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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: PGR Students


Finishing your PhD on Time     show
Participants learn a combination of project management and time management skills & methods applied specifically to the challenge of completing a high quality PhD thesis on time with minimal stress and anxiety. Increased confidence & optimism about completing their PhD thesis on time

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Managing your career - get that job!     show
Please note that this course is now archived and is no longer run by the Researcher Development Team.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Postgraduate Research: Introduction to Teaching     show
This course has been developed by the Researcher Development Team specifically for PGRs who will undertake teaching during their time at Strathclye.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


A Career in Academia -     show
Participants will discover what it takes to make it as an academic and will have the opportunity to talk to early career academics about their experiences.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


A Career in Academia - Online     show
Participants will discover what it takes to make it as an academic and will have the opportunity to talk to early career academics about their experiences.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


A Guide to Reflective Writing     show
This day-long course will guide participants through the process of producing reflective writing, outlining techniques for planning and drafting, and detailing the benefits reflective writing can bring.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


A Guide to Reflective Writing (Online)     show
This online course will guide participants through the process of reflective writing, outlining techniques for planning and editing, and detailing the benefits reflective writing can bring.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Academic Poster Design - Online     show
Participants will leave with a foundation in what aspects should be considered when preparing their research findings for visual presentation.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Advanced Project Management     show
You will be introduced to tried & tested management techniques for dealing with complex and collaborative projects. This course in complement to previous PM sessions focuses on the remaining material needed for the CAPM exam as well as introducing new advanced techniques and concepts

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


AFHEA information session for PGRs who Teach     show
Information session for Postgraduate Researchers who Teach wishing to apply for Associate Fellowship of the HEA.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers who Teach


Apply Design Thinking to your Research     show
Participants will be introduced to the basic principles of design thinking.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Business Beyond the Bottom Line     show
Participants will examine how to make a living that is aligned with their personal motivations, and consider business and enterprise from that angle.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


CAPM Exam Preparation     show
Preparation to pass the CAPM examination. This course will touch on the necessary background theory required for the exam, however it will focus on the techniques required to score highly in the multiple choice question format.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Careers Beyond Research: Applying your Skills outside Academia     show
Participants will explore a number of careers and what particular options might be compatible with individuals.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Communicating with Confidence: Nerves, Resilience and Pro-Resilience     show
A lively and interactive day designed around the issues and complexities of confidence -and dealing with it’s ab- sence- with games and professional activities to help postgraduates focus on what they want out of their life and PhD.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Communicating with Confidence: Public Speaking for PGRs - Beginners     show
The workshop will be highly interactive and all course participants will gain the knowledge and skills to present their research projects with impact to a variety of audiences both academic and non academic.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Communicating with Confidence: Public Speaking for PGRs - Intermediate     show
A second stage highly interactive and enjoyable workshop where participants will gain the knowledge & skills to present their research projects with more advanced techniques to a variety of specialist demanding audiences and at large scale events such as conferences & public lectures

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Communicating with Confidence: Working with Nerves and Confidence     show
Whether it's supervision, the viva, difficult conversations, presenting, submitting work, impostor syndrome or many others, a PhD is full of challenges to practice confidence and overcome nerves – however unwelcome those may be.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Communicating with large general audiences at public events     show
A final stage (advanced) presentation skills course that looks at engaging large international conference audiences or large seminar/workshop audiences

Target Audience: PGR Students


Complying with EPSRCs Policy Framework on Research Data     show
This course will introduce researchers to the stipulations made by EPSRC in relation to research data when in receipt of their funding for research.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Conducting a Systematic Literature Review     show
Expand your knowledge of systematic literature reviews. Exporting data from repositories, establishing a unique naming convention, knowledge of JabRef, collating all studies using JabRef, data handling, screening studies using JabRef, creating inclusion and exclusion criteria

Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers


Creating a Good Supervision Relationship     show
The course will provide individuals with techniques to manage their perspectives and their behaviour in respect of their supervision relationships, ensuring they are active partners in constructing clear, respectful communication and minimising the impact of any problems.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Creating Research Data Management Plans     show
This course will help answer your questions about data management planning and lead you through the process of completing a plan.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Student


Creating Research Data Management Plans - Online     show
This course will help answer your questions about data management planning and lead you through the process of completing a plan.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Student


Creative Problem Solving - Online     show
Participants will learn a number of tools that help them generate ideas for solving real problems.

Target Audience: PGR Students


CWC: Networking, marketing and building your professional profile     show
Essential skills for building networks, marketing yourself and understanding how effective and targeted communication strategies can work to market your core competencies to others.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


CWC: Networking, marketing and building your professional profile -Onl     show
Essential skills for building networks, marketing yourself and understanding how effective and targeted communication strategies can work to market your core competencies to others.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


CWC: Public Speaking for PGRs - Beginners - Online     show
The workshop will be highly interactive and all course participants will gain the knowledge and skills to present their research projects with impact to a variety of audiences both academic and non academic.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


CWC: Public Speaking for PGRs - Intermediate - Online     show
A second stage highly interactive and enjoyable workshop where participants will gain the knowledge & skills to present their research projects with more advanced techniques to a variety of specialist demanding audiences and at large scale events such as conferences & public lectures

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Cyber Security Awareness (Students)     show
This is a self-paced course aimed at developing a broad awareness of Cyber Security issues.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Data Deposit, DOIs and Data Availability Statements     show
This session will cover the main steps to publishing your research data, specifically when the data supports a research publication or thesis. The session will cover FAIR data deposit in Pure, what a DOI is and how it should be used in a publication Data Availability Statement.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students in the latter stages of PhD, Research Staff


Designing and 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


Developing an Effective Relationship with Your Supervisor     show
The relationship between research student and supervisor is critical to your PhD.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Developing and Engaging in Equitable Ethical Partnerships for Research     show
Please note that this course is now archived and is no longer run by the Researcher Development Team.

Target Audience: PGR and academic staff


Developing Your Voice in your Academic Writing     show
Participants will learn a range of techniques to help develop their own personal style in their academic writing.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Engaging Beyond Academia: Industry, Networking and Opportunity Online     show
Participants will be introduced to various aspects of engagement with external organisations, including industry.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Exploring Research Integrity & Culture in Practice for PGRs     show
This workshop will explore the practical contexts of culture and integrity from PGR perspective. We will examine case studies and complex scenarios, enabling participants to consider factors that contribute to developing positive research cultures.

Target Audience: PGRs


Fast Track to Impact     show
Participants will be given access to weekly exercises to fast track their impact no matter what discipline they work in.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Fear of the Blank Page     show
Participants will be introduced to how to start writing and how to keep motivated planning your writing and finishing

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Finishing your PhD on Time - Online     show
Participants learn a combination of project management and time management skills & methods applied specifically to the challenge of completing a high quality PhD thesis on time with minimal stress and anxiety. Increased confidence & optimism about completing their PhD thesis on time

Target Audience: PGRs


Getting Published in Academic Journals     show
Participants will practice a range of writing techniques to aid them in developing a repertoire of writing strategies for journal writing, draft journal abstracts and draft outlines.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Getting Published in Academic Journals - Online     show
Participants will practice a range of writing techniques to aid them in developing a repertoire of writing strategies for journal writing, draft journal abstracts and draft outlines.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Getting to Grips with Fellowships     show
Participants will learn why research grant applications require a different style of writing from papers and theses. They will learn a formula for a good grant application and a recipe for producing that formula.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Getting to Grips with Grant Writing     show
Participants will be introduced to grant writing and the process of writing winning research proposals.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


How to be an Effective Researcher     show
This course is a chance to step-away from your day-to-day research, and to develop an understanding of what a doctorate actually is and therefore what is required of you to manage it effectively, so as to succeed in the process and get the best out of your supervisor and yourself.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


How to be an Effective Researcher (Online)     show
This course is a chance to step-away from your day-to-day research, and to develop an understanding of what a doctorate actually is and therefore what is required of you to manage it effectively, so as to succeed in the process and get the best out of your supervisor and yourself.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


How to do a PhD     show
Please note that this course is now archived and is no longer run by the Researcher Development Team.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Immortalising your Research: Ethics, Sharing and Being Open     show
Participants will be introduced to a number of different platforms have recently been developed to facilitate the data sharing and distribution process.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


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: PGRs


Interdisciplinary Collaboration     show
Participants will learn about the latest thinking behind Interdisciplinary Collaborate Research.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Introduction to LaTeX     show
Participants will be introduced to the LaTeX package for scientific word-processing and type-setting.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Introduction to NVivo     show
The NVivo course is now archived. Training and development is now provided by self-study materials only, these materials are provided here - https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/developmentandtraining/SitePages/NVivo.aspx.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Reseach


Introduction to Project Planning (1 day)     show
A high-level overview of key PM techniques and concepts. It offers an introduction to the process of managing projects and the tools to assist in planning and tracking progress.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Introduction to Project Planning (series)     show
Part 1 examines how to initially identify the building blocks for a successful project. Part 2 builds on the previous topics to begin to craft the scope or the outputs of the project. Part 3 looks at the process of creating a rigorous and robust project plan.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Introduction to Research Data Management and Sharing     show
Participants will introduce researchers to the concepts involved in research data management and sharing as well as what the Strathclyde approach is and what practical steps you should take to ensure you are following best practice.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Introduction to research methods: Systematic Literature Review     show
Find out about types of literature reviews, find out about the significance of systematic literature reviews. Why are they needed? Why now? Unique qualities of SLRs. Who conducts SLRs? Parts and steps of SLRs.

Target Audience: Early stage PGRs


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

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


Introductory Training for PGRs who Teach     show
Participants will be given an induction to the skills and attitudes required to teach at the University of Strathclyde.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Job Interview Techniques     show
Participants will gain a better understanding of the purpose of an interview, what interviewers are really looking and how to prepare effectively.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Keeping on Top of Your PhD: Time Management Strategies (1 day)     show
The challenge of creating momentum and structure for the duration of a PhD, which is often characterised by long periods of independent work, demands effective, resilient time management skills.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Leadership & Teambuilding     show
Any PhD student looking towards embarking their professional journey - whether academic, commercial research or any other field - will benefit from understanding and being able to demonstrate good leadership characteristics.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Marketing Yourself & Your PhD     show
Participants will gain an overview of how to present themselves effectively during professional networking events, on CVs and in application forms.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


MATLAB training     show
Self paced basic and advanced training in MATLAB online via Mathworks

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Navigating Peer Review     show
Participants will explore the peer review process.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Open Access and Research Data Management for Researchers     show
Participants will be introduced to Open Access, and be given practical help on the issues that researchers will face in their career.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


PG Cert RPD - Drop In Session: On Campus     show
We would like to offer support for all PhD candidates registered on the PG Cert RPD.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


PG Cert RPD - Drop In Session: Zoom     show
We would like to offer support for all PhD candidates registered on the PG Cert RPD.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


PG Cert RPD Information Session     show
This session will cover what the PG Cert RPD is, and how to successfully complete it.

Target Audience: New postgraduate students


PG Essentials:Digital Scholarship Skills     show
Participants will develop their digital scholarship skills

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


PhD to Postdoc: Making the Transition     show
Participants will learn about becoming a post-doctoral researcher.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Planning a Systematic Literature Review     show
Formulating and specifying research question. Developing search strings.Understanding Boolean operators for search strings.Utilizing word variants.Selection of databases – where to search?Importance of naming conventions. Developing a search results summary.Exploring JabRef interface.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers


Planning your Professional Development     show
Participants will gain insight into strategies for developing the skills needed for a successful doctoral research degree and career.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Poster Skills     show
The workshop will help you build confidence and maximise the experience, ensuring you leave the event with contacts, collaborators and maybe even a prize.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Postgraduate Researcher Induction     show
This session will provide you with an overview of the University, the support and services available to you and expectations of our postgraduate researchers.

Target Audience: First Year Postgraduate Research Students


Postgraduate Stop and Write     show
The aim of the postgraduate stop and write session is to provide you with dedicated time and space to focus on a your own writing project.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers


Preparing for the Viva- Online     show
Learn about the viva process, the structure of a viva and practical steps that they can take to be as prepared as possible for their viva

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Presentation Skills - PGR     show
Explore how to turn your research into a compelling narrative and give confident presentations. Participants will discover techniques to banish nerves, produce clear slides and answer questions effectively.

Target Audience: PGRs


Presenting Online and Handling Questions at a Conference Presentation     show
Please note that this course is now archived and is no longer run by the Researcher Development Team.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Problem Solving in Reality     show
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would provide us with the picture of a completed PhD project, showing a happy researcher, and a clear path to help us get there?

Target Audience: PGR Students


Problem Solving: Five Creative and Powerful Methods     show
Your PhD research must answer an academic challenge, and active research requires the solution of countless problems. So, you have to know how to approach challenge constructively, how to create new ideas and turn them into practical steps.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Professional Networking for Researchers     show
Participants will explore networking strategies, engagement methods and how to "pitch" themselves and their ideas.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Professional Networking for Researchers - Online     show
Participants will explore networking strategies, engagement methods and how to "pitch" themselves and their ideas.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Project Management in the Real World     show
Participants will become more comfortable using the PM techniques learned through planning and re-planning a project; to more confidently present their projects and proposals to managers, colleagues, funders and other stakeholders.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Promoting healthy Decisions (PhD)     show
Gain knowledge of different Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques which can be added to a mental ‘toolbox’ and used to help manage wellbeing in the context of postgraduate study.

Target Audience: PGRs


Research Integrity     show
Participants will learn about how to employ the highest standards of research integrity. You will be introduced to potential pitfalls and how to avoid your authority as a researcher being undermined by your own actions or the actions of others.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Research Integrity in Practice     show
This highly interactive workshop is suitable for those looking to explore such questions, to enhance their own professional knowledge and conduct, and those wanting to learn from the conduct of others also.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Research Integrity Online     show
Participants will explore all aspects of Research integrity

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


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

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Resilience for Researchers     show
Explore what contributes to their personal view of resilience and identify practical strategies for developing and maintaining their feelings of resilience.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


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

Target Audience: Anyone involved in research and innovation


Responsible Research and Innovation Series     show
This course introduces principles and concepts of responsible research and innovation and provides attendees with tools, processes, and frameworks for developing innovations responsibility. It is funded through the University of Strathclyde EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

Target Audience: PGR students, including Impact Champions


Risk Management (1 day)     show
A solid grounding in the major tools and techniques to identify, assess and plan for risks. Delegates will also learn to identify the likely areas of risk, to apply a standard methodology for quantifying risks and to develop solutions and contingency.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Risk Management (series)     show
This two-part series of online training webinars aims to provide participants with tools and techniques to proactively identify and respond to risks within their own project environment.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Spectacular Information and Visualising Data     show
Participants will be introduced to various types of visual formats including standard graphs, mapping data and infographics.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Stats for the Fearful     show
This course starts with a reminder of basic statistics and then introduces the principles behind statistical inference and hypothesis testing. The emphasis is on interpreting outputs from such analysis as might appear in academic journals.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Supervision and Making it Work for You     show
Of course, the supervisor’s role is just one aspect of that and another, rather critical, part is you and your contributions to it – how effective are they? Hopefully you’ve thought about such questions? If so, and if not, this workshop could be for you.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Taking Charge of Your Time: Avoid Drifting     show
Learn some simple techniques to make the most of your time, day by day, week by week. Ensuring you make good use of your time will increase your productivity. This will also boost your mood and your motivation, helping you sustain your work output over the long-haul of PhD study.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Techniques for Confident Professional Communication     show
This course addresses the psychological and practical challenges of communicating in a range of professional settings, e.g.: communicating with senior colleagues and supervisors; presenting to groups; negotiating with collaborators.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


The Art and Craft of Editing     show
Participants will learn how practical editing skills can improve their writing.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Thesis Writing Bootcamp     show
This workshop explores the practicalities of thesis writing, including planning techniques, appropriate writing style and how to make writing more productive.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Three Minute Thesis Training     show
Participants will gain the knowledge and skills required to compete in the University of Strathclyde's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Time and Self-Management for Researchers     show
Every PhD has busy-ness and stillness; many also have overload and procrastination. So much so, that managing time becomes more about managing ourselves, our priorities and motivation than simply ticking things off a to-do list.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Time and Self-Management for Researchers - Online     show
Every PhD has busy-ness and stillness; many also have overload and procrastination. So much so, that managing time becomes more about managing ourselves, our priorities and motivation than simply ticking things off a to-do list.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Time management, motivation & prioritising     show
Time management and motivation is not about working more, it’s about working smarter. This half day workshop is designed specifically for researchers who are interested in developing their time management skills and optimising their working hours.

Target Audience: PGR Students


Understanding & Planning a Research Career     show
This workshop will give an overview of academic careers, including case studies and examples from the instructor’s own experience.

Target Audience: PGRs


What Next Career Planning for Researchers?     show
Participants learn how to develop long term self-management skills for future career progressions. We will consider the current job market and landscape and provide advice on how to keep up to date with relevant labour market intelligence to support career progression.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing and Presenting Research     show
Participants will learn generic skills required for academic research, and explore the issues associates with writing and presenting research for academic and non-academic purposes.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 1     show
Participants will explore writing in the 1st year of the doctorate, covering writing about the literature, using writing to develop their own style, and to manage an evolving research project.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 1 - Online     show
Participants will explore writing in the 1st year of the doctorate, covering writing about the literature, using writing to develop their own style, and to manage an evolving research project.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 2     show
Participants will explore issues relevant to writing in the 2nd year of the doctorate. Particular emphasis is given to the difficulty managing an evolving project, understanding the demands and structure of research writing and applying that knowledge.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 2 - Online     show
Participants will explore issues relevant to writing in the 2nd year of the doctorate. Particular emphasis is given to the difficulty managing an evolving project, understanding the demands and structure of research writing and applying that knowledge.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 3     show
Participants will explore a range of topics pertinent to the final stages of writing up a doctoral thesis. It deals with tasks and issues important to finishing off a thesis, such as the difficulties of editing a large document and writing to deadlines.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence - Year 3 - Online     show
Participants will explore a range of topics pertinent to the final stages of writing up a doctoral thesis. It deals with tasks and issues important to finishing off a thesis, such as the difficulties of editing a large document and writing to deadlines.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing With Confidence & Getting Going With Academic Writing     show
This workshop kick-starts your academic writing and helps you develop productive and effective habits.

Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students


Writing with confidence: authentic and persuasive writing for posters,     show
This interactive workshop will help you get your written messages across all media to wider audiences with a dash of personality, clarity and targeted knowledge.

Target Audience: PGR Students


WWC: Writing for posters, Media and Public Engagement     show
Participants will gain the knowledge and skills to adapt and present their research work by engaging in a series of fun and thoughtful exercises to present different styles of writing to their peers in the room.

Target Audience: PGR Students