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 - 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: 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.
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: 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.
AU Library Arts, ph.d.-kursus: informationssøgning og meget mere
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 21/10/2025 Course leader: Steen Hammershøy Andersen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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 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 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.
Challenges in Fieldwork
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 11/11/2025 Course leader: Lotte Meinert Status: Course is open for application
Short description
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.
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.
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
Short description
Forskningstræning modul I Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/05/2026 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 Aalborg
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 09/11/2026 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: 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: 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.
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.
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: 22/10/2025 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: 11/12/2025 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.
Health - Welcome to the PhD study
ECTS: 0.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2025 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: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 04/11/2025 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 presentation 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 manage your PhD project: Identifying opportunities and challenges – setting the compass
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Technical Sciences Start date: 19/11/2025 Course leader: Dennis Thiede Status: Course is open for application
Short description
In the workshop, the participants will clarify the central requirements of their doctoral situation and recognise in which areas there is still catching up to do.
How to secure funding for your research
ECTS: 0.6 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 07/11/2025 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.
Introduction Day - Graduate School of Technical Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Technical Sciences Start date: 11/11/2025 Course leader: Marianne Gammelgaard Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Introduction event for all newly enrolled PhD students at Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.
Introduction day, Graduate School of Natural Sciences
ECTS: 0 Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 06/10/2025 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 to managing Research Data, FAIR principles, and Data search
ECTS: 0.3 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2025 Course leader: Anne Vils Møller Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The course will introduce the concepts of Research Data Management, FAIR principles, and Data search. Different aspects and practices related to these concepts will be presented. The lessons will be a mix between theory, class discussions, and hands-on exercises.
Introduction to R
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Course collaboration Start date: 21/10/2025 Course leader: Rodrigo Labouriau Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to introduce the student to the basic use of the software R. The course is designed to build up the basic skills in R necessary for attending to the PhD course Basic Statistical Analysis.
Introduction to register-based research
ECTS: 3.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 10/11/2025 Course leader: Oleguer Plana-Ripoll 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.
Introduction to Research Training in Health Sciences
ECTS: 1 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 13/11/2025 Course leader: Rikke Katrine Jentoft Olsen Status: Course is open for application
Short description
The aim of the course is to give an introduction to the main research fields in health sciences and to give an introduction to the requirements for conducting a research year or a PhD.
Kvalitativ forskning i psykiatri: Sammenhænge mellem kultur og psykisk lidelse
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 15/10/2025 Course leader: Karen Schriver Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Learning towards work – a sociological investigation ranging from understanding individual career choices to professional membership and organisational involvement
ECTS: 5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 27/10/2025 Course leader: Marianne Høyen Status: Course is open for application
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M. E. O’Brien, “Family Abolition, Insurgent SocialReproduction and Capitalist Crises”
ECTS: 1.5 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 09/10/2025 Course leader: Mikkel Thorup Status: Course is open for application
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Masterclass: Ways of Making and Knowing in Plant Humanities: Cultivating Understanding in Visual Cultures of Vegetation
ECTS: 4 Graduate school: Faculty of Arts Start date: 01/12/2025 Course leader: Anette Vandsø Martha Fleming Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Measuring socioeconomic position in epidemiological and clinical research
ECTS: 2 Graduate school: Faculty of Health Start date: 11/11/2025 Course leader: Cathrine Fonnesbech Hjorth Status: Course is open for application
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Graduate school: Faculty of Natural Sciences Start date: 07/10/2025 Course leader: Sututhi Perrananthasivam Status: Course is open for application
Short description
Welcome to the PhD Course Management
Please make sure to keep your contact email updated so we can send you course information.
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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