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Research Skills

This site contains material and links for the MSc module Research Skills. The objective of this course is to to learn discipline-independent skills for doing quantitative research at the graduate-level.

The course is designed around conducting a practical research project, and covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to philosophy and history of science, the scientific method, finding your question
  • Literature research
  • Design of experiments,
  • Good scientific practice
  • Data analysis and visualization in R,
  • Introduction to LaTeX,
  • Scientific writing,
  • Scientific presentations
  • Communication, social media, and life as a working scientist.

Course materials and further readings

Lecture notes, slides and videos

The lecture notes for the course are here. Slides of the lectures, as well as further readings and exercises are on the online learning platform of the University of Regensburg

Labs / Practicals

Literature Research - lab material / practical Project Organization - lab material / project template LaTeX - lab material Statistics with R - lab material Version Control - lab material Scientific Writing - lab material

Authors and copyright

Author: Florian Hartig, University of Regensburg

Unless specified otherwise, the author of these materials is Florian Hartig. Reuse permitted under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Past courses

  • Summer Term 21-22 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Summer Term 20-21 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Summer Term 19-20 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Summer Term 18-19 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Summer Term 17-18 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Summer Term 16-17 (3-week full time, Uni Regensburg, MSc Bio)
  • Winter term 15/16 (3-week full time, Uni Freiburg, MSc Env/For)
  • Winter term 14/15 (3-week full time, Uni Freiburg, MSc Env/For)
  • Winter term 13/14 (3-week full time, Uni Freiburg, MSc Env/For)
  • Winter term 12/13 (1-week full time, Uni Freiburg, MSc Renewable Energy Management)
  • Winter term 12/13 (3-week full time, Uni Freiburg, MSc Env/For)

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