Writing your narrative CV for your next grant

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to write a narrative CV that sells you as the ideal candidate for your project. During these two sessions you’ll learn to:

·         identify from any funding call the aspects you’ll be evaluated for

·         select your skills and achievements that match the requirements and illustrate them with examples

·         write a narrative text using storytelling principles that will make you  memorable

·         create a CV figure that will impact the reviewers further

General Information

Target Group:	PhD's, postdocs, staff
Group size:	20
Course duration:	1 day
Language:	English
Credit points:	0.3 ECTS
Self-study hours:
Name lecturer:	Ana Pineda
Venue:	Wageningen Campus

The workshop will mix teaching time where you’ll learn different aspects of writing a narrative CV, with time for drafting your own CV, and time to give and receive feedback from the other attendees while observing the most common mistakes.

Trainer:

Ana Pineda, PhD, from “I focus and write”. Ana has been working in research for more than 15 years, including her postdoc years at Wageningen. Now she’s the founder of “I focus and write”, where she helps other scientists with their writing and productivity struggles. As an academic coach, she has helped other to write proposals like Veni, Vici, or ERC grants, seeing many different narrative CVs. 

 

Fee

Reduced fee: • PhD candidates of Wageningen University with an approved Training and Supervision Plan (TSP) who are registered at one of the WU graduate schools (EPS, PE&RC, VLAG, WASS, WIAS, WIMEK) • Postdocs of Wageningen University who are registered at one of the WU graduate schools	€ 90
University fee: All other PhD candidates / Wageningen University postdocs and staff	€ 180
External fee: All other participants	€ 400

Fee includes study and training material, coffee/tea and lunches.

Cancellation condition

You may cancel free of charge up to four weeks before the start of the course. After this date you will be charged the University fee. Unless:

• You can find someone to replace you in the course and supply the course coordinator with the name and contact information of your replacement.
  In this case you will only be charged a € 50,- cancellation fee.
• You (PhDs and postdocs of Wageningen University) have a valid reason to cancel (illness or death in the family 1st or 2nd degree).
  In this case you will be charged the reduced fee and your supervisor/PI must send a mail indicating the reason for cancellation.

Information

For more information please contact: Juliane Teapal (Juliane.Teapal@wur.nl)