9th EUA-CDE Annual Meeting

9th EUA-CDE Annual Meeting:

the 9th EUA-CDE Annual Meeting hosted by the Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain from Thursday, 16 June 2016 to Friday, 17 June 2016. 

The presentations can be downloaded from the "Presentations" page. 

Thursday 16 June 2016

Welcome Address

• Josep Anton Ferre Vidal, Rector, Rovira i Virgili University
• Francesc Diaz, Director of Postgraduate and Doctoral School, Rovira i Virgili University

Plenary I: Quality and Quantity in Doctoral Education

Doctoral Education and Research Policies in Ireland

• Eucharia Meehan, Irish Research Council
• Lisa Looney, Dublin City University, Ireland

 Doctoral Education and Research Policies in the Czech Republic

• Jiří Nantl, Central European Institute of Technology, Czech Republic
• Petr Dvorak, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Breakout Sessions I

I.a Beginners’ session

• Alexandra Bitusikova, EUA-CDE Senior Adviser

 I.b Session on how to set up a doctoral school

• Mick Fuller, EUA-CDE Steering Committee

 I.c Graduates trajectories, a view from researchers

• Presentation by Kirsi Pyhältö Oulu University, Finland, Lynn McAlpine, McGill University, Canada, amd Montserrat Castelló Badia, Ramon Llull University, Spain

I.d Paper session on “Stakeholders’ engagement”

• “Balancing Gravitas and Special Topics: Reaching out to Society through Novel Means”. Claudine Leysinger, University of Zurich, Switzerland. (The video which accompanied this presentation is available here)
• “Think globally and act jointly. Clever usage of EU programs for the development and implementation of structures supporting doctoral education. Which structures and measures are necessary to support this approach?” Christiane Wüllner, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany & Angelina Taneva-Veshoska, Institute for Research in Environment, Civil Engineering and Energy – IECE, FYR Macedonia

 I.e Paper session on “Skills”

• "The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Employer-Doctoral Researcher Engagement Facilitated by Cross-Institutional Collaboration”, Dawn C. Duke & Pam Denicolo, South East Physics Network, UK
• “Kaunas University of Technology Doctoral School – Examples of Networking with Research and Industry”. Rima Kalinauskaite, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Plenary II: Quality and Relevance of graduates

• Janet Metcalfe, VITAE, United Kingdom
• Martin Dehli, actori GmbH, Germany

Launch of EUA-CDE paper “Taking Salzburg Forward” and presentation of CDE activities 2014-2015

• Thomas Ekman Jørgensen, Head of Council for Doctoral Education, EUA-CDE

Friday 17 June 2016

Plenary III – Governance and institutional structures

• Jeremy Bradshaw, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Gül Güner, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
• Anna Chrostowska, University of Pau, France

Breakout Sessions II

II.a Beginners’ session

• Alexandra Bitusikova, EUA-CDE Senior Adviser

II.b Paper session on “Structures”

• “Doctoral Education: Improving quality while increasing quantity, a case study of a UK University”. Diane Houston & Suzie Morris, University of Kent, UK
• Ghent University’s “quality framework for doctoral education’: from the central level to the faculties. A case-study from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences”. Nele Bracke & Johan Van de Voorde, Ghent University, Belgium

 II.c Paper session on “Careers”

• “Career preparation and development: perceptions of PhD candidates and institutional implications”. Lisette Schmidt & Allison O’Reilly, University of Vienna, Austria
• “The (added) value of a PhD? Career planning for junior researchers”. Ilse Van Damme, Stefanie Kerkhofs & Nele Nivelle, Hasselt University, Belgium

 II.d Paper session on “Research environments”

• “Some remarks on the necessary symbiosis of quality, quantity, and variety”. Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• “Researcher Professional Development: A student-centred approach to engaging students with their own career requirements”. Campbell Reid, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

 II.e Paper session on “New national developments”

• “Results and perspectives of doctoral education at a leading Hungarian University”. Peter Szalay, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• “Revolution in Germany’s System of Higher Education - Right to award doctorates for Universities of Applied Sciences in the State of Hesse”. Karim Khakzar, Hochschule Fulda – University of Applied Sciences, Germany

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