Our Training Programme

The OOC DTP training programme has been developed around four interlinked and themed strands:

Core: enhancing existing personal and professional development schemes and generic and employability skills training;
Public Heritage: equipping students with the skills of new and developing arts and humanities research and enabling engagement with innovative ideas in research and practice;
Digital Humanities: engaging students with emerging technologies and interdisciplinary research, looking beyond the traditional approaches and boundaries of arts and humanities;
Engaged Communication: enhancing students’ abilities to communicate and share their research with diverse audiences both within and outside the academy.

You can explore upcoming training on these themes by browsing the listings in the calendar below. Please note that in order to attend OOC DTP training you will need to register through Inkpath.

Core

This training strand enhances each institution’s extensive personal and professional development training. Core training provides opportunities for OOC DTP students to hone skills related to writing practices, working practices, collaboration, and more general areas of development. This strand also encompasses information sessions about OOC DTP processes, opportunities and student-led networking and support sessions.

Public Heritage

This training strand equips students with the skills associated with arts and humanities research, as well as providing opportunities to reflect on central and emerging ideas in research and practice. Workshops are designed and delivered by academics from across the Open University, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.

Digital Humanities

This training strand looks beyond traditional academic borders to find new tools and mechanisms to address new questions, exploring the potential of emerging and digital technologies. As well as offering a series of participatory workshops, the DTP designed and developed an online introductory training course on Digital Humanities.

Engaged Communication

This training strand is focused on effective presentation, dialogue and collaboration, and includes training in how to communicate research within and beyond academia. It also incorporates public engagement, knowledge exchange and research impact.

OOC DTP Training Events

OOC DTP Training Events

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Digital Humanities: Humanities research in the digital age

If you don't know your digitisation from your AI, or born digital from open access, this new free course in Digital Humanities is for you. You don't need to be able to code, programme or perform computational wizardry to become a digital humanist, and arguably all humanists of the future will be digital, so why not get a head start and demystify Digital Humanities now?

The course is perfect for those starting their Digital Humanities journey and who may be intimidated by the terminology and technology. Designed and developed by leading digital humanists at the Open University, Oxford and Cambridge for Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP students, this course will introduce you to key concepts and methodologies to help your target your research, study and training.

Add the course to your activities in Inkpath

Go directly to the course on OpenLearn

Heritage Pathway

The OOC DTP collaborates with Oxford University's Humanities Division to provide doctoral researchers with the skills, knowledge and confidence to engage effectively with a wide range of partners in the heritage, museums and cultural sector.

Find out more here.

IT courses

Please follow the below links to find IT courses and training at your institution.

The Open University

Oxford University

Cambridge University

Research methods resources

SAGE offer a wealth of research methods resources on their website. Users can search for answers to research methods and statistics questions, and filter resources by discipline and subject area.

Explore the SAGE Research Methods website here.