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Vaccitech, an Oxford University spinout company developing a universal flu vaccine, among other vaccine-related products, has secured £20 million in Series A financing.
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), in person
Research Skills
Monday, 10 February 2025 to Friday, 14 February 2025, 9.30am - 5pm
This interactive course for MSD postgraduate research staff and students consists of lectures and practical sessions. A knowledge of some basic NMR concepts is assumed.
Introduction to machine learning and deep learning in Python, online
Research Skills
Monday, 27 January 2025 to Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 10am - 1pm
This course is a practical introduction to applying machine learning and deep learning algorithms on biological data using the Python programming language. Using a mixture of lectures and hands-on training, the participants will be taken through different steps of data processing, preparation and application of the machine learning techniques to solve various problems, with guidance from expert tutors. By the end of the course, the participants should be able to apply machine learning and deep learning techniques to tabular and image data.
Data analysis & visualisation in R for biologists, online
Research Skills
Monday, 03 February 2025 to Monday, 10 February 2025, 9.30am - 1pm
This interactive online MSD Skills training course is aimed at MSD postgraduate research students and staff with some programming experience in R who want to expand their skills in order to create reproducible analysis workflows and publication quality figures from biological data. In order to register to this course you are required to complete a short pre-course quiz on Canvas using your SSO login (the link is provide in the text below).
Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ, online
Research Skills
Monday, 03 February 2025 to Friday, 07 February 2025, 9.30am - 12pm
This four half day online interactive sessions are suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers involved with bright field and fluorescence microscopy.
Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ, online
Research Skills
Monday, 03 March 2025 to Friday, 07 March 2025, 9.30am - 12pm
This four half day online interactive sessions are suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers involved with bright field and fluorescence microscopy.
Intro to R for biologists, online
Research Skills
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 to Friday, 14 February 2025, 9.30am - 1pm
This interactive online MSD Skills training course is aimed at MSD postgraduate research students and staff with minimal or no programming experience who want to perform basic data analysis in R and get familiar with programming environment.
Analysing biological data by model fitting in GraphPad Prism, online
Research Skills
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 9.30am to 12pm
The course is suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to analyse and compare their biological data using model fitting. No prior statistical knowledge is required.
Qualitative evidence synthesis made simple, online
Research Skills
Thursday, 27 March 2025 to Friday, 28 March 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
This course is accessible and relevant to Medical Sciences Division postgraduate researchers who want to learn more about searching for and synthesising qualitative research. The course leader (Dr Francine Toye) had published and presented internationally in this area. Her aim is to demystify qualitative research, and to make it accessible and valuable for improved healthcare.
Collecting qualitative data: Interviews and Focus Groups, online
Communication Skills Research Skills
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 to Thursday, 27 February 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm
This course is aimed at anyone planning to collect qualitative data using interviews or focus groups. Delivered over 2 half-days, this course will equally suit people new to qualitative research, and those who wish to develop additional skills in data collection.
Qualitative research made simple, online
Thursday, 20 February 2025 to Friday, 21 February 2025, 9.30am - 11.30am
Online interactive two day course suitable for Medical Sciences Division researchers who want to learn more about qualitative research with a view to conducting a qualitative research study. This course contains pre-work you will need to complete before each live session.
Writing a journal article, online
Communication Skills Research Skills
Wednesday, 22 January 2025, 10am to 1pm
MSD postgraduate research students and early-career researchers join UK EQUATOR Centre writing experts to learn a smooth, effective process for writing and publishing a journal article. The course uses a flipped-classroom approach with self-directed online work before a live session.
Writing a conference or journal article abstract ONLINE
Communication Skills Research Skills
Wednesday, 05 February 2025, 1pm to 3pm
This course is suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers who have produced enough work to be able to draft their first conference abstract. This course contains pre-work you will need to complete on Canvas before the live session.
Developing your grant writing skills, in person
Communication Skills Research Skills
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 to Thursday, 06 March 2025, 10am - 4pm
This two-day in-person workshop will help you to understand how to: plan, develop, and structure your research proposal; turn your ideas into a well-written, strong and convincing proposal, and follow the Oxford grant submission process. It will be targeted at MSD researchers, especially early and mid-career researchers, who would like to develop their grant writing skills and who are planning to submit a grant or fellowship application. Please come prepared to discuss your project/fellowship ideas. Ideally, this should be on possible future work but if you are not quite at this stage, it could be on current work.
Principles of data visualisation and big data handling, online
Research Skills
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 to Friday, 31 January 2025, 9.30am - 12pm
This three half-day interactive course will teach you how to effectively visualize and manage large datasets.
How and why to undertake a systematic review, in person
Research Skills
Monday, 10 March 2025, 2pm to 4.30pm
This course is for MSD researchers and covers the principles of performing a systematic review and meta-analysis.
PLTO Tutorials, in person
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Tuesday, 04 February 2025, 1pm to 5pm
This MSD Skills Training course is suitable for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach tutorials in the University and HE more generally.
PLTO Tutorials, in person
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Wednesday, 05 March 2025, 1pm to 5pm
This MSD Skills Training course is suitable for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach tutorials in the University and HE more generally.
Systems immunology: an intro to multi-omics data integration and machine learning, online
Research Skills
Monday, 17 March 2025 to Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 10am - 4pm
Planning to use machine learning to better understand your data? In this interactive course, we will learn how to use machine learning for biological and biomedical data integration and knowledge discovery.
How to make a success of your post-graduate research, online
Research Skills
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 10am to 12pm
The ‘How to make a success of your post-graduate research studies (known previously as ‘How to work with your supervisor’) is an interactive online session suitable for MSD first year DPhil/MSc by research students.
How to be a milestone assessor and an internal examiner at Oxford, online
Research Skills
Friday, 11 April 2025, 10am to 12.30pm
This is a 2.5 hour course for those in academic posts at the University of Oxford who are likely to be called to act as a milestone assessor (transfer and confirmation of status assessments), an internal DPhil/MSc by research examiner, or as an external examiner. This Workshop is UNSUITABLE for students.