PGSkills Courses: by RDF Domain
- Domain A: Knowledge & Intellectual Abilities
- Domain B: Personal Effectiveness
- Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation
- Domain D: Engagement, Influence & Impact
Domain A: Knowledge & Intellectual Abilities
Knowledge Base - Cognitive Abilities - Creativity
Collecting qualitative data through interviews
Critical thinking: reading and writing
Excel advanced: Conditional logic and lookup tables
Excel database functions pt 1 - filtering, sorting
Excel database functions pt 2 - pivot tables
Getting started: essentials for starting your doctorate on the right track
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: 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
Introduction to creative thinking and problem solving
Introduction to mind mapping with MindGenius
Microsoft Word - Word for large documents
Networking discussion lunch (for research students in the Science Graduate School)
Planning and reporting on engineering experimentation
Preparing for your viva - elearning module
Quantitative statistics 1: an introduction to hypothesis testing and estimation
Quantitative statistics 2: study design and regression modelling
Reviewing, managing and using literature - elearning module
SPSS: Introduction to SPSS - basic functions, importing, stats analysis, graphs
Domain B: Personal Effectiveness
Professional and Career Development - Self Management - Personal Qualities
7 secrets of successful researchers for students
Being an effective researcher, part time
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
Personal effectiveness for researchers
Preparation for final year - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences only
Preparing for transfer/PhD confirmation
Recognising and managing stress for Researchers
Starting your doctorate - elearning module
Staying motivated in the PhD: avoiding the procrastination trap
Time management for researchers
Time management - online materials
Understanding your preferences for working style and working relationships
Domain C: Research Governance and Organisation
Professional conduct - Research Management - Finance, Funding and Resources
Information skills: copyright/referencing/plagiarism
Managing your research project - elearning module
Research ethics and governance - elearning module
Domain D: Engagement, Influence & Impact
Engagement and Impact - Communication and Dissemination - Working with Others
Bringing Innovation To Your Research
Creating an impact - personal leadership
Effective communication skills for international researchers
Enterprise: An introduction to consultancy skills - for academia
Enterprise: Creating Opportunities with Commercial Organisations; From Contact to Client
Enterprise: Intellectual property
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
Getting the most out of conferences - elearning module
Making the most out of conferences
Media training - TV & radio
Media training - Writing 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
Planning an academic conference
Presentation skills: feedback on your presentation skills
Presentation skills: planning and delivering more confidently
Presentation skills: presenting your research
Presentations: Preparing posters for a conference
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
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
