The research education in social sciences at UiO is an education of high international quality, which qualifies candidates for a further academic career or for other professions with high demands on competence and skills.
Planning your career starts when you start your PhD education. We offer career support through workshops, tutorials, meeting places and online resources as an optional part of the PhD program.
The courses are available for PhD candidates and postdocs at UiO.
Career support and optional cources
All courses are based on voluteer participation. Registration is required. Courses will be announced in the PhD-newsletter.
Career Planning Workshop for Early Career ReseachersWhether you’re preparing for a faculty position or looking to find what other career options are out there, it’s important to spend time to understand yourself, your values, and what skills and interests you have. |
Autumn Semester |
Academic writing for Doctoral StudentsThe workshop will take participants systematically through some of the main challenges of academic writing and publishing: audience, core argument and structure, as well as cultivating good writing habits. |
Autumn Semester |
Starter kit: Teaching as a PhD candidateThis introductory course in university pedagogy offered by EILIN in collaboration with LINK. The course is arranged as one 6 hour session and one 2 hour follow-up session later in the semester. |
Autumn semester |
How to register your projects with the NSD/SiktThis is a two hour course which go through how you register your projects with the NSD/Sikt. |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Using Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar to find the research frontLearn how to effectively find the most important research within a topic! This course gives an introduction to literature searching in interdisciplinary article databases such as Scopus, Web of Science and the search engine Google Scholar |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Open Research - publication and data archivingOpen research is the new normal, but how to navigate this landscape. This course will help you to map out key concepts by giving you an introduction UiO policies, infrastructure and support for open research. |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Workshop in Data management plansLearn about what Data Management Plans (DMPs) are and how to write one |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Introduction to programming in RLearn the basics of programming in R, a common tool for data analysis and statistics |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Introduction to NvivoThis is a three hour course which will provide an introduction to NVivo as a tool in qualitative analysis and project management |
Spring / Autumn Semester |
Project management i academiaAre you applying for funding or just been granted money to start up a new project? |
TBA |
Too many demands at the same time?This is a course held by the Occupational Health Service Unit. The aim of the course is to build awareness about stress-related complaints, health implications and how to improve the situation. |
TBA |
Research courses and seminars
Research courses in social sciences at the University of Oslo
PhD courses in the social sciences offered at Norwegian universities.
Resources
Time spent thinking about your values, strengths and areas for development is time well spent. Taking a strategic approach can give you choice and a competitive edge. You can map your professional development using the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF).
Our aim is to enable beginning researchers to easily access information on searching and reviewing scholarly literature, on academic writing, and on sharing and publishing reports and data. The project is a collaboration between five Norwegian university libraries.