Writing a thesis - two part online course
Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
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
Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
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
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.
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.
Experimental design and statistics in preclinical research: the good, the bad and the ugly, in person
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 to Thursday, 12 December 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.
Qualitative evidence synthesis made simple, online
Thursday, 12 December 2024 to Friday, 13 December 2024, 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.
Introduction to computational chemistry, in person
Monday, 16 December 2024 to Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 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.
Transfer of status, online
Tuesday, 07 January 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.
Confirmation of status, online
For students only Research Skills
Wednesday, 08 January 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.
Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online
Communication Skills For students only Research Skills
Friday, 10 January 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.
Writing a journal article, online
Communication Skills Research Skills
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.
Introduction to machine learning and deep learning in Python, online
Monday, 27 January 2025 to Tuesday, 28 January 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.
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.
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.
PLTO Tutorials, in person
Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills
Tuesday, 04 February 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.
Writing a conference or journal article abstract ONLINE
Communication Skills Research Skills
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.
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.