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Writing a thesis - two part online course

Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 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

Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 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

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 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)

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.

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.

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 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.

Transfer of status, online

Monday, 24 February 2025, 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.

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.

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.

Confirmation of status, online

Friday, 28 February 2025, 10am to 11am

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.

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.

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.

PLTO Tutorials, in person

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.

Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online

Thursday, 06 March 2025, 10am to 12.30pm

This interactive online MSD Skills training course is most suitable for those in their third or fourth year of their DPhil preparing for their viva, NOT for transfer viva or MSc taught student.

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.

How and why to undertake a systematic review, in person

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.

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

Tuesday, 18 March 2025 to Wednesday, 19 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

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.

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