Read the featured comment for the University Post by the authors of the report here<\/a>.<\/p>\nMissed his family<\/h2>\n
For the non-Danish PhDs, the problem was how to feel at home at the Faculty, and of feeling at home in Denmark in general. For a male PhD student quoted in the study, coming to the Faculty and coming to Denmark was particularly traumatic.<\/p>\n
\u00bbFor one long month I was not sure if I was going to stay here (\u2026) My supervisor came by and said: This is your office and this is the project. (\u2026) I was completely alone sitting at my desk knowing not what to do. (\u2026) I was not really introduced to any of the campus\u2019 forms or any of the scientists working here so I started working and I read some literature. I was immediately lost and I did not know what to do. It was a horrible time,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n
\u00bbI was missing my family and more than anything else: I was missing people. There were people here but they were in their offices only coming out in coffee breaks talking with their colleagues in Danish. That was hard!\u00ab he added.<\/p>\n
Course was the way out<\/h2>\n
The course turned out to be a turning point for him.<\/p>\n
While for the Danish PhD students interviewed, the introductory course was seen as a \u2018practical toolbox\u2019 introducing them to guidelines and methods, for the international PhDs the course was much more.<\/p>\n
The authors of the report speculate that while domestic, Danish, students concentrate immediately on academic issues, a first, and essential task for the international group is to achieve integration.<\/p>\n
Network was important<\/h2>\n
Regardless of scientific abilities, international students found it more difficult to start at the Faculty than their Danish counterparts. <\/p>\n
Networking with other students, also Danish PhD students, was considered an essential part of the integration process.<\/p>\n
For a female PhD student, apart from the actual content of the course, \u00bbthe nicest part was to talk with the other PhD students in the breaks and outside and get a feel that there was some
\nnetwork to build on.\u00ab<\/p>\n
Felt lost<\/h2>\n
In the Life Sciences intro course, PhDs are introduced to self-organisation skills, a Personal Development Plan and ways to cope with stress.<\/p>\n
Stress was an issue for one female PhD, whose exchange with the interviewer is quoted in the study.<\/p>\n
\u00bbI felt a bit lost, because I was in a new place, but I thought \u2019you\u2019ve tried it so many times before, you\u2019ll get through it\u2019. But as I still, after half a year, did not feel as if I was on my own ground, I got stressed,\u00ab she said<\/p>\n
Interviewer: \u00bbWhat the Introduction course aims for is, that you as PhD students should take charge, [that you] be the one to tell the story that the PhD study is. It sounds like you didn\u2019t quite get there?\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00bbNo,\u00ab she answered. <\/p>\n
Culture of stress<\/h2>\n
The report points to the cultural and individual differences in handling the stresses of a PhD education.<\/p>\n
One of male PhD student explains that he himself is extremely busy, working 70 hours a week. Yet he believes that he has to be busy. A PhD project without stress would not live up to his ideals of the right approach to work and ambition within his cultural framework. As he, himself explains the phenomenon:<\/p>\n
\u00bb[It is] those [who] belong to masculine cultures, and people [who] have usually high expectations, and are sometimes quite ambitious. I will not say that I am ambitious but I still have some expectations. I want to have good data. I want to have good publications\u00ab.<\/p>\n
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In a new report, twelve of the original 2007-course participants were interviewed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"node\/5467\">Read the featured comment for the University Post by the authors of the report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Missed his family<\/h2>\n<p>For the non-Danish PhDs, the problem was how to feel at home at the Faculty, and of feeling at home in Denmark in general. For a male PhD student quoted in the study, coming to the Faculty and coming to Denmark was particularly traumatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbFor one long month I was not sure if I was going to stay here (\u2026) My supervisor came by and said: This is your office and this is the project. (\u2026) I was completely alone sitting at my desk knowing not what to do. (\u2026) I was not really introduced to any of the campus\u2019 forms or any of the scientists working here so I started working and I read some literature. I was immediately lost and I did not know what to do. It was a horrible time,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI was missing my family and more than anything else: I was missing people. There were people here but they were in their offices only coming out in coffee breaks talking with their colleagues in Danish. That was hard!\u00ab he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Course was the way out<\/h2>\n<p>The course turned out to be a turning point for him.<\/p>\n<p>While for the Danish PhD students interviewed, the introductory course was seen as a \u2018practical toolbox\u2019 introducing them to guidelines and methods, for the international PhDs the course was much more.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the report speculate that while domestic, Danish, students concentrate immediately on academic issues, a first, and essential task for the international group is to achieve integration.<\/p>\n<h2>Network was important<\/h2>\n<p>Regardless of scientific abilities, international students found it more difficult to start at the Faculty than their Danish counterparts. <\/p>\n<p>Networking with other students, also Danish PhD students, was considered an essential part of the integration process.<\/p>\n<p>For a female PhD student, apart from the actual content of the course, \u00bbthe nicest part was to talk with the other PhD students in the breaks and outside and get a feel that there was some<br \/>\nnetwork to build on.\u00ab<\/p>\n<h2>Felt lost<\/h2>\n<p>In the Life Sciences intro course, PhDs are introduced to self-organisation skills, a Personal Development Plan and ways to cope with stress.<\/p>\n<p>Stress was an issue for one female PhD, whose exchange with the interviewer is quoted in the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI felt a bit lost, because I was in a new place, but I thought \u2019you\u2019ve tried it so many times before, you\u2019ll get through it\u2019. But as I still, after half a year, did not feel as if I was on my own ground, I got stressed,\u00ab she said<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: \u00bbWhat the Introduction course aims for is, that you as PhD students should take charge, [that you] be the one to tell the story that the PhD study is. It sounds like you didn\u2019t quite get there?\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNo,\u00ab she answered. <\/p>\n<h2>Culture of stress<\/h2>\n<p>The report points to the cultural and individual differences in handling the stresses of a PhD education.<\/p>\n<p>One of male PhD student explains that he himself is extremely busy, working 70 hours a week. Yet he believes that he has to be busy. A PhD project without stress would not live up to his ideals of the right approach to work and ambition within his cultural framework. As he, himself explains the phenomenon:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb[It is] those [who] belong to masculine cultures, and people [who] have usually high expectations, and are sometimes quite ambitious. I will not say that I am ambitious but I still have some expectations. I want to have good data. 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