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Responding to the growing mandate for researchers to share their clinical data, WWARN is joining with partners to host a 3-day workshop in January sponsored by the British Council’s Newton Researcher Links Programme in order to develop the skills and network needed to produce high quality data capable of maximising the impact of initial findings.
Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Journal, article and researcher metrics, online
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 11am to 1pm
Fundamentals of Statistical Software and Analysis (FoSSA)
Tuesday, 01 August 2023 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 9am - 5pm
This MSD Skills training course consists of online pre-recorded videos and self-directed practical exercises arranged into 7 modules covering a wide range of statistical methods. All course content can be approached using the statistical programmes of R, Stata, or SPSS. Once registered with the course, all students are able to access content for whichever modules and statistical software programmes suit their needs. Each module contains approximately 2-hours of pre-recorded lecture material (split into short videos), one hour of practical content, readings in an online textbook and multiple choice quizzes.
Introduction to MATLAB for medics and biologists, online
Friday, 04 April 2025 to Friday, 11 April 2025, 2pm - 3.30pm
This course is intended for a broad audience (undergraduate/postgraduate students and staff) from diverse backgrounds who have not worked with MATLAB or other programming languages before and wish to acquire the basics in a time-efficient and hands-on manner. This course is not suitable for researchers with extensive experience in MATLAB or similar languages. The second session will build on input from the previous and it is only recommended to register if both sessions can be attended.
Large group and lecturing, online
Wednesday, 02 April 2025 to Tuesday, 08 April 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm
This workshop is delivered in four separate three-hour sessions and is suitable for MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers looking to teach and wanting to learn the principles and practices of effective lecturing and group sessions.
PLTO Masters teaching ONLINE
Friday, 07 March 2025, 9am to 1pm
This online MSD Skills Training course is for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach on taught Masters programmes in the University and HE more generally.
PLTO Masters teaching ONLINE
Wednesday, 05 March 2025, 9am to 1pm
This online MSD Skills Training course is for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers in the Division who want to teach on taught Masters programmes in the University and HE more generally.
Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), in person
Monday, 10 February 2025 to Friday, 14 February 2025, 9am - 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.
Data analysis & visualisation in R for biologists, online
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
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
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.
Introduction to machine learning and deep learning in Python, online
Monday, 03 March 2025 to Wednesday, 05 March 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.
Intro to R for biologists, online
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.