Discipline-related courses

The content of the Doctoral Education programme is something you will discuss with your supervisory team, who will be responsible for both the content and the quality of the programme. Once a year, the School looks at your Doctoral Education progress in DMA to check that all the courses you have followed are in conformance with the regulations, are in the right category, have a certificate up-loaded in DMA, etc. You will receive an email if we have any remarks or questions.

As a reminder

- When following MSc courses: 1 ECTS = 1 GS credit (exam must be passed)
- Courses offered by research schools or other courses at the PhD level: 1 day (8–12 hrs) = 1 GS credit.
- There is a limit of 5 GS credits for each course (this applies to all courses, even summer schools).
- You can obtain all your DE programme credits with online courses completely. 

Workshops/seminars

We are aware that it takes effort to compose a solid curriculum, particularly in the ‘discipline-related skills’ category. Workshops and seminars may therefore be registered in this category. Keep in mind the following binding criteria:

- Such a workshop/ seminar isn’t analogous to following a lecture. Your course attendance form should indicate in which way you contributed to the session. Did you give a presentation? Prepared a part? In short: in which ways were you actively involved?
- A maximum of 4 GS credits can be earned by attending workshops and seminars. 

Course suggestions

At Graduate School A+BE 

Fall 2024 

Data Carpentry for Social Sciences 
This is a hands-on training that covers best practices for data organisation in spreadsheets, reproducible data cleaning using the tool OpenRefine, and gives an introduction to data analysis and visualisation using the programming language R. The target audience of this workshop is PhD candidates and researchers with little to no prior computational experience. The tabular dataset used for practice during the course comes from the social sciences field (i.e., survey data in a tabular form). 

TU Delft PhD candidates can receive 1.5 GS credits in the category of Research Skills (according to the Graduate School education programme) when attending all the days of the workshop and actively participating in the sessions. 

The next workshop is on 30 September and 1 October 2024 at 09:00 - 17:00 hrs each day. Location: TU Delft Library - Orange

To register please use the following link. A detailed description of the workshop can be found on this website​​​​​​​.

Spring 2025

At Research Schools

Online courses

Coursera and other MOOC providers (e.g. edX, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford online) offer a variety of courses that could be valuable to PhD researchers. Individual universities and graduate schools are beginning to do so as well. Search the web!

Our faculty offers a lot of interesting MOOCs. 

Other providers

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