchical models for data analysis”, “Models for social network analysis” and “An overview of data analysis models”.
Training initiatives of the University
Academic English for doctoral students
The ILT offers courses in Academic English for K.U. Leuven doctoral students. These courses offer practice in both academic writing and presentation skills. The courses are free for all doctoral students, registered for the doctoral programme (from the second year) more information
Doctoral students who want to learn to work with the free statistical package R can check out the following course.
Other activities and training opportunities for doctoral researchers
More info see webpage of the doctoral school of Humanities and Social Sciences
Libraries
Every year information sessions are organised to make you acquainted with the collection of the university libraries. Questions answered in these sessions are for example: what are librisource and librilinks? Where can I find databases of interest for my research and how can I consult them? Which journals are also available in electronic version and where can I download articles?
It is also usefull to consult the website of the Faculty's Library (PBIB).
University-wide elective courses
All courses offered by KU Leuven can be selected as part of the complementary component of the doctoral training. If you wish to take exams you should include these courses your Individual Study Programme (ISP). If you do not wish to take exams you should not include these courses in your ISP but you can simply join the lectures.
More info about the courses can be found here. For info about your ISP, please contact the administrative coordinator of the doctoral programme.
