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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flipped Classroom Teaching | Apr 25, 2018 02:00 PM | This session is designed to provide an insight into flipped classroom teaching from a student and staff perspective. You will be provided with an opportunity to... | |
| Peer Review Essentials | Apr 26, 2018 02:00 AM | In the case of most research funding applications, the assessment and decision-making process is informed by peer review. Funders convene peer review colleges a... | |
| Grant Writeshops | Apr 26, 2018 10:00 AM | These writeshops will provide you with protected time and space to work through a grant proposal with colleagues. Research Development Managers appropriate to y... | |
| Guided IT Learning Session | Apr 26, 2018 01:00 PM | 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 ... | |
| PhD Students: Planning your literature search | May 01, 2018 10:00 AM | This session is designed to get you thinking about the literature search aspect of your PhD and to help you plan your literature search. | |
| Grant Writeshops | May 02, 2018 02:30 PM | These writeshops will provide you with protected time and space to work through a grant proposal with colleagues. Research Development Managers appropriate to y... | |
| PhD Students: Conducting your Literature Search | May 03, 2018 10:00 AM | This session is designed for you to start work on an integral section of your PhD, the literature search, while receiving peer and expert support. | |
| Excel 2013 - Pivot Tables for Analysing Data | May 03, 2018 01:30 PM | Introduces the advantages of using Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Excel. Pivot Tables are useful for summarising large amounts of data and viewing it in diffe... | |
| Finding images for research | May 04, 2018 10:00 AM | Images and visual sources are increasingly important for many fields of research. This session will introduce you to effective methods for finding images. We wi... | |
| Good practice in DL supervision | May 04, 2018 10:00 AM | This a workshop aimed at supervisors of DL PhD students, and provides an opportunity to share and discuss good practice around the specific requirements and is... | |
| Guided IT Learning Session | May 08, 2018 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 ... | |
| PhD Students: Introduction to EndNote | May 08, 2018 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 input ... | |
| Survey and Questionnaire Design | May 09, 2018 09:30 AM | The aim of this session is to provide practical advice and guidance on designing surveys and questionnaires. The session is intended to help participants ask th... | |
| Interviewing Skills for Researchers | May 09, 2018 10:00 AM | This session is a practical course in planning and conducting one to one non-structured interviews for research. Emphasis is on practical issues rather than the... | |
| PhD students: Introduction to RefWorks | May 10, 2018 10:00 AM | This session allows you to use RefWorks to start creating a database of references which can then be stored, searched and used in conjunction with Word to input... | |
| What you need to know about Open Access publishing | May 11, 2018 10:00 AM | This session will introduce you to the options for making your publications open access, and discuss the many benefits for researchers, not least maximising you... | |
| Advanced Literature Searching | May 14, 2018 10:00 AM | This session looks at some of the more advanced search options and strategies that can be used when searching literature databases. This session would be use... | |
| Linux Introduction | May 16, 2018 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 ... | |
| PhD students: Tools for note taking | May 18, 2018 10:00 AM | Making and organising notes is a fundamental activity for researchers. A variety of tools now exist that support all types of note taking, whether you are worki... | Ken Edwards Room 101 |
| Excel 2013 - Take Time to Learn | May 21, 2018 09:30 AM | You will use online learning materials and handouts with exercises to improve your knowledge of Excel and find out about the topics that are of interest to you.... |
