BENJ1001 Post Graduate Seminar (1 cr)

Doctoral students are required to give a research seminar on their own PhD project in their last year of study preferably no later than within 2 weeks after the dissertation has been sent to preliminary examiners. A doctoral student first contacts a seminar organiser and sets the date with the head of the doctoral program steering group (Varpu Marjomäki). No later than one week before the presentation date, a doctoral student should submit the title and the abstract to a seminar organiser.

The length of the talk is 30 minutes with 15 min for discussion. The talk should include (i) a broad theoretical background that focuses on the main open questions of the research field and this study in particular, (ii) a description of the key methods, (iii) a summary of results and (iv) conclusions and future directions. The talk should not consist of separate presentations of the articles in the dissertation but instead the articles should be synthesized, forming a coherent entity. Due to the limited time allocated for the talk, it is not necessary to include all results in the presentation.

It is highly recommended that the doctoral student rehearses her/his talk under the guidance of her/his supervisor(s) prior to the seminar date.

Doctoral students will gain experience in delivering a full-length scientific seminar. They will learn to discuss their own scientific results with other scientists and respond to questions.

• https://www.jyu.fi/en/science/bioenv/seminars

• This course is required for all PhD researchers in the Doctoral Programme in Biological and Environmental Science