This month’s Researcher Education and Development (RED) workshops cover a wide range of topics – literature reviews; researcher profiles and metrics; copyright, publishing and open access; writing a journal article, and more! Check out the list below and register by clicking on the name of each workshop you would like to attend.
Wednesday 6 March, 10am to noon Systematic style reviews in Health: Building a robust search strategy
Your library specialists will demonstrate expert search techniques using an example systematic review research question, for you to later apply to your own review search strategy. The workshop will include topics like search concepts and synonyms, adjacency searching, subject headings (MeSH) and more.
Thursday 7 March, 10 to 11am Formatting your thesis Q&A
This online session will give participants the opportunity to ask any questions they may have after going through the resource that is provided upon registration. This resource contains video lessons on how to use Microsoft Word’s automated settings and features to apply consistent formatting throughout a document and manage long documents efficiently.
Thursday 7 March, noon to 1pm Researcher Profiles: ORCiD
This workshop will show you how to use and reap the benefits of ORCID by:
- enhancing the discoverability and visibility of your research;
- preventing name ambiguity problems;
- saving time when applying for funding and/or publishing: enter your information once, re-use often!
Tuesday 12 March, noon to 1pm Endnote Q&A
Learn the basics and start using EndNote using the Library’s EndNote Basics Tutorial, then register to join the Endnote Q&A live virtual session. Bring your questions and get answers and tips from specialist librarians and other EndNote users.
Wednesday 13 March, 10:30am to noon Copyright, Publishing and open access considerations
The seminar will examine copyright, publishing and open access considerations across all research disciplines.
Thursday 14 March, 10:30am to noon Introduction to digital texts and tools for HASS research
This information session introduces digital methods and tools to find, access and build a corpus or text dataset, then prepare textual data for analysis, including transcription tools and data recognition (OCR) to ensure machine readability.
Wednesday 20 March, 10:30am to noon Library searching for literature reviews
In this workshop your Library specialists will provide invaluable information and demonstrate searching systematically in library databases using example topics. You can later apply these techniques to your own search.
Thursday 21 March, noon to 12:30pm Research metrics express: find my top 5 publications
Learn strategies for finding and determining top publications to include in your next grant application. Discover ways to provide supporting evidence for why these publications are the best.
Wednesday 27 March, 11:30am to 1pm Writing a journal article
Writing a journal article to communicate your research findings is a key skill for your academic career; showing your viability as a researcher, as well as showcasing your ability to disseminate your findings to your intended audience. This workshop will examine the features and structure of journal articles and discuss tips to help you shape your ideas into a publishable format.
Thursday 28 March, 10am to noon Data organisation in spreadsheets for researchers
Learn good data organisation practices using spreadsheets. Explore how to structure data in a way that computers can read it. This workshop is based on the Data Carpentry workshop for social scientists.
You can find details of all researcher workshops via the Researcher Education and Development calendar.
