Here are just some examples of workshops we have to offer postgraduate students.
Getting Started with Finding Information
• Find books and journal articles using the Library website
• Create an effective search strategy
• Know how to locate the full text of journal articles.
Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews
• What is a systematic review?
• Key features of the systematic review process
• Identifying appropriate databases, keywords and subject headings (e.g. MeSH)
• Planning a search using the PICO and SPICE frameworks
• Building an effective search strategy
• Search techniques including truncation, wildcards and proximity operators
• Translating searches across different databases
Introduction to Harvard
• Recognise why you need to reference
• Understand when you need to give a reference
• Identify what information is included in a reference
• Create a reference list/bibliography following the University of Lincoln’s Harvard style
Open Access & Research Information
• Understand the importance of Research Data Management planning
• Identify the obligations and reporting of different funders and institutions
• Be aware of open access and the publishing landscape
• Recognise how the law on copyright and licences applies to your work
• Build up a body of work - beginning with your thesis
• Establish your identity and take your work with you
How To Start Analysing Data In SPSS
In this interactive workshop, we take a look at some real data from the General Social Survey, and build a set of steps for investigating that data. We chiefly focus on different types of graphs and the p-values that can give those graphs credibility.
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