Postdoc Career Success Programme (PCSP)

We are offering you an online programme delivered by career development specialist PostdocTraining for postdocs and researchers. It provides training in skills and tools that you can apply immediately in your daily work and is designed to help you pursue detailed career plans, increase your efficiency and effectiveness, and accelerate your progress.

The programme provides you with tools for 

  • career planning and career pathways

  • time-, people- and project management
  • publishing strategies
  • initiating partnerships
  • attracting funding
  • building networks

You get

  • 15 online modules delivered fortnightly over 8 months (on average 2 hours to complete)

  • one-to-one access to experienced mentors for career coaching
  • e-mail career guidance / e-mail support
  • career options masterlist, a database of career path case-studies
  • a monthly news service on research-related career issues
  • open-ended access to all course material
  • opportunity to be matched into a small ‘Mastermind’ peer mentoring group of UiO postdocs and researchers for private career-related discussions

image with programme overview
Click to view larger picture. 

Platform for networking

The programme also serve as a platform for you to network with your peers as all participants are invited to two or three physical meet-up events throughout the year.

Eligibility

Eligible participants must meet the following criteria:

  • Be a postdoctoral fellow or researcher affiliated with the MN Faculty or the Natural History Museum.
  • Hold a contract of employment that remains valid through 2026.
  • Have not previously attended the program.

Expectations

As a registered participant, you are expected to:

  • Work independently with all 15 modules.
  • Attend the live tutorials.

More information and schedule available here.

Register here

Registration deadline: 17th of April

For participants of the program

First Eclass released Wednesday 22 April and live orientation webinar, including start of Mastermind EOI process.

More information here. 

Check out PostdocTraining's webpages for more information about the Postdoc Career Success Programme. 

The programme is offered free of charge to the postdoctoral fellows and temporarily employed researchers at the MN Faculty and the Natural History Museum. 

Contact

Organizers

Logo

logo