This November, a series of interactive workshops and Q & A sessions will provide you with the tools you need to boost your research productivity. Whether you are looking to format your thesis, perform a literature review, manage your researcher profile with ORCID, or learn how to tell the story of your research through data, these upcoming sessions offer invaluable support. Read on to explore the schedule and find the workshops that best suit your needs.
Tuesday 5 November, 10am 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 resources that are 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.
Friday 8 November, 10.30am to 12noon – 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 13 November, 10am to 11 am – 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!
Thursday 14 November, 10am to 11.30am – Cracking Open Research
Griffith was the first university in Australia to commit to an Open Research culture; a culture that puts values such as inclusivity, diversity, integrity, and accessibility at the centre of the research process. In this webinar we will introduce Open Research, how it can help your research and its role in maximising research impact.
Wednesday 20 November, 10am – 11am – Managing your research literature: Identifying themes and ideas
Explore practical strategies researchers can use to organise and identify themes in research literature 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.
Thursday 21 November, 10am to 11.30am – 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.
