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Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 9am - 9am
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Writing a transfer report
Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Friday, 01 August 2025, 9am - 9am
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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.
Data analysis & visualisation in R for biologists, online
Monday, 11 November 2024 to Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 1.30pm - 4.30pm
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).
Intro to R for biologists, online
Tuesday, 12 November 2024 to Tuesday, 19 November 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.
PLTO Masters teaching, online
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 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 to be a milestone assessor and an internal examiner at Oxford, online
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 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.
Developing original ideas through analytical frameworks, online
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 1pm to 3pm
This two-hour course is for any postgraduate contemplating the application of analytical frameworks to qualitative data. It will help you understand how viewing data from various angles will enable you, the researcher, to see your data anew each time.
Planning, designing and critically appraising clinical research, online
Friday, 15 November 2024 to Friday, 22 November 2024, 11am - 2pm
This live interactive online course consisting of two three hour sessions is suitable for all MSD postgraduate research students looking to plan and conduct plan and conduct reproducible clinical research projects.
PLTO Masters teaching, online
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1pm to 5pm
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.
X-ray Crystallography, in person
Monday, 18 November 2024 to Friday, 22 November 2024, 10am - 5pm
PLTO Tutorials, in person
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Monday, 18 November 2024, 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.
Confirmation of status, online
For students only Research Skills
Tuesday, 19 November 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.
Supervising a Research Student at Oxford: Rules and Procedures, online
Friday, 22 November 2024, 10am to 12.30pm
This is a 2.5 hour course for those in academic posts at the University of Oxford with responsibility for training DPhil or MSc by Research students.
Qualitative research made simple, online
Thursday, 28 November 2024 to Friday, 29 November 2024, 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.
Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online
Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
Thursday, 28 November 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.
Writing a conference or journal article abstract, online
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 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.
Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ, online
Monday, 02 December 2024 to Friday, 06 December 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.
How and why to undertake a systematic review, in person
Monday, 02 December 2024, 2pm to 4.30pm
This course is for MSD researchers and covers the principles of performing a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Large group and lecturing, online
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Wednesday, 04 December 2024 to Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 9.30am - 12.30pm
This live online workshop 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.