PhD Course Management
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/10/2025 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.
Advanced Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2025 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.
Advanced Course in Written English - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2025 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.
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/10/2025 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
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 30/10/2025 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 and editing in conformity with contextual/situational, discoursal and genre- and text-type conventions and requirements of written academic English in natural sciences and technical sciences.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/11/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To give students practical experience in using advanced AI methods for scientific writing tasks; the ability to respond efficiently to reviewer feedback using AI; skills to synthesise multiple scientific papers into a coherent PhD thesis or grant applications; the ability to challenge existing knowledge and develop new ideas using AI.
An introduction to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/09/2025 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.
Analysis of variance and repeated measurements (4 + 2 days course)
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2025 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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/09/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 15/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/10/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Artificial intelligence for scientific writing
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 01/12/2025 Course leader: Morten Pilegaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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 writing processes.
Basic academic and professional English writing for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 30/09/2025 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 within the field of natural sciences and technical sciences, applying textual and discourse strategies and methodologies in accordance with the current conventions of written academic English in natural sciences and technical sciences.
Basic and practical course in quantitative immunoassays
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/11/2025 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.
Basic Biostatistics - part 1
ECTS: 2.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/09/2025 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
Basic Biostatistics - part 2
ECTS: 3.9 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/10/2025 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
Basic Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/10/2025 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: 03/11/2025 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 - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/09/2025 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 Data Science in Python
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 23/09/2025 Course leader: Davide Mottin Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to introduce the PhD student to basic tasks, methods and evaluation procedures in data science, using Python and its libraries and environments.
Basic Statistical Analysis
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 28/10/2025 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to introduce the PhD student to basic notions of statistical analysis and give an idea of a typical statistical modelling process.
Cancer Research from bench to bedside and back
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 22/09/2025 Course leader: Martin K. Thomsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
Clinical assessment of insulin resistance and other metabolic parameters
ECTS: 1.4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/10/2025 Course leader: Esben Søndergaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Insulin resistance plays a pivotal factor in the pathogenesis behind dysmetabolic conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this course is to introduce state of the art understanding of various aspects of human insulin resistance, and to introduce methods and techniques used to assess insulin resistance and related metabolic parameters in clinical research.
Conceptual Constellations: (Neo)colonialism,Race and Global Contexts
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 04/09/2025 Course leader: Gry Lind Merrild Hansen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Conducting a systematic review – meta-analysis and a meta-synthesis
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/11/2025 Course leader: Merete Bjerrum Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to enable the participants to formulate specific review questions; critically appraise, extract and pool quantitative evidence; to critically appraise, extract and pool data generated from qualitative evidence and to pool data generated from both quantitative and qualitative evidence. The course also aims to enable the participants to develop a protocol for a systematic review for submission in e.g., Prospero.
Contemporary image theories: creation, circulation and use of images today
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 07/10/2025 Course leader: Lotte Philipsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Doing Postphenomenological Research: Multistability, Technological Mediations, and Human Agency
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 30/09/2025 Course leader: Finn Olesen Status: Course is open for application
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Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/11/2025 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.
Essential Research Skills for PhD students at Artsand Humanities
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 26/11/2025 Course leader: Hazel Engelsmann Status: Course is open for application
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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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 03/11/2025 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 06/10/2025 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/01/2026 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/03/2026 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/10/2026 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.
Forskningstræning modul I Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 16/11/2026 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.
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/11/2025 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.
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/04/2026 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.
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 26/10/2026 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.
From Gene to Function - Molecular Analysis of Disease Genes
ECTS: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/09/2025 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.
Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/10/2025 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 25/11/2025 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Becoming a scientist
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 12/11/2025 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Efficient writing for PhD students
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 28/11/2025 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.
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
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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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