December 2021
Welcome to our on-line learning environment where you will find content ranging from "Researching your Literature Review" to "Entrepreneurialism"; from "Managing your Supervisor" to "Choosing a Conference" - and a wealth of more besides. Each chapter that you select has various sub headings. You can jump ahead, jump back or watch them in sequence, pausing as and when you want to. There is a mixture lesson text and video, worksheet and reflection - approaches to suit all preferred learning styles. …
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
An awareness of Intellectual Property and its related issues is now essential for anyone working within the research context. This course is a short introduction on the topic and aims to give you a knowledge of the key areas that affect you as a researcher.
Start: 31 December 2021 @ 12:00 am
End: 31 December 2021 @ 11:59 pm
Why publish? To extend knowledge? To engage in academic debate? Or because you feel under intense pressure to do so in order to get on in your career? The aim of this course is to give guidance and support to arts and humanities students who are keen to put their research into the public realm, through academic papers and books. To assist us in this task we have drawn on the help of a group of people in the same…
Start: 31 December 2021 @ 12:00 am
End: 31 December 2021 @ 11:59 pm
Welcome to this e-learning resource. The course is aimed at encouraging science postgraduates and post doctoral researchers to publish, and at advising them how this may best be accomplished. The course should take you around 100 minutes and may be completed in several visits.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Ethics standards apply very generally across many topics, methods and disciplines of research. This course has used several health research examples, because the ethics questions tend to stand out clearly in health research. Viewers working in other disciplines are invited to consider how the same questions apply to their own research. If you would like to learn more about general ethical standards please go to the Resource bank at the end of the course.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course is about the ethics of involving human participants directly, or indirectly in research projects. Due to the broad nature and scope of ethical research this course focusses mainly on research in health, and life and social science areas. The principles introduced in the course undergird ethical research involving humans in most disciplines.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course will introduce you to some of the key concepts of conventional project management and show you how they can be used in the academic research context. Project life cycle is the term used to describe the collection of logical stages or phases that map the progress of a project from its beginning to its end. The project life cycle contains four key phases.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course aims to encourage PhDs and early career researchers (post doctoral researchers and research fellows) to explore the skills and motivations for a career in academia or beyond. During the course there will be frequent references to the term "researcher". This will be used generically and refer to PhDs, post doctoral researchers, and research fellows. During the course you will see how important it is to assess and continually re-evaluate your skills and interests and recognise that personal factors…
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course aims to encourage postgraduate and postdoctoral scientists to actively use career management techniques. Use of these techniques can be valuable whether planning a career in academia or exploring a variety of alternative career options. As you work through the course you will build up a picture of your skills, personal preferences and style, which can help you in your career choice. Even if you have a definite career plan in mind this course can help determine your suitability…
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course is aimed at encouraging postgraduates and post doctorates to consider and actively manage their relationship with their supervisor or principal investigator. The course should take you about 100 minutes and may be completed in several visits.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course is aimed at encouraging postgraduates and postdoctorates to attend conferences and improve their presenting and networking skills. The course should take you about 100 minutes and may be completed in several visits.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This course aims to develop your awareness of the practical and conceptual skills that support effective independent scholarly research in the arts and humanities. The goal is to help you understand the issues involved in making an informed choice about the research methodology and approach most suitable for your own specific project. During the course you will meet three Post Graduate Research students - Casey, Lois and Katherine - who are all, like you, embarking on postgraduate research. You will…
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Social science research helps us to understand, shape and critique the increasingly complex world in which we live. There is a wide range of approaches and methods available in the area, and social scientists need to choose the most appropriate. This requires them to have a clear understanding of the nature of social science research and of the issues involved in it. This course gives you an overview of the field, from the early stages of framing your research question,…
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Scientific research includes a wide range of approaches and methods. This course gives you an overview of the field from the early stages of framing your research question, through the research, to writing up your findings and on to deciding on your next steps.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
The purpose of this course is to guide you systematically through the process of undertaking a literature review so that you are able to undertake your own comprehensive review, according to the type of review required by your academic project.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Welcome to this course. What does being an entrepreneur in the academic context involve? Are you suited to commercial entrepreneurial activity? These are the basic questions that this course attempts to answer.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Whether or not you eventually plan to establish your own business, this on-line learning resource will help you to: understand why and how opportunities arise; spot opportunities to add value in your current environment; evaluate ideas to establish whether they are worth pursuing; argue a business case for your ideas.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
Welcome to this online learning resource which is designed to help you think in a systematic, yet creative, manner about raising the resources you need to start a new venture.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
The FOSTER portal is an e-learning platform that brings together the best training resources addressed to those who need to know more about Open Science, or need to develop strategies and skills for implementing Open Science practices in their daily workflows. Here you will find a growing collection of training materials. Many different users - from early-career researchers, to data managers, librarians, research administrators, and graduate schools - can benefit from the portal. In order to meet their needs, the…
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day
This suite of online videos from Angel Productions provides information on supervision skills for both doctoral students and staff so that each individual can experience best practice of this area. Good Supervision Video This video focuses on the relationship between the student and staff member in order to achieve the best possible supervision relationship. These videos are part of our online learning provision and can be accessed following the book here link.
Start: 31 December 2021 - All Day