PhD Course Management
Research year: peer-feedback
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/04/2024 Course leader: Jasper Nijkamp Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This peer-feedback course is only available for research year students. The course is focused on academic and personal development throughout the research year. Students will be put in groups of 4-5 students for the entire year. The groups will meet 4 times, and in the meetings each student will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes) to the group, followed by 20 minutes for feedback. Each group will also have a fixed mentor for the year, who will be responsible for guiding the process during the meetings.
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 10/04/2024 Course leader: Steen Hammershøy Andersen Status: Course is open for application
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Host pathogen interactions – from basic microbiology and immunology to medicine
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/04/2024 Course leader: Trine Mogensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To provide a course on various aspects of human host-pathogen interaction ranging from basic cell biology and microbiology (bacteriology, virology, genetics, molecular cell biology, immunology) to pathogenesis of infectious diseases and medicine.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 17/04/2024 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-student as supervisor for undergraduate students – how and when?
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/04/2024 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. The course is relevant for all PhD students who wish to improve the quality of their supervision of undergraduate students.
Project and Time Managment: Using Project Management Tools to Communicate with your Supervisor
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/04/2024 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To create a framework for integrating project management tools into the interaction between supervisors and Ph.D. students. The content includes time to reflect on meta-communication strategies to discuss your work together with your supervisors. This includes integrating planning for key decision points related to your Ph.D. project. In addition, you will be introduced 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.
Introduction to psychiatric epidemiology
ECTS: 3.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/04/2024 Course leader: Katherine Musliner Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To introduce students to key issues, concepts, and research methods in psychiatric epidemiology. This course will provide an overview of current knowledge in psychiatry based on epidemiological research by highlighting the dynamic interplay of risk factors across the person (biology, psychology), context (family, social, neighbourhood, workplace, society) and time (societal and diagnostic changes across time), and the epidemiological methods used in psychiatric epidemiology.
Introduction to managing Research Data, FAIR principles, and Open Access
ECTS: 0.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 23/04/2024 Course leader: Anne Vils Møller Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Collecting, analyzing, storing and sharing data are central activities in research. Research Data Management (RDM) and FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles are thus becoming increasingly important, and researchers are often required by institutions and funders to prepare a data management plan. Open Access (OA) publishing is another aspect related to sharing research output, which implies that scholarly publications are distributed online, free of any access barriers.
Early modern Danish collections – European object biographies in the making
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 24/04/2024 Course leader: Lisbet Tarp Status: Course is open for application
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Genome Engineering
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/04/2024 Course leader: Yonglun Luo Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to:
- Provide students with the state-of-the-art knowledge on CRISPR-Cas9 technology
- Introduce the different types of CRISPR gene editing tools (e.g. base editing, prime editing) and their applications
- Instruct how to design the best CRISPR gRNA with high on-target efficiency and low off-target effect – CRISPR data science
- Instruct how to design CRISPR and donor vectors for gene knockin, tagging
- Introduce CRISPR data science and high-throughput CRISPR computing
- Instruct students how to practically analyze and understand CRISPR editing data with TIDE, ICE and NGS
- Introduce the current progress in CRISPR gene therapy
- Introduce methods (both viral and non-viral) for CRISPR delivery
- Prepare PhD students with essential knowledge and tools for their gene editing projects
Preparing for Career Transitions
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/04/2024 Course leader: Vibeke Broe Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Retire statistical significance: a world beyond p<0.05
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/05/2024 Course leader: Morten Schmidt Status: Course is open for application
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Get ready to work with Biostatistics
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/05/2024 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.
Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/05/2024 Course leader: Vibeke Broe 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, whatever that is.
Causal Inference in Health Sciences
ECTS: 3.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/05/2024 Course leader: Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduce participants to the basic theory and practical usage of modern causal inference methods in the health sciences.
Advanced Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/05/2024 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/05/2024 Course leader: Mia Maychrzak Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
How to Communicate your PhD research
ECTS: 0.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2024 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 presentations 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.
Introduction to Machine Learning for Health Research
ECTS: 4.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/05/2024 Course leader: Oleguer Plana-Ripoll Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course will provide students with broad exposure to the elements of machine learning and its practical applications within epidemiologic research and practice. The course will combine didactic lectures with group discussions and programming exercises to ensure a balance of substantive knowledge and practical skills. Through this approach, students will learn to apply critical thinking techniques as they explore the opportunities and limitations of using machine learning within the context of epidemiology.
How to Design, Conduct and Evaluate your PhD study to be Family-focused - Theory-driven Strategies and Clinical Excellence in Interprofessional Healthcare
ECTS: 2.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/05/2024 Course leader: Anne Brødsgaard Madsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim is to introduce, discuss and apply family-focused approaches, methods, and evaluations in health science research.
Single Cell and Spatial OMICS – Basic Course (module 1)
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/05/2024 Course leader: Lin Lin Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The Basic Course (module 1) will be focusing on introducing the theory, technology, and applications of various up-to-date single cell and spatial OMICS technologies. Basic introduction of data generation and preliminary data analysis will be provided in the basic course.
Literature search in medical databases (Language English)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/05/2024 Course leader: Annette Balle Sørensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
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: 15/05/2024 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.
Existential orientation and meaning in life
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 15/05/2024 Course leader: Claudia Welz Status: Course is open for application
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Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/05/2024 Course leader: Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel 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.
Investigator-initiated Clinical Trials and GCP
ECTS: 2.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/05/2024 Course leader: Birgitte Olrik Schlemmer Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course covers the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the roles of Sponsor, Investigator, Monitor, the ethics committee and the regulatory authorities.
Focus will be on the practical aspects on how to comply with the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and requirements in the national regulations in Denmark for Clinical trials with medicinal products.
Magnetic Resonance
ECTS: 3.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/05/2024 Course leader: Steffen Ringgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course presents basic principles of magnetic resonance spectroscopy, imaging, and hyperpolarized MR applied in biomedical research.
Examples illustrate the position of state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy as one of today’s most potential dynamic and functional research methodologies in the cardiovascular system, neurophysiology, and neuropsychology, in the uro-physiology and the musculoskeletal system.
Measurements of blood flow, perfusion, and fluid diffusion; brain functionality/connectivity, and metabolic flux quantification are explained with reference to cancer and organ diseases following ischemic stroke, diabetes, etc.
Drifting by Intention – Four Epistemic traditions in Constructive Design Research
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 22/05/2024 Course leader: Peter Gall Krogh Status: Course is open for application
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The science of stress and resilience
ECTS: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2024 Course leader: Karen Johanne Pallesen Status: Course is open for application
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This course enables a qualified debate about the relevance and applicability of current knowledge on stress and resilience to advance mental health and clinical practice.
How to design and conduct a qualitative content analysis in a qualitative study or a systematic review
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2024 Course leader: Cecilie Nørby Lyhne Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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).
Cancer Epidemiology using the Danish Clinical Cancer Databases
ECTS: 3.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2024 Course leader: Deirdre Cronin Fenton Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To provide students with an overview on how to take a research idea through to implementing, analyzing, and interpreting an epidemiologic study using the Danish Clinical Cancer Databases, and Denmark’s network of medical and population-based registries. Each concept will be introduced in a lecture. Through a combination of exercises and computer labs, students will be provided with guidance on implementing, analyzing and interpreting studies using data from the clinical cancer databases. Students are not required to complete an exam at the end of the course.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Literature, data management and publication
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 29/05/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
From PhD to PostDoc: Networking, Grantseeking & Interdisciplinarity for a research career after the PhD (both part-time & full-time research)
ECTS: 5.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/05/2024 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To focus on knowledge that is critical for success in an academic career. With a point of departure in the PhD students’ present and future career goals, this course explores key building blocks of successful academic careers. These building blocks for successful academic careers include networking, interdisciplinarity and understanding grant-based funding opportunities. These building blocks are used to create a career canvas that connects PhD work to the preparation needed for successful PostDoc experiences. The purpose of the career canvas is to Iay groundwork for recognizing opportunities and acting on them. This course is applicable for Health PhD students who want to become either part-time researchers and clinicians or full-time researchers.
HUMOR, EDUCATION, AND THE QUEST FOR A GOOD LIFE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 30/05/2024 Course leader: Claudia Welz Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction day, Graduate School of Technical Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Technical Sciences Start date: 30/05/2024 Course leader: Mette D. Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.
Bodies and religion
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 03/06/2024 Course leader: Anders-Christian Jacobsen Status: Course is open for application
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ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 10/06/2024 Course leader: Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction to Linguistic Research – Basis I
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 10/06/2024 Course leader: Merete Birkelund Status: Course is open for application
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ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 17/06/2024 Course leader: Stefan Iversen Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 19/06/2024 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.
Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 19/06/2024 Course leader: Hagen Schulz-Forberg Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The Sandbjerg Summer School in Global History allows PhD students to present their projects and to discuss them with peers and senior scholars in a structured, but informal setting. It provides them with an overview of global history and ensures they are familiar with recent developments in the field. The School provides a unique opportunity for participants to get to know different perspectives on global history and to network with both established scholars and peers from other countries.
Epidemiology II
ECTS: 4.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/08/2024 Course leader: Dorte Rytter Status: Course is open for application
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The course aims to provide the background for critical reading and interpretation of epidemiological research articles.
Mixed Models
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 15/08/2024 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.
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.
Get ready to work with Biostatistics
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/08/2024 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.
PhD-student as supervisor for undergraduate students – how and when?
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/08/2024 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. The course is relevant for all PhD students who wish to improve the quality of their supervision of undergraduate students.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2024 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: 02/09/2024 Course leader: Mia Maychrzak Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Public Speaking: Creating a talk worth listening to
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 02/09/2024 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course is designed to give participants a crash course in presentation skills. In the 4 workshops, we will cover ways to grab and keep your audience’s attention, structure content to clearly and effectively convey your message, and confidently deliver your talk. We will initiate the course with a discussion on how to develop a talk with the audience and purpose in mind, focusing on how to approach either a scientific or nonscientific talk- the similarities and differences.
Basic academic and professional English writing for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 03/09/2024 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 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.
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
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Graduate School, Arts - PhD Course information
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Scientific courses at Graduate School of Natural Sciences
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Scientific courses at Graduate School of Technical Sciences
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