Researcher development eLearning courses
We have a series of online courses for researchers, which provide an introduction to key research and career management skills. Most courses are suitable for all researchers, although a few are designed specifically for doctoral students. The courses contain a mixture of videos, reading, slide shows and quizzes to check your understanding. Each course may take up to 1 to 1.5 hours to complete.
Instructions on how to take the courses are available on the right hand side of this page.
This module is designed for students about to embark upon a research degree. It provides an overview of the key aspects of the doctorate.
Research Ethics and Governance
This course is designed to introduce you to the key issues surrounding research ethics and governance. It will also provide you with a framework that will help you to recognise and react appropriately, through an ethical decision making process, to ethical challenges you may face during your research career.
Reviewing, Managing and Using Literature
This module provides an overview of why you should undertake a review of literature, to offer a guide to the process of reviewing the literature and the importance of managing the associated information. It also highlights aspects of copyright and plagiarism.
Managing Your Research Project
The module provides a framework that offers practical help in managing a research project as well as highlighting useful management techniques.
Getting The Most Out of Conferences
This module will give you practical guidance on how to make preparations for the delivery of your conference papers, how to deliver your paper effectively and how to maximise the benefits of your conference experience.
Many researchers are unaware of how highly prized their skills and expertise are by a range of employers beyond academia. In this module you will be encouraged to broaden your horizons in terms of career choices and you will gain practical tips that will help you secure your ideal job.
This module is designed for early career researchers who are interested in pursuing a career in academia.
This module is designed to help you to plan, structure and write your thesis as efficiently as possible. It will help you to understand what a thesis is, appreciate the expectations of the examiners and recognise when it is complete.
This module is designed for research degree students in order to demystify the purpose and process of the viva examination. It offers practical advice on how to prepare for your viva and gives an insight into what happens during the viva examination itself.
Writing Papers for Publication
This module is designed to maximise the chances of success of publication for early career researchers writing academic papers.
Entrepreneurship 1: Are you an entrepreneur?
This course introduces you to the skills needed in entrepreneurship and shows how entrepreneurship fits into the academic life
Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity recognition, creation & evaluation
This course aims to introduce you to the nature of entrepreneurial opportunities, spot and create opportunities, help you understand and use tools for opportunity evaluation and introduce the fundamentals of business planning.
Entrepreneurship 3: resources (people, teams, finance)
The aims of this course are to help you to think in a logical and systematic way about the resources required to start a successful new venture
