Specialist Courses

Specialist courses (co-)organised by the Doctoral School

After successful participation, the Doctoral School Office will add these courses to your curriculum of the Doctoral Training Programme in Oasis.

Course Title Dates Target audience (by faculty) *1
The Research Track

AY 2025-2026

All

NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars

* To add this to your curriculum you need at least 16 contact hours

2025-2026

WE

Bioresource Recovery – putting the circular economy to action 2026

January 2026 - July 2026

BW

Need2MedTec October - May 2026 ALL
Group processes, Mental Health Care, Research, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. A thorough introduction to the work of W.R. Bion

06 + 07 July 2026

ALL

Julia2925 - Edition 2025

06 July + 07 July + 08 July 2026

ALL

EPATH summer school - Transgender Health: interdisciplinary approaches

08 - 10 July 2026

ALL

Methods in Language Sciences

13 July - 17 July 2026

ALL

Empirical Macroeconomics Summer School: Bayesian VARs

24 - 28 August 2026

ALL

BePa Proteomics Summer School

24 August - 28 August 2026

ALL

From EMG Signals to Muscle Synergies

07 September - 09 September 2026

ALL

Place, Care and Recovery: Community-Based, Ecological and Relational Approaches to Mental Health

07 September - 09 September 2026

ALL

EEG Research - Fundamentals: from recording to interpretation

07 September - 11 September 2026

ALL

Socio-Legal Research: Bridging Theory and Practice

10 September + 11 September 2026

ALL

Masterclass in the Philosophy of Mathematical Practices 2026

10 September - 14 September 2026

ALL

Introduction to X-Ray computed tomography

14 September- 19 September 2026

ALL
OpenFOAM Training Academic On-Site

14 September - 17 September 2026

ALL
Summer School - Hot Topics on Development in the Global South

14 September -17 September 2026

ALL
The Object(ive) of the Humanities: objectivity, politics and knowledge production

14 September - 18 September 2026

ALL

Light and Fluorescence Microscopy

14 September - 18 September 2026

GE, PPW, BW

HIV Reservoir Characterization Workshop

23 September - 25 September 2026

ALL

Causal Inference in Micro-econometrics with Applications to Program Evaluation 2026

02 October - 18 December 2026 (every Friday)

ALL

Building Capacity in Transdisciplinary Research for Urban Sustainability Transformations

October 2026 - May 2027

ALL

Studying Regions: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Regionalism

21 October - 23 October

ALL

Python for GIS and Geoscience

TBA

ALL

Conducting peer-review: Do's and Dont's

TBA

ALL

qPCR course

TBA

ALL

Materials in Chemistry and Physics TBA

ALL

Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

TBA

ALL

Basic MRI Physics

TBA

ALL

Topics in Corporate Finance TBA

EB

CRIG Doctoral School on 'Cancer' TBA

GE, WE

Systematic Review by Cochrane TBA

ALL

Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification

TBA

ALL

*1Doctoral candidates can subscribe to any specialist course, independently of the faculty to which they are affiliated.
Faculty abbreviations: 
LW (Arts and Philosophy), RE (Law and Criminology), WE (Sciences), GE (Medicine and Health Sciences), EA (Engineering and Architecture), EB (Economics and Business Administration), DI (Veterinary Medicine), PP (Psychology and Educational Sciences), BW (Bioscience Engineering), FW (Pharmaceutical Sciences), PS (Political Sciences).

*2 Every competency belongs to one of the skill clusters defined in the competence matrix for PhD students: EX: Expertise; CT: Critical Thinking; PL: Professional Leadership; IS: Interpersonal Skills; PR: Professionalism.

Science Academy 

After successful participation, the Doctoral School Office will add these courses to your curriculum of the Doctoral Training Programme in Oasis.

Course title Dates Organiser

Exploiting Sources of Variation in your Data: the ANOVA Approach
January 2026 Science Academy

Explaining and Predicting Outcomes with Linear Regression using Python or R
February - March 2026 Science Academy

Communicating Effectively: Strategies for Successful Presentations and Debates
February - March 2026 Science Academy

Unsupervised Learning
March - April 2026 Science Academy
April - June 2026

Science Academy

March 2026

Science Academy

Selection of other courses

The courses listed below are organised by third parties and are not part of the Doctoral School own course offer, but you can include them in your Doctoral Training Programme by submitting an application for recognition (AfR) .

Course Title Dates Organiser

TT - Skills: course in technology transfer

October 2025 - June 2026 Tech Transfer Office
Starten met R

Winter edition: February 3, 10, 17 and 24 ; March: 3, 10 and 17 2026 (ENGLISH)

Spring edition: April 23, 30 May 7, 21 and 28 June 2 and 9 2026 (DUTCH)

Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Analyse van geclusterde en longitudinale data in R

April 21, 28, and May 5, 12 and 19 2026

Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Trainings on plasmids and plasmid host strains On request BCCM
Trainings on fungi in human and animal health On request BCCM
Trainings on bacteriology On request BCCM
Trainings on agro-food and environmental fungi On request BCCM
Trainings on cyanobacteria On request BCCM

Intellectual Property and Valorization

OASIS course code I001967

See website Ghent University
VIB Training Initiatives See website VIB

Course list PhD in (Business) Economics

See website Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

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