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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


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.


Research Professional Administrator Training Workshop     show
This workshop aims to provide insightful learning on how to use Research Professional to find/promote targeted funding opportunities, manage research workgroups and facilitate bid development.

Target Audience: For research & KE professionals; faculty/department/research centre/cluster administrators and bid officers


Researcher’s Group AGM     show
The Researchers’ Group annual general meeting is held to review the year’s achievements and look forward as a group, including the election of new committee members who provide a voice for researchers’ throughout the university.

Target Audience: Research Staff


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 - 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 for Academics     show
This sessions offers the knowledge and skills to communicate research through the media. It covers broadcast interview training and discussion on how to understand what the media are looking for.

Target Audience: Staff, PGRs


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


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 - 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: Any staff involved in visualising complex information, especially in research contexts


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. A light lunch will be provided

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


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 - 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 - 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
This workshop will focus on writing productivity: from getting started with a writing task to continuing productively, overcoming writing challenges and finishing within deadlines.

Target Audience: Any staff involved in academic writing (e.g. for research, knowledge exchange or teaching purposes)


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 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 and other’s practice. Plenty of exploration of fundamentals, along with discussion and application to your situation. We aim to make the subject a lively and vital part of your daily practice as a researcher.

Target Audience: Anyone looking to enhance their own, or others' practice. Research & academic staff.


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 - 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 - 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 - Strathclyde Winter Writing Retreat     show
The Strathclyde Writing Retreat 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 - 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     show
The Conversation is a news website with content written by researchers and academics working with professional journalists. This session explores what The Conversation does, how you can become involved and what benefits writing for a more general audience can bring to your research.

Target Audience: Any staff members involved in research


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 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 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-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-Research Professional Training Workshop - Engineering & Science     show
This course is for users from Faculty of Engineering and Science who are interested in using Research Professional to search for funding opportunities, create personalised funding alerts and keep up to date with the funding climate

Target Audience: For users from Faculty of Engineering and Science


SPIRAL-Research Professional Training Workshop - HaSS & SBS     show
For users from Faculty of HaSS and SBS who are interested in using Research Professional to search for funding opportunities, create personalised funding alerts and keep up to date with the funding climate.

Target Audience: This course is restricted to Research Professional users from Faculty of HaSS and Strathclyde Business School


Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellows – Application Information & Support     show
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


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.