We invite you to submit offers of facultative courses for doctoral students of the Doctoral School in the academic year 2026/2027. Facultative courses should concern general competencies that are useful to all or some doctoral students as future researchers, academic teachers, science communicators, or employees of various technological industries. They should not contain a component specific to a discipline – this is reserved for specialistic courses, which we have asked the Institutes responsible for conducting research in a specific disciplines.

The invitation is addressed to all academic teachers employed at the University of Silesia, as well as to people who are not academic teachers, who want to offer doctoral students specific, useful competencies.

Link to the form: Facultative courses – application [external link]

The form will be open until April 9, 12:00. The offer will then be analyzed and presented to doctoral students. The final list of classes will be selected by April 30.

Notes:

1. Before preparing an offer, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the educational program at the Doctoral School [external link], so as not to duplicate issues that are covered by compulsory classes.
2. The offer of optional classes is built from scratch every year. Those who want to conduct the same classes again should also fill out the form.

As part of the module Preparing scientific texts and critical text analysis we invite you to the next workshops with journal editors:

• meeting with dr Marcin Wiorek, co-Editor-in_Chief in “Nota Lepidopterologica” (https://nl.pensoft.net/), researcher in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences

Meeting online via MS Teams, in English.

Code to the team: 9cfao71

Direct link to the meeting: dr Marcin Wiorek, co-editor-in-chief “Nota Lepidopterologica” | Dołączanie do spotkania | Microsoft Teams

When: June 2 (Monday), 15:30-17:00

Where: online, MS Teams, registration to the team is necessary

MS Teams code: kslgjwd

Lecturer: dr Kamil Mamak, Jagiellonian University, University of Helisinki (more about the teacher)

language: Polish

When: May 27 (Tuesday), 15:00-16:30

Where: online, MS Teams, registration to the team is nessesery

MS Teams code: kslgjwd

Lecturer: dr Wojciech Kaftański, Jagiellonian University (more about the teacher)

language: English

As part of the module Preparing scientific texts and critical text analysis we invite you to the next workshops with journal editors:

• meeting with Victoria Babbit, Directorof  Researcher Development and Outreach at Taylor & Francis Group – meeting at Faculty of Social Sciences (Katowice, Grażyńskiego 53)

The meeting is open, but pre-registration is obligatory – we must know how many participants will be there to find a proper class. Please register until April 15 (Tuesday) till the end of the day. If you find out about the meeting after this term, please contact with the Doctoral School (szkola.doktorska@us.edu.pl)

Link to registration: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/6162

We invite you to submit offers of facultative courses for PhD students of the Doctoral School in the academic year 2025/2026. Facultative courses should concern general competencies that are useful to all or some doctoral students as future researchers, academic teachers, science communicators or employees of various technological industries. They should not contain a component specific to a discipline – this is reserved for specialist courses, which we have asked the Institutes responsible for conducting research, and therefore best understanding of what specialist competencies PhD students need, to offer.

The invitation is addressed to all academic teachers employed at the University of Silesia, as well as to people who are not academic teachers, who want to offer PhD students specific, useful competencies.

Link to the form: https://forms.office.com/r/Q6aPH7bXbM

The form will be open until 12:00 on April 22. The offer will then be analyzed and presented to PhD students. The final list of classes will be selected by April 30.

Notes:

1. Before preparing an offer, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the educational program at the Doctoral School, so as not to duplicate issues that are covered by compulsory classes.
2. The offer of optional classes is built from scratch every year. People who want to conduct again classes already conducted in previous years are also asked to fill out the form.

As part of the module Preparing scientific texts and critical text analysis, next workshops with journal editors are planned. The classes are held remotely, in English. The meetings are open, but we ask for early registration, which will help PhD students pass this requirement.

Meetings scheduled in March:

1. March 18, 2025, 15:00-16:30 – prof. dr hab. Paweł Jędrzejko, University of Silesia in Katowice, editor in chief in “Review of International American Studies”, deputy editor-in-chief in “Er(r)go: Theory – Literature – Culture”, former director in University of Silesia Press.
   • link for registration: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/6037
   • link for meeting: MS Teams
2. 25 marca 2025, godz. 15:00-16:30 – dr Mauro Arturo Rivera Leon, University of Silesia in Katowice, Faculty of Law and Administration, manager in OPUS grant – conversational class will focus on the key elements to increase the chances of success in publishing in international journals
   • link for registration: https://formularze.us.edu.pl/form/index/6038
   • link for meeting: MS Teams

Next workshops will be planned for April and May.

The module Preparation and Implementation of a Research Project aims to prepare doctoral students to apply reasonably and effectively for funding for their research activities, as well as to efficiently implement the obtained projects.

Each doctoral student should prepare and submit an application for funding for their project from external sources during their education at the Doctoral School. Therefore, doctoral students who plan to apply in a given year (unless they have already completed the classes) enroll in the Preparation and Implementation of a Research Project classes.

The new project of the course assumes division into several blocks, corresponding to the stages of project preparation. During the classes, doctoral students work on an application in the NCN Preludium competition.

1. How to build a research model (4 hours).
2. Strategies for substantive preparation of an application (2 hours).
3. Preparation of substantive content of the application (12 hours).
4. Work on the formal side of the application, including the budget (8 hours).
5. Data management plan (4 hours).

Classes begin with parts A and B. Parts C, D and E are conducted in parallel.

When registering for classes, Ph.D. students always choose the group assigned to their discipline. For PhD students in the humanities there are two groups to choose from.

Classes are organized differently for different disciplines – sometimes they are led by one person, but usually by two or more. A detailed schedule will be provided to each group.

Regardless of the course of classes, the PhD student is required to come to the faculty project office and inform them about plans to submit a grant application. This should be done at the earliest possible stage by filling out the form, in accordance with the instructions on the website: https://us.edu.pl/pracownik/sprawy-naukowe/strefa-projektow/skladanie-wnioskow-projektowych/. Due to the fact that Preludium NCN applications do not require your own contribution, you do not have to wait until the budget is precisely determined to apply.

Passing the module is based on Preparing a grant application. The instructors, in consultation with the PhD student and the supervisor, decide whether the application should be sent for assessment.

Course schedule: Reserch project preparation and implementation 24-25L.xlsx

Detailed schedule for PhD students of the Faculty of Science and Technology: Reserch project preparation and implementation 24-25L – schedule for Faculty of Science and Technology.xlsx