Doctoral skills webinars
Finding and managing information
Would you like some help with finding and managing information? This session will go over how the team can help you and give you some useful tips to make your searching more effective. This session is suitable for all doctoral students but may be of particular use for people starting out on their project.
Managing research data
Would you like support with managing your data and writing your data management plan? This session will cover how the team can help with managing your research data and completing a data management plan. This session is suitable for all doctoral students
Your finished thesis
Mon 22/02 11am
Would you like guidance on how to add your thesis to the university’s research archive? In this session the team will cover issues such as copyright and publishing work based on your thesis and how this affects adding your thesis to the archive. This session is suitable for all doctoral students.
Library Research Support webinars
Being an influential researcher 1
In this session the team will cover various tools- social media, altmetrics, and citations- you can use to promote your work and assess its impact. The team will discuss why you might use them and highlight their strengths and weaknesses.
Being an influential researcher 2
In this session the team will introduce you to how to use various tools to promote your work and assess its impact
Open Access publishing
In this session we will introduce the key elements of open access publishing, including ‘green’ and ‘gold’ open access, support for open access fees, the various open access licences, and the benefits of open access. This session is suitable for doctoral researchers and staff working on publications
Reference management using RefWorks
In this session the team will introduce the principles of reference management and demonstrate these principles in action using RefWorks. This session is suitable for doctoral researchers and staff doing research projects.
Research data management
Would you like support with managing your data? This session will cover how we can help with managing your research data and completing a data management plan. This session is suitable for doctoral researchers and staff doing research projects.
Your finished thesis
Would you like guidance on how to add a thesis to the university’s research archive? In this session the team will cover issues such as copyright and publishing work based on a thesis and how this affects adding a thesis to the archive. This session is suitable for all doctoral researchers and their supervisors
Library Research Support Team Sessions
Please complete this short poll to express an interest in one or more of the sessions listed below. If there is enough interest in a session the team will set a date and time for it. They check the poll regularly- if you’re interested in a session but there is not enough interest to put it on they will contact you to discuss alternative arrangements.
The sessions are introductory- no prior knowledge is assumed – and open to all researchers.
Research data management
- Covers the principles of research data management, using DMP Online / templates to write a data management plan, storing data, sharing data
Reference management using Refworks
- Covers creating an account, importing items, organising items, citing in Word documents, bibliographies
An introduction to using social media as a researcher
- Covers setting up a Twitter account, basics of posting, ethical and privacy issues
An introduction to Open Access
- Covers the principles of open access, green and gold OA, Elements and SHURA
Choosing where to publish
- Covers the ‘think-check-submit’ principles, evaluating publishers and journals
Using metrics to track academic impact
- Covers responsible metrics, key metrics used in publishing, altmetrics
Copyright and e-theses for doctoral researchers and supervisors
- Covers third party copyright, preparing the thesis for SHURA