Specialist Courses

Specialist courses (co-)organised by the Doctoral School

Course Title	Dates	*Target audience (by faculty) ¹**	*Competencies as defined in the competency matrix for PhD students²**
Research to Market	AY 2022-2023 (recurring)	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
From PhD to SME: a 1-year leadership programme developed by VOKA	March 2024 until November 2024 (recurring)	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
Expedition DO! (counts as specialist course + 1 transferable skills seminar Career management)	AY 2022-2023 (recurring)	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
ThinkTanks DoTanks	Recurring	LW, RE	EX, CT
NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars	2022-2023 (recurring)	WE	EX, CT
Causal Inference in Micro-econometrics with Application to Program Evaluation (OASIS course code X000173)	Recurring	PS, PP, EB	EX, CT
Bioresource Recovery Seminars– putting the circular economy to action	Dates 2024 to be announced (recurring)	WE	EX, CT
Cancer	Dates 2024 to be announced (recurring)	WE, BW, GE, FW	EX, CT, IS
Advanced MRI data acquisition and management	2024 dates to be announced (recurring)	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Social work research as a practice of transparency	27 January 2023 - 26 May 2023 (recurring)	PP	EX, PL, IS, PR
Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	ENG course: September-October 2023 Dutch course: November-December 2023 (recurring)	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Systematic Review by Cochrane Belgium	Dates 2024 to be announced (recurring)	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Seasonal School: Modern Problems in PDEs and Applications	23 August - 2 September 2023	BW, EA	EX, CT
Materials in chemistry and physics	September 2023 - June 2024 (recurring)	WE, BW, EA	EX, CT
Specialist course on Light and Fluorescence Microscopy	6-8 September 2023	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
qPCR course	7-8 September 2023 (recurring)	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
HIV Reservoir Characterization Workshop	13-15 September 2023 Subscribe here	GE, FW	EX, CT
Study Week: Mathematics for Industry	11-15 September 2023	WE, EA, BW	EX, CT
Introduction to genomic data analysis with R and Bioconductor	18-19 September 2023	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Analysis and Interpretation of Bulk RNA-Seq Data using Bioconductor	18-19 September 2023	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification	19- 21 September 2023 (recurring)	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Basic MRI Physics	21-22 September 2022 (recurring)	PP	EX, CT
Applied Flow Cytometry	25- 27 September 2023 (recurring)	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Non-invasive brain stimulation: from basic mechanisms to innovative approaches in clinical and experimental research	27-28 September 2023	PP, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Seasonal School: Linked Data and Solid Summer Academy	28 September 2023 - 11 January 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Systems of Representation in Asian Religious and Philosophical Traditions	9 - 13 October 2023	LW, RE	EX, CT
Studying families: focus on qualitative methods and approaches for interdisciplinary collaboration	11-13 October 2023	LW, PP	EX, CT
Postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on the Eastern (of) Europe	17-20 October 2023	LW, RE	EX, CT
Multimodal Storytelling; Exploring the More-than-Text Modes of Research and (Re)Presentation	23-27 October 2023	GE, FW, DI	EX, CT
Challenging the mainstream: Critical, Post(-)colonial, and Decolonial theory	6 November - 12 December 2023	PP, PE, EB	EX, CT
Relational and Creative Qualitative Research Methodologies in Social Sciences	13-16 November 2023	LW, RE, PP, PS	EX, CT
Functional data analysis and applications in digital and augmented humanities	28-30 November 2023	LW, RE	EX, CT
Causality in Quantitative Research	18-20 December 2023	EB, PP, PS	EX, CT
Skeleton - From new research technologies to therapeutics	January and June 2024	WE, GE, DI	EX, CT
Mental Health Care, Research, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy - Lacan’s ‘Some Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality	17-19 January 2024	PP, LW	EX, CT
Ecological applications of biomarkers in aquatic food web studies	22-26 January 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Re-thinking education in conditions of converging crises and proliferating possibilities	31 January - 29 May 2024	PP, PS, AHL	EX, CT, PR
Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E)	February 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Social work research as a practice of transparency	2 February- 14 June 2024	PS	EX, CT
Becoming an Olympian in Sports Analytics Winter School	5-9 February 2024	GE	EX, CT
Julia2925	5-7 February 2024	EA, WE	EX, CT
European digital PCR symposium and workshop	6-8 February 2024	WE, BW, FW, GE	EX, CT
Sustainable water production, treatment and reuse	13 February - 6 May 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Advanced International Macroeconomics	14 February until 15 May 2024	EB	EX, CT
Visualizing static muscle morphology and dynamic muscle behaviour using ultrasound imaging and EMG	21 and 22 February 2024	GE	EX, CT
Flowsheet modelling for pharmaceutical manufacturing processes	22-23 February 2024	FW	EX, CT
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2024 - Landscape History & Ecology	27-31 May 2024	LW	EX, CT

*¹_{Doctoral 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.}

Selection of other courses

PhD students who want to include one of the courses listed below or any other course (not (co-)organised by the Doctoral School) in their Doctoral Training Programme are required to submit an application for recognition.

Course Title	Dates	Organiser	Registration
Module 4 - Drawing Conclusions from Data: an Introduction	November 7, 14, 21 and 28, December 5 and 12, 2023, from 5.30 pm till 9.30 pm	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 5 - Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists	December 4, 7, 11, 14 and 18, 2023, from 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 6 - Leverage your R Skills: Data Wrangling & Plotting with Tidyverse	December 18, 19 & 21, 2023, from 1 pm to 4 pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 7 - Dynamic Report Generation with R Markdown and Quarto	December 22, 2023, from 9 to 12 pm and from 1 pm to 4 pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 8 - Exploiting Sources of Variation in your Data: the ANOVA Approach	January 9, 16, 23 and 30, February 6, 2024, from 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 10 - High Dimensional Data Analysis	February 6, 8, 13, 15, 20 & 22, 2024 from 5.30 pm to 9,30 pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 11 - Explaining and Predicting Outcomes with Linear Regression	February 29, March 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2024 from 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 12 - Machine Learning with Python	April 15, 22 & 29 and May 6, 13 & 27 and June 3, 2024, from 5.30 pm to 9 pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Module 13 - Structural equation modeling with lavaan	May 20 and 21, 2024 from 9am to 5pm.	IPVW (ICES)	Organiser
Intellectual Property and Valorization	2021-2022	Ghent University	OASIS course code I001967
Introduction to Meta-Analysis	May 2023	FLAMES	Organiser
Essentials of Structural Equation Modeling	May 2023	FLAMES	Organiser
Informatiebeheer voor Bouwprojecten (BIM)	26 september 2023 – 19 december 2023	UGain	Organiser
Linked Data & Solid	28 September 2023 – 11 January 2024	UGain	Organiser
Trends in databankbeheer: De paradigma-shift naar AI en data science applicaties	2 oktober 2023 – 18 december 2023	UGain	Organiser
Effectief leiderschap: Essentiële toolkit voor ambitieuze managers	12 oktober 2023 – 26 februari 2024	UGain	Organiser
Energie-efficiëntie in de industrie	19 oktober 2023 – 27 maart 2024	UGain	Organiser
VIB Training Initiatives	2023-2024	VIB	Organiser
Data management and data transformations in SPSS	November 10, 17, 24 and December 1, 7, 2023	Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences	Organiser
Starten met R (Dutch)	1) October 10, 17, 24 + November 7, 14, 21, 2023 2) February 20, 27 and March 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2024	Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences	Organiser
Statistical analysis of longitudinal continuous data in SPSS (Dutch)	April 16, 19, 23, 30 and May 3, 2024	Cel Biostatistiek - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences	Organiser

Additional lists

Course list PhD in (Business) Economics

Related information

Structure of the Ghent University Doctoral Training Programme
Registration, recognition and funding procedures