PhD Course Management
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/01/2024 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.
Basic Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/01/2024 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.
Developing complex interventions in Public Health
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/01/2024 Course leader: Knud Ryom Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to introduce frameworks for designing public health interventions. Including developing skills to work with program theory and logic models. Socio-ecological models of health will form the basis of the course. The course will include basic introduction to evaluating, with a subsequent additional course in evaluation of complex interventions (March 2024).
Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/01/2024 Course leader: Lene Niemann Nejsum Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim is to give the participants an overview of basic fluorescence microscopy techniques, sample preparation, image acquisition and imaging analysis.
Basic Biostatistics - part 1
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/01/2024 Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course provides the students with basic skills using the most common, simple statistical models and analyzes in medical research
PhD Day 2024
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/01/2024 Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/01/2024 Course leader: Thea Thougaard Johansen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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)..
Research presenter - Educational Informatics
ECTS: 3.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/02/2024 Course leader: Maria Louise Gamborg Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to gain skills in Rhetoric of Science and reflection in order to improve academic and research presentations.
Get ready to work with Biostatistics (Research Year)
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/02/2024 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.
Science Writing and Communication
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 05/02/2024 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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
Collecting qualitative research data
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/02/2024 Course leader: Sanne Angel Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Participants will acquire a science-based, theoretical understanding for and basic skills in applying different methods for the purpose of producing empirical material.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/02/2024 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.
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science – Porcine models in biomedical research
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/02/2024 Course leader: Birgitte Saima Kousholt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to give the participants knowledge on best practice procedures when using the pig as an animal model in preclinical science. The students will learn more about ethics and the 3Rs. The course will furthermore draw attention to the importance of anaesthesia and analgesia and the participants will gain hands-on experience performing general surgical procedures. There will be lectures on regulatory requirements and application procedures.
Preparation and critical reading of meta-analysis
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/02/2024 Course leader: Inger Mechlenburg Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to give students the knowledge and the skills to carry out a meta-analysis. Meta- analyses are a prerequisite for a final compilation of results of several types of systematic reviews. Without this skill, it is impossible to finalize the review and interpret the results in order to provide a basis for clinical guidelines.
Historiography in Art, Literature and Culture: Methods and Problems
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 19/02/2024 Course leader: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction to R
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 20/02/2024 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/02/2024 Course leader: Sebastian Frische Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Research Integrity
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 21/02/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Basic Biostatistics - part 2
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/02/2024 Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course provides an introduction to more advanced statistical models and analyzes in medical research
Time and Project Management: Using the IPTO to communicate with your supervisors and keep the overview in a dynamic PhD context (after 6 months)
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 23/02/2024 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.
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.
Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology
ECTS: 3.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/02/2024 Course leader: Deirdre Cronin Fenton Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To introduce PhD students to the fundamentals of design and analysis of clinical epidemiology research. Each concept will be introduced in a lecture. Students will then carry out in-class exercises applying the fundamental principles introduced in the lecture to actual examples from the scientific literature. Students are not required to complete an exam at the end of the course. Participation is mandatory to achieve ECTs points.
Basic Statistical Analysis
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 27/02/2024 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Ethical challenges and dilemmas in research with vulnerable and socially exposed groups in society
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 27/02/2024 Course leader: Kirsten Elisa Petersen 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: 28/02/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Natural Sciences, Aarhus University.
Registries, databases and other electronic data sources in clinical research
ECTS: 2.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/02/2024 Course leader: Signe Sørup Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To facilitate the participants use of secondary data sources in clinical research.
Applied Machine Learning in health Sciences
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/03/2024 Course leader: Peter Mondrup Rasmussen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to machine learning techniques and enable the student to apply these methods to analyze complex data sets as typically encountered in modern research. The student will achieve an understanding of the theoretical background of supervised- and unsupervised machine learning techniques and will gain practical experience in applying these techniques in real-world data analysis.
Short description
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.
Evaluating complex interventions in Public Health
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/03/2024 Course leader: Helle Terkildsen Maindal Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to introduce a framework to guide decisions in how to evaluate public health interventions targeted health behaviour. The course will include quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods evaluation designs and system approaches to evaluation. The MRC model for complex interventions in health will form the basis of the course. The course build to some extent on the former course in developing complex interventions in public health. However, this course can also stand-alone.
Project Management: A Practitioner’s Approach to the Managerial Process
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 04/03/2024 Course leader: Per Svejvig Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to take a practitioners approach to project management focusing on both technical and sociocultural skills.
Literature search in medical databases (Language English)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/03/2024 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.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/03/2024 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.
Which covariates to adjust for: An introduction to causal directed acyclic graphs
ECTS: 2.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/03/2024 Course leader: Cathrine Carlsen Bach Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to provide participants with an introduction to the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) as a tool to control for confounding and other sources of bias. Moreover, the course will include a simple method to reason about the directions of potential biases. After the course, participants will be able to use DAGs as a practical tool in their own research.
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/03/2024 Course leader: Jörg Schullehner Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to:
- Provide theoretical background of spatial data and analyses
• Introduce participants to open-source GIS software (QGIS)
• Give participants hands-on experience in spatial analyses with focus on health-related exercises
Patient reported outcomes (PRO) in clinical research
ECTS: 2.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/03/2024 Course leader: Annette De Thurah Status: Course is open for application
Short description
PRO data has the potential to measure what matters to patients in their daily life, so PRO assessments are critical aspects of clinical research. Thus, the overall aim of this course is to ensure high quality research based on PRO data, and to introduce the PhD students to the methodology of using PRO in clinical research.
Graduate neuroscience course
ECTS: 5.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/03/2024 Course leader: Mai Marie Holm Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To present participants a state-of-the-art overview of key concepts and applications within all areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.
Essential Research Skills for PhD Students at Arts and Humanities
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 12/03/2024 Course leader: Hazel Engelsmann Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The Talented Researcher
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/03/2024 Course leader: Kamille Smidt Rasmussen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to increase your personal and professional success by learning how to lead yourself, your project and your important relations.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/03/2024 Course leader: Christian Lodberg Hvas Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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
Basic academic and professional English writing for natural sciences and technical sciences
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 13/03/2024 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.
Science Writing Toolkit
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 14/03/2024 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Advanced Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/03/2024 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.
Time and Project Management: Considering Risk & Coordinating your daily work with the big picture (IPTO)
ECTS: 1.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/03/2024 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.
Proteomics and protein profiling
ECTS: 6.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/03/2024 Course leader: Johan Palmfeldt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim is to give the students an overview of proteomics and the study of complex protein samples. The course will cover the theoretical basis and practical methodology of proteomics, as well of the sister technology metabolomics.
The course attendants will learn how to design and perform proteomic studies and will get understanding of its impact on research within life science and medicine.
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.
Clinical Research
ECTS: 2.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/03/2024 Course leader: Morten Bøttcher Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Provide an overview of the different aspects of conducting clinical research
Systematic Literature Search (Research-year)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/03/2024 Course leader: Janne Lytoft Simonsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Becoming a scientist
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 21/03/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 25/03/2024 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 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.
Foundational course in PhD Supervision (Aarhus)
Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 04/04/2024 Course leader: Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To expand participants’ strategies and methods in supervision.
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
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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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