PhD Course Management
Aarhus: The skills and values from the PhD and how to communicate them
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 29/10/2024 Course leader: Miriam V. Kobbersmed Status: Course is open for application
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GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Efficient writing for PhD students
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 01/11/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
At this course you will practice a number of writing tools that will make your daily writing practice more efficient.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Technical Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Technical Sciences Start date: 06/11/2024 Course leader: Frederikke Kongsted Hansen 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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2024 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 19/11/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/11/2024 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.
Emdrup: The skills and values from the PhD and how to communicate them
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 21/11/2024 Course leader: Miriam V. Kobbersmed Status: Course is open for application
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Project and Time Management: Risk & Coordinating with the Big Picture
ECTS: 1.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/11/2024 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Cancer Research from bench to bedside
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 25/11/2024 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.
Public and patient involvement in health research
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/11/2024 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 patient and public involvement in health research and acquire participants a science- and theory-based understanding of patient and public involvement in health research. The course will increase the participants’ ability to identify and increase the value of patient and public involvement in health research by suggesting how patient and public involvement in health research could optimally be a part of their own study and which implications would be important for practice.
Image diagnostic methods for evaluation of the musculosceletal system
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/11/2024 Course leader: Emil Toft Petersen Status: Course is open for application
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The course focus is on image diagnostic methods and their potential for research and clinical investigation of the human body/musculoskeletal system including baseline knowledge on their advantages/limitations and risks (radiation physics, protection and doses/risks). Methods included are: X-ray, DXA, Radiostereometry, CT, Cone Beam CT, HRpQCT, mCT, Dynamic NaF PET, MRI, Musculoskeletal modeling (AnyBody Modeling System), 3D printing and surgical guides, and Augmented reality.
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: 27/11/2024 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.
Essential Research Skills for PhD students at Arts and Humanities
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 27/11/2024 Course leader: Hazel Engelsmann Status: Course is open for application
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Introduction to Research Training in Health Sciences
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/11/2024 Course leader: Rikke Katrine Jentoft Olsen Status: Course is open for application
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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.
How to secure funding for your research
ECTS: 0.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/11/2024 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.
Single Cell and Spatial OMICS – Advanced Course (module 2)
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/12/2024 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.
Research presenter - Educational Informatics
ECTS: 3.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/12/2024 Course leader: Maria Louise Gamborg Status: Course is open for application
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The aim of the course is to gain skills in Rhetoric of Science and reflection in order to improve academic and research presentations.
Science Writing Toolkit
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 05/12/2024 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.
Position Your Research as a PhD Student
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 09/12/2024 Course leader: Anders Moe Rasmussen Status: Course is open for application
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Reading/Writing: Concepts
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 09/12/2024 Course leader: Jussi Parikka Status: Course is open for application
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GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Literature, data management and publication
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 11/12/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Legacy data in urban archaeology – Unleashing past excavation records in current research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 11/12/2024 Course leader: Sarah Croix Status: Course is open for application
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Project and Time Managment: Using Project Management Tools to Communicate with your Supervisor
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/12/2024 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/01/2025 Course leader: Thomas Damgaard Sandahl 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
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/01/2025 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard 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.
Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/01/2025 Course leader: Lene Niemann Nejsum Status: Course is open for application
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The aim is to give the participants an overview of basic fluorescence microscopy techniques, sample preparation, image acquisition and imaging analysis.
Fill up your toolbox for future commercial research collaboration
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/01/2025 Status: Course is open for application
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Take a deep dive into a complex, real-life case from the biotech company Roche. Challenge yourself - as part of a multi-skilled team - to generate and validate ideas that can serve as the best solution to the company’s challenge.
Basic Biostatistics - part 1
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/01/2025 Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner Status: Course is open for application
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The course provides the students with basic skills using the most common, simple statistical models and analyzes in medical research
PhD Day 2025
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/01/2025 Status: Course is open for application
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Science Writing Toolkit
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 23/01/2025 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.
Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/01/2025 Course leader: Astrid Gerd Holtet Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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).
Science Writing and Communication
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 27/01/2025 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
Developing complex interventions in Public Health
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/01/2025 Course leader: Knud Ryom Status: Course is open for application
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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).
PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS AND LIVED EXPERIENCE. Analyzing Aesthetics and other Socio-Material Configurations of Stress, Learning, and Care
ECTS: 6 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 29/01/2025 Course leader: Morten Nissen Status: Course is open for application
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Become a productive and joyful researcher
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/01/2025 Course leader: Jens Larsen Status: Course is open for application
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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!
Collecting qualitative research data
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/02/2025 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.
Graduate neuroscience course
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/02/2025 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.
PhD Supervision (supervisors)
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/02/2025 Course leader: Mette Krogh Christensen Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/02/2025 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.
Science Teaching
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 06/02/2025 Course leader: Karen Louise Møller Status: Course is open for application
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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 your teaching within science and technology disciplines based on principles for student-centered learning. During the course you will get hands-on experience with teaching techniques and technologies to enhance students’ active participation and learning. In collaboration with peers you will learn to apply tools to identify and find solutions for challenges in your own teaching and you will train your teaching skills by applying new teaching techniques and technologies in your own teaching and observing others.
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.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 07/02/2025 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.
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science – Porcine models in biomedical research
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/02/2025 Course leader: Birgitte Saima Kousholt Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Research presenter - Educational Informatics
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/02/2025 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.
Basic Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/02/2025 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
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/02/2025 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.
Introduction to R
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 18/02/2025 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.
Reading Halberstam: Doing queer/trans feminist cultural analysis
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 18/02/2025 Course leader: Jakob Rosendal Status: Course is open for application
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Advanced Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/02/2025 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.
Basic Biostatistics - part 2
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/02/2025 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.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/02/2025 Course leader: Ask Vest Christiansen 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
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
Please make sure to keep your contact email updated so we can send you course information.
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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PhD Administration
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