ORPHEUS 2021: Web Conference
Braga, Portugal

Date: 22–24 April 2021
Venue: Online from School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
The themes for the 2021 conference are:
- PhD Student’s Session
- Assessment Tools and Strategies in Graduate Education
- Workshop Session
For everybody interested in the quality of PhD training from any perspective (supervision, PhD outcomes, outreach, employability, recruitment, conflict management, wellbeing), we are proud to announce the 2021 ORPHEUS conference. We expect this to be an exciting online conference, with opportunities for sharing expertise and ideas, fostering awareness and proposals for action to improve the quality of doctoral education.
Overview
For everybody interested in the quality of PhD training from any perspective (supervision, PhD outcomes, outreach, employability, recruitment, conflict management, wellbeing), we are proud to announce the 2021 ORPHEUS conference. We expect this to be an exciting online conference, with opportunities for sharing expertise and ideas, fostering awareness and proposals for action to improve the quality of doctoral education.
Videos of Presentations Available Below
Day 1
PhD Student’s Session Morning
- Talk 1
- How to get the most out of your supervisor | Janet Carton
- Student’s workshop: Build your portfolio, recognize your skills | Mergan Naidoo
- Talk 2
- Where to go after a PhD? How to choose? How to help? | Janet Metcalfe
Conference opening. Rector’s Office Afternoon
- Welcome Address | Joana Palha Session One: Teaching tools and methods in graduate education
- Talk 3-Interactive Teaching Methodologies | Manuel João Costa
- Talk 4-Education Alliance and Feedback Acceptance | Marco António Filho Selected presentations from abstracts submitted and discussion
- Coffee-break and Poster Viewing
- Talk 5-Why we Need Transdisciplinary in Research and Education | Jorge Nova Blanco
Day 2
Session Two
Assessment Tools and Strategies in Graduate Education Morning
- Talk 6-Constructing a Portfolio as an Assessment Tool | Mergan Naidoo
- Round table: Learning Outcomes in PhD Education | Moderated by Robert Harris
Coffee-break and poster viewing
- Talk 7- (Self)Plagiarism – from screening theses for text duplication to establishing a new PhD course in how to avoid it | Hans Bräuner
- Lunch and poster viewing
Coffee-break
Session Three: Networking and training opportunities
- Talk 8- Interuniversity PhD training Networks in Flanders and Scandinavia | John Creemers and Kamille Smidt Rasmussen
- Talk 9- ORPHEUS Best Practices. Changing Culture to Improve PhD Training | Michael Mulvany
- ORPHEUS General discussion forum
Day 3
Workshop Session 2 Morning
Coffee-break
- Selected Presentations from Abstracts Submitted and Discussion
- Talk 10- How the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on learning and supervising at a distance: lessons and challenges from 2020. Robert
Harris (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Prizes, Presentation of ORPHEUS 2022 and Flag Ceremony
Conference close
Available Workshops
- W1-Conflict management. | Robert Harris
- W2-Mission possible? Managing the PhD life cycle for the (un-)known needs past, present and future. | Helke Hillebrand
- W3-Psychometrics. | José Miguel Pego
- W4-Entrepreneurship. | Tine Van Lommel
- W5-How your supervision style affects student’s performance. | Marco António Filho
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