Skills Training Courses: Research Skills
Our research courses range from best practice for planning, designing and carrying out research to the use of specific research technology for the medical sciences. You can access other course categories from the Courses by topic page, and find supporting material on our Resources page. Can't find what you're looking for? Contact us.
Upcoming Research Skills courses
Links to online Statistics courses
Thursday, 01 October 2020 to Friday, 31 December 2021, 12am - 1am
MSD Skills are unable to provide our 'Introduction to statistics' training until we return to classroom teaching, but we have listed some alternative online statistics resources here.
Advancing Teaching and Learning Programme
Thursday, 08 October 2020 to Monday, 01 August 2022, 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 - two part online course
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Monday, 01 August 2022, 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
Monday, 14 December 2020 to Monday, 01 August 2022, 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.
How to work with your supervisor ONLINE
Friday, 08 October 2021, 10am to 12.30pm
This interactive online session is suitable for MSD first year DPhil students (and some MSD MSc students).
Analysing biological data by model fitting in GraphPad Prism ONLINE
Monday, 11 October 2021, 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.
OTHER Research Skills Courses
This section lists other relevant research skills courses delivered elsewhere in the University and other MSD research skills courses running in other terms.
Introduction to epidemiology training: this introductory course in epidemiology will take you from the basic principles of epidemiology, to the design, interpretation and appraisal of epidemiological research. Further details and booking information can be found on this link.
UK Equator Network's online lightning workshops cover all aspects of writing and publishing your academic research. Further details and booking information can be found on this link.
Places available on Graduate School Training programme courses run by the Department for Continuing Education. Please check details and availability using this link.
Sign up to the BDI Training list:
Want to know about big data/health data science training events and opportunities at the BDI? Then join the Big Data Institute Training list, managed by the BDI Training and Development Officer, Sarah Laseke. Email Sarah to sign up at sarah.laseke@ndph.ox.ac.uk
Reproducible Research Oxford workshops cover all open research practices such as preregistration, data management and FAIR sharing, reproducible workflows, and more! Check recurring training on the RROx website, and subscribe to the RROx mailing to hear about the latest opportunities.
Careers Service:
Workshops and events for Research Students and Staff, now available as a web page at https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careers-events-researchers/ and via the Researcher landing page (www.careers.ox.ac.uk/researchers) on the main Careers Service website. This page will regularly updated, and researchers are advised to check the page for the most recent version of the schedule.
We would also like to remind researchers that our online programme of bespoke careers support for research students and research staff continues www.careers.ox.ac.uk/researchers/
- Advice pages written for DPhil students and research staff
- More 1:1 advice appointments (by phone)
- Career Design and Development 3-workshop series; Insight into Academia etc; full timetable and booking links here www.careers.ox.ac.uk/careers-events-researchers/
- Inspiring profiles of researcher roles beyond academia via research-careers.org and how to join the team to grow your network
- Oxbridge Early Career Researcher blog earlycareerblog.blogspot.com/ (posts on resilience, transitions, effective CVs and interviewing for academia in particular, and beyond)
Academic English at the Language Centre - the term time courses help international students and staff improve their academic written and spoken communication. They are taught by specialists in Academic English to meet the needs of international students and staff at the University of Oxford.
Visit IT Learning Centre's LinkedIn Learning (previously known as Lynda.com) for a huge range of online video-based courses. It is available to use for free for all University members who have Single Sign On credentials.