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
The Research Track

AY 2025-2026

All

PL

NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars

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

2025-2026

WE

EX, CT

Bioresource Recovery – putting the circular economy to action 2026

January 2026 - July 2026

BW

EX,CT

Materials in Chemistry and Physics 01 September 2025 - 30 June 2026 ALL

EX,CT

Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

ENGLISH edition February 2026 : 10/02, 24/02, 03/03, 10/03 en 17/03/2026

DUTCH edition April 2026:21/04, 28/04, 05/05, 12/05 en 19/05/2026

GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Need2MedTec October - May 2026 ALL

EX,CT

Basic MRI Physics

04 + 05 February 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Race & Radicalization: Researching oppression & opposition

10 + 11 + 12 February 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Critical and Transformative Perspectives on Sustainability: A Doctoral Winter School

02 - 06 February 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Building Resilience: Trauma-Informed Practices for Interdisciplinary Researchers

03 + 04 + 11 February 2026

ALL

EX,CT

The Politics of Producing Knowledge on Migration

February - April 2026

ALL

EX,CT

EDUCADO - MWGaiaDN training school on astro-AI and ML

02 - 03 March 2026

ALL

EX, CT

Introduction to Category Theory for Non-Mathematicians

13 + 15 + 17 April 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Empirical Bioethics Summer School

18 - 21 May 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026. Materiality, Material Culture and Materialist Approaches

 01 - 05 June 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Multidisciplinary research tools to study work and the labour market

01 - 05 June 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Group processes, Mental Health Care, Research, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. A thorough introduction to the work of W.R. Bion

06 + 07 July 2026

ALL

EX,CT

EPATH summer school - Transgender Health: interdisciplinary approaches 

08 - 10 July 2026

ALL

EX,CT

CRIG Doctoral School on 'Cancer' 04 February - 29 May 2026

GE, WE

EX,CT

Typology, language contact, and language change 17 + 18 March 2026

ALL

EX,CT

Topics in Corporate Finance February - April 2026

EB

EX,CT

Light and Fluorescence Microscopy

TBA

GE, PPW, BW

EX,CT

Quantitative Methods for Dynamic Economics

TBA

ALL

EX, CT

Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E)

TBA

WE

EX, CT

MINOS Sanctions Methods Course

TBA

ALL (LW) EX,CT
Systematic Review by Cochrane

TBA

ALL

EX,CT

Julia2925 - Edition 2025

TBA

ALL

EX,CT

Python for GIS and Geoscience

TBA

ALL

EX,CT

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

TBA

ALL

EX,CT

qPCR course 

TBA

ALL

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 

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

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 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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