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 Competencies as defined in the competency matrix for PhD students*2
Research to Market

AY 2023-2024

All

EX, PL, IS, PR

Expedition DO! 

* counts as 1 specialist course + 1 transferable skills seminar Career management

2023-2024 All

EX, PL, IS, PR

NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars

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

2024-2025

WE

EX, CT

From PhD to SME

March- November 2024

All

EX, PL, IS, PR

Python for GIS and Geoscience

12, 16 and 19 December 2024

WE, EA

EX, CT

Basic training in processing and analysing accelerometer data in GGIR

16-17 September 2024

GE

EX, CT

Seasonal School: Cross-cultural explorations into the role of fate, destiny, and predestination as agents for health and wellbeing

16-18 September 2024

LW, GE

EX, CT

Introduction to X-ray computed tomography

16-18 September 2024

WE, BW, LSM, AHL

EX, CT

Summer School - Experiments in Development Economics 2024

16-20 September 2024

All

EX, CT

Hiv Reservoir Characterization Workshop

25-27 September 2024

GE

EX, CT

qPCR course 

26-27 September 2024

WE, BW, GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

DUTCH edition: 19 and 26 November, 3, 10 and 17 december 2024 

ENGLISH edition: 18/2, 25/2, 11/3, 18/3 en 25/3

DUTCH edition: 15/5, 22/5, 5/6, 12/6 en 19/6

GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Introduction to ELAN and FLEx: audio-visual data processing tools for linguists

30-31 October 2024

LW

EX, CT

Causal Inference in Micro-econometrics with Applications to Program Evaluation

4 October - 20 December 2024

PS, PP, EB

EX, CT

Astronomy Seminar Series 2024-2025

4 October 2024 - 11 May 2025

WE

EX, CT

GCND Hackathon: Automatic linguistic annotation and speech recognition of dialects

7 October 2024

LW, RE, PP, EA

EX, CT

Bayesian Statistics

17, 18, 24 and 25 October 2024

PP

EX, CT

Labour, mobilisation and the politics of work

10-12 December 2024

PP, PS, LW, RE, EB

EX, CT

Comparing Argument Marking in Romance: a focus on Romanian

11-13 December 2024

LW

EX, CT

Cardiovascular measurements in affective (neuro)sciences in youth and adults.

16th, 17th and 18th of December 2024

GE

EX, CT

Building Resilience: Trauma-Informed Practices and Peer Support for Interdisciplinary Researchers

09 + 10 January 2025

PS

EX,CT

Interdisciplinary pathways for ecological and social resilience: a doctoral winter school

13-17 January 2025

All

EX, CT

Bioresource Recovery – putting the circular economy to action 2025

Januari 2025 - July 2025

BW

EX,CT

Social work research as a practice of transparency: the theory practice nexus

Januari 2025 - May 2025

ALL

EX,CT

A Comprehensive Analysis of Corruption: Typologies, Measurement and Causality

28-30 January 2025

PP, PS, LW, RE, EB

EX, CT

Light and Fluorescence Microscopy Edition February 2025

03/02 + 04/02 + 05/02 + 06/02 + 07/02/2025

GE, PPW, BW

EX,CT

Quantitative Methods for Dynamic Economics

11/02 + 18/02+ 25/02+11/03+25/03+22/04+06/05+20/05

ALL

EX, CT

Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E)

February 2025

WE

EX, CT

Topics in Corporate Finance 12 February – 04 June 2025

 

EB

EX,CT

Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2025 - History of Emotions

24 - 28 March 2025

LW

EX,CT

From organic Synthesis to Medicinal Chemistry 20/03 + 21/03/2025

WE, GE

EX,CT

In Dialogue with the Living Past: theoretical and methodological reflections on the co-creation of historical knowledge

12 and 26 February + 12 and 26 March + 15 May 2025

ALL (LW)

EX,CT

The Silent Patient: On Medical Silencing and Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare 16/06+17/06+18/06/2025

LW,RE, GE, PP

EX,CT

*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 and Flames

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
Module 4 - Drawing Conclusions from Data: an Introduction November and December 2024  Science Academy
Module 5 - Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists December 2024 Science Academy
Module 7 - Exploiting Sources of Variation in your Data: the ANOVA Approach January and Februay 2025 Science Academy
Module 9 - High Dimensional Data Analysis January 2025 Science Academy
Module 10 - Explaining and Predicting Outcomes with Linear Regression February and March 2025 Science Academy
Module 11- Machine Learning with Python April, May and June 2025 Science Academy
Module 12 - Meta-Analysis May 2025 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

The ABC of 5G: Technical, Business, and Regulation perspectives (ENG)

12 – 26 September 2024 UGain
Linked Data & Solid 26 September 2024 – 16 January 2025 UGain

Explainable & Trustworthy AI

30 September 2024 – 16 December 2024 UGain
Futureproof databeheer – Waarheidsgetrouwheid in Databases & AI  (NL) 10 October 2024 – 19 December 2024 UGain

Deep learning: van theorie tot praktijk (NL)

15 October 2024 – 10 December 2024 UGain

Circulair bouwen: van materialen tot bouwproject (NL)

17 October 2024 – 27 Maart 2025 UGain
Starten met R (Dutch)

Fall edition: October 8, 15,22 & November 5,12,19 2024

Winter edition: February 11,18,25 and March 11,18,25 2025

Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Trainings on bioinformatics in microbial genomics On request  BCCM
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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