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Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme

Career Development Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills

Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 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 Thursday, 01 August 2024, 9am - 9am

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Writing a transfer report

Communication Skills Research Skills

Monday, 14 December 2020 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 9am - 9am

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MSD PLTO

Career Development Communication Skills Teaching Skills

Wednesday, 30 June 2021 to Thursday, 01 August 2024, 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)

Research Skills

Tuesday, 01 August 2023 to Monday, 02 September 2024, 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Wednesday, 13 March 2024 to Wednesday, 20 March 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.

Planning, designing and critically appraising clinical research, online

Research Skills

Wednesday, 13 March 2024 to Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 1pm - 4pm

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 Research Skills Teaching Skills

Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 9am to 10am

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 Masters teaching, online

Career Development Research Skills Teaching Skills

Thursday, 21 March 2024, 9am to 10am

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.

Analysing biological data by model fitting in GraphPad Prism, online

Research Skills

Monday, 25 March 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.

Image Analysis course with Fiji/ImageJ, online

Research Skills

Monday, 22 April 2024 to Friday, 26 April 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Tuesday, 23 April 2024 to Tuesday, 30 April 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.

Data analysis & visualisation in R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Wednesday, 24 April 2024 to Wednesday, 08 May 2024, 9.30am - 1am

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).

Developing your grant writing skills, in person

Communication Skills Research Skills

Thursday, 25 April 2024 to Wednesday, 01 May 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.

Confirmation of status, online

Research Skills

Monday, 29 April 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.

PLTO Tutorials, in person

Communication Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills

Thursday, 02 May 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.

Transfer of status, online

Research Skills

Friday, 03 May 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.

Intro to R for biologists, online

Research Skills

Tuesday, 07 May 2024 to Friday, 10 May 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.

Preparation for a successful final DPhil viva, online

Research Skills

Wednesday, 08 May 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.

Qualitative research made simple, online

Research Skills

Thursday, 09 May 2024 to Friday, 10 May 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.

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