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

2024-2025

WE

EX, CT

Bioresource Recovery – putting the circular economy to action 2025

January 2025 - July 2025

BW

EX,CT

Open Science in the Social Science

03 + 04 + 05 + 06 June 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Brain Health and Neurophysiology

03 + 04 June 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Homological methods in group theory and topology

10 - 13 June 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification

11 + 12+ 13 June 2025

ALL

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

Summer school: Critical approaches to knowledge production with children through narrative, co-creative and/or arts-based research 24 - 27 June 2025

EIT Urban Mobility Ghent Summer School 2025 26/6 - 4/7/2025

ALL

EX,CT

ePIXfab’s 10th Silicon Photonics Summer School 30 June - 04 July

ALL

EX,CT

Summer School: Methods in Language Sciences 14 - 18 July 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Buddhist Material Culture 26 June - 01 July 2025 (no class on Sunday 29)

ALL

EX,CT

Julia2925 - Edition 2025 07 + 08 + 09 July 2025

ALL

EX,CT

BePA Proteomics Summer School 2025 25 - 29 August 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Literary and Cultural Studies in Health Humanities: Literature and culture as practices of care 27 - 29 August 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics 1 - 5 September ALL

EX, CT

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

EX,CT

Proof Society Summer School 01 - 05 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Genetics in Ocular Development (GoOD) 08 + 09 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Doctoral Colloquium BABEL – Boundary Breaking Developments in the Research on the History of Religions 10 + 11 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Summer School on Hot Topics on Development in the Global South 08 - 11 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

AquAntica, an Enlight workshop on Water Management in Antiquity (500 BC-700 AD) 10 + 11 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Mnemonics Summer School 2025: Memory and Responsibility 10 - 12 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

More than chat - Wat kan AI betekenen voor ontwerpers 15-19 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Hiv Reservoir Characterization Workshop 17 - 19 September 2025  ALL

EX,CT

Advanced Microscopy: Valorization and Collaboration with Industry 17 - 19 September 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

                       

ENGLISH edition September:  23/09 + 30/09 + 07/10 +14/10 +21/10/2025 

DUTCH edition November: 18/11 + 25/11 + 02/12 + 09/12 + 16/12/2025

GE, DI, FW

EX, CT

Need2MedTec October - May 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Ottoman and Islamic Architectural History: (mutual) exchanges with the West from 1500’s to 1923 08 + 09 October 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Python for GIS and Geoscience 13 + 16 + 20 October 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Oscillation phenomena, PDEs, and applications: A Comprehensive School in Mathematical Analysis - 2025 13 - 24 October 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Conducting peer-review: Do's and Dont's 16 October + 20 November 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Belarus as a Crucial Case of Wider Regional and Global Trends: Perspectives on Politics, Society, Law and Culture 21 October - 24 October 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Current Developments in Research on Middle Chinese and ‘Buddhist Hybrid Chinese 27 - 31 October 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Doctoral seminar on research in well-being enhancing consumption 6  + 20 November +
04 + 12 December 2025
ALL

EX,CT

EU External Action in a Shifting World Order: Legal and Institutional Dynamics 17 + 18 November 2025 ALL

EX,CT

European Digital PCR Symposium and Workshop 2025 18 - 21 November 2025 ALL

EX,CT

Stata for Entrepreneurship Research 18 - 20 November 2025 ALL

EX, CT

qPCR course  20 + 21 November 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Metacognition in Education: Theory, Practice and Research Perspectives on Multilingualism and Multiliteracies in Education

24 + 25 + 26 November 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Foundations for Future-Proof Service Research

03 - 05 December 2025

ALL

EX,CT

Basic MRI Physics

04 + 05 February 2025

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

ALL

EX,CT

CRIG Doctoral School on 'Cancer'

TBA

GE, WE

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

Topics in Corporate Finance

TBA 

EB

EX,CT

MINOS Sanctions Methods Course

TBA

ALL (LW) EX,CT
Systematic Review by Cochrane

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

Reproducible Data Analysis: an Essential Capability in Modern Science
September - December 2025 Science Academy
September - October 2025 Science Academy

SPSS for Beginners
October 2025 Science Academy
MAXQDA October 2025 Science Academy

Getting Started with R Software for Data Analysis
October 2025 Science Academy

Drawing Conclusions from Data: an Introduction
November - December 2025 Science Academy

Leverage your R Skills: Data Wrangling, Plotting and Reporting with Tidyverse and Quarto
December 2025 Science Academy

Getting Started with Python for Data Scientists
December 2025 Science Academy

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

Introduction to AI and Machine Learning for Biomedical Research

18, 20, 25, 27 November, 2 & 5 December 2025 VAIA

The ABC of 5G (ENG)

11, 18 & 25 September 2025 UGain
Machine Learning into practice. Deep dive into MLOps (ENG) 22, 23 en 24 September 2025 UGain

Smart Factory Design (NED)

30 september 2025 – 16 december 2025

UGain

Deep learning: van theorie tot praktijk (NL)

30 september 2025 – 2 december 2025 UGain

TT - Skills: course in technology transfer

October 2025 - June 2026 Tech Transfer Office
Starten met R 

Fall edition: November 3, 10, 17 and 24 

December 1, 8 and 15 (DUTCH)

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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