Skills and Career Development Events Diary
Use the Diary to find up-and-coming skills and career development events for research students and to book your place.
| Title | Start Date | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guided IT Learning Session | Sep 27, 2019 09:30 AM | Receive help with specific IT queries at Guided IT Learning Sessions. Book an appointment for 1 hour. An experienced IT trainer will be available to help and ... | |
| Good Practice in Distance Learning Supervision | Sep 27, 2019 10:00 AM | This session will help you understand the basic principles of costing research projects. | |
| Supervising Research Degree Candidates | Oct 02, 2019 02:00 PM | The session is for those new to supervision, as well as for those who are experienced PhD supervisors, but are new to Leicester. It will explore the current lan... | |
| Altmetrics Tracking engagement beyond citations | Oct 02, 2019 02:30 PM | This session is for PhD students and researchers wanting to discover kind of attention academic research can have in places beyond academic citations. Altmet... | |
| Basic Lucre | Oct 08, 2019 10:00 AM | This session is for new users of the software that forecasts research project costs. | |
| Organise data or make calculations – Take Time to Learn Excel | Oct 09, 2019 09:30 AM | This course allows you to take time away from your desk to learn at your own pace. You will use online learning materials and hand-outs with exercises to improv... | |
| Linux Introduction | Oct 10, 2019 01:00 PM | The course will provide users with an Introduction to the Linux operating system. In particular we will focus on use of Linux from the command line. No prior ... | |
| Research Ethics in Practise | Oct 16, 2019 02:00 PM | To be able to sign-off ethics applications on undergraduate and Master's programmes, and/or to sit on one of the ethics committees, attendance at this session o... | |
| High Performance Computing at Leicester | Oct 17, 2019 01:00 PM | An introduction to the High performance computing facilities at Leicester University. The course provides both a general introduction to HPC and specific infor... | |
| Learn to Program via Python | Oct 18, 2019 01:00 PM | This course will introduce you to how programming works, the basic concepts and how to write your first script. Learning how to program can help you to speed up... | |
| Analyse your data with Excel Pivot Tables | Oct 21, 2019 09:30 AM | This course will introduce you to the advantages of using Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Excel. Pivot Tables are useful for summarising large amounts of data ... | |
| Advanced Lucre | Oct 22, 2019 10:00 AM | This session is for experienced users of the software that forecasts research project costs. | |
| Building and Understanding your Transferable Skills | Oct 22, 2019 02:00 PM | Delegates will learn to: unpack the key transferable skills for post PhD employment; be aware of the transferable skills they require; be aware of the tran... | |
| Basic Stats Course | Oct 23, 2019 10:00 AM | This course introduces students to statistical concepts and analysis. It starts by looking at how we differentiate between different types of numbers, and their... | |
| GDPR and research data management what does it mean for you | Oct 23, 2019 10:30 AM | The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) strengthens the rights for data subjects and requires those gathering data to be clear and transparent about why a... | |
| Scientific Python for Programmers | Oct 25, 2019 01:00 PM | This course will introduce a variety of topics detailing how Python can be used at an advanced level in research settings. Python is a general programming lang... | |
| EndNote | Oct 29, 2019 10:00 AM | This session allows you to use EndNote to start creating a database of references which can then be stored, searched and used in conjunction with Word to inp... | |
| Transferring to a non-Academic Career | Oct 29, 2019 02:00 PM | On Completion of this Seminar, Participants should have: Explored the differences between employer’s expectations in the academic sector and non-academic ... | |
| Funders and Ideas | Oct 30, 2019 09:00 AM | We will give you an overview of the types of funders and schemes suited to your particular subject areas. We will cover how to choose the most appropriate schem... | |
| Coping with Stress | Oct 30, 2019 01:30 PM | Delegates will learn to: be able to define stress in their own words, as it applies to everyday contexts; have reflected on their experience of stress; ... |
