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  1. Submitting your final thesis to the Library: What you need to know

    Online course

    Audience: PG research

    Date: Friday 31 March 2023

    Times: 14.00 to 16.00

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: An essential workshop for all St Andrews research postgraduate students. This event will take place online via Microsoft Teams.

  1. Influencing skills: How to handle challenging conversations to achieve your goals

    Online course

    Audience: PG research, PG taught

    Date: Monday 3 April 2023

    Times: 09.30 to 12.30

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: Microsoft Teams. Having trouble saying 'no' to your supervisor? Struggling to make your view heard in meetings? This workshop will help you to work more effectively with others.

  1. Rapid, critical and strategic reading

    Online course

    Audience: PG research, Research staff

    Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

    Times: 10.00 to 13.00

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: This online workshop will give you a number of tools to help you to assess more quickly, more strategically and more critically. Please bring something to write on and with.

  1. Publish or perish: academic publishing in a nutshell

    Online course

    Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Research staff

    Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

    Times: 13.30 to 16.30

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: This online workshop is an overview of the whole publishing process, covering the editorial process, various publishing models, open access, legal considerations and how to navigate it all.

  1. Innovation, collaboration & business insights

    Online course

    Audience: Academic staff, External, PG research, PG taught, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

    Date: Thursday 6 April 2023

    Times: 09.30 to 12.30

    Programme: Passport to Research Futures

    Programme: TRAMS Participant Development

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: Zoom meeting. You will be emailed a link in advance for you to join on the day.

  1. How to be your own best editor

    Online course

    Audience: PG research, Research staff

    Date: Thursday 6 April 2023

    Times: 10.00 to 13.00

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: Zoom meeting. This is an interactive workshop, not a lecture. Come prepared to work on your own writing and engage with the group through the chat function. You will be editing some of your own academic writing during this workshop, so have a few pages

  1. Posters and graphical abstracts: how to present your science visually

    Online course

    Audience: PG research, PG taught

    Date: Friday 7 April 2023

    Times: 14.00 to 17.00

    Programme: GRADskills

    Programme: Public Engagement Portfolio - PGRs

    Key details: This workshop introduces researchers to the fundamentals of communicating science research via visual means. This will be an online Teams event.

  1. Planning and managing your research career

    In-person course

    Audience: Academic staff, External, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

    Date: Tuesday 11 April 2023

    Times: 09.30 to 12.30

    Programme: Passport to Research Futures

    Programme: TRAMS Participant Development

    Programme: GRADskills

  1. Attracting your own research funding: writing and applying for fellowships

    In-person course

    Audience: Academic staff, External, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

    Date: Tuesday 11 April 2023

    Times: 13.00 to 16.00

    Programme: Passport to Research Futures

    Programme: TRAMS Participant Development

    Programme: GRADskills

  1. AI in education: conversation online and the impact agenda

    In-person course

    Audience: Academic staff, PG research, PG taught, Research staff

    Date: Tuesday 11 April 2023

    Times: 14.00 to 16.00

    Programme: GRADskills

    Key details: Following on from the first workshop on the theme of AI in education, we continue to explore the role that online environments and algorithms play in educational contexts.