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Workshop “Creating harmonious relationships with your supervisor”.

Graduate School WorkshopsEstablishing a good rapport with your supervisor can help your research degree life run smoothly and without stress.

There is nothing worse than experiencing conflict and tension in the relationship; it will cause anxiety and eventually affect your research. Why not attend this unique workshop on November 29th, run by a skilled relationship  therapist and trainer?

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Workshop: Communication and Presentation Skills on Tuesday 20th

Graduate School WorkshopsTuesday 20th November: 16:30-18:30 MY120 Avenue campus.

How good are your presentation & communication skills? Do you fear speaking in public or have trouble explaining your research succinctly? As a research student you are required to do many different types of presentation. And as a researcher good communication skills are vital. We will look at ways to give your communication skills a boost, explain the range of presentations you may have to do within the University and externally, as well as tackle some of your fears and worries to inspire confidence.

This workshop is most relevant for pre-transfer students or those not experienced in making presentations.

See more details and book at http://presskills1stnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/

“Research dissemination using social media” workshop now on NILE

The workshop held on 1st Nov 2012  “Research dissemination using social media” is now available in Powerpoint slide form on NILE.

So if you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up!

Log into Nile, go to RES001: Postgraduate Research Training, choose Training Materials from the left hand menu, followed by Research Training Workshop Materials.

Grad school workshops in November – book now!

13 November 2012 Introduction to SPSS (part 1). Paul Rice 17:00-19:00 Grendon 151
14 November 2012 Evaluating Qualitative Research. Prof. Nada Kakabadse 16:00-18:00 SE101.
15 November 2012 Preparing for Transfer. David Watson. 17:00-19:00 T-Pod, Rockingham Library
20 November 2012 Presentation skills: research student primer. Simone Apel. 16:30-18:30 MY120, Maidwell, Avenue.
27 November 2012 Basic Inferential Statistics in SPSS (part 2). Paul Rice. 17:00-19:00 Grendon 151.
28 November 2012 Keeping up to date in the age of social media. Miggie Pickton/Nick Dimmock. 15:00-18:00. T-Pod
29 November 2012 Creating Harmonious Relationships with your Supervisors. External trainer Karin Blak. 17:00-19:30 T-Pod.

Coming up:-
8th December Saturday school including Writing and Structuring your Thesis, Statistics SPSS session, Planning your Project and Time Management.

Research Methods: Distance learning workshops on Nile are available now!

Available on Nile are the excellent Epigeum online workshops in “Research Methods”. There are workshops in each of the following areas – Social sciences, Arts, Science and Literature Review. Go to “RES001: Postgraduate Research Training” and choose “Online Research Training” from the left-hand menu.

Developing methods for the microanalysis of online data

Date: 9-10 January 2013

    Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

          Workshop fee: none. Lunch and dinner (day 2) and coffee/tea are included. Read the rest of this entry

Graduate school skills workshops

Graduate School WorkshopsThe full list of our generic skills workshops is now on the University website.

Our first workshop is on the 16th October – Introduction to Qualitative Paradigms. Book now!

New to teaching in the social sciences residential workshop

The Social Sciences cluster of the Higher Education Academy organises a series of “new to teaching” workshops across the year, some of which are discipline-specific, with others designed to cater for colleagues from across the range of Social Science disciplines. The workshops themselves are free to colleagues working in subscribing institutions (we subscribe at the University of Northampton!). There is a charge for accommodation if you wold like to attend the two-day residential workshop. Further details of the workshops are available via the HEA website:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/NTTW_SocSci1_Wales

  • Date: 14 Mar 2013 – 15 Mar 2013
  • Start Time: 01:00 pm
  • Location/venue: Holiday Inn, Castle Street, Cardiff , CF10 1XD

SRHE Newer Researchers Autumn Programme 2012

The Society of Research for Higher Education are holding a selection of workshops this autumn. SRHE events are open to all and free to SRHE members as part of their membership package. The delegate fee for non-members is £45.

Demystifying and Preparing for the Doctoral Viva: Tuesday 16th October 2012

Publishing Academic Articles: a way through the maze : Tuesday 6th November 2012

Undertaking a Literature Review: Wednesday 24th October 2012

To book for any of the above go to http://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/

Effective Part-Time Researcher day

Are you studying for your research degree part-time? Why not book your free place on The Effective Part-time Researcher workshop?
12 October 2012, University of Nottingham
A one-day programme for part-time postgraduate researchers early in the ‘middle part’ of their part-time PhD.