Courses strongly recommended by the VDS PhaNuSpo

The VDS PhaNuSpo supports its doctoral students in strengthening interdisciplinary exchange and networking by organising and promoting lectures with invited international researchers from academia and industry. Each lecture in the series consists of a 'Meet the Expert roundtable', where students have the opportunity to meet and discuss topics beyond their own research (e.g. career development) with experts in the fields of pharmaceutical, nutritional and sport sciences. Following the roundtabel, the invited guest speakers will give a talk on their area of research. The 'Meet the Expert roundtables' are reserved for PhaNuSpo doctoral students, but the talks are also open to PhD students from other doctoral schools and Masters students.

Credits: 1.00 ECTS | Language: English | Contact: Ina Bergheim | Registration 2024S in u:space until 27.02.2024

Format: One online introductory session and six on-site lectures per semester. The "Meet the Expert" roundtables take place from 15:30-16:15, followed by a lecture from 16:45-17:45.

We ask all students whose doctoral studies started on/after 1 March 2024 to register for this course. Open to all PhaNuSpo PhD students.

The VDS PhaNuSpo offers its doctoral students a training course on "Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)", which consists of one training session per year and includes the following modules

• Responsible Conduct of Research: strategies to deal with issues and dilemmas that occur in life science research; identify breach of RCR by other researchers,
• Integrity in academic publication: authorship and peer review,
• Responsible research through supervision, mentoring and working together,
• RCR for the next career path.

After the completion of all four modules, you will obtain 1 ECTS and a course certificate. Click here for more information.

Research Ethics for PhD students

Update: We regret that this course will not be available in 2024S. We strongly recommend that you attend the RCR course.

The aim of this seminar is to give a practically oriented overview about important ethical issues in research covering topics relevant to good scientific practice such as: 1) human research (study design, ethics approval, data analysis, conflicts of interest, ...) 2) publication (authorship, redundant publication, plagiarism, ...) 3) animal research. 

Credits: 1.00 ECTS | Frequency: every summer term | Language: English |

The PhaNuSpo annual retreat will take place at a venue outside the University of Vienna. You can expect a two-day schedule filled with captivating scientific talks and poster presentations by our PIs, PhD students and keynote speaker(s) in order to highlight the diversity of research conducted at the VDS PhaNuSpo. In addition, a series of transferable skills workshops will be offered. It is a perfect opportunity to network, learn and to have fun!

The next annual retreat will take place on 16-17 September 2024.

Workshop on effective scientific writing by Dr. Katherine Tiede. This online workshop gives you tools to craft peer-reviewed publications that meet the needs and the expectations of your readers. We consider (1) the product: how to meet the requirements of clarity, coherence, concision, and persuasion at the English word, sentence, sentence to sentence, paragraph and discourse levels, and (2) the process: how to move from data to story, to motivate yourself to write, and to draft and revise to create clarity and flow in your writing.

• When: 4 afternoon sessions on: Mo 30 Sep. 2024, Tue 01 Oct. 2024, Mo 07 Oct. 2024,  Fr 18 Oct. 2024 (13:00-17:00 CET), plus some homework prior and in between the sessions.- 
• Registration details be announced soon and click here for more information.

Training by Dr. Jernej Zupanc

You will learn to visually communicate your complex research ideas and results so your messages are effortlessly understood by any specific audience (scientists or non-scientists). We will not focus on aesthetics but on how knowledge on human visual perception can help you create effective scientific images, slides, and posters.

You will design a graphical abstract of your research, discuss it with peer scientists in a group exercise, and get actionable advice and feedback on your own images and slides. It is an immersive workshop, comprehensive, structured, memorable, easy to follow, useful and fun.

During the summer semester 2024, a selection of exciting lectures are offered by international and local experts in the pharmaceutical, nutritional sciences and related fields. All units will be held on-site in lecture room 6 (HS6) of UZA2, Thursdays at 11.30 h. A table with an overview of all lectures is provided at the website of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Credits: 1 ECTS | Language: German | Contact: Johannes Kirchmair | Registration for 2024S in u:space until 15.03.2024.

Research Data Management (RDM)

The workshop provides a comprehensive overview of essential principles and practices of research data management. You'll learn about data organization, documentation, data management plans, metadata, data sharing, data security, data archiving, legal and ethical issues. We'll also cover FAIR principles and open science. A combination of an online self-study course and two interactive half-day workshops will teach you how to effectively manage research data throughout the entire research lifecycle.