Developing Researcher Training Program

Writing a Journal Article
27 Mar

Writing a Journal Article

This workshop will examine the features and structure of journal articles and discuss tips to help you shape your ideas into a publishable format.
Professionals/mature age candidates doing PhD: The challenges and benefits of being a two hat academic
25 Mar

Professionals/mature age candidates doing PhD: The challenges and benefits of being a two hat academic

The workshop will start with some background about how many and who undertakes PhD with professional backgrounds, the experience of others, and strategies for designing the PhD to utilize such backgrounds as well as dealing with sometimes feeling of otherness.
Researcher metrics express: find my top 5 publications
21 Mar

Researcher metrics express: find my top 5 publications

Learn strategies for finding and determining top publications to include in your next grant application. Discover ways to provide supporting evidence for why these publications are the best.
During this bite-sized session, library specialists will demonstrate how to find:
• normalised citation metrics such as percentiles and FWCI
• Altmetrics for individual publications.
Introduction to the Research Grants for ECRs (or researchers new to the University)
21 Mar

Introduction to the Research Grants for ECRs (or researchers new to the University)

This session will provide new (or new to the University) researchers with a grounding in how the Office for Research's Research Grants Team assists them in the application submission process for competitive research grants.
Library searching for literature reviews
20 Mar

Library searching for literature reviews

In this workshop your Library specialists will provide invaluable information and demonstrate searching systematically in library databases using example topics. You can later apply these techniques to your own search.
Introduction to digital texts and tools for HASS research
14 Mar

Introduction to digital texts and tools for HASS research

This information session introduces digital methods and tools to find, access and build a corpus or text dataset, then prepare textual data for analysis, including transcription tools and data recognition (OCR) to ensure machine readability.