PhD Course 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Advanced professional writing and editing in English for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 04/09/2024 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 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: 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.
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.
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.
Basic academic and professional English writing for natural sciences and technical sciences - ONLINE
ECTS: 2.5 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 03/09/2024 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 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: 2.2 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.
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
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
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.
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.
Basic Data Science in Python
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 24/09/2024 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: 29/10/2024 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.
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
Bodies and religion
ECTS: 3 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 03/06/2024 Course leader: Anders-Christian Jacobsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Forskningstræning modul II Aarhus
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 18/11/2024 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.
Foundational course in PhD Supervision (Aarhus)
Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 05/09/2024 Course leader: Tove Hedegaard Jørgensen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
To expand participants’ strategies and methods in supervision.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Well-being and Work-Life Balance
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 06/11/2024 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: 10/10/2024 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: 01/11/2024 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Getting the most out of your PhD – a career perspective
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 27/11/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam 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.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Literature, data management and publication
ECTS: 0.25 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 11/12/2024 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
In this module, AU Library will introduce you to the task of working with data and publications, both your own and that of others: How to find data and publications, manage them, and what to be aware of, when you want to publish your results, including copyright and Open Access.
GSNS Onboarding programme – workshop: Research Integrity
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 18/09/2024 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.
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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 14/11/2024 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.
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.
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.
How to secure funding for your research
ECTS: 0.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 28/11/2024 Course leader: Morten Søndergaard Lindhard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
This course aims to assist and support in navigating the application process for both small and large grant applications - a task that can be particularly challenging for PhD- and research year students.
Image diagnostic methods for evaluation of the musculosceletal system
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 27/11/2024 Course leader: Maiken Stilling Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course focus is on image diagnostic methods and their potential for research and clinical investigation of the human body/musculoskeletal system including baseline knowledge on their advantages/limitations and risks (radiation physics, protection and doses/risks). Methods included are: X-ray, HRpQCT, DXA, Radiostereometry, CT, High-End CT, Cone Beam CT, µCT, SPECT, PET, Dynamic NaF PET, MRI and US
Interdisciplinary methodologies for studying change and transformation of religion and culture
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 12/08/2024 Course leader: Lene Kühle Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 05/09/2024 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 Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 30/10/2024 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 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.
Introduction to Linguistic Research – Basis I
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 10/06/2024 Course leader: Merete Birkelund Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduction to managing Research Data, FAIR principles, and Open Access
ECTS: 0.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 12/11/2024 Course leader: Anne Vils Møller Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Collecting, analyzing, storing and sharing data are central activities in research. Research Data Management (RDM) and FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) principles are thus becoming increasingly important, and researchers are often required by institutions and funders to prepare a data management plan. Open Access (OA) publishing is another aspect related to sharing research output, which implies that scholarly publications are distributed online, free of any access barriers.
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.
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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