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 |
* 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 |
March- November 2024 |
All |
EX, PL, IS, PR |
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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 |
26-27 September 2024
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WE, BW, GE, DI, FW |
EX, CT |
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Conducting and Publishing a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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ENGLISH edition: 26 September, 3, 10, 17 and 24 October 2024 DUTCH edition: 19 and 26 November, 3, 10 and 17 december 2024 |
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 |
Interdisciplinary pathways for ecological and social resilience: a doctoral winter school |
13-17 January 2025 |
All |
EX, CT |
A Comprehensive Analysis of Corruption: Typologies, Measurement and Causality |
28-30 January 2025 |
PP, PS, LW, RE, EB |
EX, CT |
Introduction to Process and Product Engineering (IP2E) |
February 2025 |
WE |
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 |
30 September 2024 – 16 December 2024 | UGain | |
Futureproof databeheer – Waarheidsgetrouwheid in Databases & AI (NL) | 10 October 2024 – 19 December 2024 | UGain |
15 October 2024 – 10 December 2024 | UGain | |
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 |
See website | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration |