PhD Course Management
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 25/10/2023 Course leader: Iben Have Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Systematic Literature Search (Research-year)
ECTS: 0.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/10/2023 Course leader: Janne Lytoft Simonsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to build a systematic search strategy and select relevant information sources and search terms. Furthermore, participants will be able to navigate common medical databases and be familiar with the concept of reference management software in general and EndNote in particular.
PhD-student as supervisor for undergraduate students – how and when?
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2023 Course leader: Mette Krogh Christensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Preparing for Career Transitions
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2023 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.
Qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2023 Course leader: Annesofie Lunde Jensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
NVivo is a software programme for data analysis, which is useful for organising and analysing large quantities of qualitative data. Qualitative data covers a range of different data such as data from interviews, focus groups, field observations, videos, pictures, journal articles and web pages. NVivo can be used in different types of research including data analysis based on e.g. content analysis, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and taxonomic analysis. Furthermore, it is useful in systematic reviews, e.g. meta-synthesis and mixed methods reviews.
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: 01/11/2023 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Introduction to Research Training in Health Sciences
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/11/2023 Course leader: Rikke Katrine Jentoft Olsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the main research fields in health sciences and to give an introduction to the requirements for conducting a research year or a PhD.
Foundational course in PhD Supervision (Aarhus)
Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 02/11/2023 Course leader: Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To expand participants’ strategies and methods in supervision.
Clinical assessment of insulin resistance and other metabolic parameters
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/11/2023 Course leader: Niels Jessen 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.
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Martin K. Thomsen Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the 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 2028 of 14/12/2020, §56.
What is pain and how should it be measured?
ECTS: 1.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Páll Karlsson Status: Course is open for application
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The aim is to give an overview of the physiology and measurement of pain
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Kurset er en overbygning på det tre dages varende grundmodul i forskertræning afholdt af Århus Universitet, og henvender sig til de læger under uddannelse, hvis speciale ikke har et selvstændigt overbygningskursus.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Peter Brønnum Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
ECTS: 3.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2023 Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To provide an introduction to the design, analysis and interpretation of time-to-event data.
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 07/11/2023 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.
GSNS workshop: Efficient writing for PhD students
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 08/11/2023 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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At this course you will practice a number of writing tools that will make your daily writing practice more efficient.
Retire statistical significance: a world beyond p<0.05
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/11/2023 Course leader: Morten Schmidt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to provide recommendations for reporting and interpreting effect estimates considering random error.
Time and Project Management II: Considering Risk & Coordinating your daily work with the big picture (IPTO)
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/11/2023 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To create a framework for integrating project management tools into work habits for Ph.D. students to help them stay on track or get back on track in the second half of the PhD process. The content includes time to reflect on bottlenecks and scheduling needs related to completing your Ph.D. project on time. In addition, you will be introduced to risk analysis tools, and Kanban boards.
Introduction to register-based research
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2023 Course leader: Oleguer Plana-Ripoll Status: Course is open for application
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Participants will learn about key Danish national registers and how to use them for research purposes, through a combination of lectures, short research presentations with examples, discussions and exercises. This course will provide participants the necessary knowledge and skills to start their own research project based on national registers and cohorts.
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2023 Course leader: Bodil Hammer Bech Status: Course is open for application
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Epidemiologic measures of occurrence and association, study designs - including macro-epidemiological, cross-sectional, case-control and cohort studies as well as experimental, randomized controlled trials - interpretation and inference, including random error, selection and information bias, confounding and effect modification. A specific session will deal with causation. Please see time schedule and teaching objectives for details.
Introduction to managing Research Data, FAIR principles, and Open Access
ECTS: 0.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2023 Course leader: Anne Vils Møller Status: Course is open for application
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The course will introduce the concepts of Research Data Management, FAIR principles, and Open Access. Different aspects and practices related to these concepts will be presented. The lessons will be a mix between theory, class discussions, and hands-on exercises.
Linear regression models for continuous and binary data
ECTS: 2.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2023 Course leader: Morten Frydenberg Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The participants should obtain a basic knowledge of linear normal and binary regression methods as applied within health science.
Prepare yourself on the movement from a PhD in Health to a career in non-academia
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2023 Course leader: Vibeke Broe Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim is to support PhD students in their career decision-making process by increasing their career awareness, and to prepare them for the transition between academia and industry/public sector jobs.
Quantitative discourse analysis: A corpus-based approach to critical discourse analysis
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 15/11/2023 Course leader: Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen Status: Course is open for application
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Science Writing Toolkit
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 16/11/2023 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.
Intercultural semantics and pragmatics
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 16/11/2023 Course leader: Susana Silvia Fernandez 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: 20/11/2023 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.
Principles of Neural Organization
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/11/2023 Course leader: Sadegh Nabavi Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course is interested in the following question: How can the brain be far smarter than a supercomputer yet consumes 100,000-fold less space and energy? Both brain and computer obey mathematical and physical laws and both deal with receiving, sending, processing, storing, and retrieving information.
Public and patient involvement in health research
ECTS: 2.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/11/2023 Course leader: Jeanette Finderup Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this course is to introduce the concept of PP and acquire participants a science- and theory-based understanding of PPI. The course will increase the participants’ ability to identify and increase the value of PPI in health research by suggesting how PPI could optimally be a part of their own study and which implications would be important for practice.
Get ready to work with Biostatistics
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/11/2023 Course leader: Eva Greibe Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To achieve knowledge on data documentation, basic statistical tests and the assumptions for performing these tests.
Mixed Models
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 24/11/2023 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Single Cell and Spatial OMICS – Advanced Course (module 2)
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/11/2023 Course leader: Lin Lin Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of this PhD course is to familiarise students with the principles, pipelines, and coding involved in the analysis of single cell/spatial RNAseq data.
These skills can be applied to the study of transcriptomics at single-cell and spatially resolved resolutions.
Archaeology and the third dimension: visualizing, analyzing, modelling
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 28/11/2023 Course leader: Kirstine Haase Status: Course is open for application
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GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 29/11/2023 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
PhD Supervision (supervisors)
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/11/2023 Course leader: Mette Krogh Christensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Mandatory for main supervisors
The quality of PhD students’ education is largely dependent on the PhD supervisor’s competencies as a supervisor. The aim of the basic 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.
Time and Project Management I: Using the IPTO to communicate with your supervisors and keep the overview in a dynamic PhD context (after 6 months)
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/12/2023 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To create a framework for integrating the IPTO and project management tools into the interaction between supervisors and Ph.D. students. The content includes time to work together with your advisor, integrating planning for key decision points related to your Ph.D. project. In addition, you will be introduce to the PDCA framework, which stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act. This framework will be used to reflect on how to optimize your independent work through Plan-Do; and your work with others through Check-Act.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Becoming a scientist
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 06/12/2023 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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In this workshop, we make the objectives of the PhD education explicit and equip students with strategies and tools to develop as independent scientists. In session 1, we discuss the skills and competences of a PhD – and their importance to society. In session 2, students present their research projects in small, cross-departmental groups and for each project discuss the opportunities for developing independence. Session 3 has a focus on the collaboration with supervisors and presents ways to negotiate roles and address progression during the education.
Introduction to the micro-phenomenological interview
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 11/12/2023 Course leader: Katrin Heimann Status: Course is open for application
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‘Dialogue’ – A Trans-Disciplinary Concept and Bridge-Building Practice
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 13/12/2023 Course leader: Claudia Welz Status: Course is open for application
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Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/01/2024 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
PhD Day 2024
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/01/2024 Status: Course is open for application
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Living with Algorithms: Power, Practices, and People in a Datafied World
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 07/02/2024 Course leader: Helene Friis Ratner Status: Course is open for application
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Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/02/2024 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Kurset er en overbygning på det tre dages varende grundmodul i forskertræning afholdt af Århus Universitet, og henvender sig til de læger under uddannelse, hvis speciale ikke har et selvstændigt overbygningskursus.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/03/2024 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/05/2024 Course leader: Peter Brønnum Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/08/2024 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/10/2024 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2024 Course leader: Peter Brønnum Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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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