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New Workshop: Follow research activity with social media
Keeping up to date with the research activity of others in your field is crucial for all researchers.
This brand new workshop introduces ways to make the information you need come straight to you! Even if you already use social media, this session will introduce you to alerting services, RSS feeds and research relevant websites which you can quickly and easily monitor without hassle.
Highly relevant and extremely valuable workshop for all research students.
Wednesday, 28 November 2012 from 16:00 to 18:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton
Book at http://socmedia2nov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Workshop “Creating harmonious relationships with your supervisor”.
Establishing 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?
Workshop: Communication and Presentation Skills on Tuesday 20th
Tuesday 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/
Workshops this week: SPSS, Qualitative Research, Preparing for Transfer – last call!
Last chance to book on these workshops
Introduction to SPSS – Paul Rice 13 Nov http://introspssnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Evaluating Qualitative Research – Nada Kakabadse 14 Nov http://qualresnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Preparing for Transfer – David Watson 15 Nov http://preptransnov2012.eventbrite.co.uk/
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“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.
Disseminating your Research Workshop – book now!
New Ways to Disseminate your Research: Social media
Thursday, 1 November 2012 from 14:00 to 17:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton
This workshop describes some of the tools that may be used to disseminate research to a wider audience. It will introduce a range of social media, including professional networking tools (e.g. LinkedIn; Academia.edu; ResearchGate; Mendeley), blogs (e.g. Blogger; WordPress) and microblogs (e.g. Twitter).
Book now at http://dissresnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Research data clinics – 30th October 2012
Are you wrestling with a tricky research data problem? If so, perhaps we can help.
As part of our ongoing ‘engagement’ with the Digital Curation Centre, Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy will be running a couple of data management ‘clinics’ for researchers at Northampton. They will also present a short introductory talk covering the basics of research data management and highlighting the data services available to researchers at Northampton.
Graduate school skills workshops
The 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!
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