Your search has returned 255 courses. STEP/SPIRAL - Making your Mark: Marking for the Inexperienced show The session is aimed at Early Career Researchers wishing, or expected, to mark assessments and give feedback, including on topics unrelated to their own research. Target Audience: Research Assistants, Research Associates and Research Fellows with little or no marking experience View Course Details > Academic Development Information Session show An opportunity for academic professional staff (traditional academic, teaching, research and knowledge exchange staff) to come along to meet with a member of the Academic Development team in order to benefit from support in understanding the development opportunities available. Target Audience: Staff seeking to engage with academic development programmes View Course Details > Academic Writing show This module combines theoretical perspectives on academic writing with practical activities that should increase the participants' own writing output. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Academic Writing (Publication Challenge) show Academic Writing (Publication Challenge) runs in tandem with the Faculty of Science Publication Challenge. Participants will attend the Publication Challenge as well as two SPARK sessions which will support your learning from the Challenge itself. Target Audience: Academic, Research, Teaching and KE staff View Course Details > ADR - Setting SMART Objectives show This 20 minute video will be of interest to all Staff who are involved in the ADR process as either a reviewer or reviewee. The video will look at the ADR process and how to set objectives for the ADR process. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > ADR: A Focused Conversation (Academic, Research, Teaching & KE) show This 90 minute session is for Academic and Academic related staff who are ADR reviewers. Target Audience: Academic and Academic related staff who are ADR reviewers View Course Details > ADR: A Focused Conversation (APS, Operational & Technical) show This 90 minute session is for APS, Operational & Technical staff who are ADR reviewers. Target Audience: APS, Operational & Technical staff who are ADR reviewers View Course Details > Aid-funded Research Masterclass – GCRF and Newton Fund show Maximising impact for aid-funded research. Raise your chances of winning aid research through strategic impact planning. Full-day workshop with follow-up online training and feedback. Target Audience: Academics and Research Staff View Course Details > An Introduction to Project Management show This short introductory course is ideal if you are new/fairly new to projects. The aim of this course is to help you understand the principles & terminology of project management as well as giving you essential tools & techniques to help you scope, plan & deliver successful projects. Target Audience: Staff who are needing an introduction to Project Management View Course Details > Aurora Network Lunch show Calling all Aurorians! Are you a previous or current Aurorian? We would like to invite you to a networking lunch on 28 March 2018 (12-2) in CW406a. Target Audience: Current & previous Aurora Delegates View Course Details > Basic Facilitation Skills show This full day workshop will benefit staff at all levels by covering the basics of group dynamics, the essentials of discussion management, and the fundamental skills needed to facilitate meetings. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > Becoming a Strathclyde Supervisor show this workshop aims to provide an introduction to the practices and policies relating to supervising postgraduate research students at Strathclyde. This is a core workshop of the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Being an Expert Witness show This course is designed to brief you on all aspects of this important topic Target Audience: Staff who have given or are planning to give expert reports, opinions or testimony in any form of legal proceedings View Course Details > Building a Successful Research Career - ONLINE show This is the online version of the core SPARK class, Building a Successful Research Career and can be taken as an alternative to the face-to-face class. The format of this class mirrors that of the face-to-face class whilst offering you the flexibility to study around your commitments. Target Audience: Academic Staff, Research Staff and those interested in pursuing a career in research View Course Details > Building a Successful Research Career (BASRC) show Building a Successful Research Career is run by OSDU (the Organisational & Staff Development Unit). It is designed for existing and aspiring research staff, particularly those in the early part of their career Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Building a Successful Research Career (BASRC) VIRA Award show Building a Successful Research Career is run by OSDU (the Organisational & Staff Development Unit). It is designed for existing and aspiring research staff, particularly those in the early part of their career Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Building Productive Relationships with Potential Industry Partners show This workshop will support those seeking to build productive knowledge exchange relationships with industry partners. Target Audience: Academic/Research/KE Staff, all levels View Course Details > Business Development Skills show This half day business skills course will focus on developing core communication, relationship & customer service skills. These skills are crucial to overall business growth and client relationships. Target Audience: Staff involved in building client relationships View Course Details > Carers Policy Online Session show Join us in this short webinar to find the answers to the six most commonly asked questions related to our staff carers Target Audience: All staff View Course Details > Chairing Meetings show This workshop is designed for anyone who leads meetings & it aims to provide an understanding of why meetings fail, the importance of planning, the role of the chair & working with the minute taker/clerk as well as the skills needed to anticipate & handle difficult situations. Target Audience: Staff involved in chairing meetings View Course Details > China - Cultural Awareness and Language Taster show If you are planning a business trip or holiday to China, this 2 hour taster session hosted by the Confucius Institute for Scotland's Schools is guaranteed to prepare you for your trip. Target Audience: Staff who might get the chance to travel to China View Course Details > Conferencing & Event Organisation At Strathclyde show A half day session on the practicalities of organising a conference or event within the University. The session is designed for anyone undertaking the organisation and running of an event within the University of Strathclyde. Target Audience: Staff members who organise conferences & events View Course Details > Confident Engagements show The course will focus on tools and techniques for developing confidence in general and the confidence to behave in an assertive manner in your dealings with others in the workplace. It is aimed at support staff in non-supervisory or non-managerial roles. Target Audience: Support staff in non-supervisory or non-managerial roles View Course Details > Confident Presentation Skills show These half day workshops will benefit staff at all levels by giving them the tools to communicate effectively in presentations to audiences of all sizes. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > Confident Presentations - For Speakers of Other Languages show English not your first language? Want to enhance you presentation skills when presenting in English? OSDU are hosting 8 early evening classes every Wednesday starting from the 18 Oct for 8 weeks, to help staff improve their spoken English presentation skills. Target Audience: Staff carrying out presentations for whom English is not their first language View Course Details > Conflict prevention and resolution in the supervisory relationship show This workshop will address the relational aspects of the supervisory process through the lens of mediation. This workshop can be used as a ‘Day-to-Day Supervision Skills’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Course (Re) Design show This module involves the evaluation of current course designs and the creation and development of new course designs which promote improved teaching, learning and assessment. The module will provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to engage in course (re)design, Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > CPD in Good Recruitment and Equality Practice show This 90 minute information session is essential CPD for staff who are involved in recruitment and selection and participate in interview panels. This short briefing session will cover the current legal context and good practice in recruitment. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in recruitment and selection and participate in interview panels View Course Details > CPD: From Concept to Delivery show The aim of this series of workshops is to help attendees prepare a CPD course that is ready for marketing and delivery so that you and your colleagues can generate income for your Department. Target Audience: Anyone serious about developing a CPD course and those wishing additional in-depth support to complement and reinforce current Departmental activity View Course Details > Customer Service Skills show Participants in this full day workshop will gain invaluable skills and techniques that are the fundamentals of service professionalism and you will be encourage to take pride in what you do. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > Develop Yourself @Strathclyde show Develop Yourself @Strathclyde is a series of 5 personal and career development sessions taking place over one day each month from September 2018 until November 2018. An introductory workshop is being held in August to explain the process and introduce the program. Target Audience: Support Staff View Course Details > Develop Yourself @Strathclyde Series show Develop Yourself @Strathclyde is a series of 5 personal and career development sessions taking place over one day each month from September 2018 until November 2018. Target Audience: Support Staff View Course Details > Developing Your Doctoral Student's Career show Career development is an increasingly important aspect of the PhD journey. This workshop aims to support supervisors of doctoral students in promoting their student’s career development. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Digital Leadership show Whether technology is an enabler or driver of change we cannot argue that we are all feeling effects of change at a professional level. This full day session aims to break down the reality of change that is around us – making it real, comprehensible, non-threatening and useful. Target Audience: Leaders View Course Details > Effective Report Writing show This half-day workshop aims to provide delegates with the skills and techniques to produce a structured report. Target Audience: Staff involved in writing reports View Course Details > Engaging and Managing Stakeholders for Impact show The aim of the programme is to develop practical skills and knowledge to enable participants to take a more strategic approach to planning Knowledge Exchange and research impact generating activities. Target Audience: Early Career Academic, Researcher and Knowledge Exchange Staff including Chancellor Fellows, other Research and KE Fellows and Impact Champions View Course Details > Engaging Different Audiences show This class represents a core element of the knowledge exchange experience and is a core experience demanded of professionals engaged within the area. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Engaging Doctoral Students with Writing show This workshop will support doctoral supervisors to establish productive writing habits for their students. This workshop can be used as a ‘Academic Writing & the Viva Voce Exam’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Enterprise, Commercialisation and Intellectual Property show Enterprise, Commercialisation and Intellectual Property Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > EPSRC Manufacturing the Future - Grant Applications for ECRs show This session is aimed at Early Career Researchers who wish to make successful applications to EPSRC. Advice for Early Career Researchers on relevant EPSRC funding schemes and how best to apply for them. Target Audience: Early Career Researchs eligible to apply for EPSRC funding View Course Details > EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Team Visit to Strathclyde show This briefing session will provide an opportunity to understand the Manufacturing the Future Theme at EPSRC. With reference to the delivery plans, outcomes frameworks and manufacturing priorities. Target Audience: all academic staff eligible to apply for EPSRC funding (focused on Manufacturing but open to all academics) View Course Details > EU Settlement Scheme briefing for EEA nationals show This session will be provided by an external adviser on immigration from McGill and Co solicitors. As well as a general update on Brexit and known implications for EU staff, the session will provide information on the pilot of the EU Settlement Scheme. Target Audience: All EEA Staff (Non UK) View Course Details > Focus! Plan! Attack! show Focus! Plan! Attack! workload management. A practical 1 day course full of tips and tricks to help you feel on top of your work rather than being buried by it. Regain your personal life even in a climate of doing more with less using an advanced common sense! Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > GBV First Responder - Training for Trainers show The aim of this two day course is to equip members of staff to deliver the following two courses 1. What is Gender-based Violence (GBV)? and 2. Responding Effectively to Disclosures of Gender-based violence (GBV) Target Audience: Staff who have undertaken both the half day and the one day GBV courses offered by OSDU View Course Details > Getting the Most out of Your Supervisory Relationship show This workshop will explore the dynamic between the Supervisor and Student to support positive relationships. This workshop can be used as a ‘Day-to-Day Supervision Skills’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Global Challenge Research Fund show Introduction to internal funding opportunities to support developing country partnerships addressing global challenges of economic and social development in the Global South. Target Audience: Academic and research staff seeking support for partnerships addressing challenges of international development View Course Details > H2020 ITN Masterclass show This interactive briefing session will provide detailed hints and tips on what makes a successful ITN application. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > H2020 Research & Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) show This session will provide an overview of the opportunities available to staff under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Scheme (MSCA RISE). It will be led by experts from the European Commission in Brussels, Head of Sector and RISE Project Officer. Target Audience: Academic/Research staff - all levels View Course Details > HEA - Assessor & Mentoring Meeting show To assist you to assess and mentor HEA applicants in selecting the most appropriate Descriptor category to work toward. Target Audience: HEA - Assessor & Mentoring Meeting View Course Details > Horizon 2020 Opportunities for Industrial Engagement in Horizon 2020 show This session will provide an overview of the funding opportunities available to facilitate collaborative research and innovation partnerships with industry. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > Horizon 2020: BREXIT and access to Horizon 2020 Funding show This session will provide an overview of the information currently available relating to EU funding opportunities in light of the on-going Brexit process. Attendees will hear an overview of the main messages from the Government and the European Commission. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > Horizon 2020: Overview of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) show Blazej Thomas, from the UK Research Office in Brussels (UKRO), will provide an overview of the opportunities for funding under the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > Horizon 2020: The Programme and Hints and Tips for Success show This session will provide an overview of funding opportunities available through the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme for Research and Innovation. Participants will also hear hints and tips for preparing successful proposals. Target Audience: Academic, Research and Research Support Staff at All Levels View Course Details > Horizon Europe: the next EU Framework Prog for Research and Innovation show This session will provide an overview of Horizon Europe – the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation based on the European Commission’s proposal from early June. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff - all levels View Course Details > How to Manage High Conflict Personalities show This half day workshop will show you how to identify high conflict personality types and how to manage conflict in the workplace. Target Audience: Leaders and Managers View Course Details > Improving Supervision Conversations show This workshop will focus on having better quality supervision conversations. This workshop can be used as a ‘Day-to-Day Supervision Skills’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Inclusive Leadership & Unconscious Bias show This half day workshop aims to develop you Inclusive leadership skills and understand the concept of Unconscious Bias, your own biases and how these influence your behaviours and actions. Target Audience: Staff in Leadership Role View Course Details > Increasing Research Impact through International Development show An introduction to the funding opportunities for research and knowledge exchange in developing countries through aid agencies and development banks. Target Audience: Academic, Research and KE staff interested in working with developing country partners View Course Details > Information Drop in Session - Strathclyde Supervisor Development Prog show This open session is an opportunity to meet with a member of the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme team to discuss the new programme and how this supports Supervisor development at Strathclyde. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Internal Briefing for Scottish Government Malawi Funding Call show Strathclyde is the leading partner for Scottish Government funding for Malawi, winning around £10m of funding since 2006. The latest funding round has been announced, with some key changes from previous years. This session provides briefing on success factors and support available. Target Audience: Academic Staff interested in working with Malawian partners to realise impact of research View Course Details > Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry show This full day introductory workshop will focus on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry with a deeper focus on the four-D process (Discover, Dream, Design & Destiny). Target Audience: All staff View Course Details > Introduction to convening and managing committees show Would you like to improve the quality of the meetings for which you are responsible? This short 90 minute session aims to help you to be a better convener or committee manager. Target Audience: Any member of staff who will ever convene a meeting or provide administrative support for a meeting View Course Details > Introduction to Impact for Aid-funded Research – GCRF and Newton Fund show Raise your chances of winning aid- funded research through strategic impact planning. Workshop builds skills in planning research to maximise the impact on economic development and social well-being in developing countries. Target Audience: Academics, Research Staff and Professional Services staff supporting researchers View Course Details > Introduction to Leadership show This ½ day workshop will give you an introduction to Leadership at Strathclyde. It will introduce leadership how we understand it at Strathclyde and what the skills are of Leadership. Target Audience: Leaders View Course Details > Introduction to Social Media show In this half day introductory course, we'll provide a broad overview of some of the biggest social networking platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, Linkedin, Pinterest and Blogging. The session is designed for anyone using social media within the workplace. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > IP for Researchers: Unlock the potential of your intellectual property show This workshop will develop knowledge and understanding of intellectual property and its potential for PhD and early career researchers during their research projects in order to generate the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs on how to develop, use and respect IP. Target Audience: PhD's and Early Career Researchers View Course Details > Leadership Conversations Series show This mini-series (90 mins) of 3 sessions will give you a handy set of skills and tools to more effectively frame your influencing, be constructive and clear in your feedback and achieve the outcomes that you intend and want from your conversations. Target Audience: All staff View Course Details > Leadership Development Prog (1st line leadership) - Intro Session show This is an hour session which will introduce participants to the course content and structure, how to engage in the optional elements of the programme, pre-programme objective setting and the options for ILM accreditation. Target Audience: First Line Managers responsible for Supervising Staff View Course Details > Leadership Development Programme (1st line leadership) show The purpose of the programme is to equip first level line managers with the necessary skill for supervising staff. It has been designed to support the standards as described in both the Strathclyde Job Level Descriptors & Strathclyde Leadership Competencies & Behaviours Frameworks. Target Audience: First Line Managers responsible for Supervising Staff View Course Details > Leadership for Strategic Outcomes - Intro Session show This hour long session will introduce participants to the course content and structure, how to engage in the optional elements of the programme, pre-programme objective setting and the options for ILM accreditation. Target Audience: Team Leaders View Course Details > Lunchtime Information Session - Mindfulness show Mindfulness is designed to help you learn new ways of managing difficult physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and moods. Mindfulness can enable you to see things differently and can increase your sense of personal confidence. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > Lunchtime Leadership - Pioneering series show This is a series of lunchtime sessions which will deal with leadership issues. Each session will include a presentation on a topic and the opportunity for discussion and debate with colleagues and the chance to share your ideas and pick up some new ones along the way. Target Audience: Staff in Leadership Roles View Course Details > Manage Your Energy not just Your Time show Energy not time is the key to vitality and quality of life. This full day workshop creatively explores the four dimensions of human energy - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - and how to increase and balance them. Target Audience: Leaders View Course Details > Management & Leadership in H.E. show This module examines the structure of higher educational provision in Scotland, the origins and influences on policy making and looks at some of the major debates and current issues in the field of higher education. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Management Development: Complaint Investigation Skills show The aim of this course is to help participants develop and improve their investigation skills with a specific focus on complaints handling. The course is offered to nominated members of staff who will conduct complaints investigations at Stage 2. Target Audience: Investigating Officers for Stage 2 complaints View Course Details > Management Development: Delegation Skills show This course is an introduction to delegation. Delegation is a skill which can be learned and aids team productivity and morale. It is a development process and helps people and teams to develop to their full potential. Target Audience: Staff Supervisors View Course Details > Management Development: Influencing and Negotiating Skills show This half day workshop will develop your influencing and negotiating skills. It will explore a range of tried and tested models to help you get results, appreciate effective influencing behaviours and encourage positive conversations with others. Target Audience: For those in a leadership role View Course Details > Management Development: Leading Change show This one day workshop will help leaders effectively embed change. It will explore the change process and consider practical ways that leaders can manage change, how to support people through change and how to enhance their own resilience throughout change. Target Audience: For any member of staff who is managing and leading change View Course Details > Management Development: Leading, Motivating and Developing Teams show This workshop will help you manage your team by offering an introduction to leadership and the associated skills. It will help you work effectively through your team to deliver results and develop others capability to perform. Target Audience: For those in a leadership role View Course Details > Management Development: Planning and Allocating Work show This half day workshop is aimed at practising/potential first line managers. During this session you will develop knowledge and understanding of how to plan and allocate work. Target Audience: Practising or potential first line managers View Course Details > Management Development:Leading and Developing others through Coaching show This course is aimed at leaders & managers. This course will provide participants with the background knowledge of non-directive coaching and techniques that can be employed in a coaching approach, coaching practice and feedback. Target Audience: Managers and Leaders View Course Details > Managing Effective Meetings show This full day workshop will benefit staff at all levels by giving them the tools to manage meetings effectively. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details > Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITNs) show Participants will gain an overview of the opportunities available under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN scheme, as well as a detailed understanding of the key considerations involved in the planning, writing and submitting of a proposal, and hints and tips from successful grantees. Target Audience: Academic / Research staff at all levels View Course Details > Meeting Servicing and Minute Taking for Beginners show This full day workshop is ideal if you are new/fairly new to servicing meetings and minute taking. Target Audience: Administrative staff who are new to meeting servicing and minute taking. View Course Details > Mental Health and Wellbeing show This course will be useful for anyone whose role involves responsibility for the wellbeing of others, including staff who are responsible for PGR Supervision. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Mental Health Awareness/Improvement show This course is a basic introduction to exploring mental health and Wellbeing. Participants will learn about the most common mental health conditions and how participating in certain activities can increase our mental wellbeing, and have a positive impact on our mental health. Target Audience: Staff (Strictly focussing on Student mental health) View Course Details > Mentoring @ Strathclyde: Information Session show This information session will introduce you to the current Mentoring @ Strathclyde Schemes to support staff with their career development. Target Audience: Academic Staff, Research Staff; Support Staff and Teaching Staff interested in mentoring View Course Details > MSCA Innovative Training Networks: Addressing impact show Workshop 2: Addressing Impact in your ITN Application Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > MSCA Innovative Training Networks: Building your training programme show Workshop 1: Building Training into your ITN application Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > New Staff Induction Seminar show A seminar for newly appointed staff. The seminar will introduce you to working for the University of Strathclyde Target Audience: Newly Appointed Staff to the University View Course Details > Newton Fund Briefing Session show The session will provide an overview of the Newton Fund, part of the UK's official development assistance (ODA). Attendees will gain a better understanding of ODA and receive up-to-date information on the latest opportunities, with a focus on the British Council Links’ calls. Target Audience: Academic and Research Staff View Course Details > Personal Effectiveness Series: Effecting Positive Engagements show This workshop will offer tools and techniques to present yourself in a confidence and assertiveness. It will explore tools to be effective and positive at influencing others. Target Audience: Academic, research, KE & teaching staff View Course Details > Personal Effectiveness Series: Resilience show This workshop will explore work pressures; reflect on your own personal resilience profile and offer tips and tools for building resilience. Target Audience: Academic, research, KE and teaching staff View Course Details > Personal Effectiveness Series: 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 View Course Details > Planning a Positive Retirement show This full day information session is for those either considering retirement or about to retire in the near future. Target Audience: Anyone considering retirement or early or flexible retirement View Course Details > Pre-Commercialisation Masterclass show This practical, one-day workshop is designed to support academics and research staff in developing commercialisation skills for the future. Target Audience: Early career researchers and academics who are or may be commercialising University research. View Course Details > Preparing to be an examiner or convenor show The workshop brings together a panel of experienced examiners from across the university to share experiences of convening and examining Vivas. This workshop can be used as a ‘Academic Writing & the Viva Voce Exam’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Preparing Your Student for Viva show This session is designed to complement the training offered to Viva candidates at Strathclyde. This workshop can be used as a ‘Academic Writing & the Viva Voce Exam’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Presentation Event - Technical Staff Development Programme show A presentation of internal completion certificates Target Audience: All those who have completed the Technical Staff Development Programme View Course Details > Professional Recognition of Learning and Teaching Information Workshop show This workshop will introduce you to the Strathclyde Recognition Pathways, discuss the requirements for recognition, assist you in selecting the most appropriate Descriptor category to work toward, and provide information on peer support networks and developmental opportunities. Target Audience: Learning and Teaching Staff View Course Details > Professional Services Development Programme show The purpose of the programme is to equip admin staff to develop in their role. It has been designed to support the standards as described in both the Strathclyde Job Level Descriptors and the SVQ Level 4 award in Administration. Target Audience: APS Staff Grade 4 and above View Course Details > Professional Services Development Programme- Intro Session show This is an hour session which will introduce participants to the course programme, content and structure Target Audience: APS Staff Grade 4 and above View Course Details > Publons Academy: Peer Review Workshop show This workshop is designed to complement Publons Academy, aimed at giving attendees a forum to discuss the many issues around peer review, practical guidance on getting involved in reviewing , and a hands-on workshop assessing papers and structuring reviews. Target Audience: Research and Academic Staff View Course Details > Recognition of Learning and Teaching for Technical Staff show This one hour session is designed to provide information to technical staff on how they can gain formal professional recognition (Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy) for their formal or informal role in supporting learning and teaching. Target Audience: Technical Staff View Course Details > Research Bidding and Design show Aims & Objectives: 1. To enable early career researchers to develop their abilities in the entire process of research proposal development, from the initial design of the research question to the publication of results. Target Audience: Academic and Research Staff View Course Details > Research Bidding and Design - Getting Started show This class aims to enable research staff and early career academics starting out in research bidding and design to develop their knowledge, skills and abilities in development and submission of small, early career research proposals. Target Audience: For research staff and early career academics starting out in research bidding and design. Individuals from other staff categories may also find this class useful if they are intending to apply for research funding. View Course Details > Researchers' Group AGM show Annual Genereal Meeting to review achievements and take a look at things going forward. Target Audience: Research Staff View Course Details > Responding Effectively to Disclosures of Gender-based violence (GBV) show The aim of this one day course is to equip members of staff to respond to disclosures of gender based violence in a way that is timely, appropriate and non-judgemental, and to do this with a clear understanding of the immediate needs of the survivor. Target Audience: Those who work in a front-facing role with students or staff in a support or advisory role who may have to respond to a confidential disclosure about gender based violence. View Course Details > Royal Society Funding Schemes: Info Session show This session will provide an overview of the Royal Society’s funding schemes. Target Audience: Final-year PhD students, post-doc and early career researchers to find out more about the variety of funding schemes on offer from the Royal Society View Course Details > Sickness Absence Management - Briefing Session show This course is aimed at staff with line management responsibility who have to implement the University's Sickness Absence Management Policy. The aim of the briefing session is to discuss how to implement the University's Sickness Absence Policy. Target Audience: Staff with line management responsibility View Course Details > Social Media for Researchers: Impact, Engagement & Measurement show Demonstrating social media competence is a critical communication tool for research active staff. Target Audience: Research active staff with some background in using social media View Course Details > Speaking in Public show This programme consists of 2 workshops which will help delegates develop their public speaking skills, improving their ability to communicate in all situations from interviews, to day to day interactions. Target Audience: Staff who deliver presentations in public View Course Details > SPIRAL - An Intro to Public Engagement: Why Bother? show Has public engagement (PE) piqued your interest but you don’t know where to start? Do you want to understand why PE is important and how it might inform your research? Come along to this whistle stop tour of PE and find out more! Target Audience: For those new to public engagement View Course Details > SPIRAL - Applying for Post-Doctoral Fellowships show In this workshop you will find out what steps you should take, time frames, what a fellowship involves, international options, how to apply, the different types of fellowships available and how to use your connections to your advantage. Target Audience: Early Career Research Staff / Postdocs View Course Details > SPIRAL - Building Sustainable Research Partnerships show This practical workshop is for research leaders who would like to gain an overview and awareness of the key aspects of building sustainable research partnerships Target Audience: Early Career Academics and Chancellor’s Fellows View Course Details > SPIRAL - Careers within and beyond academia show If you are interested in continuing research or if you are thinking of moving away from academia then it is never too early to start planning ahead and thinking about what direction you want your career to go. Target Audience: All Research, KE and Teaching Staff interested in finding out more about their career options View Course Details > SPIRAL - Commercialising Research at Strathclyde show Participants will gain the knowledge necessary for translating academic research, or their own ideas, into commercially viable opportunities through the understanding of intellectual property, basic business model development and the commercialisation process at the University. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students, Early Career Researchers View Course Details > SPIRAL - Communicate with Confidence: Straight Talking show This workshop will provide an overview and awareness of the key aspects in leveraging your research reputation within industry, society and other academic institutions. Target Audience: Academic, Teaching, Research and KE staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Communicating Effectively with the Media show This practical workshop will allow you to develop skills and techniques to engage effectively with the media. The workshop will primarily focus on broadcast media. Target Audience: For Research Staff who are or will be expected to engage with the media View Course Details > SPIRAL - Considering your Career Options show This workshop 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 View Course Details > SPIRAL - Designing and Delivering Successful CPD show This practical one-day workshop will provide a framework for the development and design of sessions and workshops are be engaging and relevant. Target Audience: For academics / researchers expected to deliver CPD sessions to groups of professionals View Course Details > SPIRAL - Engaging with Industrial Partners show This practical 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 View Course Details > SPIRAL - Engaging with Public Policy Makers show This practical workshop will help you understand the public policy arenas: structures, processes and decision makers as well as how best to navigate them to bring about lasting relationships. Target Audience: For academic and research staff who need to influence public policy makers View Course Details > SPIRAL - Enhancing Your Research Reputation show This workshop will provide an overview and awareness of the key aspects in leveraging your research reputation within industry, society and other academic institutions. Target Audience: For those who would like to enhance their research reputation View Course Details > SPIRAL - Financial Essentials for KE and Research show This practical workshop will give an overview of the key aspects of effective planning and management of grant bids both for pre and post award. Target Audience: For those who have a grant or are planning to apply View Course Details > SPIRAL - H2020 : How to Write a Competitive Proposal for Horizon 2020 show Dr Sean McCarthy, Hyperion Ltd, will deliver a course to train staff to write professional and competitive research proposals for Horizon 2020. Dr McCarthy has delivered training to top universities across Europe and has almost 40 years’ experience in all aspects of European Research. Target Audience: Academic /Research/Support staff – all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL - Horizon 2020 Future Emerging Technologies Scheme show This interactive briefing session will provide colleagues with information about the process of applying to the Future & Emerging Technologies scheme for collaborative high-risk research. Target Audience: Academic/Research staff - all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL - Horizon 2020 Overview of the programme show This session provides an overview of funding opportunities available through the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Programme for Research & Innovation. Target Audience: Academic / Research Staff at all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL - Hosting conferences at Strathclyde show This session will give an overview of the venues and services available at the University for hosting conferences. Target Audience: For those wishing to attract and host conferences at the University View Course Details > SPIRAL - How to Engage with People as an Academic Consultant show In this one-day session you will learn some key techniques for marketing yourself as a consultant. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL - How to get started with Supervision show This workshop aims to support research staff who provide informal supervision to undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. Target Audience: For Research Assistants, Research Associates and Research Fellows View Course Details > SPIRAL - Induction Day for Research Staff show The University welcomes new research staff to with a dedicated session three times a year. It is advised that Research Staff attend both the General New Staff Induction seminar as well as the Research Staff Induction Event. Target Audience: Research Staff new to the University View Course Details > SPIRAL - Into the Spotlight show This highly practical half-day course, presented by Pete Bailie, will give you the skills and confidence to communicate powerfully, memorably and authentically with any audience. Target Audience: For those who would like to get their voice heard and increase their confidence when communicating with any audience View Course Details > SPIRAL - Managing Research Projects show This full day practical workshop will look at the tools and techniques used in managing research projects which will build processes and structures that support project delivery. You should bring your own unique challenges for discussion. Target Audience: For academics / researchers managing projects View Course Details > SPIRAL - Motivating and Developing Teams show This workshop will help you manage your research team to deliver successful projects. It will help you work effectively through your team to deliver results and develop others' capability to perform. Target Audience: For those in a leadership role View Course Details > SPIRAL - Networking with external partners show This workshop will provide academic, research and knowledge exchange staff with an insight into mechanisms and strategies for improving engagement with networking opportunities and managing the outcome of these. It will empower staff in networking situations and help overcome feelings Target Audience: For those who would like to gain an overview and awareness of the key aspects of working with external industry partners View Course Details > SPIRAL - Personal Impact: Influencing & Negotiating show This lively and enlightening session will equip you with practical communication skills to help you strengthen your confidence, become someone to whom others want to listen and achieve greater and more consistent impact and influence. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Preparing and Applying for Fellowships show This workshop will provide participants with information about types of fellowships, the application/selection processes and support available to those seeking to apply for fellowships at Strathclyde. Target Audience: For Research Assistants, Research Associates and Research Fellows View Course Details > SPIRAL - Preparing and Applying for Scottish Crucible show This session will provide an introduction to The Scottish Crucible development programme and Strathclyde’s application process. Target Audience: For Research, Knowledge Exchange and Academic Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Preparing your first lectureship application show Aimed at Research Staff planning an academic career, this is an interactive day of sharing practice and exploring both the big picture and the detail of academic job applications, focussing on your first lectureship. Target Audience: Research staff planning an academic career View Course Details > SPIRAL - Project Management for Research and K.E. show This two day practical workshop will look at the tools and techniques used in managing research projects to build processes and structures that support delivery. You should be prepared to discuss one of the projects you are currently working on for some of the practical work. Target Audience: For academics / researchers managing projects View Course Details > SPIRAL - REF2021@Strathclyde show These lunch-time sessions are an opportunity for academics to find out more about the Research Excellence Framework and ask any questions they may have about it. Target Audience: Academics new to Strathclyde or new to REF or anyone with any questions. View Course Details > SPIRAL - Research Grant Workshop show This workshop will introduce ‘a recipe’ for an extremely efficient approach to writing a research project grant, such as a research council standard grant, that makes it possible to produce a case for support in 2 weeks. Target Audience: For those who are writing research grant and have a fundable project in mind. View Course Details > SPIRAL - Seven Secrets of Successful Research Supervision 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 View Course Details > SPIRAL - Sketchnote for Conferences show Learn about the benefits of sketch-noting and discover (or hone) your own graphic note-taking talents to capture and record the key messages from conference sessions Target Audience: Academic, Research, Teaching KE and Professional Support Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Spectacular images and Visualising Information show This workshop covers the principles of visualising data, examples of excellent visualisations and poor visualisations and case studies including examples from the instructor’s own publications and experience. Target Audience: Research and Academic Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - The Erasmus+ Programme show An overview of opportunities beyond student and staff exchange for funded European collaborative activity for staff of the University in the EU Erasmus+ programme. Target Audience: Academic & Professional Services staff interested in funded European collaborative projects in education, learning and knowledge exchange. View Course Details > SPIRAL - The Faculty of Engineering Grant Writing Challenge show The purpose of this 6 months in-depth programme is to improve grant writing skills in order to increase the successful funding of grant applications. Target Audience: Academic staff who are writing grants and wishing additional in-depth support View Course Details > SPIRAL - The Faculty of Science Grant Writing Challenge show The purpose of this 6 months in-depth programme is to improve grant writing skills in order to increase the successful funding of grant applications. Target Audience: Academic staff who are writing grants and wishing additional in-depth support View Course Details > SPIRAL - The Importance of Impact in Research Careers show This workshop is about understanding the impact agenda and what this means for researchers. Target Audience: For academics / researchers who need to develop their understanding of the impact agenda View Course Details > SPIRAL - The Role of the Supervisor in Development show This workshop aims to support supervisors of doctoral students to understand their role in the student’s professional and career development as well as discussing the role of the PGCert Researcher Professional Development. Target Audience: For academic staff with supervision responsibilities View Course Details > SPIRAL - Turbocharge Your Writing (for staff) 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 View Course Details > SPIRAL - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship clinic & peer-review session. show SPIRAL - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship clinic and peer-review session Target Audience: SPIRAL - UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship clinic and peer-review session View Course Details > 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: Research and Early Career Academic Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Understanding Industry to Communicate Effectively show This workshop will provide academic, research and knowledge exchange staff with an overview of the key influences on engaging with external organisations and how this can be improved through an understanding of how businesses are structured and operate. Target Audience: For those who would like to gain an overview and awareness of the key aspects of working with external industry partners View Course Details > SPIRAL - US funding opportunities for International Researchers show Delivered by Dr Bob Porter, a nationally recognised leader in the field of grantsmanship, this session will provide an overview of the funding opportunities available, with an emphasis on science and technology topics, from US funding agencies for researchers in non-US institutions. Target Audience: Academic/Research/Support Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - US funding opportunities for International Researchers HaSS show The session will be delivered by consultant, Dr Bob Porter, a nationally recognized leader in the field of grantsmanship, who will provide an overview of US funding opportunities for international researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Target Audience: Academic/Research/Support Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Winning Innovate UK Proposals show This workshop aims to introduce participants to Innovate UK, the funding organisation supporting industry-led collaborative innovation in market sectors important to the UK. Target Audience: All academic/research staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Writers Retreat show The Strathclyde Writers' 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: All Staff View Course Details > SPIRAL - Writing Successful Grants show Dr Bob Porter, a nationally recognised leader in the field of grantsmanship, will deliver this workshop which will provide you with the basic principles of how to write a winning grant proposal. Practical grant writing exercises will be interspersed throughout the workshop. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL EPSRC Capital Investment Award for ECRs–Bid Development Support show During this series of workshops you will be provided with information about procuring and managing equipment, an opportunity to find collaborators for joint proposals along with guidance and support to write your proposals. Target Audience: Early Career Researchers intending to apply for this call View Course Details > SPIRAL H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Scheme show This interactive session will provide proposal development support to colleagues wishing to submit a proposal to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) scheme within Horizon 2020 (next deadline: 12 September 2018). Target Audience: Academic/Research staff - all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL- Increasing and Assessing the Visibility of your Research show This session will introduce and explore recent changes in the scholarly publication landscape, particularly the growing importance of Open Access (OA). Target Audience: For those wishing to understand more about the changing scholarly communications landscape and strategies for improving research citation impact View Course Details > SPIRAL Masterclass: Digital Leadership show This masterclass will focus on digital leadership Target Audience: All academic/research staff View Course Details > SPIRAL -Social Media and the Open Rights Movement on Academic Practice show This session will be an opportunity to discuss some of the effects of social media and the open rights movement on academic practice. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff, all levels View Course Details > SPIRAL: costing research proposals for cost recovery show How to maximise cost recovery when costing and pricing research proposals, covering new guidance and recommendations published by RKES. Target Audience: Heads of Department, Directors of Research, Vice Deans Research, Faculty Managers, Departmental Managers, others approving research costings, others with department/faculty financial responsibility for research. View Course Details > SPIRAL:EPSRC Capital Investment Awards for ECRs - Information Session show This session will provide information on the upcoming internal call for bids to the EPSRC Capital Investment Awards for ECRs the support process to develop proposals and the bidding process itself. It is open to all Early Career Researchers. Target Audience: Early Career Researchers View Course Details > Stand and Deliver show This course is designed for staff members involved in delivering presentations and public speaking. voicebusiness uses specially adapted acting techniques for the business environment which are coupled with well-established disciplines such as NLP. Target Audience: Staff members involved in delivering presentations and public speaking. It maybe particularly helpful to those involved in research & knowledge exchange activities. View Course Details > STEP - Flip Your Classroom show To allow staff to explore tools, methods and principles of supporting reflective learning activities online. A 'flipped classroom' format involves students working at home on the content that is normally delivered during a traditional 'lecture'. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Peer Instruction: an introductory workshop show The session will include some theoretical background, but will focus on the “how-to” of Peer Instruction, with practical strategies, software tools, and potential pitfalls. Participants will have an opportunity to create their own resources during the session. Target Audience: Staff involved in delivering undergraduate teaching in the form of lectures. View Course Details > STEP - Writing online assessment questions using STACK show STACK is a computer aided assessment system with a focus on automatically establishing objective properties of answers which have mathematical content. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - AFHEA/ FHEA Applicants - Peer Support Network show Peer Support Network for applicants of Associate Fellowship and Fellowship to HEA Target Audience: Academic & Teaching Staff Applicants for Associate & Fellowship of HEA View Course Details > STEP - Designing Online and Blended Learning show This Masterclass will allow participants to reflect on how learning activities can be designed to create effective online and blended learning environments through presentation and discussion of design frameworks and practical activities underpinned by relevant theory and pedagogy Target Audience: All staff involved in designing learning activities within the university View Course Details > STEP - Disability Awareness show This session will increase awareness of disability-related issues and consider the impact that having a disability can have on the University experience Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Dyslexia Awareness show Workshop on dyslexia awareness Target Audience: Academic Staff View Course Details > STEP - Ensure an Inclusive Approach in the Classroom show This workshop will explore current inclusive teaching methods and encourage participants to consider how these could be applied within their own disciplinary areas. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Harnessing Creativity and Performativity to Enhance Student Eng show This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to try some of these techniques in a safe and supportive environment while benefiting from feedback from the instructor (with background and expertise in Theatre, Voice, and Communication) and other participants. Target Audience: All staff involved in delivery of teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - HEA Assessor Training show HEA fellowships assessor training Target Audience: HEA Assessor Trainers View Course Details > STEP - HEA Fellowship Information Session show This workshop will introduce you to the Strathclyde Recognition Pathways, discuss the requirements for recognition, assist you in selecting the most appropriate Descriptor category to work toward. Target Audience: Academic,Teaching APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - How to … Design Effective ‘Assessment For Learning’ show This session will explore ‘Assessment for Learning’, how this fits with Strathclyde Assessment and Feedback policy, and review specific examples of approaches based on this model Target Audience: Academic Staff View Course Details > STEP - How to use Myplace - Reflective learning Activities show This session will allow staff to explore tools, methods and principles of supporting reflective learning activities online Target Audience: Staff involved in teaching View Course Details > STEP - How to... use Myplace Peer Review show This session will allow staff to explore the MOODLE/Myplace activity ‘Workshop: Assignment’ used for peer review. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - How to...Use Video & Audio in your Teaching show This session aims to provide you with the confidence to use video in your teaching. All participants will need to bring a Smartphone to be able to take part in the session activity. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Introduction to Storytelling (2 parts) show This series of 2 short workshops are hosted by Alice Fernbank, a professional storyteller – and teacher. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Library Workshop for Academic Staff show “What has the Library ever done for us?” – An interactive workshop exploring the Andersonian Library’s current Information Literacy (IL) activities and how the Library can best support you and your students. Target Audience: Academic Staff View Course Details > STEP - Make documents accessible show This practical workshop will show participants how to create accessible word and PDF documents ensuring that they are readable by all, including people with disabilities. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Myplace Gradebook Weightings show This session will cover some of the basics of using the gradebook weighting system to calculate grades. Target Audience: Teaching and Administrative Staff View Course Details > STEP - Myplace Groups & Groupings show This session will provide staff with an understanding of how Groups and Groupings work in Myplace, which can be the key to administering many classes. Target Audience: All staff engaged in teaching View Course Details > STEP - Pedagogy and Publication Network (PPN) show The purpose of this peer support network is to promote and support pedagogical research and publication across the disciplines within the University. The group is intended to take the form of a Community of Practice (CoP) through organic growth. Target Audience: All staff with an interest in pedagogical research and publication View Course Details > STEP - Peer Support Network for Leadership in Learning and Teaching show This peer support network is being established to support staff in developing leadership within their learning and teaching role in the university Target Audience: Staff who work in a leadership role, or who are interested in developing leadership in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Playful Learning Group show A Playful Learning interest group meeting to discuss how to use playful methods and to support one another in developing ideas. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Playing for Education Masterclass show This masterclass draws on Giskin's experience of designing and delivering teaching, in an interdisciplinary environment at Imperial College London, to show techniques for promoting student engagement, learning and subjective well-being. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Playing for Education Workshop show This workshop will give participants the opportunity to explore the design and use of prop-based games and activities, with an emphasis on games inspired by ‘escape rooms’. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP – Quick 1 hour Session on Activity Completion & Engagement Report show This short lunchtime session will teach you the basics about the Activity Completion settings within Myplace and how these settings can be used to monitor the engagement of an individual student or class with the teaching and learning materials on Myplace through the Engagement Report Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Quick 1 hour STEP session on ASSIGNMENT show This short lunchtime session will teach you the basics about the Myplace assignment activity, which provides a space into which students can submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Quick 1 hour STEP session on FORUM show In this session you will participate in a number of forums.This will enable you to understand how the differing settings effect the way that posts are displayed. You will also follow step by step instructions to create a new forum. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Quick 1 hour STEP session on How to Post an Advert show This session will explain how to use the ‘Notice’ feature on Myplace to send an advert with adjoining image. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Quick 1 hour STEP session on Myplace - Grade Visibility show This session will be specifically useful to administrative or grading staff who have some responsibility for returning grades and feedback to students. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Quick 1 hour STEP session QUIZ show This short lunchtime session will teach you the basics about the Myplace quiz activity and how to create a simple multiple choice quiz. The Myplace quizzes are a set of questions grouped together, to be answered by a student in one sitting. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - SFHEA Peer Support Network show SFHEA Applicants group support meetings Target Audience: SFHEA Applicants - Peer Support Network View Course Details > STEP - Sharing Practice – Learning About Communication through ‘Live L show Sharing Practice – Learning About Communication through ‘Live Learning’ In this session we will describe how we have collaborated, the scope of the workshops and have a demonstration of some of the activities involved. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Sharing Practice: Encouraging development of social discipl... show Encouraging development of social disciplinary understandings through innovative teaching activities. Target Audience: The coursework is replicable in any department/ faculty where the students will join a vocational (accountancy, engineering medicine, law, etc.) community of practice on graduating. View Course Details > STEP - Staff part-time Doctorate support Network show Monthly lunchtime meetings every month to provide peer support for Strathclyde Staff members studying part-time doctorates The sessions will involve: Some CPD activities (e.g. speakers Target Audience: Staff members studying part-time doctorates View Course Details > STEP - Summer Course (Re)Design Challenge show The Summer Course (Re)Design challenge aims to provide a network of support for staff who would like to (re)design courses or aspects of their teaching, but who struggle to find the time to do this. Target Audience: Academic and Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP - Supporting administration of classes in Myplace show This session will allow staff to explore tools and methods of administering classes online and organising a cohort. Target Audience: Staff wishing to find out more about administering classes efficiently online in Myplace View Course Details > STEP - Supporting social learning show This session will allow staff to explore tools, methods and principles of social learning online Target Audience: Staff wishing to find out more about social learning activities online View Course Details > STEP - Teachers PET (Performance Evaluation Tool) show Teachers PET (Teachers Performance Evaluation Tool) is a system for collecting feedback from students about classes and their delivery. Questionnaires are prepared for each class, they can be completely different and can run concurrently. Each questionnaire has a feedback window. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Teaching and Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse Students show This session will explore working with trans and gender diverse students, and consider the ways in which we can cultivate inclusive teaching and learning environments. Target Audience: Those involved in teaching, learning and assessment, those with an interest in supporting trans and gender diverse students View Course Details > STEP - Teaching using live online collaboration platforms. show This session will allow staff to explore tools, methods and principles of tools that support teaching classes live online. Target Audience: Staff wishing to find out more using tools which enable live online teaching of students. View Course Details > STEP - Teaching, Assessment and Feedback with Technology show This workshop will explore a technological approach to delivering a class, using a system developed in the CIS department. The system hosts many aspects of the delivery process, integrating teaching materials with video content and machine-assessed online exercises. Target Audience: Faculty of Science staff View Course Details > STEP - Transforming Assessment and Feedback Challenge show The Transforming Assessment challenge aims to provide a network of support for staff who would like to (re)design formative and/or summative assessment opportunities. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Use Feedforward to Enhance Feedback show This session will focus on how the traditional retrospective focus on feedback can be flipped for assessments and assignments, and will also explore real-time and embedded feedback. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Use Jigsaw Learning show Jigsaw learning is a form of co-operative learning that can be used in the classroom to encourage students to learn from each other in a way that also encourages individuals to take responsibility for their assigned work. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Use Technology to Enhance Feedback show . This session explores ways in which technology might be used to enhance feedback. This will include the use of audio feedback, polling software, and clicker technology. Target Audience: Staff who are involved in learning and teaching within the university View Course Details > STEP - Using Social Media & Technology to Enhance L&T show The purpose of this network is for academic staff with a wide range of experiences and varying levels of confidence to get together, ask questions, learn from and support one another. Target Audience: Any staff who would like to participate in an active, ongoing peer support network, learn from one another, and share their own practical experiences of using technology to enhance teaching and learning at Strathclyde. View Course Details > STEP - VIRA Catch up Session show VIRA Catch up Session This session is for anyone in the process of applying for the Vitae International Researcher Award to support you in completing your application. The deadline for the next round of submissions will be 31st May Target Audience: This session is for anyone in the process of applying for the Vitae International Researcher Award View Course Details > STEP - What about me?: Supporting Staff, Supporting Students show This training has been developed by students in order to support staff in supporting the first year transition of students, particularly their transition into the academic environment and how this can also support social integration to university life. Training will: Target Audience: All staff involved in delivery of 1st year undergraduate teaching View Course Details > STEP - Work with students who are blind/visually impaired show This session will increase awareness of the needs of students who are blind or visually impaired and the barriers they face in higher education. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Work with students who have Asperger’s Syndrome show This session will increase awareness of the needs of students with Asperger’s Syndrome and the barriers they face in higher education. Participants will be encouraged to consider how to make the learning and wider University environment accessible to these students. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Working with students who are d/Deaf or hearing impaired show The aim of this session is to raise awareness of the barriers to learning that d/Deaf and hearing impaired students may face. Target Audience: Teaching, Academic and APS Staff View Course Details > STEP - Workshop on digital and blended Learning Course (Re) Design show This workshop is delivered by Prof. Grainne Conole. The full day workshop will allow participants to reflect on how learning activities can be designed to create effective online and blended learning. Target Audience: Teaching Staff View Course Details > STEP How to encourage critical engagement with disciplinary lit.. show Reading student's written work so often provokes the reaction, "How could they write that!?" The "CRAP detector" is a straightforward rubric which can be used by students from first year undergraduates to doctoral students to start them thinking and writing critically.' Target Audience: Staff wishing to explore a number of straightforward rubrics to allow students to assess the usefulness of a range of material. View Course Details > STEP Learning & Teaching in an International Technological University show This annual conference is designed to showcase current best practice and explore new pedagogical innovations. The event will feature speakers from our own staff. Target Audience: All staff involved in Learning & Teaching at the University View Course Details > STEP/SPIRAL - Delivering ad-hoc Lectures show The session is aimed at Early Career Researchers wishing, or expected, to deliver ad-hoc lectures and teaching sessions that may be unrelated to their own research or on core subject material. Target Audience: Research Assistants, Research Associates and Research Fellows with little or no teaching experience. View Course Details > STEP-Making effective use of technology and learning spaces at Strath show This open session is an opportunity for staff involved in L & T to come along and see the newest, upgraded learning and teaching spaces at Strathclyde, learn how to use them, and talk to learning technology staff about using the equipment in the best way to support students. Target Audience: Staff involved in learning and teaching View Course Details > STEP-Positively influencing the NSS: Building a community of learners show This session will outline initiatives put in place by Strathclyde Psychology in support of building communities of learners. Strathclyde Psychology regularly scores highly in NSS scores for overall satisfaction and this year saw a 10% increase in ‘Learning Community’ scores. Target Audience: University Staff involved in learning and teaching View Course Details > STEPTech Autumn Seminar Series: Part 1 - Teaching with Lightboards show Lightboards offer a way to create videos that complement flipped, online and blended learning. A lightboard is an illuminated glass panel that allows a lecturer to write while facing the audience. Target Audience: Staff in academic, technical and professional job families who are involved or interested in the delivery and/or support of online and blended learning View Course Details > STEPTech Autumn Seminar Series: Part 2 – Digital Storytelling show Digital storytelling to enhance the student experience Target Audience: Staff in academic, technical and professional job families who are involved or interested in the delivery and/or support of teaching, learning and assessment View Course Details > STEPTech Autumn Seminar Series: Part 3 - Virtual and Augmented Reality show Immersing students in virtual and augmented reality Target Audience: Staff in academic, technical and professional job families who are involved or interested in the delivery and/or support of teaching, learning and assessment View Course Details > Strathclyde Carers' Group show Bi-monthly meetings at which carers can network, provide feedback on University support for carers and hear speakers on topics of interest to carers. Target Audience: All staff View Course Details > Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow Application Support Workshop show This workshop aims to provide support for potential applicants for this year’s Strathclyde Chancellor’s Fellow Scheme, to understand how the hiring process works and what is expected in the application. Target Audience: For those intending to apply to the Chancellor's Fellow Scheme in 2017 View Course Details > Student centred customer service for technicians show The aim of this full day course for technicians is to explore various models and approaches to customer service and build the skills essential in delivering an excellent student centred technical service. Target Audience: Technicians View Course Details > Supervising Postgraduate Research show This module enables you to engage with the professional and theoretical underpinnings and political drivers of national developments in research and research supervision in Higher Education in the UK. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Supervising Postgraduate Research ONLINE show Supervising Postgraduate Research (online) This module enables you to engage with the professional and theoretical underpinnings and political drivers of national developments in research and research supervision in Higher Education in the UK. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Supervising Research - Masterclass show Anne Lee will describe the most recent applications of the work she described in her book "Successful Research Supervision" (Routledge 2012). Target Audience: Staff Supervising PG Research Students View Course Details > Supervising Research - Workshop show The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to explore each of the five approaches to supervising research that Anne includes in her framework Target Audience: Staff Supervising PG Research Students View Course Details > Supporting International Students show This workshop will explore key considerations for staff supervising international research students. This workshop can be used as a ‘Day-to-Day Supervision Skills’ option towards the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Supporting Your Strathclyde PGR Student show This workshop will provide tools and advice on getting your postgraduate research students off to the best start at Strathclyde. It is a Core Workshop of the Strathclyde Supervisor Development Programme. Target Audience: All staff with a role in PG Research Supervision View Course Details > Talk like TED in a Day! show Come along to this full day workshop in order to master the art of storytelling, learn how to paint strong visual imagery and understand how to get your audience behind your ideas, no matter what they are. A fun but challenging masterclass for those who need to captivate audiences. Target Audience: Staff members involved in delivering presentations and public speaking View Course Details > TALON Part 2 show Part 2 includes three weeks during which some engagement is expected (approximately 8 hours in total). Other time will be spent on developing and evaluating their online classes or activities. Tutors can be contacted at any time (within reason!) until assessment submission, however Target Audience: The aim of the module is to allow participants to experience being an online student while at the same time exploring the implications and opportunities of teaching and learning online. View Course Details > Teaching, Learning & Assessment within the Disciplines show This module provides a series of activities and scholarly readings to help colleagues articulate the key conceptual transformations that are fundamental within their discipline(s) and identify how best to teach these to their students. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > Technical Staff Programme Level 1 - Information Session show A one hour session which will provide an overview of the individual development sessions, how to engage in the optional elements of the programme, pre-programme objective setting, and the options for Professional Registration and external accreditation. Target Audience: Technical staff - grades 3-5 View Course Details > Technical Staff Programme Level 2 - Information Session show A one hour session which will provide an overview of the individual development sessions, how to engage in the optional elements of the programme, pre-programme objective setting, and the options for Professional Registration and external accreditation. Target Audience: Technical staff - grades 6-8 View Course Details > Technician’s Development Session – CPD Opportunities show Are you a technician interested in your continual professional development? Come along and hear how you can benefit from HEaTED CPD activities. HEaTED has thousands of CPD activities, designed to inspire technicians at every stage of their career. Target Audience: Technicians View Course Details > The Publication Challenge 2018 show The Publication Challenge will focus on improving the quality and quantity of publications. It will draw on and share best practice from across the Faculty to give staff a series of workshops focussing on key aspects of academic publishing. Target Audience: Academic staff in Science & Engineering Faculties who have material ready for publication (May be appropriate to some Post Docs, on approval from supervisor) View Course Details > TLA BESPOKE SESSION show Teaching Learning & Assessment within the Disciplines We are planning to run a bespoke TLA session for those TLA participants who have not submitted their observation form or undertaken this activity. Target Audience: Academic Staff View Course Details > Train the Trainer show The course is designed for those with limited or no prior experience of planning & delivering training. It is intended for candidates with subject knowledge whose job role includes the training of others in small groups settings & in work-related learning contexts. Target Audience: For Staff whose job role includes the training of others View Course Details > UK Research and KE Landscape show This will provide staff with a more in-depth understanding of the UK research and knowledge exchange landscape, and how this relates to Strathclyde. Target Audience: For staff who are new to Strathclyde and the UK Research and KE Landscape View Course Details > UK Research Office Annual Visit: European Funding and Brexit show Format of Event: Information Session with an Opportunity for a Q&A. This session will provide an overview of the current situation of the UK in EU programmes such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+, in light of the ongoing Brexit process. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff - all levels View Course Details > UK Research Office Annual Visit: Future EU Funding Programmes show This session will introduce the next generation of EU programmes, which will run between 2021 and 2027 alongside Horizon Europe, based on the European Commission’s proposals published in June this year. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff - all levels View Course Details > UK Research Office: Maximising Impact in Horizon 2020 show This session will focus on addressing the Impact criterion of Horizon 2020 proposals. It will include information on what the evaluators understand by impact on EU projects and what measures must be taken by the beneficiaries to maximise it on Horizon 2020-funded projects. Target Audience: Academic/Research Staff - all levels View Course Details > Understanding and Exploring Knowledge Exchange. show This class provides the core learning experience for the Knowledge Exchange pathway of the SPARK programme and is also mandatory in the Academic Practice path. Target Audience: Academic & Research Staff View Course Details > What is Gender-based Violence (GBV)? show The aim of this half day course is to highlight what gender-based violence is, why it happens and will focus on good practice responses Target Audience: Those who work in a front-facing role with students or staff in a support or advisory role such as in University Residences, Estates and Security services, HR, Student Advice and Health Services, Student Advisors, OH, Academic Course Administration View Course Details > Writing Competitive ITN Proposals in the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie show This workshop will provide participants with comprehensive advice and guidance on how to develop a competitive proposal for Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Networks. The workshops will be particularly suited to those in the process or developing a bid to the January 2019 deadline Target Audience: Academic / Research staff – all levels Particularly those in the process of developing an ITN proposal for the January 2019 deadline View Course Details > Writing Effective Emails show This half day workshop will include participatory activities and exercises to hone writing skills in an email context. Benefits to participants are a polished and professional email style that reflects well on the organisation as a whole. Target Audience: All Staff View Course Details >
