PhD Course Management
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/05/2024 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.
The science of stress and resilience
ECTS: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2024 Course leader: Karen Johanne Pallesen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course enables a qualified debate about the relevance and applicability of current knowledge on stress and resilience to advance mental health and clinical practice.
Cancer Epidemiology using the Danish Clinical Cancer Databases
ECTS: 3.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2024 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. Each concept will be introduced in a lecture. Through a combination of exercises and computer labs, students will be provided with guidance on implementing, analyzing and interpreting studies using data from the clinical cancer databases. Students are not required to complete an exam at the end of the course.
Epidemiology II
ECTS: 4.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/08/2024 Course leader: Dorte Rytter Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to provide the background for critical reading and interpretation of epidemiological research articles.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/08/2024 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.
Advanced R
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 19/08/2024 Course leader: Florian Franck Privé Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course aims to give PhD students a greater understanding of the R language for them to produce more clean, sophisticated and efficient R code, and also make them adopt better practices and learn more about packages and tools that will simplify their life when coding in R and doing some data analysis and visualization.
Note that this is NOT a Statistics course.
Get ready to work with Biostatistics
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/08/2024 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.
PhD-student as supervisor for undergraduate students – how and when?
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/08/2024 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. The course is relevant for all PhD students who wish to improve the quality of their supervision of undergraduate students.
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2024 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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2024 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.
PhD Supervision (supervisors)
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/09/2024 Course leader: Mette Krogh Christensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Mandatory for main supervisors
The quality of PhD students’ education is largely dependent on the PhD supervisor’s competencies as a supervisor. The aim of the basic 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.
Basic Biostatistics - part 1
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/09/2024 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
Biomedical Isotope Technique
ECTS: 7.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/09/2024 Course leader: Søren Baarsgaard Hansen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The structure of the atoms, radioactive decay, interaction between ionizing radiation and matter, production of artificial radionuclides, properties and operation of different apparatus for measuring ionizing radiation, stochastic properties of radioactive decay and significance for measurement uncertainty, basic radiation dosimetry concepts and units, the MIRD method for internal dosimetry, radiobiology, principles and safety measures for radiation protection, relevant guidelines and legislation
What is research? Ontology, epistemology and methodology
ECTS: 3.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/09/2024 Course leader: Rune Dall Jensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss basic philosophy of science. Hence, the course introduces and discuss’ the concepts of ontology, epistemology, and methodology in order to answer the questions of what research is and what counts as research-based knowledge.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/09/2024 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
An introduction to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/09/2024 Course leader: Dirk Bender Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to introduce PhD students at Health, Aarhus University to the basic terms and principles of GMP controlled manufacture of pharmaceutical products.
Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/09/2024 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).
How to get published
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/09/2024 Course leader: Søren Dinesen Østergaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to improve the participants chances of publishing the results of their research in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Application: In order to apply for course participation, you must:
Sign up for the course via PhD Course Management and at the same time:
- Submit an abstract (max. 250 words – in English) based on the draft manuscript described under criteria for participation
- Submit a short application (max. 500 words – in English) describing why you wish to participate in the course
Both abstract and application must be submitted, in one file, at the same time as registering for the course.
Registrations for the course without these two documents will not be taken into consideration.
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.
Research year: introduction course
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/09/2024 Course leader: Jasper Nijkamp Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course is aimed to kickstart your research year, create a sense of community, and manage expectations. The course is coordinated by associate professor Jasper Nijkamp (IKM), in collaboration with the Selskab for Medicinsk Studenterforskning (SMS). There is no preparation or homework for students. You get no ECTS points for this course.
Project and Time Managment: Using Project Management Tools to Communicate with your Supervisor
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/09/2024 Course leader: Constance Kampf Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Advanced Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/10/2024 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.
Responsible Conduct of Research
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/10/2024 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
Basic Biostatistics - part 2
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/10/2024 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
Preparing for Career Transitions
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/10/2024 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.
Introduction to neurodegenerative diseases and disease models
ECTS: 8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/10/2024 Course leader: Caroline Cristiano Real Gregório Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The main goal of this course is to make the students familiar with the most common neurodegenerative diseases, their investigative tools and disease models. This stand-alone course is not part of a specific study program. Any student with background in neurobiology can participate in the course.
Basic Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/10/2024 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.
From Gene to Function - Molecular Analysis of Disease Genes
ECTS: 3.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/10/2024 Course leader: Peter Bross Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Getting familiar with the theoretical background, the experimental methods, and interpretation of results in studies investigating consequences of mutations and molecular disease mechanism.
Introductory course in questionnaire technique and clinimetrics
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/10/2024 Course leader: Henrik Hein Lauridsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The purpose of the course is to give participants an introduction to clinimetric testing of questionnaires.
How to Communicate your PhD research
ECTS: 0.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/10/2024 Course leader: Lise Wendel Eriksen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to ensure that the participants can convey and handle responsible research communication of their own PhD project. Through different media channels and via different presentations techniques, the participants will be able to explain and present complex research in an engaging and understandable way to an audience whether it be the general public, journalists, patients, students in a classroom or a foundation’s review committee.
Literature search in medical databases (Language English)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/10/2024 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.
The Reflective Teacher
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/10/2024 Course leader: Peter Musaeus Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course is designed as a blended learning approach with a combination of out-of-class online learning and in-class face-to-face teaching. It is estimated to last over six weeks (4x4 hours in-class seminars, approx. and approx. 8 hours structured asynchronous online learning activities). The activities will consist of a mix of reading materials, watching videos, producing texts and models, participating in individual as well as group activities in-class and out-of-class, developing lesson plan and teaching portfolio as well as giving peer-feedback. To complete the course and receive ECTS credit and diploma it is mandatory to be active online and complete all activities (including peer-feedback and portfolio) and respect the activity deadlines.
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/10/2024 Course leader: Jibran Khan Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to
- Provide theoretical background of advanced spatial modelling, analyses and visualization
- Introduce participants to spatial programming
- Give participants hands-on experience in advanced spatial analyses and programming with focus on health-related exercises
Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/10/2024 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.
Systematic Literature Search (Research-year)
ECTS: 0.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/10/2024 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.
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/10/2024 Course leader: Martin K. Thomsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of this course is to ensure participants are able to apply the Three Rs (reduce, replace, refine) effectively in the design of procedures and projects and make appropriate ethical and scientific judgments. The course is obligatory for persons who wish to achieve a personal license to independently plan, implement and take responsibility for the design and performance of animal experimentation within the European Union according to the EU Directive 2010/63/EU Article 23.2 and the Danish executive order 12 of 07/01/2016, §56.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/10/2024 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.
Basic and practical course in quantitative immunoassays
ECTS: 2.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2024 Course leader: Mette Bjerre Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to give a practical and theoretical introduction to immunoassays with focus on quantitative assays (ELISA, TRIFMA). The course will give the participants skills to work with quantitative immunoassays in the laboratory and to troubleshoot in relation the daily routine work.
Advanced course in questionnaire technique and clinimetrics
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2024 Course leader: Henrik Hein Lauridsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The purpose of the course is to give participants in-depth knowledge of clinimetric testing of questionnaires and how to interpret relevant statistical output.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2024 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.
Introduction MATLAB with examples from Health Science
ECTS: 4.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2024 Course leader: Irene Klærke Mikkelsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to provide participants basic understanding of the programming environment MATLAB. Enable participants to use built-in MATLAB functions and create own scripts and functions for data evaluation and visualization.
Advanced Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/11/2024 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.
Analysis of variance and repeated measurements (4 + 2 days course)
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/11/2024 Course leader: Bo Martin Bibby Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To give the participants an introduction to Analysis of Variance with focus on repeated measures in experimental studies, and to enable the participants to choose a relevant statistical analysis of own data.
Retire statistical significance: a world beyond p<0.05
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/11/2024 Course leader: Morten Schmidt Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Get ready to work with Biostatistics
ECTS: 1.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/11/2024 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.
Research year: peer-feedback
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/11/2024 Course leader: Jasper Nijkamp Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This peer-feedback course is only available for research year students. The course is focused on academic and personal development throughout the research year. Students will be put in groups of 4-5 students for the entire year. The groups will meet 4 times, and in the meetings each student will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes) to the group, followed by 20 minutes for feedback. Each group will also have a fixed mentor for the year, who will be responsible for guiding the process during the meetings.
Prepare yourself on the movement from a PhD in Health to a career in non-academia
ECTS: 4.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2024 Course leader: Vibeke Broe Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To support PhD students in their career decision-making process by increasing their career awareness, and to prepare them for the transition between academia and industry/public sector jobs.
Introduction to register-based research
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2024 Course leader: Julie Werenberg Dreier Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Participants will learn about key Danish national registers and how to use them for research purposes, through a combination of lectures, short research presentations with examples, discussions and exercises. This course will provide participants the necessary knowledge and skills to start their own research project based on national registers and cohorts.
Qualitative data analysis: Using NVivo
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2024 Course leader: Annesofie Lunde Jensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to critically use the qualitative software programme NVivo and to train the students in using NVivo to organise and analyse different types of qualitative data.
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/11/2024 Course leader: Bodil Hammer Bech 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.
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