Find out about additional online training and development resources provided by or through King's College London or offered by other organisations.

If you have any suggestions for resources that you'd like to see listed here, please email hs-dtc@kcl.ac.uk.

See Course Listings for our main programme of HSDTC training opportunities.

Advancing in Academia: Health Sciences and Advancing in Academia: Health Professionals

These two on-demand courses on KEATS are developed specifically by our career consultants for King’s PGR Students in Health faculties. You will find activities to work through at your own pace. Exercises will help you consider the issues in building an academic career, and videos will give insights into the experience of academics at different stages of their career.

Careers and Professional Skills Programme for Researchers

The King’s Careers & Employability team has specially curated online resources on career guidance and application advice for PGR Students on KEATS.

IoPPN Research Methods

This interactive e-learning module on KEATS was developed by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. The module covers research ethics, communication of results, study design and statistics, literature searching, critical analysis of literature, and designing research questions.

PGR Core Library

Using our in-house expertise, we have created courses and curated resources specifically for King’s PGRs in the PGR Core Library. Highlights include Doctoral Essentials, Efficient and Effective Academic Reading, and the Wellbeing Toolkit for PGR Students.

Visual Communication Pathway

The Health Sciences Doctoral Training Centre has recently launched the Visual Communication Pathway for PGR Students in the Health Faculties at King’s. The Pathway incorporates a series of live workshops and on-demand resources, and it aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills to communicate your work effectively with well-designed and executed scientific figures, presentations, and posters.

You have access to different e-learning platforms through King’s institutional subscription. If you need any support with the registration/access process, please contact the Doctoral Training Team. 

The SAGE Campus learning platform has 280+ hours of structured online learning for skills and research methods. The self-paced courses are designed by experts at and working with SAGE Publishing and cover a variety of topics, from fundamentals of statistics and data visualisation to learning Python and R.

To access the courses:

• Go to SAGE Campus and click ‘Register’ at the top right of the page.
• Select King’s College London as your institution on the next page and continue.
• Select OPENATHENS/SHIBBOLETH and complete the authentication process on the next page with your King’s credentials.
• You can then create your SAGE Campus user account by completing the required fields in the registration form and selecting ‘Create my new account’.

The Elsevier Researcher Academy provides free access to countless e-learning resources designed to support researchers on every step of their research journey. They are in various formats, including webinar recordings, interactive e-modules, and audio interviews. Highlights of courses and resources include publication advice given by prestigious health journal editors, funding applications, the social impact of health research, and communicating your research.

To access the courses, register a free account on the Elsevier Researcher Academy platform. Choose ‘Access through your institution’ on the registration page and follow the instructions.

LinkedIn Learning hosts 16,000+ courses, covering a broad range of technical and professional skills that health researchers will find relevant. You can learn specialist tools such as Python and Stata, boost your knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint, get tips on time management and effective collaboration, and many more.

To access the courses, use your King's login details on the LinkedIn Learning platform.

We have highlighted below several websites and platforms that can help you develop your skills. You will need to pay fees to gain full access to some of them, and King’s doesn’t provide access to these organisations at the moment. 

Babraham Bioinformatics

Apart from delivering live workshops through HSDTC, Bioinformatics Group also makes training manuals and exercises freely available online.  

edX

Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 4,000 courses, covering subjects from artificial intelligence to machine learning, from algorithms to data science. Except for a few premium categories, all courses are free via the audit track.

freeCodeCamp

freeCode Camp is a non-profit community that helps you learn to code by building projects. You can also earn free verified certifications with its core curriculum, which includes topics such as data visualisation and data analysis with Python. 

Free online training in bioinformatics and biostatistics by David Tabb

The video depository (with slides) of lectures by David Tabb, Proteome Informatics and Bioinformatics Educator. The lecturers cover sequencing bioinformatics, bioinformatics beyond sequences, bottom-up proteomics, top-down proteomics, metabolomics, clinical biomarkers, statistics, R, and Python for bioinformatics.

FutureLearn

FutureLearn offers a diverse selection of courses from leading universities and cultural institutions from around the world, with Healthcare & Medicine being one of the top subjects. Please note that not all courses are free.  

MathWorks

MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB, offers a series of certificated MATLAB and Simulink courses for free through Matlab Academy.

National Centre for Research Methods

The National Centre for Research Methods has many resources – including online tutorials, publications, videos, and podcasts – at core and advanced levels, covering quantitative, qualitative, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.

PythonForBiologists.org

Founded by two North American academics, this website hosts a collection of freely available episodes with videos, codes, and exercises for learning the basics of the Python programming language through genomics examples. 

SheCodes

A series of online coding workshops for Women. There is a free 60-minute coding workshop, and courses of different lengths, complexity, and cost.

SysMIC

SysMIC provides introductory and advanced training in mathematics, statistics and computing for bioscientists. It was developed with BBSRC funding and is a comprehensive online course in interdisciplinary skills in the life sciences. The course costs £1500, and PGR Students can enjoy a special rate.