Short Course Materials and Recordings (University of Bristol staff and PGRs only)

Materials and Recordings courses are designed to be used for self-paced asynchronous learning. You'll have access to teaching materials and recordings of live sessions to work through at your convenience.

Once you are registered on a Materials and Recordings short course, you'll retain access for the foreseeable future. It is not necessary to sign up each academic year. The materials will be refreshed with updated content and new recordings after the live online course has taken place. You will receive an announcement to let you know when this has happened.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure that Materials and Recordings courses contain all learning materials from the live course, we cannot guarantee that courses will be complete. There may be some materials which are omitted from the Materials and Recordings version due to content restrictions or failures of recordings. Unless otherwise specified, Materials and Recordings courses do not have any interactive sessions such as practicals or support from course tutors.

We recommend that you sign up to the full online version of a course if you wish to take part in practicals and interactive sessions. 

It is easy to book yourself onto a Materials and Recordings short course. Simply review the list of available courses on the Bristol Medical School SharePoint site and use the links provided to self-enrol.

Whilst there are no mandatory prerequisites for Materials and Recordings courses, to ensure the course is at the right level for you, and that you can fully benefit from online participation, we recommend that you review the individual course IT and knowledge prerequisites.

You may sign up at any point throughout the year and will receive immediate access within Blackboard. 

42 Materials and Recordings courses are offered free of charge to University of Bristol staff and research postgraduates. They do not use up any discounts from voucher pack allocations.

You can sign up to as many Materials and Recordings courses as you like throughout the year and there is no competition for places.

For a full list of available Materials and Recordings courses visit the Bristol Medical School SharePoint site.

The vast majority of our 2026-2027 programme of online courses are available as a Materials and Recordings option. This includes the following courses which are biennial and are not running live in the 2026-2027 programme:

Advanced Multiple Imputation Methods to deal with Missing Data
Essentials of Infectious Disease Modelling and Economic Evaluation
Introduction to Data Collection in Research Studies
Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis

We also offer some discontinued courses as a Materials and Recordings option:

Improving your Stata: data management, publication-quality outputs, and automating tasks.
Introduction to Diagnostic Test Evaluation
Introduction to Empirical Bioethics
Introduction to Quantitative Bias Analysis
Mixed-Methods Research to inform Public Health Vaccine Policy
Understanding Trusted Research Environments

In some cases, courses are not suitable to convert to a Materials and Recordings standalone course. New courses will only be available as a Materials and Recordings option once the live course has taken place. Pilot courses are not recorded and are therefore unavailable as a Materials and Recordings option:

Healthcare Systems Resilience: Analysing Failure, Driving Change, and Sustaining Improvement
Introduction of medical 3D printing & 3D printing in Congenital Heart Diseases
R for Health Data Science

For a full list of available Materials and Recordings courses visit the Bristol Medical School SharePoint site.

The vast majority of our 2026-2027 programme of online courses are available as a Materials and Recordings option. This includes the following courses which are biennial and are not running live in the 2026-2027 programme:

Advanced Multiple Imputation Methods to deal with Missing Data
Essentials of Infectious Disease Modelling and Economic Evaluation
Introduction to Data Collection in Research Studies
Introduction to Network Meta-Analysis

We also offer some discontinued courses as a Materials and Recordings option:

Improving your Stata: data management, publication-quality outputs, and automating tasks.
Introduction to Diagnostic Test Evaluation
Introduction to Empirical Bioethics
Introduction to Quantitative Bias Analysis
Mixed-Methods Research to inform Public Health Vaccine Policy
Understanding Trusted Research Environments

In some cases, courses are not suitable to convert to a Materials and Recordings standalone course. New courses will only be available as a Materials and Recordings option once the live course has taken place. Pilot courses are not recorded and are therefore unavailable as a Materials and Recordings option:

Healthcare Systems Resilience: Analysing Failure, Driving Change, and Sustaining Improvement
Introduction of medical 3D printing and 3D printing in Congenital Heart Diseases
R for Health Data Science

You can sign up to as many Materials and Recordings courses as you please. Places are not restricted, and there is no competition for places.

Materials and Recordings courses are offered free of charge to University of Bristol staff and postgraduate research students. You will not need to use up any allowance from your voucher packs to gain access.

Whilst there are no mandatory prerequisites for Materials and Recordings courses, to ensure the course is at the right level for you, and that you can fully benefit from online participation, we recommend that you review the individual course IT and knowledge prerequisites.

It is easy to book yourself onto a Materials and Recordings short course. Simply review the list of available courses on the Bristol Medical School SharePoint site and use the links provided to self-enrol.

You may sign up at any point throughout the year and will receive immediate access within Blackboard.

You may self-sign up to a Materials and Recordings course at any point throughout the year and will receive immediate access within Blackboard.

Once you are registered on a Materials and Recordings short course, you'll retain access for the foreseeable future. It is not necessary to sign up each academic year. The materials will be refreshed with updated content and new recordings after the live online course has taken place. You will receive an announcement to let you know this has happened.

Materials and Recordings courses are intended as a useful reference for self-paced learning, rather than as a substitute for attending a live interactive course. How you use the course is up to you, whether you work through the materials systematically or simply dip into the content you would like to review.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure that Materials and Recordings courses contain all learning materials from the live course, we cannot guarantee that courses are complete. There may be some materials which are omitted from the Materials and Recordings version due to content restrictions or failures of recordings. In addition, we do not provide any recordings from break out rooms.

You will not have access to additional software that is sometimes made available on live courses (for example PositCloud).

Unless otherwise specified, Materials and Recordings courses do not have any interactive sessions such as practicals or support from course tutors. We recommend that you sign up to the full online version of a course if you wish to take part in practicals and interactive sessions.

Materials and Recordings courses do not ordinarily have any live interactive sessions such as practicals or support from course tutors. They are intended to be standalone resources.

We recommend that you sign up to the full online version of a course if you wish to take part in practicals and interactive sessions.

Occasionally we may arrange a one off live Question and Answer session with course tutors. If this applies to a course you have signed up to, you will receive advance notification.

If your preference is to attend the complete live online course and fully benefit from interactive sessions, practicals and tutor contact, we recommend you retain a place on the waiting list in case a space becomes available. 

Alongside this, you are welcome to also self enroll onto the Materials and Recordings version of the course.

If you attend the live online course you will retain access to the course materials and recordings for 5 months after completion. If you would like to retain access to materials and recordings beyond this 5 month period you are welcome to self-enroll onto the Materials and Recordings version.

Materials and Recordings courses are designed to be used ad hoc and are not recognised for CPD or by attendance certification/digital badge.