On the 14th of November, the second LBSP x LUMC Association for PhD candidates (LAP) career event will take place What is going on at the LBSP?  Which innovations and clever ideas are just a stone’s throw away from the LUMC? And what do we, as LUMC PhD candidates, have to offer? All these questions we aim to answer on multiple rounds of speed-dating in which small groups of students can chat with company representatives. Are there further unanswered questions to be discussed? Then feel free to join the follow-up drinks. Click here for more information on the speed-dating companies and to register. Registration is free of charge!

Dear all,

The LAP is organizing a PhD Thesis Printing Workshop on November 8th in cooperation with Gildeprint. Right before the workshop there will be a free lunch and one lucky participant will win a discount voucher of €250 to go towards their eventual printing costs. The workshop will take approximately one hour. So if you are interested in the printing and design process of your thesis, would like to win a nice discount voucher or would just like a free lunch – please sign up via the link

 On the 27th of July we are organizing a boat trip through the beautiful canals of Leiden from 17.00-19.00. Drinks and snacks are included. Click here to register. Spots are limted!

Dear fellow PhD candidates,

On the 13th of June, the LAP x LBSP career event will make its debut. What is going on at the LBSP? Which innovations and clever ideas are just a stone’s throw away from the LUMC? And what do we, as LUMC PhD candidates, have to offer? We aim to touch upon these questions during multiple rounds of speed-dating in which small groups of students can chat with company representatives. The LAP x LBSP career event will include a plenary session on how to start your own company and speed-dating sessions will take place at BioPartner 1. The event will be followed by drinks. 

Click here to register! (free of charge). More information can be found here.

On the 19th of April we are organizing the PhD Day 2023 "PhDo, PhDid, PhDone"!
Starting with lunch, we will provide a day full of interesting plenary sessions, workshops, announcement of the new Supervisor of the Year and end the day with drinks at Hepatho.
As some workshops have a restricted amount of available places, sign up as soon as possible via this form.

Registration is free of charge. We hope to see you all on the 19th!

Now that Sinterklaas has left our country, we can look forward to the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas! Unfortunately, some of you may not be able to celebrate it with your loved ones. As we from the LUMC Association for PhD Candidates (LAP) think nobody should be alone at Christmas, we would like to create a buddy-system among all LUMC employees and students. Do you want to celebrate Christmas with a colleague or (PhD-) student or do you want to open your home to celebrate Christmas at your place? Please sign in as a buddy by completing this form.

The deadline to sign up as a buddy is the 15th of December. We will make the buddy-couples on the 16th of December. So you will have enough time to arrange everything for a wonderful Christmas together!

On Wednesday the 14th of December, JongLUMC and LAP are organizing a get together with drinks at De Stal! The perfect time to celebrate the upcoming holidays with the best LUMC colleagues. The theme will be "Sprakling Christmas", so get your glitter outfit ready!

Where? Grand Grand Café de Stal, Darwinweg 1, Leiden

When? 14-12-2022, 16:00-19:00

Costs? 3 euros per ticket, drinks and snacks are included. Tickets can be bought here!

Have you ever heard about 'Leidens Ontzet'; and have you ever been into the city centre of Leiden during the 2nd and 3rd of October; do you know what it is all about; and why we eat Hutspot, white bread and herring during that day? If you are intrigued or do not know the answer to these questions, come to our '3 October event' on September 30th to experience an evening full of fun and get the answer to all of the questions above. More details are coming up soon, register now through the following link!

Do you want to meet other PhD candidates, and are you in for a casual event with your fellow PhD colleagues? Come and join us on a boat trip through the canals of Leiden on July 7 at 5.30pm. We will arrange the drinks and some snacks.

Dear PhD candidate,

Some exciting news: we are finally organizing a live "borrel" again! We are going to celebrate the King's birthday on Thursday, April 21st. Always wanted to play those typical Dutch games (again) and in for some free drinks? Come and join! To keep corona out of the party we ask you to take a self-test the day of the ‘borrel’. See you all on the 21st!

Dear PhD candidate,

We would like to cordially invite you to the LUMC PhD day 2021: To your PhD and beyond!, on the 2nd of December 12:15 – 17:30. We’ll have lots of interesting speakers and workshops, and a Q-and-A panel where you can ask your heart out, a supervisor of the year award, and a borrel afterwards so you can boost your network, make new friends, or just have a nice drink with your colleagues. Save the date, we hope to see you there!

Dear male and female PhD candidates,

We are inviting you to the LAP webinar ‘Women as Leaders’ on April 20th, from 12.45 – 14.00.

The position of women in academia is evolving. We obviously know that it has improved a lot when compared to the 50’s but how well are we doing nowadays? Are men and women equally represented when it comes to high positions? What does the life of a woman pursuing a career in academia look like? How does gender influence work related communication?  How can you as a woman strengthen your leadership skills?

Do you want to find out the answers to these questions? And want to learn from successful women? Join our ‘Women as leaders’ webinar on the 20th of April! It may seem as a woman only event but of course all PhDs are welcome to join!

The afternoon will offer multiple interesting presentations by very successful and inspiring women and include 2 workshops on negotiation and leadership. See the poster for more details!  Registration is only required for the workshops. 

Program webinar Women as Leaders 20th of April

Presentations

• 12:45 Personal Experience in my academic career

  • Prof. dr. ir. Hester Bijl, rector magnificus Leiden University

  • Dr. Hariette Verwey, retired LUMC cardiologist and one of the first women in her field

• 13:30 Current Position of women in the LUMC

  • Dr. Liesbeth Winter, board member Vitaal LUMC

Workshops (registration required)

• Workshop: Women in Leadership: How to present yourself as confident and strong, by Angelique Reijntjes read more

• Workshop: Empowerment and gender differences in negotiation (for men and women!), by Fieke Harinck read more

  • Both workshops are given in both rounds. Only 10 participants per session.

• 14:30 Workshops round 1 (1 hour)

• 16:00 Workshops round 2 (1 hour)

• For workshop registration: click here

Do already have a question for one of our speakers? Feel free to send them to us!

We hope to see you there!

As you probably know, scientists of the LUMC and Leiden are world players in researching SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We were curious what they are exactly up to, and are now organizing a webinar with top-researchers from the LUMC and Leiden, especially for PhD candidates.

There will be several interesting speakers, including LUMC corona-expert prof. dr. Snijder and dr. Wegman from Janssen Vaccines. Also, there will be time to ask questions.

Registration: click here

LAP Intelligent Lockdown Pubquiz 25th of June at 20.00

Join the LAP Intelligent Lockdown Pubquiz! We will host a fun evening and you can join it live at home.

So how will this work? It is super easy. Grab a drink, video call your team, and open the pubquiz link on your computer. We’ll send you the link around 20:00, and then it’s just sit back and relax, or fanatically compete of course.

The winning team will get a surprise!

We will send you the link, and also post it here on facebook event page.

Be there or be

See you then!

LAP is organizing a webinar for all LUMC PhD candidates: ‘Research during COVID-crisis’, Tuesday 26th of May 2.00-3.00 pm.

Almost all research projects have been put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis. We can imagine you have a lot of questions about the current situation and what this means for you and your PhD position. Therefore, LAP is organizing a webinar for all LUMC PhD candidates, together with the LUMC Graduate School, prof. dr. Hogendoorn (dean LUMC) and prof. dr. Koning (president COVID-19 research committee LUMC and LUMC confidential advisor). During this webinar we will give a live update about the current impact of the COVID-19 crisis on research. Subsequently an interactive session is opened in which we will address the questions we received from you. There will also be the possibility to ask live questions through the chat option.

Please note:

1. You can only join the webinar with your LUMC e-mail address. All PhD candidates will receive a link to the session via an e-mail of LAP this week.

2. We can only send you the webinar link if you also receive our newsletter (which means you are in our database). To subscribe, please send an email to lap@lumc.nl with your LUMC e-mail address.

More questions? Please let us know: lap@lumc.nl.

Join us and celebrate the holidays!
Registration is now open.