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Choosing the right journal, the publisher or publishing format for your research output can be daunting. If you’re new to publishing and unsure where to begin, this workshop will help you understand what works well, and what to avoid.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers at all stages and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

About the facilitators

The Library Research Support team support researchers at all levels across the University. They offer bookable one-to-one sessions tailored to suit your specific research needs, run various group training workshops, and organise seminars and events to engage with the research community on campus.

There are a number of different ways to display your data or ideas visually and it depends on who you are aiming to engage and what you want to tell them. Building excellent graphics and summary figures takes time, practice and a willingness to learn the appropriate software. This workshop will provide an overview of information visualisation and further resources for participants to explore in their own time.

Data and information visualisation is a vast and rapidly growing field. This workshop covers the principles of visualising data, examples of excellent visualisations and poor visualisations and case studies including examples from the instructor’s own publications and experience.

Learning outcomes

After this workshop participants will have:

• been introduced to the principles of good information visualisation
• an overview of various types of visualisations and considered how they can represent their own work visually

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers in the mid-late stage of their research degree and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

About the facilitator

This workshop is designed and delivered by Dr Joanna Young from the Scientific Editing Company.

Interested in sharing your research before formal publication?

This introductory workshop will explore what preprints are, why they matter, and how researchers can use them to increase visibility and accelerate scholarly communication. It will cover practical tips for sharing preprints and discuss benefits and challenges.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers in the mid-late stage of their research degree and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

About the facilitators

The Library Research Support team support researchers at all levels across the University. They offer bookable one-to-one sessions tailored to suit your specific research needs, run various group training workshops, and organise seminars and events to engage with the research community on campus.

This workshop will introduce you to open publishing for your research outputs and explain the options available to you as the author.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will have:

• An awareness of recent developments and debates within open publishing
• An understanding of the different options to make your work openly available
• Considered the benefits of making your research outputs openly available
• Identified resources to aid the discovery of openly published material

Target audience

Researchers from all career stages and from all disciplines.

About the facilitators

The Library Research Support team support researchers at all levels across the University. They offer bookable one-to-one sessions tailored to suit your specific research needs, run various group training workshops, and organise seminars and events to engage with the research community on campus.

Posters offer an excellent opportunity for researchers to make their project visible to a larger audience, measure a project’s current progress, practice presenting their work and grow their network. Posters are a more informal style of presentation and this can facilitate discussion and learning, leading to new collaborations and relationships.

This specialised course focusses on creating and presenting impactful research posters. Emphasising design, clear communication, structure and good information visualisation principles, the content is delivered through a mixture of presentations from the instructor, group discussion and pracitcal exercises. Participants will learn how to effectively communicate their research in poster format, consider the time required to make a poster and start their own design.

Learning outcomes

After this workshop participants will have:

• an overview of the structure of a research poster and tips on how to design their own poster
• an understanding of how posters can be used for networking
• been introduced to and analysed various examples of research posters

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers in the mid-late stage of their research degree and from all disciplines.

About the facilitator

This workshop is designed and delivered by Dr Joanna Young from the Scientific Editing Company.

Conflict, great or small, may arise in different ways during the course of your research - usually when a need isn’t being met, or a disagreement arises during a project. Developing the way you understand and address conflict and potential conflict situations will improve your communication skills, reduce stress, and enable you to resolve issues effectively, while at the same time enhancing your working relationships.

In this workshop you will choose from a range of techniques for handling conflict in situations that are relevant and meaningful to you.

This workshop is conducted in a safe and confidential environment where various issues related to conflict can be discussed.

Learning outcomes

Engaging with this workshop will enable you to:

• Identify common scenarios, influencing factors, and resulting consequences of conflict
• Examine your motivations, approaches, and behaviours in conflict situations
• Evaluate and adapt some conflict resolution approaches and techniques to work for you
• Implement aspects of the techniques into actionable steps towards improving your communications and professional relationships

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers at all stages and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

About the facilitator

This workshop is designed and delivered by Dr Sarah Robins-Hobden, chartered psychologist.

Manuscripts must be clear and concise and written in a manner that is appropriate for that particular style of document. This workshop covers how to structure an original research paper, designing and planning your article, how to articulate your argument, what to highlight, good practice and what to avoid. The session will cover language, style and tone, using selected examples from the existing literature.

It includes a set of resources that participants can explore in their own time and consists of short lectures, discussions, individual exercises and anecdotes from the instructor's own experience of writing and publishing articles.

Learning outcomes

After this workshop participants will have:

• an understanding of what is expected of them regarding writing style and structure
• analysed and discussed examples of clear, concise scientific writing
• been given a range of resources to explore in their own time

Target audience

Postgraduate researchers at all stages and from all disciplines, and ECRs from all disciplines, broadly encompassing research assistants, postdoctoral researchers and research fellows at grades 6-8.

About the facilitator

This workshop is designed and delivered by Dr Joanna Young from the Scientific Editing Company.