The PhD students' seminar (DocSem)

About

Aims
The ambition is to offer a space for discussion and collective work between PhD students at the CERI - notably to discuss the various challenges encountered during the PhD and share advice on how to overcome them. It is also a friendly and regular meeting place for PhD students, regardless of their doctoral year.

Audience
This seminar is aimed at CERI PhD students and post-doctoral students.

Format
We agreed to adopt a variety of formats in the seminar, according to the PhD students’ needs and interests. Each session focuses on a specific theme, announced and prepared in advance. The themes addressed are generally precise and circumscribed. Each session includes one or more presentations (maximum three) and a group discussion of at least thirty minutes.

Content
The sessions are intended to be relevant to the needs of the doctoral students. Thus, Docsem's planning is implemented depending on the questions expressed by doctoral students. Sessions have a practical objective to allow us to progress in our research (and our daily life as a PhD student) through group discussions.

Program 2026-2027

DocSem meets once or twice a month, from 12.30 pm to 2.30 pm in room G009

• September 21st
  Back to the future: What I wish I had known before starting my thesis
• October 5th
  Emily in Paris! How to be an international in Paris? 
• October 19th - MOVED
  The Usual Suspects: Ethics review and sensitive terrains
• November 2nd
  Catch Me If You Can: What to do when funding runs out? 
• November 16th
  Barbie - Life in the dreamhouse: Taking initiative in the CERI - how to do projects? 
• November 30th
  Bad Teacher:  How to prepare for teaching? 
• December 14th
  Transformers: AI, Ethics and the Thesis 
• January 11th
  King’s Speech: How to prepare your first conference 
• January 25th
  Inside Out : Emotions in writing a thesis 
• February 19th
  Eat, Pray, Love: How to prepare your fieldwork