Are you looking for help with your researcher profiles or metrics, Library searching for a literature review, formatting your thesis or with data visualisation or storytelling? This month’s researcher workshops cover all of this and more. Click on the links below to view more details and register for workshops.
Wednesday 1 May, noon to 1pm Researcher profiles: Symplectic Elements and Griffith Experts
This workshop is aimed at academic staff who are researchers who are seeking to collect and manage their research outputs through Symplectic Elements and enhance their Griffith Experts profile to ensure their academic dashboard is up-to-date.
Thursday 2 May, 10 to 11am 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 8 May, 9:30am to 12:30pm Working with sensitive data
This workshop uses practical and discussion-based training to inform researchers about responsibilities when working with sensitive data. With a focus on the “Five Safes” framework and principles of sharing data, the workshop explains and demonstrates strategies to mitigate disclosure risks and promote data security and privacy protections. The session is suited to Higher Degree Research students as it provides them with a framework and skills on all aspects of the practical and appropriate management of sensitive data.
Wednesday 8 May, 1 to 2pm 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 9 May, 10am to noon Systematic style reviews in Health: Building a robust search strategy
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. This session will be most valuable for researchers in the Health disciplines who are considering or conducting a systematic-style review (e.g., systematic, scoping, integrative, etc.).
Monday 13 May, 10am to noon Data visualisation basics
Explore methods and tools to create publication quality visualisations of structured, tabular data. Tools covered include MS Excel, Raw Graphs and R.
Wednesday 15 May, 10 to 11:30am Improving the tone and style of your academic writing
Gather strategies to develop your writing skills in order to compose text that has appropriate tone and style, providing clarity for the reader.
Wednesday 22 May, 10:30am to noon Data storytelling
This session is for researchers to learn how to use the data, visuals and narrative to bring together the story of their research.
Thursday 23 May, 10 to 11:30am 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.
Wednesday 29 May, 10am to noon Research metrics for promotion
Gain familiarity with tools for measuring research outputs, such as citation metrics and benchmarking. In this two-hour seminar, we demonstrate locating and using citation information to highlight aspects of your track record for promotion applications. The following tools and topics will be covered:
- why your metrics always look better in Google Scholar
- Scopus/SciVal and Web of Science: discover citation information about your research
- evidencing impact.
Thursday 30 May, 10 to 11am Managing your research literature: Identifying themes and ideas
Explore practical strategies researchers can use to organise and identify themes in research literature in order to support the writing process. This session is followed-up by the Analysing the literature and writing the review workshop in approximately two weeks’ time. On completion of this workshop, participants will be familiar with tools and strategies such as LATCH, literature grids and concept mapping.
You can find details of all researcher workshops via the Researcher Education and Development calendar.
