Due to COVID-19 the University has moved from face-to-face to online teaching. Please check on the Doctoral Skills Moodle page to find the current provision for Library courses scheduled for the remainder of the 2020/2019 academic year.
- Normally, all sessions will take place in the Library. Unless otherwise stated, sessions will take place in either the Level 1 Training Room. Venue information will be confirmed once you have booked your place.
- You might like to view library presentations that have been delivered to research postgraduates.
- Doctoral student bookings: If you are a doctoral student you can book the sessions through the DoctoralSkills programme (formerly PGSkills) coordinated by the Doctoral College.
- Staff Bookings: If you are a member of staff and the course you would like to go on should be listed on the Academic Staff Development site.
Semester 2 Sessions are shown below.
| Title | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing record: present your strengths | Wednesday 25 March | 12:15 - 13:05 |
| Introduction to R and RStudio for descriptive statistics | Thursday 26 March | 10:00-12:30 |
| Managing Your Digital Identity as a Researcher: Strategies and Case Studies | Tuesday 31 March | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| R and RStudio for data cleaning and visualisation | Wednesday 1 April | 10:00 - 12:30 |
| Online maps: Digimap & JISC Geospatial Data | Monday 20 April | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Searching for biological sciences literature | Wednesday 22 April | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Writing a data management plan for non-sensitive data | Monday 27 April | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Writing a data management plan for sensitive data | Tuesday 28 April | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| SciVal for researchers | Wednesday 29 April | 12:15 - 13:05 |
| Literature searching: SciFinder | Tuesday 2 June | 10:15 – 12:05 |
| Managing human participant research data | Wednesday 03 June | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| The 4 Ps of research data management: plan,protect, publish and promote | Friday 05 June | 10:15 - 11:45 |
| Chemdraw Advance | Wednesday 10 June | 10:00 - 12:05 |
| Introduction to SQL for data manipulation | Monday 08 June | 10:00 - 14:15 |
| Searching for literature in physics: INSPEC and SPIE Digital Library | Thursday 11 June | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Writing a data management plan for non-sensitive data | Wednesday 17 June | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Writing a data management plan for sensitive data | Thursday 18 June | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Archiving, publishing and sharing your research data | Monday 22 June | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Literature searching in education: ERIC, BEI and A+ Education | Thursday 06 August | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Literature Searching: Web of Science | Friday 7 August | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Literature searching in behavioural science: PsycINFO & PsycEXTRA | Thursday 20 August | 10:15 - 12:05 |
| Literature searching: Scopus | Friday 21 August | 10:15 - 12:05 |