| Ansvarligt institut | Ph.d.-skolen
45 % Institut for Jordbrug og Økologi 30 % Leif Kjærgaard. Private consultant. 15 % Mark Harvey Simpson. Private consultant. Global Denmark AS. 5 % Søren Barlebo Rasmussen. Private consultant. 5 % | ||||||||||||||||
| Kursusdatoer | Dates (2 courses in 2013): 11-15 March, 19 March and 2 April; 11-15 November, 19 November plus 3 December. | ||||||||||||||||
| Kursus resumé | Being a PhD student requires project management, financial insight and leadership skills. This course will enable you to take ownership of your project and place it in relationship to the university as a whole. The course will elaborate on the leadership topic; include lectures on leadership styles, practical project management plus university finance systems and governance structures. | ||||||||||||||||
| Kursustilmelding | By email to Lars Holm Rasmussen: project-management@life.ku.dk . | ||||||||||||||||
| Deadline for tilmelding | 15 February and 15 October 2013. | ||||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 3.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Ph.d.-kursus | ||||||||||||||||
| Rammer for Undervisning | Frederiksberg Campus. | ||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | 25 (min. 14). | ||||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||||
| The participants are introduced to the basic project leadership skills. Focus is on the PhD students development as project leader and manager. Project Leadership includes practical exercises on day-to-day project management issues, feedback and instruction methods and includes individual/group work on the participants own projects. The participants will have to give an oral presentation on a leadership/management issue at a seminar approx. 2 weeks after the course. The course includes the 2-day workshop Project Management for PhD students. Tentative program: Day 1-5: Preparation at home (reading and precourse assignment). Day 6: Introduction; Presentation of participants; What is leadership? Leadership styles; Leadership development plan. Day 7: Leadership competences; Getting the overview; Instructions and feedback models; UCPH finance systems; Making budgets. Day 8: The project work form; Setting the project objectives; Milestones planning; Activity planning and uncertainties. Day 9: Quality assurance of the project; Stakeholder analysis; Risk management; Project organization; Exercises. Day 10: What is project leadership; Leadership without authority to instruct; Group collaboration; Feedback models; Gender/culture aspects. Day 11 (½ day): Why must a PhD student relate to academic leadership? Day 12 (½ day): Course seminar (examination). The participants must expect to participate in group work prior to the course seminar. Project Leadership includes the PhD course Project Management (generic course) - LPhD004. | |||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||||
| Pre-course assignment: The participants will have to prepare an oral presentation of a leadership issue, which are to be presented at the course. Lectures and exercises: The participants will have lectures by a group of lecturers from UCPH and private consultants. The partipants will work in groups in different exercises. The approach is case-based learning. Seminar: The participants must present their own leadership/management assignments to the teachers and a group of opponents, which will give feedback. | |||||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||||
| The course gives the participants the practical foundation for planning and conducting smaller projects at UCPH. After completing this course, the participant will have knowledge of: . University governance/leadership structures. . UCPH finance systems. . Basic models for giving instructions and feedback. The participants will be capable of: . Making simple project budgets. . Finding relevant information for budgeting. . Making a full project plan for a small project, i.e. PhD project or similar. . Handling milestones and deliverables in smaller projects. . Handling stakeholders in relation to their own projects. | |||||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||||
| Kloppenborg, Shriberg & Venkatraman (2003): Project Leadership. Management Concepts, Vienna, VA. | |||||||||||||||||
| Kursusmateriale | |||||||||||||||||
| The participants will receive a selection of selected papers on leadership issues prior to the course. During the course, hands-outs will be distributed together with a solid compendium on project management. | |||||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||||
| Lars Holm Rasmussen, lhr@life.ku.dk, Fakultetsservice, Tlf: Ditte Carlsen, dittec@life.ku.dk, Institut for Grundvidenskab og Miljø/IGM Administration, Tlf: 244-83314 | |||||||||||||||||
| Andre forlæsere | |||||||||||||||||
| Anja Thoe Fuglsang, Ass. Prof., (UCPH SCIENCE). | |||||||||||||||||
| Deltagerbetaling | |||||||||||||||||
| Free for PhD students from UCPH SCIENCE. Other UCPH: According to Internal Market. PhD students from Open Market partners (incl. NOVA): DKK 5.250 plus VAT. Others: DKK 7.000 plus VAT. | |||||||||||||||||
| Kursus omkostninger | |||||||||||||||||
| None. | |||||||||||||||||
| Evalueringsform | |||||||||||||||||
| 5-day course assignment after the course, to be presented orally at a seminar approx. 2 weeks after the course. The participants are evaluated pass/no-pass. | |||||||||||||||||
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