Swansea University Postgraduate Research

We’ve teamed up with ION Leadership for a session on networking at this month’s
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A huge congratulations to Kristen Hawkins for winning our 2021 competition, and to all our fantastic finalists! If you want to learn more about our researchers and their fascinating work, grab a cup of tea and watch the Swansea University 3MT Final

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📢Next week's training📢

📓Advanced Endnote
📆Tuesday 29 June or Thursday 1 July, 2021

Already an EndNote user and want to learn about advanced features of the software to save time and avoid common problems?

We'll be covering:

⭐Smart groups: a way of filtering references as they go into your library - useful if you are doing a lot of searching.

⭐How to tweak EndNote styles: sometimes they don’t exactly fit what you need, particularly if you are submitting to journals.

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View and Book Workshops - Swansea University View and book skills development workshops. Develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to excel in your postgraduate research degree and future career

Bookings are now open for the second of our wellbeing workshops, focused on giving you the tools you need to keep well during your research degree.

Join us on June 30th for The Secret Weapon to building Mental Toughness

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View and Book Workshops - Swansea University View and book skills development workshops. Develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to excel in your postgraduate research degree and future career

📢Next week's training📢

📱Twitter: tools and strategies for researchers
📆Tuesday 22 or Thursday 24 June, 2021

Want to promote your research using Twitter and use it to raise your researcher profile?
Researchers are encouraged to use Twitter to promote their research, engage and network. You may be new to Twitter or wanting to develop your use: this session should help you decide if Twitter will be of value to you as a researcher and give you strategies to gain maximum benefits.

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https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/book-training-and-skills-development-workshops

We're delighted to announce the full programme for the PGR Symposium, Global Challenges.

Register now to hear from PGRs across the university.

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/global-challenges-research-fund-programme/gcrfsymposium

📢Next week's training📢

📊Introduction to Metrics
📆Tuesday 15 or Thursday 17June, 2021

An introduction to citation databases and other metrics to help you see where your research is making an impact – Includes overview of Scopus/Scival, and Altmetrics.

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https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/book-training-and-skills-development-workshops

Registration is now open for the Global Challenges Postgraduate Research Symposium.

Come along to to hear from Swansea's' postgraduate research community about their work and meet researchers from across disciplines who are working to solve some of the world's biggest challenges

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/global-challenges-research-fund-programme/gcrfsymposium/

📢Next week's training📢

⭐️Hugh Kearns
⭐️Introduction to leadership in a research context
📆Monday 7 June, 2021

If you stay in research for a while eventually you will be involved in leading projects and leading people – often without any formal training. When you apply for a more senior role you will, no doubt, be asked to show how you have developed leadership skills.

This workshop will explain what research leadership is, how you can develop and demonstrate your leadership skills and how you can promote your work, yourself and your team.

⭐️Hugh Kearns
💬Communicating the impact of your research
📆Tuesday 8 June, 2021

A lot of hard work and time goes into conducting research. And then more time and work goes into publishing the results. And yet sadly many papers are never read and many findings are never translated into practice. So how do you communicate effectively about your research and its impact? This is important to fulfil funding obligations, to create further funding and collaboration opportunities, to encourage the application of your findings and for your own career.

📚👩‍🎓Enhancing your professional research profile
📆Tuesday 8 or Thursday 10 June, 2021

To get ahead in today’s competitive research world successful researchers need a professional online profile. This session will give an overview of the main online platforms available. We’ll consider their pros and cons to help you decide how to make best use of your time for maximum impact on your research profile.

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https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/book-training-and-skills-development-workshops

📢Next week's training📢

📚Better literature reviews: Advanced Search Strategies
📆Tuesday 1 or Thursday 3 June, 2021

Are you interested in using more sophisticated search techniques to get better, faster results for your literature review?

This session will introduce more advanced literature search techniques to get better, faster results for your literature review.

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View and Book Workshops - Swansea University View and book skills development workshops. Develop the knowledge, skills and attributes to excel in your postgraduate research degree and future career

📢Next week's training📢

💻High Performance Matlab Training and Hackathon
📆Monday 24 - Thursday 27 May, 2021
⏰Afternoons

Learn the different avenues available to increase the performance of their software.
This event is for those already making use of MATLAB in their work.

📚Endnote
📆Tuesday 25 or Thursday 27 May, 2021

If you want to save time and prevent errors in your citations and reference list, reference management software can make your academic work easier: it will keep all your references safely organized, store PDFs and format your referencing automatically when you write up.

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https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research/research-with-us/postgraduate-research/book-training-and-skills-development-workshops

Hugh Kearns is back with two workshops focused on developing your skills for your future career.

🏅Introduction to leadership in a research context
📆June 7th

If you stay in research for a while eventually you will be involved in leading projects and leading people – often without any formal training. When you apply for a more senior role you will, no doubt, be asked to show how you have developed leadership skills.

This workshop will explain what research leadership is, how you can develop and demonstrate your leadership skills and how you can promote your work, yourself and your team.

💬Communicating the impact of your research
📆June 8th

A lot of hard work and time goes into conducting research. And then more time and work goes into publishing the results. And yet sadly many papers are never read and many findings are never translated into practice. So how do you communicate effectively about your research and its impact? This is important to fulfil funding obligations, to create further funding and collaboration opportunities, to encourage the application of your findings and for your own career.