Previous events for international staff

The high yearly production of scientific literature results in difficult decision: which of the many studies should we trust? The aim of the course is to equip you with knowledge and skills to critically appraise methodological quality of an article.

Get a fundamental understanding of how to use Python programming and an introduction to simpler tools such as Voyant and DH-Lab apps to text mine corpora.

When writing an academic text it is important that you know how to cite your sources. This course teaches basic referencing techniques such as quoting a text, writing citations and reference lists, and using images.

Join us for a Christmas evening organized by UiODoc and ISMO, for PhD students, PostDocs, and international employees at UiO on 26th November at SVFF U1!

Join the event "Building Your Career in Oslo"! Hear from industry experts, enjoy delicious food, and network with others. Unlock opportunities for your future!

The University of Oslo takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast.

At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.

This course is designed for PhD Candidates and others who need a deeper knowledge, and advanced skills in literature searching within medicine and natural sciences. It focuses on useful tools for building search strategies and advanced search techniques. Several relevant databases are highlighted.

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

Data Carpentry offers workshops on essential data skills for researchers with minimal computational experience. These domain-specific lessons build on participants' existing knowledge, allowing them to quickly apply new skills to their research.

NVivo is a powerful tool for organizing and structuring your material for qualitative and mixed methods analysis. Learn how to code and retrieve in NVivo and get an introduction to useful NVivo functionalities.

The City of Oslo invites you to join them for a coffee or tea and Deichmanbolle in the meeting room named N?klevann, and then a one-hour introduction to the library.

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.

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

Are you looking to streamline your research with efficient software management and containerization? Conda simplifies package management and deployment, while Docker offers powerful solutions for creating, deploying, and running applications using containers. This workshop will teach you the essential skills to use Conda and Docker, improving the reproducibility and efficiency of your research projects

In this half-day course in research data management module 1, participants will gain insight into planning for data storage, organization and documentation and working with Data Management Plans.

The University of Oslo takes pleasure in inviting all international employees, researchers and Ph.D. candidates who have joined our institution recently to an orientation meeting and common breakfast.

At the end of the event, guests may take part in a guided tour of the University Library.

In this data mangers network meeting, we invite you for discussions and reflection on our own profession, i.e. data steward. According to some the fastest growing job.  At this meeting, we invite you to share what you do and learn what others do in their work. The aim is to move one step closer to finding out from each others' experiences about what the profession of a data steward/manager entails.

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

Welcome to an informal poetry reading with Hiromi It?, one of the most prominent women writers of contemporary Japan, and her Norwegian translator Ika Kaminka.

Are you writing something? Of course you are! Join Writer's Hours, a low threshold, socially guaranteed artificial environment for concerted writing during HF PhD Week and get some work done!

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.

Get an introduction to this user-friendly web-based application for digital text analysis ¡ª text mining ¡ª performing automated computational text analysis on documents in a range of formats and languages, and creating rich data visualizations to communicate the data. 

Learn how to mark up, tag, and annotate your research material with Zotero, gathering your research material and research notes in one place. 

Are you writing something? Of course you are! Join Writer's Hours, a low threshold, socially guaranteed artificial environment for concerted writing during HF PhD Week and get some work done!