Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 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
Communication Skills Research Skills
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 9am - 9am
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Writing a transfer report
Communication Skills Research Skills
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 9am - 9am
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MSD PLTO
Career Development Communication Skills Teaching Skills
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 Sunday, 05 January 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.
Transfer of status, online
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 10.30am to 1pm
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.
Confirmation of status, online
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 10am to 11.30am
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.
Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online
Friday, 27 September 2024, 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.
Transfer of status, online
Tuesday, 01 October 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.
Confirmation of status, online
Monday, 14 October 2024, 10am to 11.30am
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.
Intro to R for biologists, online
Wednesday, 16 October 2024 to Wednesday, 23 October 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
Monday, 21 October 2024 to Friday, 25 October 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.
Developing your grant writing skills, in person
Communication Skills Research Skills
Thursday, 24 October 2024 to Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 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.
Introduction to MATLAB for medics and biologists, online
Friday, 25 October 2024 to Friday, 01 November 2024, 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.
Systems immunology: an intro to multi-omics data integration and machine learning, online
Monday, 28 October 2024 to Tuesday, 29 October 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.
PLTO Tutorials, in person
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 1pm to 5pm
*Fully booked* 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.
Introduction to machine learning and deep learning in Python, online
Monday, 04 November 2024 to Wednesday, 06 November 2024, 9.30am - 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.
Analysing biological data by model fitting in GraphPad Prism, online
Tuesday, 05 November 2024, 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.
Experimental design and statistics in preclinical research: the good, the bad and the ugly, in person
Tuesday, 05 November 2024 to Thursday, 07 November 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.
Collecting qualitative data: Interviews and Focus Groups, online
Communication Skills Research Skills
Thursday, 07 November 2024 to Friday, 08 November 2024, 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.