PGSkills courses: A-Z
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Academia: Careers in academia - online course
Academic Integrity - online course
Academically effective speed reading
Being an effective researcher, part time
Being a Successful Part-Time Doctoral Student - Dr James Bilzon presentation - podcast
Bringing Innovation To Your Research
Business: Thinking about business and turning good ideas into great business
Business: Writing a business plan
Career Choice - part 1 - what influences your career?
Career choice - part 2 - choosing a career
Careers beyond academia - elearning module
Careers in academia - elearning module
Careers: Applications and interviews
Careers: Marketing your research skills outside academia
Careers: one to one guidance and drop-in sessions
Careers: Taking control of your career
Careers: Using a CV to evidence and sell your skills
Careers workshop for international researchers
Collecting qualitative data through interviews
Conferences: Getting the Most Out of Conferences - elearning course
Conferences: Making the most out of conferences
Conferences: Planning an academic conference
Conferences: Planning conference posters
Conferences: Preparing posters for a conference
Confirmation: Preparing for transfer/PhD confirmation
Consulting: An introduction to consultancy skills - for academia
Consulting: Practical consulting in academia
Copyright/plagiarism/referencing
Creative thinking & problem solving
Creating an impact - personal leadership
Creating new businesses - what makes a good idea?
Critical thinking: reading and writing
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Data: Collecting qualitative data through interviews
Data: Managing your research data
Data: Finding scientific and engineering data
Data: Finding social and economic statistical data for engineers and scientists
Data: Finding statistics & data in the Social Sciences
Data: Qualitative data analysis
Data: Quantitative statistics 1: an introduction to hypothesis testing and estimation
Data: Quantitative statistics 2: study design and regression modelling
Digimap: Ordnance Survey maps and data
Effective communication skills for international researchers
Endnote online tutorials and support via the Library
English Language Centre courses
Enterprise: An introduction to consultancy skills - for academia
Enterprise: Creating Opportunities with Commercial Organisations: From Contact to Client
Embase and PubMed (literature searching)
Enterprise: Intellectual property - coming soon
Enterprise: Patents: why, when and how
Enterprise: Practical consulting in academia
Enterprise: thinking about business an turning good ideas into great business
Enterprise: Writing a business plan
Entrepreneurship 1: Are you an entrepreneur? - elearning module
Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity recognition, creation & evaluation - elearning module
Entrepreneurship 3: resources (people, teams, finance) - elearning module
Ethics: introduction to ethics in research
Ethics: Research ethics and governance - elearning module
Excel advanced: Conditional logic and lookup tables
Excel database functions pt 1 - filtering, sorting
Excel database functions pt 2 - pivot tables
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Finding company and industry information to assist with career choices, job seeking and interviews
Finding statistics & data in the Social Sciences
Getting published, getting cited
Getting started: essentials for starting your doctorate on the right track
Getting the Most Out of Conferences - elearning module
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Impact: Non-academic Impact - making a contribution to society with your research
Information skills: ChemBioDraw
Information skills: Copyright/referencing/plagiarism
Information skills: Digimap: Ordnance Survey maps and data
Information Skills: finding scientific and engineering data
Information skills: finding social and economic statistical data for engineers and scientists
Information skills: finding statistics & data in the Social Sciences
Information skills: getting published, getting cited
Information skills: literature and data searching for engineering and design
Information skills: literature searching in biology and biochemistry
Information skills: literature searching in mathematics and computer science
Information skills: literature searching in the Social Sciences
Information skills: literature searching: Embase and PubMed
Information skills: literature searching: ERIC
Information skills: literature searching: PsycINFO & PsycEXTRA
Information skills: literature searching: Reaxys
Information skills: literature searching: SciFinder
Information skills: literature searching: SCOPUS
Information skills: literature searching: Web of knowledge
Information skills: two essential social science databases - IBSS and Econlit in depth
Information skills: using the Library's patent resources
Innovation: Bringing Innovation To Your Research
Intellectual property - coming soon
Introduction to consultancy skills - for academia - coming soon
Introduction to creative thinking and problem solving
Introduction to ethics in research
Introduction to mind mapping with MindGenius
Introduction to project management
Introduction to quantitative statistics for research data
IT Training : see Endnote, Excel, LaTeX, MindGenius, PowerPoint and Word
IT Training from Computing Services - workshops and online courses
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Language: English Language Centre courses
Languages: Foreign Language Classes for postgraduates
Leadership: Creating an impact - personal leadership
Literature and data searching for engineering and design
Literature searching in biology and biochemistry
Literature searching in mathematics and computer science
Literature searching in the Social Sciences
Literature searching: Embase and PubMed
Literature searching: PsycINFO & PsycEXTRA
Literature searching: SciFinder
Literature searching: Web of knowledge
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Making the most out of conferences
Managing your research project
Managing your research project - elearning module
Marketing yourself for a career in academia
MBTI: Understanding your preferences for working style and working relationships
Media training - Writing about research for the popular press
Mind-Mapping - Introduction to mind mapping with MindGenius
Microsoft Excel advanced: Conditional logic and lookup tables
Microsoft Excel database functions pt 1 - filtering, sorting
Microsoft Excel database functions pt 2 - pivot tables
Microsoft Word - Word for large documents
Microsoft PowerPoint - BUCS training
Motivation: Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
Networking discussion lunch (for research students in the Science Graduate School)
NI LabVIEW Campus hands-on workshop - Introduction
NI LabVIEW Campus hands-on workshop - Intermediate/advanced
Non-academic Impact - making a contribution to society with your research
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One to one careers guidance and drop-in sessions
Part time: Being an effective researcher, part time
Part time: Being a Successful Part-Time Doctoral Student - Dr James Bilzon presentation - video
Part time researcher films from Vitae
Personal effectiveness for researchers
Plagiarism and how to avoid it - online course
Planning & writing a thesis & preparing for the viva
Planning an academic conference
Planning and reporting on engineering experimentation
Posters: Planning conference posters
Posters: Preparing posters for a conference
Preparation for final year - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences only
Preparing for transfer/PhD confirmation
Preparing for your viva - elearning module
Presentation skills: feedback on your presentation skills
Presentation skills: planning and delivering more confidently
Presentation skills: presenting your research
Presentations: Media training - TV & radio
Presentations: Planning conference posters
Presentations: Preparing posters for a conference
Project management: Managing your research project - elearning module
Project management: Research project management
PsycINFO & PsycEXTRA (literature searching)
Publishing: Getting published, getting cited
Publishing: Writing papers for publication - elearning module
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Quantitative statistics 1: an introduction to hypothesis testing and estimation
Quantitative statistics 2: study design and regression modelling
Reading for academic writing - for engineering & design
Reading for academic writing - for the sciences
Reading for academic writing - for the social sciences
Recognising and managing stress for Researchers
Research ethics and governance - elearning module
Reviewing, managing and using literature - elearning module
SciFinder (literature searching)
Seven secrets of highly successful research students
Social media: blogging in research and academia
Social media for research and academia
Social media: using Twitter in research and academia
SORTED skills training for all students
Starting your doctorate - elearning module
Statistics: 3 day basic statistics course for Postgraduate students
Statistics: One to one statistics advice - from the Statistics Advisory Service
Statistics: finding social and economic statistical data for engineers and scientists
Statistics: finding statistics & data in the Social Sciences
Statistics: Qualitative data analysis
Statistics: Quantitative statistics 1: an introduction to hypothesis testing and estimation
Statistics: Quantitative statistics 2: study design and regression modelling
Statistics: Social and economic statistical data for engineers and scientists
Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
Stress: Recognising and managing stress for Researchers
Supervisors: Working effectively with your supervisor(s)
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Teaching Introduction (for Postgraduates who teach)
Thesis: Planning & writing a thesis & preparing for the viva
Thesis: Writing your thesis - online course
Thesis: Writing your thesis (less painfully) for engineering & design
Thesis: Writing your thesis (less painfully) for the sciences
Thesis: Writing your thesis (less painfully) for the social sciences
Thesis: Writing: Critical writing - for engineering & design
Time management for researchers
Time management - online materials
Transfer: Preparing for transfer/PhD confirmation
Understanding your preferences for working style and working relationships (MBTI)
Using LinkedIn for self-marketing and job research
Viva: Planning & writing a thesis & preparing for the viva
Viva: Preparing for transfer/PhD confirmation
Viva: Preparing for your viva - elearning module
Viva: Preparing for the Viva (Humanities and Social Sciences) - podcast
Web of knowledge (literature searching)
Word - MS Word for large documents
Working effectively with your supervisor
Writing for the Web for Researchers
Writing papers for publication - elearning module
Thesis: Planning & writing a thesis & preparing for the viva
Writing your thesis - elearning module
Writing your thesis (less painfully) for engineering & design
Writing your thesis (less painfully) for the sciences
Writing your thesis (less painfully) for the social sciences
Writing: Critical writing - for engineering & design
Writing: Critical writing - for the sciences
Writing: Critical writing - for the social sciences
Writing: One to one writing coaching
Writing: Reading for academic writing - for engineering & design
Writing: Reading for academic writing - for the sciences
Writing: Reading for academic writing - for the social sciences
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