Previous courses for international staff

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organises structured writing sessions for students, PhDs and postdocs.

Are you feeling overwhelmed while working on your thesis or a longer text? How do you judge yourself when you're (not) writing?

Want to learn Python for your research but have little or no experience? Or do you need to refresh your basic Python skills? This workshop is for you! Please follow the preparation instructions below.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organsises structured writing sessions for PhDs and postdocs.

What is your key to success in collaborative academic writing?

Zotero is a smart reference and research tool suitable for collaboration. In this workshop, you will learn how to collect, organize, and share your bibliographies and research, cite as you write, and mark up and annotate your research material.

This course identifies the ¡°kappe¡± as a distinct element of the full body of work in an article-based PhD dissertation and offers conceptual and practical perspectives on how to position the ¡°kappe¡± and how to write it.

NVivo is a complex software for qualitative research that can be used to code text, sound, image, and video.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organises structured writing sessions for students, PhDs and postdocs.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organises structured writing sessions for students, PhDs and postdocs.

In this course, you will learn to use Zotero to boost your analysis, gathering all your research material, tags, annotations, and notes in one place for easy retrieval. In Zotero you can highlight, annotate, and tag your texts, facilitating your analysis and retrieval. Zotero also allows you to easily collaborate on your analysis and share your bibliographies and research, including your notes and annotations.

Would you like your academic writing to be more enjoyable and meaningful?

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organsises structured writing sessions for PhDs and postdocs.

This course gives an introduction to the reference management software Zotero. The course is held in Zoom.

Are you curious about how ChatGPT and other large language models work? Do you want to get started using AI tools in a responsible way? This course will give an introduction to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, NotebookLM and Copilot.

This course is targeted on early career researchers such as PhD candidates and postdocs. It will give you an overview of fundamental project management principles and learn how to apply these to academic research settings. Participant will also learn how to utilize this knowledge into transferable skills.

Would you like your academic writing to be more enjoyable and meaningful?

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre organises structured writing sessions for students, PhDs and postdocs.

A hands-on workshop for developing and sharing a Data Management Plan for your research.

This workshop is for those who want to learn more about using different functions in NVivo to code, retrieve, and visualize material for your qualitative and mixed methods analysis.

The aim of this course is to equip you with the knowledge and skills to critically appraise the methodological quality of a research article.

Hands-on Carpentry@UiO workshop with queries and database principles using SQLite.

In this half-day course in research data management, participants will gain insight into the potential in archiving and reusing research data in line with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible Interoperable, Reusable) principles. ?

Are you curious about how ChatGPT and other large language models work? Do you want to get started using AI tools in a responsible way? This course will give an introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, NotebookLM and Copilot.