PGSkills courses: by skills category
- Research skills and techniques
- Research environment
- Research management
- Personal effectiveness
- Communication skills
- Networking and teamworking
- Career management
- Consultancy, enterprise and innovation
Research skills and techniques
Bringing Innovation To Your Research
Critical thinking: reading and writing
Introduction to creative thinking and problem solving
Introduction to mind mapping with MindGenius
Planning and reporting on engineering experimentation
Quantitative statistics 1: an introduction to hypothesis testing and estimation
Quantitative statistics 2: study design and regression modelling
SPSS: Introduction to SPSS - basic functions, importing, stats analysis, graphs - coming soon
Research environment
Getting started: essentials for starting your doctorate on the right track
Information skills: Copyright/plagiarism/referencing
Information skills: Getting published, getting cited
Patents: why, when and how - coming soon
Planning an academic conference
Research ethics and governance - eLearning module
Starting your doctorate - eLearning module
Research management
Collecting qualitative data through interviews
Excel advanced: Conditional logic and lookup tables
Excel database functions pt 1 - filtering, sorting
Excel database functions pt 2 - pivot tables
Information skills: ChemBioDraw
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: 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
Managing your research project - elearning module
Microsoft Word - Word for large documents
Reviewing, managing and using literature - elearning module
Personal effectiveness
7 secrets of successful researchers for students
Being an effective researcher, part time
Creating an impact - personal leadership
Personal effectiveness for researchers
Preparation for final year - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences only
Recognising and managing stress for Researchers
Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
Time management for researchers
Time management - online materials
Communication skills
Effective communication skills for international researchers
Making the most out of conferences
Media training - Wiriting about research for the popular press
Non-academic impact - making a contribution to society with your research
Planning & writing a thesis & preparing for the viva
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: Planning conference posters
Presentations: Preparing posters for a conference
Publishing your research for science and engineering
Reading for academic writing - for engineering & design
Reading for academic writing - for the sciences
Reading for academic writing - for the social sciences
Social Media for research and academia
Social media: using Twitter in research and academia
Teaching Introduction (for Postgraduates who teach)
Working effectively with your supervisor
Writing for the Web for Researchers
Writing papers for publication - elearning module
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
Networking and teamworking
Making the most out of conferences
Networking discussion lunch (for research students in the Science Graduate School)
Getting the Most Out of Conferences - elearning module
Career management
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: Marketing your research skills outside academia
Careers: Taking control of your career
Careers: Tough questions, answered
Careers: Using a CV to evidence and sell your skills
Enterprise: Creating Opportunities with Commercial Organisations: From Contact to Client
Enterprise: Thinking about business and turning good ideas into great business
Enterprise: Practical consulting in academia
Entrepreneurship 1: Are you an entrepreneur? - elearning module
Entrepreneurship 2: Opportunity recognition, creation & evaluation - elearning module
Entrepreneurship 3: resources (people, teams, finance) - elearning module
Understanding your preferences for working style and working relationships (MBTI)
Consultancy, enterprise and innovation
Enterprise: An introduction to consultancy skills - for academia - coming soon
Enterprise: Creating Opportunities with Commercial Organisations: From Contact to Client
Enterprise: Intellectual property - coming soon
Enterprise: Patents: why, when and how
Enterprise: Practical consulting in academia
Enterprise: Thinking about business and 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
