All-provider course timetable
Monday 23 February
| 09:30 |
Recent technological advances have made it possible to obtain genome-wide transcriptome data from single cells using high-throughput sequencing. This course offers an introduction to single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis. Participants will gain hands-on experience with key software packages and methodologies for processing, analyzing, and interpreting scRNA-seq data. Key topics include data preprocessing, quality control, normalization, dimensionality reduction, batch correction and data integration, cell clustering and differential expression and abundance analysis. By the end of the course, students will be equipped with the skills to independently conduct and critically analyse data from scRNA-seq experiments.
If you do not have a University of Cambridge Raven account please book or register your interest here. If for any reason the above links do not work, please email Research Informatics Training Team with details of your course enquiry. Additional information
|
|
Academic writing doesn't always come naturally, but writing groups can be a key ingredient in improving your writing productivity in a sustainable way. These weekly in-person retreats offer a quiet and supportive environment amongst other researchers working to achieve their own writing goals. Please feel free to join us for a full or partial day by booking one or both sessions. See 'Format' section for detailed timings. Considering your writing goals and committing to specific times in advance will help you get even more out of your writing sessions.
Please note: when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar. |
|
| 10:00 |
This module is an extension of the three previous modules in the Basic Statistics stream, and introduces more complex and nuanced aspects of the theory and practice of mutivariate analysis. Students will learn the theory behind the methods covered, how to implement them in practice, how to interpret their results, and how to write intelligently about their findings. The module is divided between pre-recorded mini-lectures, in which you’ll learn the relevant theory, and in-person, hands-on practical sessions, in which you will learn how to apply these techniques to analyse real data using the statistical packages, R and R-Studio. Topics covered include:
To get the most out of the course, you should also expect to spend some time between sessions building your own statistical models. |
|
This module is an extension of the three previous modules in the Basic Statistics stream, and introduces more complex and nuanced aspects of the theory and practice of mutivariate analysis. Students will learn the theory behind the methods covered, how to implement them in practice, how to interpret their results, and how to write intelligently about their findings. The module is divided between pre-recorded mini-lectures, in which you’ll learn the relevant theory, and in-person, hands-on practical sessions, in which you will learn how to apply these techniques to analyse real data using the statistical package, Stata. Topics covered include:
To get the most out of the course, you should also expect to spend some time between sessions building your own statistical models. |
|
|
CULP: French Basic 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. |
|
|
There is an increased emphasis on managing and sharing data produced in research. Many of the research funders supporting work at the University of Cambridge require that research data are openly available with as few restrictions as possible. Research data management is a complex issue, but done correctly from the start, could save you a lot of time and hassle at the end of the project; when preparing your data for a publication or writing up your thesis. Research data takes many forms, ranging from measurements, numbers and images to documents and publications. This session aims to help you get started with managing your data by introducing you to key principles around organising, storing, archiving and sharing your data. You will also learn how to create your own Data Management Plan. |
|
|
AI & HE Tech & Talks - 2nd annual COGEnT - TechLink Digital Community:
Draft Programme (... work-in-progress …)
10:00 Doors open - Meet the Exhibitors
10:30 Opening remarks and introductions
10:45 Lenovo AI with nVidia & AMD Presentation
11:15 Google AI & Getech Presentation
11:45 Microsoft AI Presentation
12:15 Lunch break / Exhibitors, systems & demos
13:00 Oxford AI Team Presentation
13:30 Cambridge UIS, Judge Business School AI use
14:00 Oxford-Cambridge AI Panel discussion, Q&A
14:30 Closing remarks, comments, Q&A
15:00 Exhibitors' systems & chat (until 17:00+)
Exhibitors: AMD, Getech, Google, Lenovo, Microsoft, nVidia (TBC), …
Kindly RSVP if you are interested, to gauge interest
Hope you will join us! |
|
| 11:00 |
A 30-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese Mandarin pronunciation, tones and general conversation. |
| 11:30 |
A 30-minute session providing a chance to practice Chinese Mandarin pronunciation, tones and general conversation. |
| 13:00 |
JTC: Advanced German Conversation Hours
This conversation hour offers learners with an independent conversational ability (B2/C1 level upwards) a chance to practice speaking German with others in a relaxed and informal group led by a native-speaker facilitator. The content of the sessions is decided by the participants, with members taking turns to propose a topic and source materials (newspaper articles, web links, video etc.) to use as a basis for discussion. The groups are ideal for those who wish to retain or improve upon the language skills they already have or for those studying for a language degree who would like another forum for low-pressure, informal practice. This is also a great follow-up activity for CULP German learners and can be repeated year after year. Previous participants from German Advanced CULP are warmly invited to attend the German Conversation Hour. If the course is already 'in progress' please click on 'register your interest' in order to book a place. |
|
CULP: French Intermediate 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available on our website. |
|
|
Planning your Public Engagement
Public engagement is an increasingly important part of your research career, offering valuable skills and insights that enhance the relevance, quality, and impact of your work. In this session we’ll help you explore why you want to engage, who it would be most valuable for you to engage with and why. We’ll also examine different formats for engagement and signpost you to training, support, and engagement platforms across the University and beyond. This course will be delivered by Dr Lucinda Spokes, Head of Public Engagement and Dr Diogo Martins Gomes, Involvement, Engagement and Communications Manager for the Clinical School and the School of Biological Sciences |
|
|
Need to create a conference poster but are not sure where to start? This session will introduce participants to the fundamentals of designing an effective and engaging poster that is perfect for communicating research ideas. The session will look at good design practice, where to source free high quality graphics, as well as deciding what you should (and maybe shouldn't) include in your final poster. |
|
| 13:30 |
Invoice automation - AP User
This is an in person classroom course held at Greenwich House - All delegates will need to bring a laptop (docking stations, monitors, external keyboard and mice will be available in the room) Please note - there is no parking available at Greenwich House. The Madingley Park and Ride is a 15-minute walk and the Universal Bus stops on Madingley Road. Please aim to arrive 15 minutes before the start to allow time to get your laptop connected and logged in A half day course covering how to process an invoice from receipt to payment in the invoice automation system. |
|
Academic writing doesn't always come naturally, but writing groups can be a key ingredient in improving your writing productivity in a sustainable way. These weekly in-person retreats offer a quiet and supportive environment amongst other researchers working to achieve their own writing goals. Please feel free to join us for a full or partial day by booking one or both sessions. See 'Format' section for detailed timings. Considering your writing goals and committing to specific times in advance will help you get even more out of your writing sessions.
Please note: when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, select Add to Calendar to start importing the appointment to your calendar. |
|
| 14:00 |
Doing Qualitative Interviews (LT)
In progress
Face-to-face interviews are used to collect a wide range of information in the social sciences. They are appropriate for the gathering of information on individual and institutional patterns of behaviour; complex histories or processes; identities and cultural meanings; routines that are not written down; and life-history events. Face-to-face interviews thus comprise an appropriate method to generate information on individual behaviour, the reasons for certain patterns of acting and talking, and the type of connection people have with each other. The first session provides an overview of interviewing as a social research method, then focuses on the processes of organising and conducting qualitative interviews. The second session explores the ethics and practical constraints of interviews as a research method, particularly relevant when attempting to engage with marginalised or stigmatised communities. The third session focuses on organisation and analysis after interviews, including interpretation through coding and close reading. In Lent Term, the online resources are supported by 1 x zoom Q&A session, and 2 x in-person workshops. During the first in-person workshop students will role-play interviews using the scenarios outlined in the course moodle pages. During the second in-person workshop students will work in pairs on their interview material (at whatever stage of the process: whether writing interview questions, coding or analysing data) in order to receive advice and support in taking the interview material/data to the next stage of the research process. |
|
This module is an extension of the three previous modules in the Basic Statistics stream, and introduces more complex and nuanced aspects of the theory and practice of mutivariate analysis. Students will learn the theory behind the methods covered, how to implement them in practice, how to interpret their results, and how to write intelligently about their findings. The module is divided between pre-recorded mini-lectures, in which you’ll learn the relevant theory, and in-person, hands-on practical sessions, in which you will learn how to apply these techniques to analyse real data using the statistical package, Stata. Topics covered include:
To get the most out of the course, you should also expect to spend some time between sessions building your own statistical models. |
|
|
This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
|
CULP: French Basic for Academic Purposes (LAP)
In progress
Using close reading and translation of academic texts from their particular discipline, this weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading French documents that they have come across or may meet in their research. The course aims to develop strategies for reading longer texts faster through close analysis, grammatical and stylistic commentary, and translation. For example, literary texts with differing editions, stories with two or more translations into English that need to be compared and evaluated, poems of challenging originality or range of allusion. Classes will be conducted in English, but there will be many opportunities to use French and practise reading aloud. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
|
A course specifically for University of Cambridge staff and students. Attendees will learn how to search medical/healthcare databases accessed with a Raven login (such as Medline and Embase) effectively and efficiently, to learn how to save searches and references, and to create and maintain a bibliography. This course is delivered at an introductory/refresher level, and assumes you have had no prior training in how to search databases. All attendees are required to have a Raven login. NHS staff wanting to learn similar material should book onto our 'Getting the Best Results - Improving Your Database Searching' course instead. UPDATE: This session is taking place in the Medical Library's training room, not online. |
|
| 15:00 |
CULP: German Advanced
With effect from August 2022 CULP Advanced level students will be included in the population for the HESA student return. We obtain much of the information required via the annual student registration exercise. CULP students, who are not currently following another course of study, will receive an email inviting them to complete Registration. At the start of the student registration process there is further information about the data collection for statutory purposes and the relevant privacy notices from the University and HESA. The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At advanced level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July. |
|
CULP: Arabic Basic 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
|
CULP: Italian Basic 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
|
A language course for students who have an intermediate command of the Spanish Language (completed B1), ideally suited to those students who have completed the CULP Intermediate 2 course or have taken Spanish at GCSE Level. The level is upper-intermediate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
|
CULP: Russian Intermediate 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please go to the Language Centre CULP page. |
|
| 15:30 |
This weekly class is intended to help research students in the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences to develop their skills in reading German documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original German texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a German passage. Students will be encouraged to bring along German texts from their own research to translate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
| 16:00 |
This module is an extension of the three previous modules in the Basic Statistics stream, and introduces more complex and nuanced aspects of the theory and practice of mutivariate analysis. Students will learn the theory behind the methods covered, how to implement them in practice, how to interpret their results, and how to write intelligently about their findings. The module is divided between pre-recorded mini-lectures, in which you’ll learn the relevant theory, and in-person, hands-on practical sessions, in which you will learn how to apply these techniques to analyse real data using the statistical packages, R and R-Studio. Topics covered include:
To get the most out of the course, you should also expect to spend some time between sessions building your own statistical models. |
|
Public Engagement: Drop-in Sessions
[Places]
A series of 30-minute drop-in sessions to talk with a member of the Public Engagement team. We offer expert advice to support your public engagement work, engagement processes and activities. These include:
These sessions are not workshops or taught sessions. Based on your area of expertise and depending on your School affiliation, you can book a time with one of our public engagement professionals:
The team will be available every week, each mentor offering two sessions of 30 minutes in the day and time indicated above. We will release new slots in the same days and times a couple of months in advance. Please book for the day and time you would like to attend, and you will receive closer to the session the Teams link to meet with the mentor. The link will be sent by RDP Course Administrator. Please make sure that that e-mail address does not go to your spam folder. |
|
|
CULP: Italian Intermediate 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. |
|
|
A chance to practice French conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker. |
|
| 16:20 |
A chance to practice French conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker. |
| 16:30 |
Public Engagement: Drop-in Sessions
[Places]
A series of 30-minute drop-in sessions to talk with a member of the Public Engagement team. We offer expert advice to support your public engagement work, engagement processes and activities. These include:
These sessions are not workshops or taught sessions. Based on your area of expertise and depending on your School affiliation, you can book a time with one of our public engagement professionals:
The team will be available every week, each mentor offering two sessions of 30 minutes in the day and time indicated above. We will release new slots in the same days and times a couple of months in advance. Please book for the day and time you would like to attend, and you will receive closer to the session the Teams link to meet with the mentor. The link will be sent by RDP Course Administrator. Please make sure that that e-mail address does not go to your spam folder. |
| 16:40 |
A chance to practice French conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker. |
| 17:00 |
CULP: Spanish Basic 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
CULP: Arabic Basic 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please go to the Language Centre CULP page. |
|
|
CULP: French Basic 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available on our website. |
|
|
A chance to practice German conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker. |
|
| 17:30 |
CULP: Spanish Advanced
With effect from August 2022 CULP Advanced level students will be included in the population for the HESA student return. We obtain much of the information required via the annual student registration exercise. CULP students, who are not currently following another course of study, will receive an email inviting them to complete Registration. At the start of the student registration process there is further information about the data collection for statutory purposes and the relevant privacy notices from the University and HESA. The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At an advanced level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater for the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. NB: Advanced courses are official, award-bearing University qualifications. Please also note that the certificates and transcripts are usually issued in July. |
|
CULP: Italian Intermediate 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. |
|
|
A chance to practice German conversation/pronunciation with a volunteer native speaker. |
|
| 18:00 |
CULP: German Intermediate 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
CULP: Russian Intermediate 2
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
| 19:00 |
CULP: Spanish Intermediate 1
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
|
This weekly class is intended to help research students in Divinity to develop their skills in reading French documents they need to deal with in their research. Each session will be divided into two parts: The first part will consist of grammar, tasks to develop insight into the reading process, help with dealing with complex sentence structures, academic conventions, abbreviations, etc. The second part will be devoted to the translation of original French texts from different periods and covering a range of topics. Each week you will be asked to attempt a translation into English of a French passage. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. THIS COURSE TAKES PLACE IN THE LENT TERM ONLY. |
|
|
CULP: French Advanced Plus
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At an advanced level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. One of the aims of the advanced level courses is also presentation skills as the courses aim to cater to the academic needs (i.e. research, conferences) of the students. More detailed information is available on our website. |