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)