Welcome to the online research skills booking system for workshops and training courses. On these pages you can view details of workshops, book places, view and manage your bookings, and run a transcript of workshops attended.
The online management system will keep track of your bookings for you. Once logged in the student area, you will be able to view those workshops you have requested; those which are confirmed, those you have attended, and those you are on a waiting list for. You will also be able to produce a personal transcript of your attended workshops.
All Seminars
New Introduction to Microscopy and Imaging
Students will be introduced to microscopy and image formation. We will cover how light can be used to study biological samples, the important difference between magnification and resolution, and the various types of microscope platforms that are available.
Staff Contact: Dr Darren Robinson
Academic Publishing - Editing and Peer Review
This workshop will provide an overview of the academic publishing process, from call for papers, abstract submissions, blind peer reviewing, editing, and publication.
Staff Contact: trackchanges@sheffield.ac.uk
New Academic writing for PhD students (12 week course) - ELT6051 (For non-native speakers of English)
Staff Contact: James Foley, ELTCAutomated Sequence Analysis
This module will equip students with the analytical and practical skills to manipulate DNA and protein sequences in useful ways.
Staff Contact: Prof Jon Sayers
Beyond the Impact Factor: using metrics to help identify influential research
This session will give an overview of research metrics, and introduce a range of tools that can be used to help identify highly-cited and highly-discussed journals, authors and papers. We'll discuss the strengths and limitations of these metrics, and how to use them responsibly.
Staff Contact: Anthea Tucker & Oliver Allchin
New Career Decision Making
Making career decisions is about so much more than coming up with a job title.
Staff Contact: Rachael Roberts/Darcey Gillie
New Career Management Strategies
Career management strategies are much more knowing a job title, finding work, or building an effective CV.
Staff Contact: Darcey Gillie
Careers 1:1 Consultations
Every week throughout the year, one of the specialist careers advisers for postgraduate researchers will be available at the Graduate Research Centre for 30 minute one-to-one consultations.
Staff Contact: Jane Simm
Critical Review of Research Papers Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Only
This unit will provide training in the detailed critical assessment required to review a scientific paper.
Staff Contact: Dr Dan Hampshire
New CV and Linked-In profile retreat for researchers
This drop-in retreat provides the space, IT and support to enable you to enhance your CV and LinkIn profile.
Staff Contact: Rachael Roberts
Doctoral Internships
The Doctoral Internship aims to provide employment-relevant experience for PGR students. This may be an integral part of their research project or experience unrelated to that.
Staff Contact: Charlotte Williams (charlotte.williams@sheffield.ac.uk)
Effective Presentation and Seminar Participation Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Only
Ever wanted to watch yourself present? Ever wanted to ask a question at a seminar but too afraid to ask? Students will be provided with practical guidance on how to prepare and deliver an effective presentation and how to get the most out of attending seminars.
Staff Contact: Dr Alison Gartland
First Steps with NVivo
This course is designed for users to be able to create an NVivo document, introduce their sources to NVivo and start annotating and coding their sources
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
Getting Data into SPSS
For users to be able to open SPSS, set up a data set, manually enter a data set and also enter data from other packages e.g. Excel
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
Going Further with SPSS
To introduce users already familiar with basic SPSS to some of the most commonly used advanced statistical techniques in SPSS.
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
New Help! I need to use R
To enable researchers to make an assessment of whether they want to use R
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
New How to Network
This session will provide an opportunity to find what networking is, why it's important, and how learning to network effectively can enhance your career opportunities.
Staff Contact: Darcey Gillie
Introduction to Advanced Microscopy Techniques Featured
During this session students will learn about the resolution limits of optical microscopy and how advanced techniques are employed to push these physical boundaries.
Staff Contact: Dr Darren Robinson
New Introduction to Basic Statistics for Biologists Featured
There are actually very few statistical tests that scientists (as compared to statisticians) use. A few can be done by hand: these include the two most common ones (t-test and chi-squared test). In addition, most of the common calculations (mean, standard deviation, t-test) can be done in Excel.
Staff Contact: Professor Mike Williamson
Introduction to Endnote
This session introduces Endnote Online, a web-based tool to help you collect, organise and format your references, citations and bibliographies. It is aimed at beginners with no prior experience of using Endnote.
Staff Contact: Liam Bullingham, Peter Barr and Steve McIndoe
Introduction to ImageJ (FIJI) Featured
Students will be introduced to the free software platform ImageJ that enables users to open, process and analyse microscopy data from any platform currently available in the LMF.
Staff Contact: Dr Darren Robinson
New Introduction to Mendeley
This session introduces Mendeley, free software that can help you collect, organise and format your references, citations and bibliographies. It is aimed at beginners with no prior experience of using Mendeley.
Staff Contact: Liam Bullingham, Peter Barr and Steve McIndoe
New Introduction to Microscopy and Imaging
Students will be introduced to microscopy and image formation. We will cover how light can be used to study biological samples, the important difference between magnification and resolution, and the various types of microscope platforms that are available.
Staff Contact: Dr Darren Robinson
Introduction to Scientific Thinking
This Unit will explore approaches to problem solving and in particular contrast the strategies used in everyday life with those that we need to develop to undertake sound scientific research.
Staff Contact: Dr Colby Eaton & Dr Francois Guesdon
Looking after your research data
This workshop will help you to get the most out of your data by keeping it safe and secure, organising, describing, archiving and sharing it, and by augmenting it with pre-existing data from a variety of sources.
Staff Contact: Dr Jen Smith
New Making the most of your final year
This 2hr session will cover ways in which you can ensure you get the best value out of your final year of PhD study in order to be more ready for life after your PhD.
Staff Contact: Rachael Roberts
New Marketing yourself to employers (inside and outside of academia)
This interactive session will use practical exercises and activities to make sure you are prepared and able to market yourself effectively in any recruitment and selection process.
Staff Contact: Dr Rachael Roberts and Dr Darcey Gillie
Neuroanatomy Dissection Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Only
This 5 week course comprises practical human brain dissection suitable for PhD students embarking on research in neuroradiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and biomedical science.
Staff Contact: Dr Tom Farrow
Next Steps with NVivo
This course is designed for users to be able to use some of the complex tools that are available in NVivo: to help them with coding, specialist analytic techniques and reporting to others
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
New NVivo Cafe
A chance to work on your projects with other people who are also working in NVivo and with someone to answer queries that arise.
Staff Contact: Jean M Russell
New Online thesis writing course (12 week course) for DL students only - ELT6052
Staff Contact: Dinah Ward, ELTCPreparing For Viva - Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Students only
The aim of this seminar is to give some useful information about the viva exam, what to expect and how to prepare for it.
Staff Contact: Martina Daly
Research Ethics & Integrity FCS6100 (Workshops) Social Sciences Researchers Only
The workshops will be organised around case studies that will provide a focus for student reflection on research integrity and ethics. The workshops will cover - ‘Approaching Your Research’, ‘Doing Research’, and ‘Disseminating Research’.
Staff Contact: Kate Reed
New Rights & reuse: copyright and your thesis
What is copyright and how does it affect you as a researcher? Come along to this workshop to find out how copyright affects reuse of material in your thesis, and how it protects works that you produce.
Staff Contact: Ruth MacMullen & Jen Smith
Sharing your research: open access and open data
This workshop will introduce the principles of open research, particularly open access to publications and open data. We will explore the benefits of sharing your research and discuss how this can boost the impact of your research outputs and raise your academic profile. We will introduce ways to share your research publications and data, demonstrate the University’s open access repositories and guide you through drafting a data management plan.
Staff Contact: Dr Jen Smith
Simple Graphs and Statistics with SPSS
For users to be able to explore their data graphically, carry out simple descriptive analyses and bi-variate analyses
Staff Contact: Jean Russell
New So you think you want an academic career?
In this session you will learn about the different career paths in academia and about a range of employers in higher education, including those outside the traditional university sector.
Staff Contact: Dr Rachael Roberts
Speaking Skills for Research Purposes - ELT6060 (12 week course)
The course is intended principally for students whose first language is not English.
Staff Contact: Mr George Turner, ELTC
Standing out from the crowd: boosting your digital presence
This session will introduce you to online tools to help you maximize your influence on the research community, create an online personal profile which will be visible to other researchers and to possible employers, and assess the impact of others.
Staff Contact: Helen Moore & Rachael Roberts
The influential researcher
This 4-hour workshop will explore various ways to raise your online profile and increase the visibility of your research.
This workshop combines elements from Sharing your research (LIB302), Standing out from the crowd (LIB303) and Beyond the Impact Factor (LIB301) which are also available as separate modules.
Staff Contact:
Thesis Writing: Principles and Practice - ELT6050 (12 week course)
A practical course, developing the necessary skills to write up your research as a thesis.
Staff Contact: Dr Dinah Ward, ELTC
Tools for literature searching
This workshop introduces search tools to help you with your literature review, and provides opportunities to use and evaluate them with support from Library staff.
Staff Contact: Brenda Steel & Emily Stock
Visualising & Analysing Biomedical Datasets with R
This unit will teach students how to visualise biomedical data using histograms, scattergrams, line plots, and more sophisticated methods including heatmaps, and how to turn these into publication-quality images.
Staff Contact: Prof Simon Cross