PhD Course Management

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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.

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 Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.

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The aim is to introduce to the conduct of a qualitative content analysis, and enable the participants to design and plan a qualitative content analysis. The participants will be able to apply qualitative content analysis, to make consistent and well-informed analytical choices, and to reflect on relevant methodological issues related to their study design and plan of conduct.

The course is relevant both for students who are planning to conduct a qualitative study or literature review, and for students who will use the qualitative content analysis to analyze their conducted material (e.g., interviews, field notes, transcripts, documents, articles).

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The onboarding programme will introduce different work tools all relating to the process of initiating and doing a PhD project in the best way possible. These will be introduced through peer-mentoring groups and workshops with different topics. By participating in the onboarding programme the PhD students will be offered an insight into handling ups and downs during their PhD, and how to develop as a young scientist. The onboarding programme will also give the PhD students an opportunity to meet fellow PhD students and expand their network – both socially and academically. Read more here.

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To focus on knowledge that is critical for success in an academic research career. With a point of departure in the PhD students’ present and future career goals, this course explores key building blocks of successful academic research careers.

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In this module, AU Library will introduce you to the task of working with data and publications, both your own and that of others: How to find data and publications, manage them, and what to be aware of, when you want to publish your results, including copyright and Open Access.

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 Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.

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This PhD course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles, developments, and applications of single-cell and spatial OMICS technologies. Students will gain fundamental knowledge of sequencing and profiling methods used to study genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and proteomics at both single-cell and spatially resolved levels.

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The course aims to provide the background for critical reading and interpretation of epidemiological research articles.

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The course aims to provide the basic tools to use Mixed Models, including Gaussian Linear Mixed Models, Models for Repeated Measures, Generalised Linear Mixed Models and simple Multivariate Generalised Linear Mixed Models.

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To introduce advanced optical techniques for in vivo imaging and how these can be applied in research projects.

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This course aims to give PhD students a greater understanding of the R language for them to produce more clean, sophisticated and efficient R code, and also make them adopt better practices and learn more about packages and tools that will simplify their life when coding in R and doing some data analysis and visualization.

Note that this is NOT a Statistics course.

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As a part of their teaching responsibilities, PhD-students sometimes act as co-supervisors for undergraduate students’ bachelor projects, written assignments, master thesis, or research year assignments. In doing so, the PhD-students play an important role as a near-peer-supervisor guiding the students in their learning. This course aims to prepare PhD-students for their role as co-supervisors on undergraduate students’ assignments and/or learning processes. The course is relevant for all PhD students who wish to improve the quality of their supervision of undergraduate students.

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At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

• Develop a talk worth listening to, by content and visual aid
• Approach public speaking with their own personality, but with a set of tools to help guide them towards a talk worth listening to
• Have more confidence in public speaking

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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.

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Doctoral Students can be stressed, and many experience a need for more productivity. Using simple tools and establishing good writing habits can make the PhD and the research process more enjoyable and rewarding. The writing workshop focuses on you and your challenges; you have time to write your own text. Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!

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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.

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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.

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By the end of the course, the PhD student will:

• Be familiar with the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity as well as Aarhus University guidelines and Health standards of Responsible Conduct of Research
• Be able to understand and discuss principles of research integrity and responsible conduct of research
• Be able to identify, analyse and discuss cases of scientific misconduct and questionable research practices in the grey zone between misconduct and poor science
• Know where to seek advice concerning responsible conduct of research

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The course provides the students with basic skills using the most common, simple statistical models and analyzes in medical research

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The course objective is to strengthen your teaching skills and competences as a PhD student. The course provides guidance and inspiration for planning and implementing teaching to enhance students’ learning. In collaboration will peers you will learn to apply tools to identify and find solutions for challenges in your own teaching. During the course, you will train your teaching skills by developing and implementing a teaching activity in your own teaching and use methods to provide feedback.

The course addresses both traditional and online teaching, and you will have the opportunity to specialize in the type of teaching which is most relevant for you.

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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. 

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Mandatory for main supervisors

The quality of PhD students’ education is partly dependent on the PhD supervisor’s competencies as a supervisor. The aim of this course in PhD supervision is to expand the participants’ repertoire of supervision strategies and methods to provide a flexible approach to supervision, strengthen their reflections on practices, roles, and relationships in the supervision process, and share experiences and new knowledge for advancing PhD supervisors’ competencies.

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The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the basic use of the programming language Python. The course is designed to build up the basic skills in Python necessary for attending the course Basic Data Science in Python.

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The aim of the course is to introduce PhD students at Health, Aarhus University to the basic terms and principles of GMP controlled manufacture of pharmaceutical products.

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To create a framework for integrating project management tools into the interaction between supervisors and PhD students.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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The aim of this course is to improve the participants chances of publishing the results of their research in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Application: In order to apply for course participation, you must:

Sign up for the course via PhD Course Management and at the same time:

• Submit an abstract (max. 250 words – in English) based on the draft manuscript described under criteria for participation
• Submit a short application (max. 500 words – in English) describing why you wish to participate in the course

Both abstract and application must be submitted, in one file, at the same time as registering for the course.

Registrations for the course without these two documents will not be taken into consideration.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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The aim of this course is to take a practitioners approach to project management focusing on both technical and sociocultural skills.

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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.

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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.

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The course provides an introduction to more advanced statistical models and analyzes in medical research

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By the end of the course, the PhD student will:

• Be familiar with the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity as well as Aarhus University guidelines and Health standards of Responsible Conduct of Research
• Be able to understand and discuss principles of research integrity and responsible conduct of research
• Be able to identify, analyse and discuss cases of scientific misconduct and questionable research practices in the grey zone between misconduct and poor science
• Know where to seek advice concerning responsible conduct of research

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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.

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The purpose of the course is to give participants an introduction to clinimetric testing of questionnaires.