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 2023-2024	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
Expedition DO! (counts as specialist course + 1 transferable skills seminar Career management)	AY 2023-2024	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
NB-Photonics – Multidisciplinary seminars	2023-2024	WE	EX, CT
Causal Inference in Micro-econometrics with Application to Program Evaluation (OASIS course code X000173)	2023-2024	PS, PP, EB	EX, CT
Materials in chemistry and physics	September 2023- June 2024	WE, BW, EA	EX, CT
Bioresource Recovery Seminars– putting the circular economy to action	January- July 2024	WE	EX, CT
Skeleton - From new research technologies to therapeutics	January- June 2024	WE, GE, DI	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)	Recurring annually in September and February	WE, BW	EX, CT
Social work research as a practice of transparency	2 February- 14 June 2024	PS	EX, CT
Cancer	8 February- 29 April 2024	WE, BW, GE, FW	EX, CT, IS
Topics in Corporate Finance	12 February- 4 June 2024	EB	EX, CT
Sustainable water production, treatment and reuse	13 February- 6 May 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Advanced International Macroeconomics	14 February- 15 May 2024	EB	EX, CT
Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	ENG course: 20 and 27 February + 5, 12 and 19 March 2024 Dutch course: 7, 14, 21 and 28 May + 4 June 2024	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Conducting peer-review: Do’s & don’ts	28 February and 20 March 2024	PP	EX, CT
From PhD to SME: a 1-year leadership programme developed by VOKA	March- November 2024	All	EX, PL, IS, PR
Chemical lab safety and scale-up towards pilot plants and industrial-scale installations	25-27 March 2024	EA	EX, CT
Systematic Review by Cochrane Belgium	15-17 April 2024	GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Module 13 - Structural equation modeling with lavaan	May 20 and 21, 2024 from 9am to 5pm.	All	EX, CT
Map making for linguists in QGIS ^{* You have to participate in both the Basic Skills and Advanced Skills programme if you want to add this course as a specialist course to your curriculum. If you want to add it as a transferable skills seminar, then you only participate in the Basic skills programme.}	21 or 22-23 May 2024	LW	EX, CT
Decolonial and Postcolonial Approaches to Gender and Sexuality Research: Exploring Alternative Methodolologies 2024	23-24 May 2024	LW, PP	EX, CT
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2024 - Landscape History & Ecology	27-31 May 2024	LW	EX, CT
Mental Health Care, Research, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. Lacan’s seminar IX: Identification. Relevance for today’s clinic, and culture	28-30 May 2024	PP	EX, CT
Gender and Language Across Europe	6-7 Juni 2024	LW	EX, CT
qPCR course	13-14 June 2024	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Chinese Buddhist Iconography and Manuscript Culture: Fieldwork Data and their Use in Pedagogical Contexts, with an Emphasis on Digital Resources	17-21 June 2024	LW	EX, CT
Transgender health: interdisciplinary approaches - EPATH Summer School	1-5 July 2024	All	EX, CT
Summer School "Methods in Language Sciences"	15-19 July 2024	LW	EX, CT
SIPTA School on Imprecise Probabilities 2024	12-16 August 2024	All	EX, CT
Direct and Inverse Problems with Applications, and Related Topics: A Comprehensive Summer School in Mathematical Analysis	19-24 August 2024	WE, EA	EX, CT
BePa@VIB Proteomics Summer School	26-30 August 2024	WE, BW	EX, CT
Belgian-Dutch-German graduate school in particle physics	2-12 September 2024	WE	EX, CT
Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification	10-12 September 2024	DI, WE, GE	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
Summer School - Experiments in Development Economics 2024	16-20 September 2024	All	EX, CT
Specialist course on Light and Fluorescence Microscopy	dates to be announced	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Digital PCR based nucleic acid quantification	dates to be announced	WE, BW, GE, DI, FW	EX, CT
Applied Flow Cytometry	dates to be announced	GE, DI, FW	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
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