Course Health - Welcome to the PhD study

The course A1000 Welcome to the PhD study is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025

Criteria for participation: Enrolment as or soon to be enroled as PhD student at Health, Aarhus University.

Aim: Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Health, Aarhus University.

The Graduate School of Health wishes to welcome all newly enrolled PhD students to the PhD programme, and to give PhD students the opportunity to meet and interact with fellow PhD students and AU representatives from fields relevant during the PhD programme.

Content: Welcome presentations followed by a 2 hour crash course is a 360-degree checkup on GDPR, data storage solutions, information/cyber security, and research data management..

Presentations:

• Introduction to the Graduate School of Health
• PhD Student Counselling
• AU Library 
• Key points and services & demonstration of the PhD Planner system
• AU Career PhD & JR
• Data Management

Example of AU services:

• The PhD association
• International Academic Staff Service (IAS)
• Corporate relations
• Technology Transfer Office (TTO)
• Research support office (grant applications
• Biostatistical Advisory Service (BIAS)
• International Medical Cooperation Committee (IMCC),
• The Kitchen

The overveiw of services will be availiable on Brightspace after the event.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 5 hours.

Instructors: Head of the Graduate School Helene Nørrelund, representative from the PhD Career and Junior Researcher unit, representatives from the Graduate School of Health, PhD student counsellor, representatives from AU Library, Jakob Hjort, Instructor in Data Management and GDPR.

Venue: Preben Hornung, The Conference Centre, Fredrik Nielsens Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students newly enrolled at Graduate School Health, Aarhus University

Course dates:

• 06 February 2025 09:00 - 14:00