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Project Launch Event: Collaborative Research Cultures     show
Project launch; “Cultures of Collaborative Research in a Socially Progressive Technological University”

Target Audience: Open to all staff and PGRs.


A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Grant Funding for Early-Career Researchers     show
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look into research grant funding! Bringing together a panel of successful academics and RKES professionals, you will learn more about funding opportunities, the grant lifecycle, funding review processes and insider tips on crafting your proposal.

Target Audience: Staff interested in applying for research funding, especially those early in their career


EPSRC Energy and Decarbonisation Visit     show
The energy and decarbonisation, and manufacturing and the circular economy themes invest in research and innovation critical to the discovery, development and deployment of technologies and solutions.

Target Audience: Those interested and/or working in the area of Energy & Decarbonisation


EPSRC Health Technologies Team Visit - Funding & Strategy Session     show
Join us for an exclusive session with the EPSRC Health Technologies Team, where you will learn more about the refreshed Health Technologies Strategy, funding opportunities, panel insights and patient & public involvement and engagement (PPIE).

Target Audience: Any staff involved in research related to health technologies


ESRC Impact Acceleration Account – Bid Development     show
During these two workshops, you will receive information on the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), the different funding opportunities available, as well as guidance and support to write your proposals.

Target Audience: Staff members who intend to apply for ESRC IAA funding


Freelancing: All you need to know     show
Freelancing is a legitimate way of engaging in knowledge exchange and/or entrepreneurship for employed and, of course, self-employed people. This session sets out all you need to know to start freelancing and how to easily get started.

Target Audience: Open to all


Impactful Research - Linking Your Work to SDGs in Pure     show
This practical training will walk you through the simple-yet-important steps to having an up-to-date Pure profile and linking your work with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for increased visibility and collaborations. Live Stream – to be recorded and published online

Target Audience: Research and academic staff


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. and PGRs


REF 2029 Open Access Consultation: Staff Sessions     show
These sessions will support participants to understand, explore, and influence the key questions and messages at the heart of the University of Strathclyde’s response to the REF 2029 Open Access Policy Consultation, led by expert team members from IS and RKES.

Target Audience: This event is appropriate for any researchers, research leaders or professional services staff interested in the Open Access Policy requirements for REF 2029.


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 Funding Landscape Information Session     show
An online open session designed to provide updates to academic researchers on UK & international funding strategy, priorities & opportunities in the Engineering, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences research areas.

Target Audience: Academic staff, particularly early career colleagues


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


RI&C Week: NHS Ethics – Thinking about PPI and Participant Materials     show
This workshop will provide guidance on the NHS Research Ethics Committee review process and the value the committee places on PPI as part of an application. The recently introduced NHS Ethics Quality Standards design and review principles will also be addressed.

Target Audience: Research staff and students submitting NHS ethics and R&D applications using the IRAS system


RI&C Week: Addressing Questionable Research Practice and Misconduct     show
This workshop will explore how research misconduct can, and should, be addressed within a positive research culture, with discussions on how issues of research misconduct arise, how these can be dealt with, and what this means for researchers, participants, and the University.

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


RI&C Week: AI Integrity in Practice     show
This discussion-focused workshop will explore the implications of AI use for research integrity.

Target Audience: All staff involved in leading, conducting or supporting research.


RI&C Week: Anonymisation of Research Data     show
This workshop will provide practical guidance on the data management processes necessary when collecting personal data from research participants, from considerations for GDPR & participant consent to how personal data collection can be embedded effectively in data management plans.

Target Audience: Researchers (staff and PGR students) who are collecting and processing personal data in their work


RI&C Week: Embedding Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)     show
This World Café workshop will explore the topic of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Participants will have opportunity to discuss with internal and external colleagues the relevance of RRI as well as practical ways to implement RRI concepts through different dimensions.

Target Audience: All staff involved in leading, conducting or supporting research


RI&C Week: Inclusion from the Start – Embedding EDI in Research     show
This workshop will explore how issues around equality, diversity and inclusion can be integrated within research projects from their inception.

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


RI&C Week: Inclusivity and Diversity in Research Cultures     show
Join us as we hear from researchers and practitioners in a series of short talks on how we can embed equality, diversity and inclusion into our research and innovation culture to ensure everyone can thrive in academia.

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


RI&C Week: Making Your Data Open Access in Social Sciences     show
The session will address the benefits of open data in social sciences, show examples of projects with existing datasets and provide tips on how to make open access data more straightforward for other researchers to use for secondary data analysis.

Target Audience: Anyone involved in social sciences research


RI&C Week: Mental Health for Managers     show
This session aims to support managers to support their staff. It will provide an overview for managers to help start the conversation & feel comfortable & confident to talk to staff about mental health & wellbeing, with a practical approach focused on ‘take away’ tools and skills.

Target Audience: Staff in formal or informal supervisory / manager roles


RI&C Week: Open Research – What Is It and How Does It Benefit Us?     show
Join us as we hear from researchers and practitioners in a series of short talks on what open research is and the wide range of benefits that adopting open research practices can bring.

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


RI&C Week: Open Session Research Development & Culture Sub-Committee     show
Join the open meeting of the Research Development & Culture Sub-Committee to influence the University’s future research culture priorities. Share your insights on what these priorities should look like and learn how the committee can put them into practice.

Target Audience: All staff involved in leading, conducting or supporting research


RI&C Week: Participant Considerations, Wellbeing and Rights     show
This event provides guidance on the process of obtaining informed consent from participants & advises how researchers can demonstrate their commitment to the dignity, respect & data protection rights of participants - both during & after the active research phase.

Target Audience: Researchers conducting human subject research where they are working with and collecting data and/or tissue from human participants (including research which involves the co-creation of outputs, materials, or sensitive data collection)


RI&C Week: Reframing Failure in Research     show
This event will offer a conversation about failure and resilience in research & innovation, where we’ll hear diverse perspectives from Strathclyde and external speakers on research setbacks, fueling innovation, and reshaping our perception of failure.

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


RI&C Week: Research Integrity and Culture Marketplace     show
Come along and meet your colleagues involved in supporting a positive research culture and embedding research integrity! You can chat all things research integrity and culture with experts whilst enjoying lunch and networking with other staff and PGRs.

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


RI&C Week: Research Integrity in the Age of AI     show
This expert panel discussion explores intersection of AI technologies & integrity in the context of research environments. Participants will be able to learn more about opportunities and risks of using AI in research and research management as well as ideas on how to navigate them.

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


RI&C Week: Researchers’ Guide to Ethics     show
Participants will gain a good knowledge of ethics so that they recognise when ethics is a consideration in their own work and they have the skills to obtain ethics approval when necessary.

Target Audience: Postgraduate research students + staff involved in leading, conducting or supporting research


RI&C Week: Sustainability and Me!     show
Have you always wondered how to consider sustainability within your research? Then wonder no longer. Join the Centre for Sustainable Development team for an interactive guide to how you can embed sustainability in your research plans, outcomes and activities.

Target Audience: All staff and students (PGR) engaged in research


RI&C Week: Trusted Research and Innovation     show
This workshop introduces the key principles of Trusted Research & Innovation and provides attendees with frameworks and practical examples to allow them to consider aspects of their work in relation to Trusted Research & Innovation.

Target Audience: All staff involved in leading, conducting or supporting research


RI&C Week: Where Next for Responsible Research Assessment?     show
Responsible research assessment recognizes and rewards the wide range of contributions that maximise the quality of research. With insights from experts across the UK research sector, this event explores the next steps for achieving systemic reform of research assessment.

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


Shaping the Next REF:Your Thoughts on Strathclyde's Consultation Input     show
Have your say on Strathclyde’s response to the ongoing Research Excellence Framework (REF) consultation - join us at one of two online workshops to discuss the REF 2028 initial decisions and help to shape our institutional response.

Target Audience: All staff involved in conducting, enabling or supporting research, knowledge exchange and/or innovation


SPIRAL - Developing & Engaging in Equitable & Ethical P'ship Research     show
This interactive training aims to support researchers to examine the principles of equitable and ethical partnerships for research, and will examine these through interactive case studies and discursive activities.

Target Audience: PGR and academic staff


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 - Applying for your first role: in academic posts & fellowships     show
Aimed at Research Staff planning an academic career either through the independent researcher route (fellowships) or applying for their first lectureship (teaching and research).

Target Audience: Research staff planning an academic research career


SPIRAL - Attract Research Funding: Writing & Applying For Fellowships     show
Learn more about writing and applying for postdoctoral fellowships in this workshop - from planning and preparation to the process of application itself.

Target Audience: Research staff / postdocs


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 - Building Productive Relationships with Industry     show
This course will contain a mix of information and practical activities.

Target Audience: Anyone looking to build or improve their network.


SPIRAL - Career Management for Researchers @ Strathclyde     show
Career Management for Researchers @ Strathclyde is a blended course, combining online modules and Zoom discussion sessions, to help you explore career options and prepare you for the next stage of your career. A 4-week course - designed to address key career issues for researchers.

Target Audience: Research Staff


SPIRAL - Communicate with Confidence: Straight Talking - Online     show
As you grow in seniority, your interactions with colleagues and clients can become more complex. This opens up exciting opportunities but also poses potential challenges. This half-day course is a practical and engaging exploration of these areas of communication.

Target Audience: Academic, Teaching, Research and KE staff


SPIRAL - Communicating Your Research Through Digital Storytelling     show
Learn how to communicate your research to a wide audience through digital storytelling – a simple form of video. Ideal for anyone new to video-making or with limited experience, the course covers how to write a narrative, plan and create a video using images and simple animation.

Target Audience: Staff involved in research who want to know how to effectively communicate their research to a lay audience in an engaging but simple video format. Please note priority will be given to ESRC IAA award holders.


SPIRAL - Considering your Career Options     show
This session will provide participants with an overview of the possible career pathways, both academic and non-academic, available to research staff as well as how to progress along these tracks.

Target Audience: For Research Assistants, Research Associates and Research Fellows


SPIRAL - Designing & Implementing Inter and Transdisciplinary Research     show
This interactive training aims to support researchers to examine the principles of inter and transdisciplinary research, and subsequently examine how their research could improve or benefit embracing these approaches.

Target Audience: PGR and academic staff


SPIRAL - E4A - Getting Started with 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 get started with a business and get it off the ground in the simplest way.

Target Audience: Anyone across the university who is interested in getting started with a business.


SPIRAL - Early Career Researchers: How to explore your career options     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 - 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 - Figures, images & visualising information     show
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to various types of visual formats including standard graphs, information visualisations and graphics for publication.

Target Audience: Research staff and anyone else involved in research


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 - Growing Up in Higher Education     show
‘Growing Up in Higher Education’ is an event series focusing on the unofficial stories behind successful academic careers. Each session invites a different speaker to discuss and reflect on their career journey – examining doubts, struggles and detours as well as successes.

Target Audience: Research and early career academic staff


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 Develop 'Real World' Impact with Academic Research     show
A two-hour online interactive workshop that explores how you can ensure your academic research has a positive impact beyond academia.

Target Audience: All staff involved in research, in particular early- to mid-career researchers


SPIRAL - How to get Customers, Free Funding and Support: The Life Hack     show
Finding and getting customers is the lifeblood of any small enterprise. How can target markets be defined and approached for low or no-cost?

Target Audience: Open to all staff (Teaching, Research, KE & Entrepreneurship, Professional Services)


SPIRAL - Impact and Influence     show
This lively and enjoyable session, run by VOX Coaching, will explore practical communication skills that will help you increase your confidence, become someone to whom others want to listen and achieve greater impact and influence.

Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff


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 – Managing & Supervising Researchers Peer Network     show
This peer network is designed to support those managing and supervising researchers.

Target Audience: Academic staff and all others involved in managing and supervising researchers


SPIRAL - Managing and Delivering Successful CPD Sessions     show
A highly practical full-day, fully online workshop for staff designing or delivering professional development sessions for external stakeholders (e.g. colleagues from other institutions, industry, government, etc.) with a focus on engagement and effectiveness.

Target Audience: For academics / researchers expected to deliver CPD sessions to groups of professionals


SPIRAL - Monitoring and recording research impact     show
REF Workshop

Target Audience: research staff


SPIRAL - Motivating and Developing Teams     show
This workshop will help you manage your research team to deliver successful projects, work effectively through your team delivering results and develop others' capability to perform. The workshop will offer a range of practical tools and approaches to extend your management skills.

Target Audience: Research leaders and those aspiring to be


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 - 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


SPIRAL - Planning & Designing a Research Career     show
Interested in continuing in research? Then it is never too early to start planning your career trajectory & thinking about the direction you want to go. Research is exciting, competitive & a challenging career choice requiring strategic planning, seeking opportunities & networking.

Target Audience: Research staff / postdocs


SPIRAL - Productive writing: techniques, planning & finishing     show
In this interactive workshop, we will focus on starting, maintaining momentum and completing writing projects.

Target Audience: Research staff and anyone else involved in research


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 - Research Careers Outside Higher Educ.     show
This seminar event will explore the career paths and current roles of a number of speakers having moved from an academic research background into research roles outside of higher education. Come along to learn more about different types of careers!

Target Audience: Research staff members and any staff looking to explore their career options


SPIRAL - Research Funding Opportunities with Research Professional     show
In this practical workshop, participants will explore how to use the online platform Research Professional for learning more about research funding – introducing features, such as personalised funding alerts, advanced searches, institutional groups and more.

Target Audience: Staff interested in applying for research funding


SPIRAL - Research Funding Peer Network     show
This peer network is designed to connect and support those involved or interested to become involved in research funding.

Target Audience: All staff members who are involved or would like to become involved in gaining and managing research funding


SPIRAL - Research Integrity in Practice     show
This highly interactive workshop suits anyone looking to enhance their own & other’s practice. Exploration of fundamentals on research integrity, with discussion & application to your situation. We aim to make the subject lively and a vital part of daily practice as a researcher.

Target Audience: Anyone looking to enhance their own, or others' practice, especially researchers and academics in Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE disciplines)


SPIRAL – Research Writing Workshop - Weekly Drop In     show
This informal, social writing workshop is intended for all staff who are looking for protected time and space to focus on their writing and legitimise writing tasks in their busy work weeks.

Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff looking for protected time and space to work on writing.


SPIRAL - Researcher Careers: Non-Academic Careers in Higher Education     show
This seminar event will explore the career paths and current roles of a number of speakers having moved from a research background into non-academic roles in higher education. Come along to learn more about different types of careers!

Target Audience: Research staff members and any staff looking to explore their career options


SPIRAL - Researchers Group - Meet the Faculty     show
An informal event highlighting research activity in a specific faculty and bringing together researchers to network with their peers.

Target Audience: Open to all research staff, particularly those who identify as early career.


SPIRAL - Responsible assessment of research outputs     show
REF Workshop

Target Audience: research staff


SPIRAL - Responsible Research & Innovation     show
This one-day interactive workshop introduces principles & concepts of responsible research & innovation & provides attendees with tools, processes, and frameworks for developing innovations responsibility. Funded by University of Strathclyde EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

Target Audience: Anyone involved in research and innovation


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 - Side Hustles: How to start and grow them.     show
Side Hustles can be a passion project - opportunity to upskill, to work with new people, a chance to earn some extra income or for developing a social enterprise idea. This session looks at some side hustle ideas and also sets out the playbook for running a side hustle successfully.

Target Audience: Open to all (Teaching, Research, KE and Entrepreneurship, Professional Services)


SPIRAL - Social Media for Business & Industry Engagement     show
This sessions offers the knowledge and skills to use social media for business and industry engagement. It covers all aspects of social media usage including analytics and social media marketing and management.

Target Audience: Staff, PGRs


SPIRAL - Start & Run a Thriving, Flourishing Business.     show
Ever wondered if you would like setting up and running your own business? Not sure where to start and what is involved? Find out the answers from an experienced start-up and edupreneur Dr Kate Smith who discusses practical tips, tricks and common pitfalls.

Target Audience: Open to all


SPIRAL - Strathclyde Spring Writing Retreat (In Person)     show
The Strathclyde Writing Retreat series supports participants wishing to make significant progress on writing projects by allowing sufficient time to immerse themselves in the writing activity and to benefit from peer support.

Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff looking for protected time and space to work on writing.


SPIRAL - Strathclyde Spring Writing Retreat (online)     show
The Strathclyde Writing Retreat series supports participants wishing to make significant progress on writing projects by allowing sufficient time to immerse themselves in the writing activity and to benefit from peer support.

Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff looking for protected time and space to work on writing.


SPIRAL - Strathclyde Winter Writing Retreat     show
The Strathclyde Writing Retreat series supports participants wishing to make significant progress on writing projects by allowing sufficient time to immerse themselves in the writing activity and to benefit from peer support.

Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff looking for protected time and space to work on writing.


SPIRAL - Transitioning beyond academia Job search strategies that work     show
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: Research staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL - Transitioning beyond academia: Successful job change     show
Build and maintain a strong professional network, showing you how to use your connections to find job opportunities, improve your LinkedIn profile, and make the most of in-person networking events.

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


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 - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Q & A Drop-In Session     show
This Q&A session will answer participants’ questions about the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme and Strathclyde’s related internal candidate selection process and support.

Target Audience: Research Staff and Early Career Academic Staff.


SPIRAL - Working with Policymakers: a Practical Guide     show
A practical introduction to engaging with policymakers in Scotland. This is an on-campus event, including a talk followed by a Q & A session.

Target Audience: Researchers, KE Staff, ECRs, research directors, directors of impact.


SPIRAL - Writing for The Conversation: 1-to-1 Editor Chats – HaSS/SBS     show
The Conversation is a news website with content written by researchers and academics working with professional journalists. This 20-minute one-to-one session with an editor will enable you to receive personalised advice and feedback on your writing ideas for The Conversation.

Target Audience: Any staff members in HaSS or SBS who are involved in research and would like to write for The Conversation


SPIRAL - Writing for The Conversation: 1-to-1 Editor Chats - Sci/Eng     show
The Conversation is a news website with content written by researchers and academics working with professional journalists. This 15-minute one-to-one session with an editor will enable you to receive personalised advice and feedback on your writing ideas for The Conversation.

Target Audience: Any staff members in Science or Engineering who are involved in research and would like to write for The Conversation


SPIRAL -Personal Effectiveness Series: Effecting Positive Engagements     show
This workshop will offer tools and techniques to present yourself in a confident and assertive manner. It will help you get your message across and influence others in an effective and positive way whilst still maintaining your authenticity.

Target Audience: Academic, research, KE & teaching staff


SPIRAL: Improving Cost Recovery on Research Projects     show
Understand the different cost elements of a research project and how the recovery of institutional costs (overheads) can be improved when a research project is costed.

Target Audience: All staff involved in costing research projects, approving costings of research projects, or managing departmental/faculty finances in relation to research.


SPIRAL-Careers Beyond Research/Applying Your Skills Outside Academia     show
There are a number of options outside of academia that are open to postdocs. Not everyone chooses to climb the academic ladder and many researchers are unaware of the variety of other options that are 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-Engaging 'Hard-to-Reach' Audiences/Widening Impact     show
This workshop will explore generalisable principles underpinning the successful delivery of a successful KE project and how they could be applied to a wide range of academic disciplines and audiences.

Target Audience: For academics, researchers, and knowledge exchange staff


SPIRAL-Practical Perspectives on Academic Promotion in STEMM P1     show
This in person face event aims to support those considering going for academic promotion in the next 12 months. Session 1 focuses on enabling participants to gain better understanding of promotion procedures & type of achievements & documentation applicants needed for promotion.

Target Audience: Academic professional staff who are eligible for academic promotion and planning to apply in the next 12 months


SPIRAL-Practical Perspectives on Academic Promotion in STEMM P2     show
This zoom session aims to support those considering going for academic promotion in the next 12 months. Session 2 will focus on supporting participants to translate their achievements into appropriate formats and language for their promotion application.

Target Audience: Academic professional staff who are eligible for academic promotion and planning to apply in the next 12 months


SPIRAL-Transitioning beyond academia: How to win the job interview     show
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: Research staff who are looking to take next steps in their career


SPIRAL-Transitioning beyond academia; Unlock potential for job change     show
Discover your strengths, values, and interests so you can build a strong professional identity, identify skills they can use in different jobs, and find the right work environment for a successful career change.

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


Supporting Quality Research & Researcher Development (On Campus)     show
This workshop will introduce the new Researcher Development Time Policy, Research Code of Practice and Research Data Management & Sharing Policy – exploring what these policies mean in practice, why they are relevant and how they will impact those involved in research.

Target Audience: Any staff involved in research or research support


Supporting Quality Research & Researcher Development (Online)     show
This workshop will introduce the new Researcher Development Time Policy, Research Code of Practice and Research Data Management & Sharing Policy – exploring what these policies mean in practice, why they are relevant and how they will impact those involved in research.

Target Audience: Any staff involved in research or research support


Transitioning from Academia: Group Career Support for Research Staff     show
Would you like to transition from academia to industry? Join a 90-min group career support appointment. Explore options, get peer support, and advice from a Career Development Adviser. Find encouragement and clarity for your future career path.

Target Audience: Open to Research Staff who want to transition beyond academia


UKRO Annual Visit Webinar - Horizon Europe Updates     show
This session targets audience who are interested in applying for Horizon Europe funding. It aims to provide the newest updates and novelties on Horizon Europe funding programme with an update on the UK’s association to the programme.

Target Audience: Strathclyde colleagues who are interested in applying for Horizon Europe funding and gaining the most updated information about status of UK’s association to Horizon Europe.


UoS RKES Space @ Glasgow Science Centre     show
This Webinar will provide colleagues with an update on the University’s partnership with the Glasgow Science Centre, including the forthcoming signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Target Audience: Open to all and will be particularly relevant to those with an interest in knowledge exchange, public engagement, citizen science and the University’s partnership with the Glasgow Science Centre.