PhD Course Management
Advanced course in Laboratory Animal Science
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/11/2026 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 questionnaire technique and clinimetrics
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/11/2026 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.
Advanced Course in Written English
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/05/2026 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
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/10/2026 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
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2026 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: 05/05/2026 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: 28/09/2026 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: 02/11/2026 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
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 05/05/2026 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.
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences - Online
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 01/10/2026 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.
Advanced R
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/08/2026 Course leader: Tahereh Gholipourshahraki Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course is designed to strengthen participants’ understanding of R as a programming language and to support the development of efficient, reproducible, and well-structured code. The focus is on programming skills, workflow management, and the use of tools and packages that streamline coding and reporting.
The course does NOT cover statistical methods.
AI for advanced scientific and academic writing
ECTS: 1.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/05/2026 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: 02/06/2026 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: 03/06/2026 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: 02/09/2026 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: 16/09/2026 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: 05/11/2026 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: 25/11/2026 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: 10/09/2026 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: 2.8 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/11/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/05/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 29/09/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/09/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 20/10/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 21/10/2026 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2026 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: 10/09/2026 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: 04/09/2026 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: 04/11/2026 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: 3.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/09/2026 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: 4.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/09/2026 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: 01/09/2026 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: 31/08/2026 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: 02/11/2026 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: 22/09/2026 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 R
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 30/11/2026 Course leader: Tahereh Gholipourshahraki Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course introduces participants to R and RStudio as tools for data management, basic programming, and data visualisation. It aims to provide the fundamental skills needed to write clear and reproducible R scripts, handle common data structures, and perform simple descriptive and graphical analyses. The course focuses on programming principles and reproducible workflows rather than statistical theory.
Become a productive and joyful researcher
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 24/08/2026 Course leader: Jens Larsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Doctoral students can be stressed, and many experience a need for more productivity. Using simple tools and establishing good writing habits can make the PhD and the research process more enjoyable and rewarding. The writing workshop focuses on you and your challenges; you have time to write your own text. Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!
Become a productive and joyful researcher
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 01/06/2026 Course leader: Jens Larsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Doctoral students can be stressed, and many experience a need for more productivity. Using simple tools and establishing good writing habits can make the PhD and the research process more enjoyable and rewarding. The writing workshop focuses on you and your challenges; you have time to write your own text. Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!
Become a productive and joyful researcher
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/12/2026 Course leader: Jens Larsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Doctoral students can be stressed, and many experience a need for more productivity. Using simple tools and establishing good writing habits can make the PhD and the research process more enjoyable and rewarding. The writing workshop focuses on you and your challenges; you have time to write your own text. Please bring your computer and a text that you are writing on at the moment!
Becoming a Digital Historian
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 27/05/2026 Course leader: Helle Strandgaard Jensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Cancer Epidemiology using the Danish Clinical Cancer Databases
ECTS: 3.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/05/2026 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, analysing, 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, analysing and interpreting studies using data from the clinical cancer databases. Students are not required to complete an exam at the end of the course.
Cancer Research from bench to bedside and back
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/09/2026 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.
Career Advice for Historians and Classists
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 02/06/2026 Course leader: Helle Strandgaard Jensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Career workshop: What drives you?
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 06/05/2026 Course leader: Miriam V. Kobbersmed Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Clinical Research
ECTS: 2.1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 08/06/2026 Course leader: Simon Winther Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Provide an overview of the different aspects of conducting clinical research
Conducting a scoping review, a quantitative evidence synthesis; qualitative evidence synthesis and mixed study review
ECTS: 3.7 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 02/11/2026 Course leader: Merete Bjerrum Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course aims to enable the participants to formulate specific review questions; to map key concepts using scoping review, to critically appraise, extract and pool quantitative evidence; to critically appraise, extract and pool data generated from quantitative data and qualitative data respectively 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
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 05/05/2026 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.
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 17/11/2026 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.
Epidemiology I - Basic Principles of Epidemiology
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/11/2026 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.
Epidemiology II
ECTS: 4.2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/08/2026 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.
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