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.

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.

The next free UK EQUATOR Centre Lightning Workshop is “Planning for publication.” It will take place Thursday 25 June, 12:30-13:30 as a Zoom meeting and will be run by Dr Paula Dhiman and Dr Jen de Beyer. What do you and your co-authors need to decide before you start to write? We will talk about how to get your message, audience, and target journal sorted now to ensure a smooth publication process! To join this session, please email us on equator@csm.ox.ac.uk.

The Thriving Researcher contains practical suggestions and links to a wealth of useful resources to support researchers and DPhil students, especially at the current time.

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)

April-June 2020 - Mixing it up: Understanding and using mixed methods research in social sciences. This course, run by the Department for Continuing Education, is free to DPhils registered at the University. Limited places available so apply now. Click here for further information and details on how to apply.

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. 

Dates now available for Public Engagement with Research training sessions relevant for MSD and MPLS for the 2019/2020 academic year.

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.

Micron Advanced Microscopy - this five day classroom based MSD Skills training course is suitable for all postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers involved with bright field and fluorescence microscopy. This course runs in Michaelmas term.

Qualitative research made simple - this 3 hour classroom based course for Medical Sciences Division researchers will teach you how to synthesise qualitative research findings. This course is next scheduled to run in Trinity Term.

Simulating data to improve your research - this classroom based MSD Skills training course consists of two hour sessions on two separate days. It is suitable for MSD researchers with basic statistical knowledge wanting to learn how to simulate experimental data and then apply standard statistical tests. 

Computational biochemistry - this three day classroom based MSD Skills training course suitable for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to gain the practical skills needed for effective computational biochemistry.

Electron cryo microscopy in structural biology - This MSD Skills training course runs over five full consecutive days and is suitable for all postgraduate research students and postdoctoral early career researchers using or planning to use cryo-EM. This course runs in Michaelmas Term.

How and why to undertake a systematic review - this half day classroom based MSD Skills course runs in Trinity Term and is suitable for all postgraduate research students (especially recommended for years 1 and 2) and early career researchers wanting to understand the key principles of a systematic review and the basic principles of meta-analysis.

Scientific computing in MATLAB - this six week online MSD Skills training course runs in Trinity Term is suitable for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to understand MATLAB programming language, and its use in data analysis. numerical calculus, linear algebra and the solution of ODEs.

X-Ray Crystallography - this five day computing lab and classroom based MSD Skills training course runs in Trinity Term and is suitable for all postgraduate research students and early career researchers wanting to understand the theory underpinning crystallographic methods and apply these to their own research.