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Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme

Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills

Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 3pm - 6pm

Ready to develop your teaching skills at Oxford? The Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme leading to the award of Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, is now open to staff who meet the application criteria.

Writing a thesis - two part online course

Communication Skills Research Skills

Monday, 14 December 2020 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 9am - 9am

This interactive online MSD Skills training course complements 'Viva preparation' and is designed for those in the final or second to last year of their DPhil who are preparing to write their thesis. Part 1 has to be completed in Canvas before booking links for the optional live sessions are made available.

Writing a transfer report - two part online course

Communication Skills Research Skills

Monday, 14 December 2020 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 9am - 9am

This interactive online MSD Skills training course complements 'Transfer of status' and is most suitable for first-year DPhil students in their second or third term who are preparing to write their transfer report. First term DPhil students may find many of the exercises are not yet helpful. Part 1 has to be completed in Canvas before booking links for the optional live sessions are made available.

MSD PLTO

Career Development Communication Skills Teaching Skills

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 12am - 12pm

MSD’s Preparing for Learning and Teaching at Oxford (PLTO) has changed! You have the choice of attending specific teaching streams – ‘Taught Masters’ or ‘Tutorials’.

Fundamentals of Statistical Software and Analysis (FoSSA)

Research Skills

Monday, 06 February 2023 to Monday, 02 September 2024, 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.

How and why to undertake a systematic review IN PERSON

Research Skills

Monday, 11 December 2023, 10am to 12.30pm

This course is for MSD researchers and covers the principles of performing a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Experimental design and statistics in preclinical research: the good, the bad and the ugly! IN PERSON

Research Skills

Monday, 11 December 2023 to Tuesday, 12 December 2023, 2pm - 4.30pm

This interactive course is for MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to understand the issues underpinning good experimental design, the bedrock of reproducible science.

Introduction to computational chemistry IN PERSON

Research Skills

Wednesday, 13 December 2023 to Friday, 15 December 2023, 10am - 5pm

This MSD Skills course, run by the Department of Biochemistry, is suitable for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to understand the practical skills needed for effective computational biochemistry.

Systems immunology: an intro to multi-omics data integration and machine learning, online

Research Skills

Monday, 22 January 2024 to Tuesday, 23 January 2024, 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Tuesday, 23 January 2024 to Tuesday, 30 January 2024, 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.

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ, online

Research Skills

Monday, 29 January 2024 to Friday, 02 February 2024, 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.

Resilience at Work: Being for Beginners, online

Communication Skills Research Skills

Tuesday, 30 January 2024 to Thursday, 15 February 2024, 11am - 12pm

Do you sometimes hit a ‘low’? Do unwanted thoughts and feelings pop up? Are you feeling worn down or worked up or wondering why you are at Oxford? Intrigued by how to use the mind better? Are you ready to grow?

Qualitative research made simple, online

Research Skills

Thursday, 01 February 2024, 9.30am to 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Monday, 05 February 2024 to Thursday, 08 February 2024, 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.

Transfer of status, online

Research Skills

Monday, 05 February 2024, 10am to 12.30pm

This 2.5 hours interactive online MSD Skills training course is suitable for first year DPhil/MSc research students preparing for their first milestone; transfer of status.

Introduction to statistics, in person

Research Skills

Tuesday, 06 February 2024 to Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 9.30am - 1pm

This MSD Skills training course consists of four half-day sessions, and is suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers using and interpreting statistical data.

PLTO Tutorials, online

Career Development Research Skills Teaching Skills

Wednesday, 07 February 2024, 9am to 1pm

This online 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.

Confirmation of status, online

Research Skills

Wednesday, 07 February 2024, 11am to 12.30pm

This 1.5 hour workshops is aimed at MSD DPhil research students and will provide clear guidance and advice as how to successfully prepare and complete the process of Confirmation of Status.

Experimental design and statistics in preclinical research: the good, the bad and the ugly, in person

Research Skills

Monday, 12 February 2024 to Tuesday, 13 February 2024, 2pm - 4.30pm

This interactive course is for MSD postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to understand the issues underpinning good experimental design, the bedrock of reproducible science.

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