PhD students
Hej Björn!
Thanks again for the Advisory program meeting, it was really useful and fun!
Here is the summary from the students’ group:
- Discussions in the small groups with the advisors were very much appreciated
- There could be more time for discussions in these groups
- There could be multiple group discussions with different advisors
- One suggestion was to have a mingle –type of problem solving (meet up shortly with each advisor and discuss your problems)
- Coffee breaks were a good opportunity for this, but we would need to know the expertise of the advisors to ask the right person?
- Updates from the students could be posted beforehand on intranet
- Updates could include “programs i’ve used and programs i’d like to learn” -type of listing
- This could be helpful in forming the groups and also we would know who to talk to
- It would be nice to get a little overview of the advisors too
- Or there could be a list of keywords (such as “bwa”, “miRNA”, “cancer”, “whole genome sequencing”…), which everyone can suggest and sign up for discussion about these topics
- We could use slack or some other forum to post questions and also keep in touch with the people who will finish the program after the next meeting
- Summary presentations were good
- It was useful to make some concrete plans
- Advise from the 2015 group for the 2016 group:
- Prepare well with questions, updates etc material so that you get the best out of the meeting
- Use the scilifelab bioinformatics drop-in
- Use your advisors!