PhD Course Management
Preparing for Career Transitions
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/04/2023 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.
Reality check - can I really do that much? Time and Project Management after the midterm evaluation
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/04/2023 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Research Integrity
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 21/04/2023 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.
Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 25/04/2023 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.
Introduction to managing Research Data, FAIR principles, and Open Access
ECTS: 0.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/04/2023 Course leader: Anne Vils Møller Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
The Reflective Teacher
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/05/2023 Course leader: Kamilla Pedersen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/05/2023 Course leader: Ole Schmeltz Søgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Kurset er en overbygning på det tre dages varende grundmodul i forskertræning afholdt af Århus Universitet, og henvender sig til de læger under uddannelse, hvis speciale ikke har et selvstændigt overbygningskursus.
Ecologies of Eating: Landscapes, agriculture, and food
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 01/05/2023 Course leader: Heather Anne Swanson Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Investigator-initiated Clinical Trials and GCP
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/05/2023 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.
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.
Reality check - can I really do that much? Time and Project Management after the midterm evaluation
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/05/2023 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Causal Inference in Health Sciences
ECTS: 4.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2023 Course leader: Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduce participants to the theory and practical usage of modern causal inference methods in the health sciences.
Advanced Flow Cytometry
ECTS: 2.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2023 Course leader: Marianne Hokland Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Introduction to Machine Learning for Health Research
ECTS: 2.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2023 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2023 Course leader: Peter Brønnum Nielsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Det samlede 20-dages varende forskningsmodul i speciallægeuddannelsen har til formål at opøve kompetence til at opsøge, vurdere og udvikle ny viden samt anvende denne viden til kritisk vurdering samt evaluering af etableret praksis.
Science Outreach Beyond the Scientists
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 08/05/2023 Course leader: Ashley Pearcy Buitenwerf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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
Single Cell and Spatial OMICS – Basic Course
ECTS: 3.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/05/2023 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.
Hospitality, Listening, and Dialogue
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 09/05/2023 Course leader: Claudia Welz Status: Course is open for application
Short description
PhD-student as supervisor for undergraduate students – how and when?
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/05/2023 Course leader: Mette Krogh Christensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
As a part of their teaching responsibilities, PhD-students sometimes act as co-supervisors for undergraduate students’ bachelor projects, written assignments, master thesis, or research year assignments. In doing so, the PhD-students play an important role as a near-peer-supervisor guiding the students in their learning. This course aims to prepare PhD-students for their role as co-supervisors on undergraduate students’ assignments and/or learning processes.
Literature search in medical databases (Language English)
ECTS: 0.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/05/2023 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.
Magnetic Resonance
ECTS: 1.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/05/2023 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, 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.
Project Management: A Practitioner’s Approach to the Managerial Process
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 15/05/2023 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.
52th Sandbjerg Summer Meeting on Membrane Transports
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/05/2023 Course leader: Jeppe Prætorius Status: Course is open for application
Short description
- Networking with national and international peers of your research area
- Practice oral presentation skills and in depth discussion of scientific questions
- Update your knowledge on new biological concepts
- In depth discussion of technological/method approaches to study your scope of questions.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/05/2023 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 17/05/2023 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The onboarding programme will introduce different work tools all relating to the process of initiating and doing a PhD project in the best way possible. These will be introduced through peer-mentoring groups and workshops with different topics. By participating in the onboarding programme the PhD students will be offered an insight into handling ups and downs during their PhD, and how to develop as a young scientist. The onboarding programme will also give the PhD students an opportunity to meet fellow PhD students and expand their network – both socially and academically. Read more here.
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 1.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 23/05/2023 Course leader: Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Reality check - can I really do that much? Time and Project Management after the midterm evaluation
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/05/2023 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Drifting by Intention – Four Epistemic traditions in Constructive Design Research
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 24/05/2023 Course leader: Peter Gall Krogh Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Research presenter - Educational Informatics
ECTS: 1.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 25/05/2023 Course leader: Simone Brendstrup Søndergaard 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.
Ph.D. Masterclass with Lorraine Daston
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 26/05/2023 Course leader: Christian Christiansen Status: Course is open for application
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ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 30/05/2023 Course leader: Claus Bossen Status: Course is open for application
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From PhD to PostDoc
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 31/05/2023 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 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.
Cardiovascular registries in Denmark: potential and pitfalls
ECTS: 0.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/06/2023 Course leader: Morten Schmidt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Archaeology and the third dimension: visualizing, analyzing, modelling
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 01/06/2023 Course leader: Kirstine Haase Status: Course is open for application
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Principles of Neural Organization
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/06/2023 Course leader: Sadegh Nabavi Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course is interested in the following question: How can the brain be far smarter than a supercomputer yet consumes 100,000-fold less space and energy? Both brain and computer obey mathematical and physical laws and both deal with receiving, sending, processing, storing, and retrieving information.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Becoming a scientist
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 07/06/2023 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.
The Aftermath of Urban Crises
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 12/06/2023 Course leader: Olympia Bobou Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Cancer Epidemiology using the Danish Clinical Cancer Databases
ECTS: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/06/2023 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.
Quantitative exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/06/2023 Course leader: Vivi Schlünssen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Principles and approaches to digital image processing and analysis
ECTS: 2.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/06/2023 Course leader: Lene Niemann Nejsum Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 19/06/2023 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.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Technical Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Technical Sciences Start date: 19/06/2023 Course leader: Nanna Pedersen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.
Retire statistical significance: a world beyond p<0.05
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/06/2023 Course leader: Morten Schmidt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to provide recommendations for reporting and interpreting effect estimates considering random error.
The phenomenology and normativity of mental health
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 22/06/2023 Course leader: Karen Schriver Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Advanced In-vivo Optical Imaging Techniques
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/08/2023 Course leader: Ina Maria Schiessl Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To introduce advanced optical techniques for in vivo imaging and how these can be applied in research projects
Mixed Models
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 15/08/2023 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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: 21/08/2023 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.
Epidemiology II
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/08/2023 Course leader: Christina Catherine Dahm Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to provide the background for critical reading and interpretation of epidemiological research articles.
Digital methods for Nordic humanities (ReNEW Summer School)
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 21/08/2023 Course leader: Mary Hilson Status: Course is open for application
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Research Integrity and Ethics
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 22/08/2023 Course leader: Jette Kofoed Status: Course is open for application
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Datamanagement & Stata
ECTS: 0.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/08/2023 Course leader: Jakob Hjort Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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
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Graduate School, Arts - PhD Course information
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