PhD Course Management
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2025 Course leader: Mia Maychrzak Status: Course is open for application
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A welcome event for all newly enrolled PhD students to the PhD programme to give them the opportunity to meet and interact with fellow PhD students and AU representatives from fields relevant during the PhD programme.
Conceptual Constellations: (Neo)colonialism,Race and Global Contexts
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 04/09/2025 Course leader: Gry Lind Merrild Hansen Status: Course is open for application
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Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/09/2025 Course leader: Thea Thougaard Johansen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to give the participants understanding of the basic principles in laboratory animal science. The course is obligatory for persons, who wish to participate in research using laboratory animals, either by carrying out procedures on animals (EU category A) or euthanize animals (EU category D). The course is designated as an EU function A/D course according to the EU Directive 2010/63 and EU Article 23.2 (previously category B by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations). The course gives an introduction to practical and theoretical handling, housing and using laboratory animals and how to replace, refine and reduce the use of live animals for research (3R).
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/09/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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This course aims to impart knowledge about and give participants an introduction to and practical experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their scientific and academic writing process.
Cancer Research from bench to bedside and back
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/09/2025 Course leader: Martin K. Thomsen Status: Course is open for application
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The course will provide didactic and plenum discussions on cancer diseases and research. The theoretical lectures will include insight into the disease, methodology for research, progression to clinical trials, and common errors that hamper project development. The course will have a strong focus on the progression of a project from basic research to clinical application. Furthermore, students are asked to present their projects, including a critical perspective and applied new possibilities for the projects to reach a higher impact of their work.
Basic Data Science in Python
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 23/09/2025 Course leader: Davide Mottin Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to introduce the PhD student to basic tasks, methods and evaluation procedures in data science, using Python and its libraries and environments.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Research Integrity
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 23/09/2025 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this workshop is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to reflect upon research integrity, responsible conduct of research, and freedom of research in relation to their own research. The course will enable them to understand and incorporate issues concerning research planning, data management, publication and communication, authorship and contributorship, collaboration, and conflicts of interests into their own research practices.
Workshop: Digital Analysis and Operationalization in Literary-Historical Research
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 24/09/2025 Course leader: Stefan Iversen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to provide a solid theoretical and practical foundation in modern flow cytometry, enabling participants to assess and conduct flow cytometric experiments independently.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/09/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to impart knowledge about and give course participants an introduction to academic text production in English, applying textual and discourse strategies and methodologies in accordance with the current conventions of written academic English in health sciences.
From Gene to Function - Molecular Analysis of Disease Genes
ECTS: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/09/2025 Course leader: Peter Bross Status: Course is open for application
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Getting familiar with the theoretical background, the experimental methods, and interpretation of results in studies investigating consequences of mutations and molecular disease mechanism.
Basic academic and professional English writing for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 30/09/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to impart knowledge about and give course participants an introduction to academic text production in English within the field of natural sciences and technical sciences, applying textual and discourse strategies and methodologies in accordance with the current conventions of written academic English in natural sciences and technical sciences.
Doing Postphenomenological Research: Multistability, Technological Mediations, and Human Agency
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 30/09/2025 Course leader: Finn Olesen Status: Course is open for application
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Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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This course aims to impart knowledge about and give participants an introduction to and practical experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their scientific and academic writing process.
Basic Biostatistics - part 2
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/10/2025 Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner Status: Course is open for application
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The course provides an introduction to more advanced statistical models and analyzes in medical research
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
Introductory course in questionnaire technique and clinimetrics
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/10/2025 Course leader: Henrik Hein Lauridsen Status: Course is open for application
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The purpose of the course is to give participants an introduction to clinimetric testing of questionnaires.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 06/10/2025 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.
Literature search in medical databases (Language English)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/10/2025 Course leader: Annette Balle Sørensen Status: Course is open for application
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To make the participants familiar with the most important medical databases, and enable them to perform qualified searches for relevant scholarly literature. Furthermore, to make the participants aware of basic principles of research evaluation and different aspects related to research publication.
Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 07/10/2025 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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PhD Supervision Course GSNS/GSTS (Aarhus)
Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 09/10/2025 Course leader: Dorina Gnaur Status: Course is open for application
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To expand participants’ strategies and methods in supervision.
Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/10/2025 Course leader: Vibeke Broe Status: Course is open for application
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A PhD is a time to submerge into interesting research and exciting new contexts, but it is also a time to tend to your future career. Your PhD is a step towards your next job regardless of your professional background and your thoughts on career direction. This session will aim at encouraging you to build career management skills during your PhD: strengthen your knowledge and understanding of how adding a career perspective to your PhD is beneficial both for your professional development as a researcher and for ensuring that you have the skills, knowledge and experience necessary for your next career step, whatever that is.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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This course aims to impart knowledge about and give participants an introduction to and practical experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their scientific and academic writing process.
Kvalitativ forskning i psykiatri: Sammenhænge mellem kultur og psykisk lidelse
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 15/10/2025 Course leader: Karen Schriver Status: Course is open for application
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What is research? Ontology, epistemology and methodology
ECTS: 3.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/10/2025 Course leader: Rune Dall Jensen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss basic philosophy of science. Hence, the course introduces and discuss’ the concepts of ontology, epistemology, and methodology in order to answer the questions of what research is and what counts as research-based knowledge.
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/10/2025 Course leader: Jibran Khan Status: Course is open for application
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The course aims to
- Provide theoretical background of advanced spatial modelling, analyses and visualization
- Introduce participants to spatial programming
- Give participants hands-on experience in advanced spatial analyses and programming with focus on health-related exercises
Introduction to R
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 21/10/2025 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the basic use of the software R. The course is designed to build up the basic skills in R necessary for attending to the PhD course Basic Statistical Analysis.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 22/10/2025 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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A PhD is a time to submerge into interesting research and exciting new contexts, but it is also a time to tend to your future career. Your PhD is a step towards your next job regardless of your professional background and your thoughts on career direction. This session will aim at encouraging you to build career management skills during your PhD: strengthen your knowledge and understanding of how adding a career perspective to your PhD is beneficial both for your professional development as a researcher and for ensuring that you have the skills, knowledge and experience necessary for your next career step.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
Systematic Literature Search (Research-year)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 23/10/2025 Course leader: Janne Lytoft Simonsen Status: Course is open for application
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To make the research year students familiar with the most important medical databases, and enable them to perform qualified searches for relevant scholarly literature. Participants will be introduced to systematic literature searching as well as citation searching and reference management.
Preparing for Career Transitions
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 23/10/2025 Course leader: Vibeke Broe Status: Course is open for application
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Half-way in your PhD, you now know what being a PhD student really is about. It is also a turning point where questions such as “what options do I have”, “how can I make the most of my doctoral degree” and “how do I make a sensible choice for my future career “ may start to pop up and cause both excitement and concern. This workshop aims at giving you the tools to answer those questions and to support you in being able to make an informed choice for the next step in your career. In the workshop, you will consider 1. your professional development so far and whether there competences you would like to improve during your part b, and 2. How you can start preparing for the transition by building your network, understanding your options and increasing your awareness of what a “good” job/work life is to you.
PhD Masterclass with Professor Lea Ypi
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 24/10/2025 Course leader: Christian Olaf Christiansen Status: Course is open for application
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Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/10/2025 Course leader: Martin K. Thomsen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to ensure participants are able to apply the Three Rs (reduce, replace, refine) effectively in the design of procedures and projects and make appropriate ethical and scientific judgments. The course is obligatory for persons who wish to achieve a personal license to independently plan, implement and take responsibility for the design and performance of animal experimentation within the European Union according to the EU Directive 2010/63/EU Article 23.2 and the Danish executive order 12 of 07/01/2016, §56.
Learning towards work – a sociological investigation ranging from understanding individual career choices to professional membership and organisational involvement
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 27/10/2025 Course leader: Marianne Høyen Status: Course is open for application
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Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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This course aims to impart knowledge about and give participants an introduction to and practical experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their scientific and academic writing process.
Basic Statistical Analysis
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 28/10/2025 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to introduce the PhD student to basic notions of statistical analysis and give an idea of a typical statistical modelling process.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course aims to impart knowledge about and give participants an introduction to and practical experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their scientific and academic writing process.
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 30/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to train the students’ general and disciplinary writing ability to enhance successful disciplinary writing and editing in conformity with contextual/situational, discoursal and genre- and text-type conventions and requirements of written academic English in natural sciences and technical sciences.
Science Writing Toolkit
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 30/10/2025 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to equip students with a strategy to write efficiently and the tools they need to deliver a high quality, high impact scientific paper. It is designed in a workshop style and as a condensed version of the Science Writing and Communication course, focusing on how to write.
Clinical assessment of insulin resistance and other metabolic parameters
ECTS: 1.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2025 Course leader: Esben Søndergaard Status: Course is open for application
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Insulin resistance plays a pivotal factor in the pathogenesis behind dysmetabolic conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this course is to introduce state of the art understanding of various aspects of human insulin resistance, and to introduce methods and techniques used to assess insulin resistance and related metabolic parameters in clinical research.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to impart knowledge about and give course participants an introduction to academic text production in English, applying textual and discourse strategies and methodologies in accordance with the current conventions of written academic English in health sciences.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/11/2025 Course leader: Peter Brønnum Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
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Det samlede 20-dages varende forskningsmodul i speciallægeuddannelsen har til formål at opøve kompetence til at opsøge, vurdere og udvikle ny viden samt anvende denne viden til kritisk vurdering samt evaluering af etableret praksis.
Science Writing and Communication
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 03/11/2025 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to: 1) Equip students with the tools they need to approach and deliver a high quality, high impact scientific paper, proposal or poster. 2) Give students a space for immediate and direct feedback to progress more rapidly with their active or developing manuscripts or proposals
Qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo
ECTS: 4.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/11/2025 Course leader: Annesofie Lunde Jensen Status: Course is open for application
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The course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to critically use the qualitative software programme NVivo and to train the students in using NVivo to organise and analyse different types of qualitative data.
Advanced Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to train the students’ general and disciplinary writing ability to enhance successful disciplinary writing in conformity with contextual/situational, discoursal and genre- and text-type conventions and requirements of written academic English in health sciences.
How to Communicate your PhD research
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2025 Course leader: Lise Wendel Eriksen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to ensure that the participants can convey and handle responsible research communication of their own PhD project. Through different media channels and via different presentation techniques, the participants will be able to explain and present complex research in an engaging and understandable way to an audience whether it be the general public, journalists, patients, students in a classroom or a foundation’s review committee.
The Reflective Teacher
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/11/2025 Course leader: Peter Musaeus Status: Course is open for application
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This is a blended learning course in university teaching and learning that lays the foundation for reflective teachers at the PhD-level. It introduces the following topics: Constructive alignment, Student-centered teaching, Learning outcomes, Feedback, Reflective teaching logbooks. Activities include reading materials, watching videos, producing texts and models, participating in individual and group activities both in-class and out-of-class, developing lesson plans and teaching logbooks, as well as giving peer feedback. Completion of the course, receiving ECTS credit, and obtaining a diploma require active online participation, completion of all activities (including peer feedback and logbook), and adherence to activity deadlines.
Basic and practical course in quantitative immunoassays
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/11/2025 Course leader: Mette Bjerre Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to give a practical and theoretical introduction to immunoassays with focus on quantitative assays (ELISA, TRIFMA). The course will give the participants skills to work with quantitative immunoassays in the laboratory and to troubleshoot in relation the daily routine work.
Writing Boot Camp for PhD Students
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 05/11/2025 Course leader: Stefan Iversen Status: Course is open for application
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How to secure funding for your research
ECTS: 0.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Søndergaard Lindhard Status: Course is open for application
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This course aims to assist and support in navigating the application process for both small and large grant applications - a task that can be particularly challenging for PhD- and research year students.
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
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For more information regarding specific faculty course rules and regulations, please visit the following websites:
Graduate School, Arts - PhD Course information
Graduate School Health – PhD Course information
Graduate School of Natural Sciences – PhD Course information
Scientific courses at Graduate School of Natural Sciences
Graduate School of Technical Sciences – PhD Course information
Scientific courses at Graduate School of Technical Sciences
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