PhD Training
Critical skills for research-based doctorates and careers
Introduction
For you, the facilitator or organiser of doctoral training, this curriculum offers either a comprehensive, sequenced PhD journey or a selection of sessions to create or enrich your own programme. CARTA’s approach to training is not conventional – these participatory methods promote agency, are fun to teach, and develop multi-potential 21st century researchers who can work across disciplines. Because the sessions focus more on how to teach, rather than the content of what to teach, you can use or adapt CARTA’s approach for most research-based PhD programmes.
Watch this video as preparation for using this curriculum.
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Overview
Outcomes
Approach
Facilitation
Preparation
References
The PhD Journey
Sessions grouped in four phases
Prepare Research Question and Protocol
Sessions & Sequences
Professional Development Plan – PhD
Multidisciplinarity
Gender and Health
Gender, Sexuality and Values
Research Question and Methodology
Designing PowerPoint Slides
Health and Demographic Surveillance System
Field Visit
Scientific Blitz
Academic Writing
Academic Citizenship Introduced
Institutional Support
Work in Progress
Focus on Methods
Sessions & Sequences
Diagnostic Sessions
Research Development Clinics
Qualitative methods
Quantitative methods
Mixed methods
Systematic Literature Search
When to Standardise and How
Academic Posters
Spiderweb: Social Determinants
Introduction to Health Economics
Analyse Data and Write
Sessions & Sequences
Scientific Blitz
Journal Club
Writing and Analysis Sessions
Work in Progress
Pitching Articles and Ranking Journals
Qualitative Data Analysis
Quantitative Data Analysis
Data Analysis Plan Revisited
Writing the Discussion Section
The Peer-Review Process
Manuscript Club
Writing for Journal Publication
Translating Evidence to Policy
Prepare for Post-graduate Life
Sessions & Sequences
Grant proposals
Teaching
Leadership
Advocacy and influence
Skills Index
Choose a skill from the list to find the sessions that cover it
Critical thinking
Analytical thinking
- Databases, search
- Gender & health
- Gender & sexuality
- Social determinants, multilevel framework
- Contribution of disciplines
- Research process, questions, methodologies
- Research questions and objectives
- The research gap
- Qualitative design, methodologies
- Quantitative design, methodologies:
- HDSS to monitor transitions
- ESE:O academic writing
- Concept presentations
- Quali. data collection
- Quant. data collection
- Diagnostic Clinics
- Posters: Integrating data
- Field trip: ethics, logistics
- Sampling techniques
- Data analysis plan
- Social determinants/spiderweb
- Systematic lit review
- Quant. data analysis
- Qual. data analysis
- Data analysis plan
- Scientific blitz
- Manuscript club
- Work in progress
- Writing a grant
- Politics of education
Scientific reading & writing
- How to read a journal article
- Citation & referencing
- Research process, questions, methodologies
- Research questions and objectives
- The research gap
- ESE:O academic writing
- Journal club
- Systematic lit review
- Pitch articles, rank journals
- Discussion section
- Scientific blitz
- Manuscript club
- Work in progress
- Writing a grant
Giving feedback
Knowledge translation
Research leadership
- Research funding in Africa
- Researcher-initiated HS research
- Researcher identifiers: ORCID etc
- Intergenerational dialogue
- Writing a grant
- Team management
- Budgeting a proposal
- Peer & mentor evaluation
- Professional development plan
- Strategic leadership
- Research hub: collaborations
- Post-PhD planning
- Work life balance
- Research influencing change
- Knowledge translation
- Learning from others
- Elevator pitch
Academic citizenship
Social justice
- Gender & health
- Gender & sexuality
- Social determinants, multilevel framework
- Community engagement
- Spiderweb: Social Determinants
- Scientific blitz
- Politics of education
- Advocacy
- Research influencing change
- Knowledge translation
Multi-disciplinarity
- Epistemology
- Social determinants, multilevel framework
- Contribution of disciplines
- HDSS to monitor transitions
- Journal club
- Diagnostic Clinics
- Posters: Integrating data
- Sampling techniques
- Integrating qual. & quant.
- Spiderweb: Social Determinants
Technical depth
- Databases, search
- Citation & referencing
- Research process, questions, methodologies
- Research questions and objectives
- The research gap
- Qualitative design, methodologies
- Quantitative design, methodologies:
- HDSS to monitor transitions
- Quali. data collection
- Quant. data collection
- Posters: Integrating data
- Data analysis plan
- Designing posters
- Quant. data analysis
- Qual. data analysis
- Data analysis plan
- Writing a grant
Scientific communication
Project management
Ethics
Training of Trainers
To implement this curriculum effectively, facilitators must be well prepared. This ToT workshop builds or refreshes the skills and background knowledge of your team.
Download the ToT workshop.
