Online short courses and events

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Explore a topic in depth over one or two days; extend your knowledge over several weeks with a lecture series; or join a weekly learning programme.
Browse all online short courses or explore the different online course types below.
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Flexible short online courses: these have no live-time meetings so you can study when it suits you.
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Live-time weekly classes: these have scheduled, live-time online meetings to attend.
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Day schools and weekend events: include livestreamed lectures and small online workshops.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Introducing a wide variety of different election forecasting methods for UK general elections. As well as pre-election forecasts, the day will cover exit poll methodology and seat prediction from early constituency results.
- Sat 29 Mar 2025
- 1:45 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development
Lead with confidence – This evidence-based course explores the unique challenges women face in leadership, equipping you with the strategies, insights, and confidence to navigate the path to senior roles.
- Mon 31 Mar 2025 – 03 Apr 2025
- 4 meetings
- 11:00-12:30 (UK time)
Online - live • Short courses • Professional development
This online course covers the essential knowledge for technology commercialisation, providing you with an overview of the organisational dynamics in acquiring and transferring technologies to the market.
- Tue 01 Apr 2025 – 04 Apr 2025
- 4 meetings
- 11:30am - 1:00pm (UK time)
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Consider techniques for reading effectively in different contexts, and think critically through seminal papers from different academic disciplines. Part of the Graduate School's postgraduate research skills training programme.
- Wed 02 Apr 2025
- 11:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Professional development • Hybrid - in person or online
Discounted package for all 5 postgraduate research skills training sessions: Academic Reading: Approach and Critique; Writing an Abstract; Improving Your Presentations; Writing Your Methodology; and Research Interviews: Styles and Techniques.
- Wed 02 Apr 2025 – 30 Apr 2025
- 5 meetings
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
To what extent can we trust news provision? Where does news media end, and propaganda and manipulation begin? Join us in Oxford or online to learn more.
- Sat 05 Apr 2025
- 10:15am – 5:30pm
Flexible learning with Oxford
As well as short online courses, we also offer flexible Oxford University qualifications and professional development programmes. Many can be studied fully online, some require short residencies in Oxford.