Creating your thesis with Digital Training

Creating your thesis with Digital Training

Learn how to format your thesis in line with University guidance and accessibility requirements This session is facilitated by the Digital Training Team and is recommended for any PGRs in the final stages of their research degree. This session will demonstrate how you can correctly format your thesis using Microsoft Word in line with the guidance for the examination process for research degrees and accessibility requirements. RDF Indicator: B2 Delivery: Online Join Teams Meeting Here Book now...
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Speaking and writing your thesis

Speaking and writing your thesis

Facilitator: Professor John Tribe RDF Indicator: A1 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Academic Skills   Session Overview: PhD students devote a huge amount of time to their research methods, data collection and analysis. They are then often left to get on with the writing and sometimes completely overwhelmed by the task of compiling a thesis of 80000 words. But writing requires just as much care as the research itself. This session will discuss the elements of good writing for social science researchers. In fact it will encourage you to take pride in beautiful writing which is a delight to the reader. And we’ll also think about how to make your research presentations engaging too. Learning Outcomes: After participating in this session students should be able to: Understand the key challenges of thesis writing Understand the key structural elements of a PhD thesis Apply techniques of good writing to their PhD thesis Apply techniques for competent oral presentation of their thesis   You can book your place on Eventbrite...
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Academic skills of editing and proof reading

Academic skills of editing and proof reading

Facilitator: Rosie Bawn, Study Development RDF Indicator: A1, 2 & 3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22   Theme: Core Programme for Stage 3    Delivery: Online via Teams    Session Overview:   During this two-hour session, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills for editing and proofreading your own work. You will have the chance to objectively assess your writing to be able to revise and refine your drafts.  Learning Outcomes:   Methodically plan and work through points for editing and proofreading. Gain confidence in checking your own work and that of your peers.     You can book your place on Eventbrite here:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-skills-of-editing-and-proof-reading-tickets-191018480417 MS Teams link: Join Teams Meeting ...
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Academic Presentation Skills

Academic Presentation Skills

Facilitator: Rosie Bawn, Study Development  RDF Indicator:B3, D2 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22   Theme: Academic Skills    Delivery: Online via Teams    Session Overview:   Academic presentation skills will enable you to disseminate your research to specialist and non-specialist audiences, deliver a powerful presentation and create impactful presentation slides. Learning Outcomes:   How to disseminate your research to a specialist and non-specialist audience. Create clear presentation slides. Deliver powerful presentations.      You can book your place on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-presentation-skills-tickets-190995822647 MS Teams link: Join Teams Meeting   ...
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Writing Structured Abstracts

Writing Structured Abstracts

Session facilitator: Pro Vice Chancellor Professor Robert Mortimer In many disciplines, writing a good abstract is an important skill for researchers. If you can write a good abstract you improve your chances of getting conference presentations accepted, and you improve the chance that people will read and cite your publications. This session will introduce the 'Structured Abstract' methodology that is a good way to ensure you can always write a strong abstract. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to: - describe what an abstract is, and what makes a good abstract - outline the 'structured abstract' approach - use that approach to write better abstracts Book now...
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Reviewing Academic Literature

Reviewing Academic Literature

Facilitator: Study Development (Timothy Lawrence and Rosie Bawn) RDF Indicator: A1,2 & 3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22  Theme: Academic Skills  Delivery: Online via Teams Session Overview:  Are you stuck wading through a never-ending stack of articles? Or wondering how to transform your notes into a clear literature review? This session will focus on how to review academic literature effectively, and communicate this in your writing. We will explore how to identify relevant materials, and discuss how to write up this research in a critical way. We will discuss how to include a variety of important elements in your literature review, including: key arguments in the literature, why the scholarship matters, linking ideas/texts together, and how different sources support, disagree and/or develop each other. Learning Outcomes:  Understanding the structure of a literature review and how to summarise and analyse the material. Learn how to review literature and critically evaluate the content.    You can book your place on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviewing-academic-literature-tickets-190988290117 MS Teams link: Join Teams Meeting...
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The Conversation media training

The Conversation media training

Facilitator: Jack Marley RDF Indicator: A1 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Academic Skills Session Overview: The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion platform of articles written by academics and funded by more than 70 UK and European universities. Working with an editor, researchers write short pieces that deliver academic expertise directly to the public. York St John University has partnered with The Conversation since 2018, with our academics amassing a readership of well over a million people via the platform. If you’ve not written for The Conversation before or would just like a refresher session, please come along to one of the online workshops that are being run exclusively for members of the academic community at York St John. You’ll gain valuable insights into writing for a general audience and find out what The Conversation can offer for your research and academic profile. The workshops are run on Zoom by an editor from The Conversation, and you only need to attend one. Booking is essential and places are limited....
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The Conversation Media Training

The Conversation Media Training

Facilitator: Dale Berning Sawa from The Conversation UK RDF Indicator: A1, D2 Programme: CPD Programme 2021-22 Theme: Academic Skills   Session Overview: The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion platform of articles written by academics and funded by more than 70 UK and European universities. Working with an editor, researchers write short pieces that deliver academic expertise directly to the public. York St John University has partnered with The Conversation since 2018, with our academics amassing a readership of well over a million people via the platform. If you’ve not written for The Conversation before or would just like a refresher session, please come along to one of the online workshops that are being run exclusively for members of the academic community at York St John. You’ll gain valuable insights into writing for a general audience and find out what The Conversation can offer for your research and academic profile. The workshops are run on Zoom by an editor from The Conversation, and you only need to attend one. Booking is essential...
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Futures and Foresight

Futures and Foresight

Facilitator: Professor Jeff Gold RDF Indicator: D3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 / Staff Continuous Professional Development (Research) Programme  Theme: Research Skills: methodologies, Tools and Techniques / Core Research Skills   Session Overview: Futures and Foresight is the interdisciplinary study and practice to consider predictable, probable, possible and creative approaches to the long term. The talk will show how futures and foresight works including findings from various projects. It will also consider the need for futures and foresight for undergraduates and postgraduate learning. Learning Outcomes:  Understanding the meaning of futures and foresight Appreciate the links of futures and foresight to strategy Appraise the results of futures and foresight projects You can book your place on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/futures-and-foresight-with-professor-jeff-gold-tickets-190674752317...
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Balancing breadth and depth in a research career

Balancing breadth and depth in a research career

Facilitator: Professor David Weir RDF indicator: B2 Programme: Staff Continuous Professional Development (Research) Programme 2021-22 Theme: Early Career Researchers (academic staff in first five years since PhD)   Session Overview: Research even in a University environment is pretty much a managed process in the current climate. The emphasis on targets, outcomes, deliverability, application and relevance tends to prioritise restricted research focus, short term planning and narrow horizons. But a research career can last a lifetime and the open mind will always seek complexity, sensing interconnection and novel explanations. In this session we take a little time to suggest the need for a balance in a research career between the wide and the narrow paths to knowledge. Learning Outcomes: After participating in this session you should have: A deeper understanding of "wide" and "narrow" research styles. Growing recognition of personal strengths and available uses of other perspectives on research.   You can book your place on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balancing-breadth-and-depth-in-a-research-career-with-professor-david-weir-tickets-190666928917...
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