Your search has returned 97 courses. Career Management for Researchers @ Strathclyde show Career Management for Researchers @ Strathclyde is a blended course, combining online modules and Zoom discussion sessions, to help you explore career options and prepare you for the next stage of your career. A 4-week course - designed to address key career issues for researchers. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Finishing your PhD on Time show Participants learn a combination of project management and time management skills & methods applied specifically to the challenge of completing a high quality PhD thesis on time with minimal stress and anxiety. Increased confidence & optimism about completing their PhD thesis on time Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Managing your career - get that job! show Participants will….. gain the knowledge and skills to search, find and apply to suitable jobs and to be successful at interviews. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Postgraduate Research: Introduction to Teaching show The courses has been developed by the Researcher Development Team specifically for PGRs who will undertake teaching during their time at Strathclye. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > A Career in Academia show Participants will discover what it takes to make it as an academic and will have the opportunity to talk to early career academics about their experiences. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > A Guide to Reflective Writing show Participants will understand what is meant by reflective writing, how to do it, and the benefits it can bring. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Advanced Project Management show Participants will be introduced to tried and tested management techniques for dealing with complex and collaborative projects. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > AFHEA information session for PGRs who Teach show Information session for Postgraduate Researchers who Teach wishing to apply for Associate Fellowship of the HEA. Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers who Teach View Course Details > Apply Design Thinking to your Research show Participants will be introduced to the basic principles of design thinking. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Business Beyond the Bottom Line show Participants will examine how to make a living that is aligned with their personal motivations, and consider business and enterprise from that angle. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > CAPM Exam Preparation show This course provides revision of the project management tools and techniques necessary to pass the CAPM examination. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Careers Beyond Research: Applying your Skills outside Academia show Participants will explore a number of careers and what particular options might be compatible with individuals. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Commercialising Research at Strathclyde show Participants will gain the knowledge necessary for translating academic research, or their own ideas, into commercially viable opportunities through the understanding of intellectual property, basic business model development and the commercialisation process at the University. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students, Early Career Researchers View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Nerves, Resilience and Pro-Resilience show Designed around the issues and complexities of confidence -and dealing with it’s absence- with games and professional activities to help postgraduates focus on what they want out of their life and how to start building the structures to attain those long term personal visions. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Networking Skills, Assertiveness show An interactive day of activities and presentations to help postgraduate students build their personal networking strategies for long term career success and to understand the workings of power and influence in professional relationships Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Preparing for the Viva show Participants will learn exactly what a typical Viva would be like and what they can do to prepare for it. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Public Speaking for PGRs - Beginners show Learn how to present yourself and your work authentically with confidence and impact. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Public Speaking for PGRs - Intermediate show Learn how to connect with complex and demanding audiences. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with Confidence: Working with Nerves and Confidence show Participants will learn to communicate effectively and at all stages of a research career through learning the tools to help communicate and act effectively and assertively whatever the setting. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Communicating with General Audiences show In this highly interactive and dynamic course participants will gain the knowledge and skills to adapt and present their research work authentically and with impact and engagement to a variety of audiences outside the academic bubble. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Communicating your research to a general audience show Participants will learn how to communicate complex topics in accessible ways; use your creativity; and know your audience. Participants will create a 1‐2 minute video that explains a complex topic to a general audience. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Complying with EPSRCs Policy Framework on Research Data show This course will introduce researchers to the stipulations made by EPSRC in relation to research data when in receipt of their funding for research. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Creating a Good Supervision Relationship show The relationship between the PhD student and their supervisors is the backbone of the PhD process. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Creating Effective Poster Presentations show Participants will learn the basic principles behind poster design. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Creating Research Data Management Plans show Participants will get help to answer their questions about data management planning and lead them through the process of completing a plan. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Student View Course Details > Creative Problem Solving - Online show Participants will learn a number of tools that help them generate ideas for solving real problems. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Creative Tools you can use every day show Creative tools you can use every day Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Cyber Security Awareness (Students) show This is a self-paced course aimed at developing a broad awareness of Cyber Security issues. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Developing an Effective Relationship with Your Supervisor show The relationship between research student and supervisor is critical to your PhD. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Developing Your Voice in your Academic Writing show Participants will learn a range of techniques to help develop their own personal style in their academic writing. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Engaging Beyond Academia: Industry, Networking and Opportunity Online show Participants will be introduced to various aspects of engagement with external organisations, including industry. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Engaging in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research show Participants will learn about the latest thinking behind Interdisciplinary Collaborate Research (ICR), followed by an introduction to some useful frameworks to aid practical engagements in this form of research. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Fast Track to Impact show Participants will be given access to weekly exercises to fast track their impact no matter what discipline they work in. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Fear of the Blank Page show Participants will be introduced to how to start writing and how to keep motivated planning your writing and finishing Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Getting Published in Academic Journals show Participants will practice a range of writing techniques to aid them in developing a repertoire of writing strategies for journal writing, draft journal abstracts and draft outlines. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Getting to Grips with Fellowships show Participants will learn why research grant applications require a different style of writing from papers and theses. They will learn a formula for a good grant application and a recipe for producing that formula. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Getting to Grips with Grant Writing show Participants will be introduced to grant writing and the process of writing winning research proposals. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Handling Questions at a Conference Presentation show Handling questions at a conference presentation No matter how well you prepare for your presentation, the part that freaks out most researchers is question time. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > How to be an Effective Researcher show A doctorate is about becoming an independent researcher. This is about mastery in your discipline, but it is also about developing other skills. This session explores the skills and working practices you can implement to achieve success in you research and doctorate. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > How to be an Effective Researcher (1 Day) show A doctorate is about becoming an independent researcher. This is about mastery in your discipline, but it is also about developing other skills. This session explores the skills and working practices you can implement to achieve success in you research and doctorate. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > How to do a PhD show This programme is to make sense of the PhD experience, work over critical aspects of it and give you tools to thrive in its ups and downs. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Immortalising your Research: Ethics, Sharing and Being Open show Participants will be introduced to a number of different platforms have recently been developed to facilitate the data sharing and distribution process. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Intellectual Property For Researchers show Do you understand how IP effects your research or where to go for support? Intellectual Property is important when considering opportunities to create impact. Whether your goal is for cultural, social or economic impact, IP can support your outcomes. Target Audience: All Staff, Early Career Researchers, Post-graduate Researchers, and anyone else interested in learning more about Intellectual Property View Course Details > Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Online) show Participants will learn about the latest thinking behind Interdisciplinary Collaborate Research. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Introduction to LaTeX show Participants will be introduced to the LaTeX package for scientific word-processing and type-setting. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Introduction to Project Planning (1 day) show This intense full-day online training session provides a high level overview of key PM techniques and concepts in one day, and offers an introduction to the process of managing projects and the tools to assist in planning and tracking progress. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Introduction to Project Planning (series) show Part 1 examines how to initially identify the building blocks for a successful project. Part 2 builds on the previous topics to begin to craft the scope or the outputs of the project. Part 3 looks at the process of creating a rigorous and robust project plan. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Introduction to Research Data Management and Sharing show Participants will introduce researchers to the concepts involved in research data management and sharing as well as what the Strathclyde approach is and what practical steps you should take to ensure you are following best practice. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Introductory Training for PGRs who Teach show Participants will be given an induction to the skills and attitudes required to teach at the University of Strathclyde. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Job Interview Techniques show Participants will gain a better understanding of the purpose of an interview, what interviewers are really looking and how to prepare effectively. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Keeping on Top of Your PhD: Time Management Strategies (1 day) show In this online course, participants will firstly learn their personal time management style, and understand how to work with this to avoid the factors that may have undermined their ability to manage their time to date. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Kick-Off Your PhD - Information Session show Fistral Training is delighted that the University of Strathclyde is giving early-stage PhDs the opportunity to access our Kick-Off Your PhD resources. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Leadership & Teambuilding show In this course participants will learn a range of well-established leadership frameworks in order to understand what makes good leadership. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Marketing Yourself & Your PhD show Participants will gain an overview of how to present themselves effectively during professional networking events, on CVs and in application forms. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > MATLAB training show Basic and advanced training in MATLAB Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Navigating Peer Review show Participants will explore the peer review process. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Open Access and Research Data Management for Researchers show Participants will be introduced to Open Access, and be given practical help on the issues that researchers will face in their career. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > PG Essentials:Digital Scholarship Skills show Participants will develop their digital scholarship skills Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > PhD to Postdoc: Making the Transition show Participants will learn about becoming a post-doctoral researcher. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Planning your PhD show Participants will learn how to finish their PhD on time and enjoy the process along the way by utilising specific skills and tools. This workshop will introduce participants to the PhD Planning Toolkit. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Planning your Professional Development as a Researcher show Participants will gain insight into strategies for developing the skills needed for a successful doctoral research degree and career. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Postgraduate Researcher Induction show This session will provide you with an overview of the University, the support and services available to you and expectations of our postgraduate researchers. Target Audience: First Year Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Postgraduate Stop and Write show The aim of the postgraduate stop and write session is to provide you with dedicated time and space to focus on a your own writing project. Target Audience: Postgraduate Researchers View Course Details > Preparing for your Viva - Online show This online course aims to prepare you for your viva. Target Audience: PGRs View Course Details > Presenting Online and Handling Questions at a Conference Presentation show Presenting on-line is a whole different consideration. How do you continue to present effectively, when most times, you cannot see or hear your audience. You still need to engage them and gain their participation. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Problem Solving in Reality show Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would provide us with the picture of a completed PhD project, showing a happy researcher, and a clear path to help us get there? Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Problem Solving: Five Creative and Powerful Methods show Participants will learn a number of tools that help them generate ideas for solving real problems, help them respond constructively to the challenges they face, and develop a flexible and dynamic approach to problem solving. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Professional Networking for Researchers show Participants will explore networking strategies, engagement methods and how to "pitch" themselves and their ideas. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Research Data Deposit in Pure and DOIs show This course will provide active researchers with a practical guide to depositing their research data in Pure and how to obtain a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for inclusion in a related publication Data Statement Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students in the latter stages of PhD, Research Staff View Course Details > Research Integrity show Participants will learn about how to employ the highest standards of research integrity. You will be introduced to potential pitfalls and how to avoid your authority as a researcher being undermined by your own actions or the actions of others. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Research Integrity in Practice show This highly interactive workshop is suitable for those looking to explore such questions, to enhance their own professional knowledge and conduct, and those wanting to learn from the conduct of others also. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Research Integrity Online show Participants will explore all aspects of Research integrity Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Researchers Guide to Ethics show Participants will gain a good knowledge of ethics so that they recognise when ethics is a consideration in their own work and they have the skills to obtain ethics approval when necessary. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Resilience for Researchers show Participants will learn to use self-awareness to increase resilience, creativity and lead a more balanced research career. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Risk Management (1 day) show This online training course provides participants with tools and techniques to proactively identify and respond to risks within their own project environment. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Risk Management (series) show This two-part series of online training webinars aims to provide participants with tools and techniques to proactively identify and respond to risks within their own project environment. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Spectacular Information and Visualising Data show Participants will be introduced to various types of visual formats including standard graphs, mapping data and infographics. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Stats for the Fearful show This course starts with a reminder of basic statistics and then introduces the principles behind statistical inference and hypothesis testing. The emphasis is on interpreting outputs from such analysis as might appear in academic journals. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Supervision and Making it Work for You show Of course, the supervisor’s role is just one aspect of that and another, rather critical, part is you and your contributions to it – how effective are they? Hopefully you’ve thought about such questions? If so, and if not, this workshop could be for you. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) for Scientific Research show This course is most useful for those with little or no experience in performing systematic literature reviews. You will learn to develop your research questions, their search strings, suitable repositories, and significant guidelines for planning, conducting, and reporting SLRs. Target Audience: 1st and 2nd year Postgraduate Researchers View Course Details > Taking Charge of Your Time: Avoid Drifting show PhD study brings with it a whole host of unique time management challenges. It is an immense project, but few short-term deadlines and demands. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Techniques for Confident Professional Communication show This course provides the understanding and techniques to help individuals learn how to express themselves confidently and persuasively, whatever the situation. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > The 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Researchers show What do doctoral students do to finish on time, to overcome isolation, doubt and writer's block, and to enjoy the process? And just as importantly what do they do in order to spend guilt-free time with their family and friends and perhaps even have holidays? Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > The Art and Craft of Editing show Participants will learn how practical editing skills can improve their writing. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Thesis Writing Bootcamp show This workshop explores the practicalities of thesis writing, including planning techniques, appropriate writing style and how to make writing more productive. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Three Minute Thesis Training show Participants will gain the knowledge and skills required to compete in the University of Strathclyde's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Time and Self-Management for Researchers show Participants will learn to work with greater effectiveness, support their overall well-being and maximise their time and energy. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Time management, motivation & prioritising show Time management and motivation is not about working more, it’s about working smarter. This half day workshop is designed specifically for researchers who are interested in developing their time management skills and optimising their working hours. Target Audience: PGR Students View Course Details > Turbocharge Your Writing show Would you like to know the secret to high output, low stress scholarly writing? In academia it is often assumed that writing comes naturally. However, an overwhelming body of research shows that there are clear and practical strategies that can increase your writing productivity. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Viva Survivor show Viva Survivor is a session for postgraduate researchers close to submission who want to gain insight on how to be well prepared for their viva. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing and Presenting Research show Participants will learn generic skills required for academic research, and explore the issues associates with writing and presenting research for academic and non-academic purposes. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing for Impact show Participants will learn to communicate messages about their work effectively to a wide audience. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing With Confidence - Year 1 show Participants will explore writing in the 1st year of the doctorate, covering writing about the literature, using writing to develop their own style, and to manage an evolving research project. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing With Confidence - Year 2 show Participants will explore issues relevant to writing in the 2nd year of the doctorate. Particular emphasis is given to the difficulty managing an evolving project, understanding the demands and structure of research writing and applying that knowledge. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing With Confidence - Year 3 show Participants will explore a range of topics pertinent to the final stages of writing up a doctoral thesis. It deals with tasks and issues important to finishing off a thesis, such as the difficulties of editing a large document and writing to deadlines. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Writing With Confidence & Getting Going With Academic Writing show Participants will learn processes, habits and methods to kickstart the writing process, work with feedback and learn from good practice. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details > Your PhD What Next? show Participants learn how to develop long term self-management skills for future career progressions. We will consider the current job market and landscape and provide advice on how to keep up to date with relevant labour market intelligence to support career progression. Target Audience: Postgraduate Research Students View Course Details >