• Research Development Programme (RDP): GDPR, data protection and research

    GDPR, data protection and research Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:00-16:00 What is GDPR and how does it affect you as a researcher? If you collect any personal information as part of your research, you need to know what it means for your work, and how to protect your research data, yourself and the rights of…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Research metrics

    Research metrics Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00 There is an increasing emphasis on measuring research in society, with the REF just one example of this. Researchers too, are being encouraged to ‘play the numbers game’ and their research outputs are being evaluated in quantitative ways such as by citations, societal impacts, etc. Such an environment…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): NVIVO for beginners

    NVIVO for beginners Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:00-13:30 Have you thought about using NVIVO for qualitative research? This session will introduce how NVIVO can be used for managing large amounts of data at its most basic level. It will provide an orientation to the basic NVIVO interface and explore how the data-coding-analysis-interpretation process of qualitative…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Writing for publication

    Writing for publication (small group workshop) Thursday 6 February 2020, 12:00-13:00 This small group workshop is aimed at early career researchers; the content focuses on journal articles, though is applicable to other kinds of research outputs such as book chapters. Attendees are invited to consider the focus of their writing including key arguments, rationale, etc.…

  • Research and External Funding workshop: What Makes a Good Grant Proposal

    ISR & the Business School present: What Makes a Good Grant Proposal Wednesday 5 February 2020, 13:15-15:15 Delivered by Prof Jo Crotty, Director ISR, Prof Owen Evans, Dept of Media, EHU, and Prof Derek Heim, Dept of Psychology, EHU In this session three experienced RCUK reviewers will take you through a number of funded and unfunded…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Conducting Focus Group Research

    Conducting Focus Group Research Tuesday 4 February 2020, 13:00-15:00 The session will introduce new academic staff or those new to research to some of the key aspects of Focus Group Methodology.  The sessions will also enable participants to gain some experience of looking at a focus group transcript and thinking about the advantages and disadvantages…

  • Research Development Programme (RDP): Boost your Research Profile

    Boost your Research Profile Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:00-13:00 Aimed at helping research students and staff showcase their work and stand out from the crowd, this workshop focuses on building a highly visible researcher profile across platforms such as Google Scholar, LinkedIn, ResearchGate, ORCiD and more. The benefits of this approach in terms of employability,…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Pure: General User Training

    Pure: General User Training Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-16:00 Learn how to update, create and relate your content in Pure, including: Review your account settings Maintain your academic staff profile Apply for research funding Monitor your funding awards Combine your content to create a `project’ Propose an output for REF2021 Generate a CV from all…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): General User Training for Pure

    General User Training for Pure Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:00-16:00 This practical session is for academic staff, known as ‘personal users’ in Pure. Learn how to update, create and relate your content in Pure, including: Review your account settings Maintain your academic staff profile Apply for research funding Monitor your funding awards Combine your content…

  • Researcher Development Programme (RDP): Research Ethics and the Approval Process

    Research Ethics and the Approval Process Monday 27 January 2020, 15:00-16:00 The session will begin by attempting to de-mystify research ethics. It is a commonly held misconception that research ethics requires considerable specialist knowledge (for example, of the kind moral philosophers have); this is not the case. As a consequence, the session will focus on…