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Foundations in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)     show
Develop an understanding of the basic principles of Responsible Research and Innovation

Target Audience: This event is for research and knowledge exchange staff, and anyone else involved in research and/or KE


How to build a CV employers want     show
This live, hands-on workshop will help you create a clear, industry-ready CV that gets noticed by employers. You’ll learn how to structure and tailor your CV for different roles, showcase your impact, use AI to support your writing, and align your LinkedIn profile with your CV.

Target Audience: Open to all staff


How to Succeed in Research Funding: Master Projects & Finances     show
This workshop covers key aspects of pre-award research project management (PM): proposal development, estates, procurement, finances, and project timelines. Learn PM principles, stakeholder management, governance, risk management, and common mistakes to avoid.

Target Audience: All staff (academic, research, KE, teaching, technical) involved in developing funding proposals and managing research or knowledge exchange projects.


Identifying audiences for Public Engagement     show
How to tailor your public engagement events and activities to compel your participants, and delight your funders!

Target Audience: Aimed at those who want to host public engagement events at the Festival of Social Science in particular


Introduction to Research Integrity (Online Course) 25_26     show
This self-paced online course, created by the UK Research Integrity Office, offers a short dive into the topic of research integrity, why it matters and what it means in practice – perfect as an introduction for new researchers or a refresher for more experienced colleagues.

Target Audience: Anyone conducting or managing research in any discipline, including early career researchers (research students, post-doctorates and fellows), technicians, and more experienced staff who need refresher training


Personal Effectiveness : Understanding Yourself and Others     show
This workshop will use a personality profiling tool to give a framework which will help you understand your own behaviours and actions and that of others. It will offer an insight into communication styles, decision making approaches and working styles.

Target Audience: Academic, Research, KE and Teaching staff


Post-Award now what? Master Research Projects & Finances     show
This workshop covers tools for project & finance management, with insights from various speakers. Learn stakeholder engagement, governance, & risk management strategies to ensure compliance and project success. Reflective practices for capturing lessons will enhance future outcomes.

Target Audience: Open to all. All staff (academic, research, KE, teaching, technical) involved in managing research or knowledge exchange projects.


REF 2029: All Staff Information Session     show
REF is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. Please join Strathclyde’s REF team for an overview of REF 2029.

Target Audience: This course is open for all staff at Strathclyde, from across job families.


Research Integrity Online - Staff     show
Participants will explore all aspects of Research Integrity.

Target Audience: All Academic, Research, KE & Teaching Staff as well as any other staff members interested in this area.


Researchers' Group AGM     show
Annual General Meeting to review achievements and take a look at things going forward.

Target Audience: Research Staff


Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) - HaSS/SBS     show
Develop an understanding of what Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is; the benefits and challenges of embedding RRI approaches; and how to apply RRI within your work plan.

Target Audience: This event is for research and knowledge exchange staff, and anyone else involved in research and/or KE, with a focus for HaSS and SBS


Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) - Science and Engineering     show
Develop an understanding of what Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is; the benefits and challenges of embedding RRI approaches; and how to apply RRI within your work plan.

Target Audience: This event is for research and knowledge exchange staff, and anyone else involved in research and/or KE


RICW – Research Integrity in an Hour     show
This session will explore research integrity from a practical perspective, focusing on what the key principles of research integrity are and how these can be embedded into research practices. It is aimed at newcomers to the topic.

Target Audience: All staff and post grad researchers involved in leading, conducting or supporting research


Seven Sins of Academic Research (& how to avoid them)     show
This workshop explores 7 main aspects of research integrity from a practical perspective, focusing on encouraging best research practices and preventing potential misconduct.

Target Audience: All academic staff involved in carrying out research, leading projects, mentoring researchers or supervising research students; also, research managers and staff supporting research


SPIRAL UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Information Session     show
This open session will provide information about the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme and Strathclyde’s related internal processes.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in applying for a Future Leaders Fellowship, in particular Research and Early-Career Academic Staff.


SPIRAL - Broadcast Media Training     show
Have you ever wondered how to deal with journalists and make media to a professional standard? This 3-hour course explores various different ways of engaging with media, from giving expert opinion and creating media content on research to camera presentation and microphone skills.

Target Audience: Staff engaging or interested to engage with the media about their work


SPIRAL - Collaboration for Innovation & Knowledge Exchange     show
Interested in developing your entrepreneurial side? Thinking about founding a micro business or looking for a business idea? This session will look at support available for women entrepreneurs, empowerment, and starting up.

Target Audience: Open to anyone across the university.


SPIRAL - Engaging with Industrial Partners     show
This online ½ day workshop is to support academics become more effective at engaging with industry partners. It has a specific focus on Research and KE activities within a consultancy role to the industrial partner.

Target Audience: For those who are engaging with industry partners


SPIRAL - Explore careers beyond academia in 3 days     show
This program help researchers gain clarity, confidence, and direction for careers beyond academia without starting from scratch or making rushed decisions.

Target Audience: Research staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL - Grant Writing     show
This session delivers all you need to know for planning and writing winning grant applications. It includes finding funding, promoting your concept, and working out the finance.

Target Audience: Any staff interested in applying for research grants


SPIRAL - Handling Rejection of Research Outputs and Funding Bids     show
This course will introduce participants to practical techniques to harness the power of their own minds to cope better with rejection of their ouputs and funding bids, respond constructively, and embrace academic rejection as part of the path to professional excellence.

Target Audience: Research staff and anyone else involved in research


SPIRAL - Hosting conferences and events     show
This in-person session will give an overview of the venues and services available at the University for hosting conferences and events. Refreshments will be provided.

Target Audience: For those wishing to attract and host conferences and events at the University


SPIRAL - How to Build Your Reputation in 30 Mins per Day     show
Stand out in your career by learning how to shape your professional reputation in just 30 minutes a day. In this workshop, you will learn how to showcase your strengths and create opportunities for your career.

Target Audience: Open to all member of staff who are interested in building your professional reputation and profile.


SPIRAL - How to Explore Career Options in Academia & Beyond     show
Explore diverse career options, both within and outside academia.

Target Audience: Research staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL - Introduction to Entrepreneurship     show
Interested in becoming an entrepreneur? Thinking about developing a micro business or looking for an opportunity? This session explores how to find inspiration and explore areas of opportunity of innovation and start to seed a fledgling innovative idea or business.

Target Audience: Anyone across the university who is interested in developing the mindset and skills to become an entrepreneur or is in the early stages of business development.


SPIRAL - Introduction to Understanding & Recording Research Impact     show
This introductory course offers an overview of the key principles of research impact and developing an impact record. It will be helpful for those looking to understand how their research makes a difference in the world and how to evidence this change for REF and other contexts.

Target Audience: This course is appropriate for staff involved in research, especially those at an earlier stage in their career.


SPIRAL - IP Essentials Copyright, Teaching and Commercialisation     show
Novel intellectual property (IP) is created regularly by researchers in universities and it is becoming increasingly important for both staff and students to equip themselves with elementary knowledge of the subject.

Target Audience: This course is designed specifically for researchers working in universities and institutes.


SPIRAL - Leading and Managing Research Staff     show
This online workshop explores how you take a structured approach to leading and managing research staff to get the best from your team.

Target Audience: Academic / Fellows / Senior Postdocs


SPIRAL - Leading and Motivating Your Team Members     show
Participants will learn the DISC framework, a well-established approach to understand the behavioural preferences and motivational priorities of individuals, to enhance their effectiveness in research leadership - whether in a formal leadership position, or as an active collaborator.

Target Audience: Research staff and anyone else involved in research


SPIRAL - Managing publishing process & navigating peer review (online)     show
Academic publishing is evolving. This workshop introduces participants to the editorial process, realistic timeframes, journal selection, peer review, metrics and the legal considerations that shape how and where research can be shared.

Target Audience: Postdocs


SPIRAL - Online Research Grant Application Writers’ Workshop     show
Self-paced online course, targeted at staff new to writing funding applications. Learn how research grants are awarded, how this affects the way to write applications; develop relevant skills; learn strategies to write a grant-application as quickly as possible

Target Audience: Academic, Research, KE and Teaching Staff


SPIRAL - Power Hour of Writing [in-person]     show
The Power Hour of Writing is a chance to write distraction-free, build community, & celebrate progress together. Let's get productive!

Target Audience: All staff


SPIRAL - Power Hour of Writing [online]     show
The Power Hour of Writing is a chance to write distraction-free, build community, & celebrate progress together. Let's get productive!

Target Audience: All staff


SPIRAL - Productive writing: techniques, planning & finishing - ONLINE     show
In this interactive workshop, we will focus on starting, maintaining momentum and completing writing projects. Participants will devise strategies for initiating and managing manuscripts, structuring their work effectively and employing productive writing techniques.

Target Audience: Postdocs


SPIRAL - Project Management for Research and K.E.     show
This online workshop will look at the tools and techniques used in managing research projects which will build processes and structures that support project delivery.

Target Audience: For academics / researchers managing projects


SPIRAL - Routes to Impact     show
A one hour course introducing differences between research impact & routes to impact such as engagement, dissemination & outreach. Learn to articulate & record activities. Open to all staff, especially useful for those preparing Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029 case studies.

Target Audience: Research staff and all other staff involved in research


SPIRAL - Seven Secrets of Successful Research Supervision Online     show
You know what your research student should be doing, but it just does not seem to be happening. Despite your best efforts to set up good habits for your student, it does not work. Why is this, and what can you do to make completing a PHD easier for your students and for you?

Target Audience: For supervisors of doctoral research students


SPIRAL - Transitioning beyond academia: Write a non-academic CV     show
Learn to create a strong non-academic CV that effectively showcases your skills and experiences, tailored to attract recruiters and meet industry standards.

Target Audience: Research staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL - Turbocharge Your Writing (for staff) Online Session     show
Would you like to know the secret to high output, low stress scholarly writing? In academia it is often assumed that writing comes naturally. However, an overwhelming body of research shows that there are clear and practical strategies that can increase your writing productivity.

Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels


SPIRAL- Transitioning Beyond Academia: Job search strategies that work     show
Suitable for all staff to learn job search strategies for moving from academia to industry, like using your connections, reaching out to recruiters, finding the right companies, improving your LinkedIn profile, and using effective job search methods.

Target Audience: For all staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL-Attract Research Funding, Applying For Fellowships ONLINE     show
This workshop is suitable for early career researchers and will cover the application process, time frames, what a fellowship involves, international options, how to apply and the different types of fellowships available.

Target Audience: Postdocs


SPIRAL-Developments in Research Impact for Established Academics     show
This practical workshop has been designed for established academics looking to better understand, articulate, and record how their research makes a difference in the world as well as how to support researchers in relation to impact for REF and other contexts.

Target Audience: This course is appropriate for researchers and research leaders who are established in their career, especially those with Departmental / Faculty responsibilities.


SPIRAL-Transitioning beyond academia: How to win the job interview     show
Suitable for all staff to learn important skills for job interviews, including how to prepare effectively, answer common questions, understand different interview formats, ask good questions, follow up after interviews, and negotiate salary and benefits.

Target Audience: All staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellows –Application Info & Support In-Person     show
This is the booking page for IN-PERSON attendance. This workshop aims to provide support for potential applicants for this year’s Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellows Scheme, to understand how the hiring process works and what is expected in the application.

Target Audience: Anyone interested in applying to the Chancellors’ Fellow Scheme


Worktribe Pre-Award & Opportunities     show
This session will cover the key aspects of the Worktribe Pre-Award & Opportunities module based on your role: module overview, process and workflow, identifying opportunities, project (proposal) creation, budget (costing) creation, reporting, search functions

Target Audience: Open to academic, research, KE & technical staff eligible to apply for funding proposals for research or knowledge exchange projects. Open to APS staff that support funding proposals for research or knowledge exchange projects.


Worktribe Pre-Award & Opportunities - ONLINE     show
This session will cover the key aspects of the Worktribe Pre-Award & Opportunities module based on your role: module overview, process and workflow, identifying opportunities, project (proposal) creation, budget (costing) creation, reporting, search functions

Target Audience: Open to academic, research, KE & technical staff eligible to apply for funding proposals for research or knowledge exchange projects. Open to APS staff that support funding proposals for research or knowledge exchange projects.