Researcher Development Programme 2024-25
Semester 1
All courses will take place online.
Course name | Who should attend* | Date / Time | Delivery format | RDF** | Registration Link |
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Social Media for Researchers | Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible | 15-October-2024 | 1pm-2:30pm | Register | |
Narrative CV's | Our 90-minute workshop will get you started with writing the CV and give you a takeaway plan for completion. | 17-October-2024 | 2pm-4:30pm | B3 D2 | Register |
How to give a good presentation (Potential Energy) | Exploring and exposing what we do intellectually, emotionally and physically when we communicate effectively. | 21-October-2024 | 12:30pm-3:30pm | B1, B3, D2, D3 | Register |
Emotionally challenging research: impacts, coping and proactive interventions. | Join Tina, the leader of the Researcher Wellbeing Project, and equip yourself your team with knowledge and tools essential for maintaining. | 30-October-2024 | 12pm-3:30pm | Register | |
Sharing Research Data | This workshop will cover the rationales, policies and challenges involved in sharing research data openly | 6-November-2024 | 2:15pm-4:15pm | D21 D3 | Register |
How to be more productive doing your research | We will introduce you to two quite simple but highly effective tools that enable us to be more noticing of our emotions in the moment to better equip us to manage and maintain our productivity. | 29-November-2024 | 2:15pm-4:15pm | Register | |
Open access: what, why and how? | The workshop will include examples relevant to open access and participants will be able to raise questions and discuss any concerns. | 21-November-2024 | 10:15am-12:15pm | D2 | Register |
Open software/code | It will cover the motivation, policies and challenges involved in open research software/code, as well as the various options available to researchers to share software/code. | 22-November-2024 | 10:15am-12:15pm | D2 D3 | Register |
Introduction to Project Management | This online workshop provides a high-level overview of key project management techniques and concepts. | 26-November-2024 | 09:30am-4:30pm | C2 C3 | Register |
How to write a research paper (For Social Scientists) | All researchers in the sciences/engineering and design/social sciences who want to learn how to write and showcase your research in a publishable paper that will demonstrate originality, significance and rigour. | 28-November-2024 | 1:15pm-3:45pm | A1, A2, A3, C1, D2 | Register |
How to become a consultant | Come along and learn about the benefits of academic consultancy and how you can become a consultant as a postdoc at Bath. | 2-December-2024 | 11am-12:30pm | Register | |
How to write a research paper (for Scientists and Engineers) | All researchers in the sciences/engineering and design/social sciences who want to learn how to write and showcase your research in a publishable paper that will demonstrate originality, significance and rigour. | 3-December-2024 | 10:15am-12:45pm | A1, A2, A3, C1, D2 | Register |
Preprints: an introduction | Preprints offer a route for disseminating research before formal peer review, which provides advantages but also raises questions. | 9-December-2024 | 10:15am-12:15pm | A1, | Register |
These workshops may be run again in semester two depending on demand. Please join the waiting list even if a workshop is fully booked as this will help us to prioritise your needs.
*Please consider this descriptor when before booking. Any queries regarding course suitability can be emailed to resdev@bath.ac.uk
**RDF: Researcher Development Framework. You can download this here to guide you when considering the right professional development for you at your career stage.
During the year we also running a series of online career workshops designed specifically for postdocs to help to tackle the challenges in making career decisions.
Semester 2
All courses will take place online.
Semester 3 courses will be published at the end of November.