PhD Course Management

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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.

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To reflect on the students’ own project using time and project management tools designed to support timely completion during the second half of the PhD education process.  This is done by focusing on how to integrate project management tools into work habits to help PhD students stay on track or get back on track in the second half of the PhD process.  The tools applied to the students’ own project include Risk Management and Personal Kanban charts for PhD students to use in working with their own project. 

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The aim of this workshop is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to reflect upon research integrity, responsible conduct of research, and freedom of research in relation to their own research. The course will enable them to understand and incorporate issues concerning research planning, data management, publication and communication, authorship and contributorship, collaboration, and conflicts of interests into their own research practices.

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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.

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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.

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The course blends online with face-to-face teaching and is about the role of the teacher in student-centred teaching. Upon completion of the blended learning course, participants will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences on pedagogical principles pertaining to being a university teacher who can reflect on his/her own and colleagues’ teaching practice. Participants will during the course develop and complete first draft of a personal teaching portfolio on teaching qualifications that can be used in appointments for future academic positions. Furthermore, they will acquire knowledge about strategies to evaluate teaching with the aim of applying a student-centred approach in teaching and creating alignment between the different elements and phases of teaching. A learning diploma is given upon satisfactory completion of the course as well as an e-booklet with the course content.

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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. 

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The course covers the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and the roles of Sponsor, Investigator, Monitor, the ethics committee and the regulatory authorities.

The following will be explained and discussed: Requirements regarding trial documents, application to the authorities, risk assessment and monitoring plans, initiation and conduction of a clinical trial, including sponsor oversight and investigator supervision, trial medication, safety monitoring and reporting, contracts and agreements, biological samples, data collection and quality assurance.

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To reflect on the students’ own project using time and project management tools designed to support timely completion during the second half of the PhD education process.  This is done by focusing on how to integrate project management tools into work habits to help PhD students stay on track or get back on track in the second half of the PhD process.  The tools applied to the students’ own project include Risk Management and Personal Kanban charts for PhD students to use in working with their own project. 

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Introduce participants to the theory and practical usage of modern causal inference methods in the health sciences.

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The course provides practical knowledge of advanced flow cytometry directly related to specific examples of research questions and aims to provide a broad understanding of how to design a multicolor flow cytometry experiment, how to handle sample material, how to analyze and present flow cytometry data for publication.

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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.

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Det samlede 20-dages varende forskningsmodul i speciallægeuddannelsen har til formål at opøve kompetence til at opsøge, vurdere og udvikle ny viden samt anvende denne viden til kritisk vurdering samt evaluering af etableret praksis. 

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The course aims to enable students to deliver their science to a non-academic audience, focusing on different groups and platforms. They will learn how to select an audience for their material and how to define the most relevant information for that audience. They will explore different outreach methods and platforms and identify which is best suited to their content, style and target audience. They will learn to relate their research to those outside of academic circles.

- Provide overview of types of outreach and their link to different audience types with different aims
- Provide tools and strategies for delivering outreach to different audience types
- Apply knowledge to create an outreach event

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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.

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

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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.

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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, in 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.

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

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1. Networking with national and international peers of your research area
2. Practice oral presentation skills and in depth discussion of scientific questions
3. Update your knowledge on new biological concepts
4. In depth discussion of technological/method approaches to study your scope of questions.

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A welcome event for all newly enrolled PhD students to the PhD programme to give  them the opportunity to meet and interact with fellow PhD students and AU representatives from fields relevant during the PhD programme.

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

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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.

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To reflect on the students’ own project using time and project management tools designed to support timely completion during the second half of the PhD education process.  This is done by focusing on how to integrate project management tools into work habits to help PhD students stay on track or get back on track in the second half of the PhD process.  The tools applied to the students’ own project include Risk Management and Personal Kanban charts for PhD students to use in working with their own project. 

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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.

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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 the ground work for recognizing opportunities and acting on them.  This course is applicable for PhD students who want to become either part-time researchers and clinicians or full-time researchers.

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The aim of the course is to provide an overview and update on Danish registries and their potential use for cardiovascular research. With a critical review of the completeness and validity of data, this course is essential for researchers using Danish registries to define cardiovascular cohorts, exposures, outcomes, and co-variables.  

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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The objective of this PhD course to familiarise participants to modern statistical methods for analyses of exposure data, in order to improve exposure effect analyses in occupational and environmental epidemiological studies. The goal is to train the participants, so they are able to evaluate literature on the topic and to perform basal analyses themselves after the course.

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Participants will gain practical experience with FIJI and basic principles of imaging processing. Learning outcomes include increased skills in image denoising, segmentation, colocalization, and particle tracking.

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

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

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The aim of the course is to provide recommendations for reporting and interpreting effect estimates considering random error.

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

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

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

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Having completed this course the student will be able to:

Handle research data in a way that live up to legal- as well as basic scientific requirements
Relate to the basic principles of data documentation
Relate to Stata’s user-interface and basic functionalities
Use Stata’s build-in help system
Build well-structured command-files (“do-files”) to enhance transparency and reproducibility