Your search has returned 118 courses. 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > Apply Design Thinking to your Research show Participants will be introduced to the basic principles of design thinking. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > Developing an Effective Relationship with Your Supervisor show The relationship between research student and supervisor is critical to your PhD. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > Interdisciplinary Collaboration show Participants will learn about the latest thinking behind Interdisciplinary Collaborate Research. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Introduction to LaTeX show Participants will be introduced to the LaTeX package for scientific word-processing and type-setting. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > MATLAB training show Self paced basic and advanced training in MATLAB online via Mathworks Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Navigating Peer Review show Participants will explore the peer review process. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > PG Essentials:Digital Scholarship Skills show Participants will develop their digital scholarship skills Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > PGR Induction Marketplace - Online show ... Target Audience: PGRs View Course Details > PhD to Postdoc: Making the Transition show Participants will learn about becoming a post-doctoral researcher. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > Research Integrity Online show Participants will explore all aspects of Research integrity Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > The Art and Craft of Editing show Participants will learn how practical editing skills can improve their writing. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details > 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 View Course Details >