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Transfer of status, online

Tuesday, 29 April 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.

Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online

Friday, 25 April 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.

How to be a milestone assessor and an internal examiner at Oxford, online

Friday, 11 April 2025, 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.

Introduction to MATLAB for medics and biologists, online

Friday, 04 April 2025 to Friday, 11 April 2025, 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.

Supervising a Research Student at Oxford: Rules and Procedures, online

Thursday, 03 April 2025, 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.

Large group and lecturing, online

Wednesday, 02 April 2025 to Tuesday, 08 April 2025, 9.30am - 12.30pm

This workshop is 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.

Introduction to statistics, in person

Monday, 31 March 2025 to Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 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.

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

Thursday, 27 March 2025 to Friday, 28 March 2025, 2pm - 5pm

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, 27 March 2025 to Friday, 28 March 2025, 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Wednesday, 26 March 2025 to Wednesday, 02 April 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Confirmation of status, online

Friday, 28 February 2025, 12.30pm to 2pm

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.

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.

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.

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