2026 Karjäärikonverents

Konverents avab uue vaatenurga doktorantuuri jooksul omandatud oskuste ja teadmiste väärtusele eri valdkondades akadeemiast ettevõtluseni.

Arutelu keskmes on valikud pärast kraadi kaitsmist. Uurime, kas doktorikraad on uks, mis avaneb võrdselt nii akadeemilisse maailma kui ka tipptasemel avalikku- või erasektorisse.

This one-hour workshop introduces early-stage researchers to LinkedIn as a powerful tool for visibility, networking, and impact. Participants will learn why social media marketing matters in today’s research ecosystem where discoverability and visibility are key for impactful research and collaboration.

The session shows how to translate academic work into engaging posts, build a professional profile that reflects one’s research identity and grow a meaningful network. Practical examples, simple posting strategies, and best practices for consistency and authenticity will be shared.

Facilitator ➤ Ulrike Rohn, Professor of Media Management and Economics (Tallinn University)

Preparation: Bring along your favourite photograph.

In film editing, everything begins with how we look at images. Do we see them as building blocks for a story, or as moments that move us? This one-hour workshop explores attention as a core editorial skill, focusing on narrativity and authenticity.

Drawing on Roland Barthes’ concept of punctum, we first analyze still photographs to identify the small details that affect us, then extend this approach to moving images. Through film excerpts and discussion, we ask: what might punctum be in cinema? The workshop reveals how preconceptions shape our viewing and how openness can transform it. Grounded in a decade of teaching experience, the pedagogy is framed by Gert Biesta’s notion of subjectification and concludes with the concept of “chance-seeking,” a valuable tool for editors, researchers, and scholars.

Facilitator ➤ Liis Nimik, Junior Research Fellow (Tallinn University)

Preparation: Before the workshop, registered participants will be sent a short set of reflective questions to help them consider their research from the perspectives of multilingualism and translation.

Translation and multilingualism are present in many stages of research, from data collection and analysis to writing and publication, yet they often remain unnoticed. This workshop introduces the idea of translation awareness and explores how language choices and translation practices can influence research processes, meaning, and interpretation.

Drawing on key concepts from Translation Studies, participants will reflect on methodological, epistemological, and ethical aspects of working across languages. Through a short introduction, an individual reflection task, and group discussion, PhD students will be encouraged to consider how translation affects their own research projects and to develop a more conscious and transparent approach to multilingual research contexts.

Facilitator ➤ Katerina Maadla, Junior Research Fellow (Tallinn University)

Preparation: No prior knowledge is required. Guiding reflection questions will be sent to registered participants in advance to help them prepare their thoughts and contributions.

Inspired by the “F*ckup Nights” format, this workshop creates a safe and open space for PhD students to share experiences of setbacks, failures, and challenges in academia.

Conferences often focus on success stories, which can reinforce impostor syndrome and unrealistic expectations about academic careers. By openly discussing failed experiments, rejected applications, career doubts, or changes in direction, the workshop aims to normalise failure as part of academic life.

This session invites participants to openly discuss failed experiments, rejected papers or grants, career doubts, and changes in direction. Through small-group conversations followed by collective reflection, participants will normalise failure as a common part of research life, learn from one another’s experiences, and gain more realistic and humane perspectives on academic trajectories.

Facilitator ➤ Ayan Shamchiyeva, Junior Research Fellow (Tallinn University)

The workshop explores ethical challenges that arise when qualitative researchers work with sensitive narratives and other forms of multimodal data.

Using illustrative examples from studies involving vulnerable groups, the workshop examines ethical implications of employing creative strategies such as composite narratives, data construction, and anonymizing transformations of text, images, or videos. Fabrication approaches are highlighted as effective tools for protecting privacy and enhancing confidentiality, especially in digital or public contexts where traditional anonymization may be insufficient.

At the same time, the workshop addresses how researchers can balance these protective measures with the need to preserve the integrity and meaning of participants’ stories. Participants will reflect on how to navigate these ethical decisions and will gain practical guidance for making defensible methodological choices across diverse qualitative materials

Facilitator ➤ Maliheh Keshmiri, Junior Research Fellow (Tallinn University)

Most commercial Generative AI interfaces function as ready-to-go answer machines (means-end machines), delivering confident, opaque outputs that encourage unwanted cognitive offloading and copy-paste behaviour among students.

This workshop invites participants to explore how interface design choices can shape the way users interact with Generative AI. Building on theories of Distributed Cognition, Desirable Difficulties, and Affordances, participants will engage in a “Wizard of Oz” simulation to experience the friction between performance and learning.

Attendees will transition from passive users to active designers, prototyping new interface perceived affordances – specifically, “Cautious Explanations” – that are expected to trigger verification, uncertainty, and critical dialogue, transforming generative AI from an invitation to use it as it is into a partner that requires guiding.

Facilitator ➤ Paulo Ferreira, Junior Research Fellow (Tallinn University)

Töötoa eesmärk on kutsuda osalejaid arutlema isikubrändi ja isikliku teaduskommunikatsiooni strateegia loomise vajaduse üle. Kuidas võiks mõelda erinevate sotsiaalmeedia vahendite rollist oma teadlase kuvandi loomisel? Mida võtta arvesse oma teaduskommunikatsiooni tegevuse planeerimisel?

Loe lisaks: Võtta sõna ja rääkida teadusest – miks ja kuidas? – Sirp

Läbiviija ➤ Aija Sakova, PhD, TLÜ ettevõtluskoostöö ja teadmussiirde juht

Töötoas kaardistatakse doktorantuuri rolli tänapäeva tööturul ning arutletakse teadlase teega kaasnevate takistuste ja võimaluste üle. Jagatakse praktilisi nõuandeid karjääri planeerimiseks ja fookuse hoidmiseks olukorras, kus valikuid on rohkem kui kunagi varem. Tule ja saa inspiratsiooni oma potentsiaali maksimaalseks ärakasutamiseks!

Läbiviija ➤ Kadri Pakaste, TLÜ karjäärinõustaja

Ettevalmistus: Ajalise piiratuse tõttu on praktilistes tegevustes osalemiseks vaja eelnevalt luua kasutajakontod, mõelda välja mõni lihtsam uurimisküsimus ning võtta töötuppa kaasa seade (arvuti, tahvel, telefon), milles on mugav rakendustega tutvuda.

Töötoas tutvustatakse tehisintellekti tööriistu, mis toetavad doktorandi igapäevatööd teadusartiklitega:

• Elicit, Connectedpapers, NotebookLM – artiklite otsimine ja analüüs;
• ChatGPT – tõlkimine, kirjutamine, õigekirjakontroll;
• Napkin, Gamma, Curipod – teksti visualiseerimine ja esitlemine.

Praktiliste tegevuste käigus vaadatakse samm-sammult eelpool nimetatud rakenduste võimalusi ning osalejad saavad luua enda püstitatud küsimuse või märksõnade põhjal leitud teadusartiklitele tuginedes artikli mustandi, täiendada seda visuaalidega ning luua teemat tutvustava interaktiivse esitluse.

Lisaks praktilistele tegevustele selgitatakse töötoas TI kasutamisega tekkida võivaid probleeme ja ohte.

Läbiviija ➤ Marge Kusmin, PhD

Eestis polnud ühtegi ülikoolide ülest doktorante koondavat organisatsiooni, mis võimaldaks kaasa rääkida nii riigi kui ka Euroopa tasandil. Alates 2024. aastast on Doktorantide Selts üritanud seda lünka täita ja aktiivselt kaasanud liikmeid igast Eesti ülikoolist.

Selts ei ole klassikaline ametiühing, vaid ühendab alustavaid ja juba tegutsevaid teadlasi nii seminaride kui ka meelelahutuslike üritustega, sest koos tegutsedes on mured väiksemad ja rõõmud suuremad.

Tule töötuppa, räägime doktorantide esindatuse vajalikkusest, tutvu teistega ja seltsi tegevusega ning anna Doktorantide Seltsile hoogu juurde!

Läbiviija ➤ Doktorantide Selts