Doctoral Immersion Weeks
Health Data Research UK Doctoral Immersion Weeks
Doctoral Immersion Weeks
This website provides information about Health Data Research UK PhD Programme (HDRUK) Immersion Week courses.
These courses were developed for our HDRUK PhD Programme but in the academic year 2022/23 we are expanding to allow a limited number of PhD students from outside the programme to participate in our courses with a view to expanding further in the future.
Why should you be interested?
There are many reasons our courses are different to traditional approaches to PhD-level training:
- we are focused on advanced research topics not introductory data science,
- we enable interactivity, team work and discussion amongst participants,
- our HDRUK PhD cohorts are drawn from up to seven leading UK universities so you get to meet people from many different backgrounds,
- some of our costs are free (!)
Do I need to do any work upfront?
Courses will typically require some pre-reading and, if access to health data is required, you may need to complete data registration and information governance training. You maybe asked to acquire some familiarity with R or Python if you have not encountered it before.
How do you sign up?
To express your interest in a course, complete the following Expression of Interest form.
Places are limited and subject to availability so we will ask you to explain your interest in participating and use this to select participants if required.
Who should apply?
Participants should be:
- Current PhD students at a UK university,
- Experienced in graduate-level studies in mathematics, statistics and computational science,
- Proficient in a modern programming language (particularly Python and/or R).
Course Timetable
In the academic year 2022/23, we will be running the following courses:
| Dates | Course | Venue | Location | Fee | Bursary Available | Places | Registration Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9-11 Nov 2022 | Fairness in healthcare modelling | Wellcome Trust | London | No fee | None | 6 | 15/10/2022 |
| 17-19 Jan 2023 | Structural Causal Models | Oxford Martin School | Oxford | No fee | None | 9 | 30/11/2022 |
| 15-19 May 2023 | Study Design | University of Birmingham | Birmingham | See link | Yes | 30 | tbc |
| 27-31 Mar 2023 | Working with Real World Data | University of Birmingham | Birmingham | See link | Yes | 30 | 28/2/2023 |
| 14-17 July 2023 | HDRUK-Roche Summer School | HDRUK | Solihull | Yes | No | 16 | 30/5/2023 |
- Participants will normally be expected to arrange their own travel and accommodation.
- A limited number of bursaries maybe available for some courses.