Researcher Development: Workshops and Training Opportunities for Research Staff
Browse our growing range of workshops, courses and resources below. You can find out more about how we work with research staff via the links on our Development for Research Staff homepage.
Preparing for Research Fieldwork
This online course is highly recommended for researchers undertaking independent fieldwork or research-related travel in the UK or abroad. It covers risk assessments, taking into account physical and emotional wellbeing, as part of the fieldwork process.
Publication Support
These resources cover aspects such as writing a good abstract, publishing preprints, responding to reviewer comments, collaborative writing and telling a story.
Policymakers and Your Research
This day-long event sets out to demystify the processes behind providing policymakers with accessible, balanced and independent analysis of public policy issues related to your research. You will learn about the policy cycle and landscapes, as well as how to identify, approach, and write for different kinds of policymakers. You will be encouraged to think about the wider scope of policymakers, beyond just government, in order to target your research in the places that will have the most impact. This is a highly interactive workshop, where you will work in a small team on a case study to draft up and receive feedback on a policy briefing.
Speaker: SPRE and Policy Scotland
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff
Duration: 1 day
Tackling the Inner Critic
We all have an inner voice in our heads. It is essential part of what makes us human. This voice is designed to help you navigate the world and to keep you safe. Problem is, in order to keep you safe it focuses on the negatives, the perceived threats, and all the possible ways that you might mess up, fall down, or embarrass yourself. And that is where we spend a LOT of our time. We explore how to address this inner voice that drives self-doubt and sabotage and how to rewrite it to create more mental space and energy to think, create, be present, & thrive.
Speaker: Desiree Dickerson
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff
Duration: 1 hour
To protect researcher privacy, registration for this course is via Bookitbee. Links will be circulated via email when booking opens.
Motivation and Procrastination
Procrastination is a way of easing discomfort. Discomfort because the task is too hard, too boring, too big, too scary. The difficulty with procrastinating is that it makes you feel better for a moment, which makes it very reinforcing, but it does not fix the reason the task feels uncomfortable to begin with. So, the cycle repeats. We discuss ways to: identify these procrastination loops when they start to unfold, identify some of the thoughts underlying the discomfort and reframe them, employ alternative strategies that alleviate the discomfort AND make the task achievable and explore drivers of our motivation.
Speaker: Desiree Dickerson
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff
Duration: 1 hour
To protect researcher privacy, registration for this course is via Bookitbee. Links will be circulated via email when booking opens.
Isolation and Belonging
Academic life can be an isolating experience for many people. For many, the role requires you to live far from home and those you love; for many, the workload demands can impact significantly on your ability to socialise and maintain relationships. We explore: some of the many sources of isolation and loneliness that are inherent in our system, why it is so bad for us and how we can begin to change it – to increase our sense of belonging within the academic and local community through creating a sense of safety, connection and common threads.
Speaker: Desiree Dickerson
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff
Duration: 1 hour
To protect researcher privacy, registration for this course is via Bookitbee. Links will be circulated via email when booking opens.
Business Beyond the Bottom Line
This course looks at how to set up a social enterprise, and is intended for people who want to think about making a living that is aligned with their personal motivations. Not the pinstripe suit or Dragon’s Den side of running a business, instead we will look at the distinctive nature of values-based businesses with environmental or societal benefits, as well as the challenges and benefits of running your own business. The day will include inspirational examples alongside practical advice around core business functions, such as finance and funding, strategy and getting the right team.
Speaker: Firstport
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff who are interested in social enterprise
Duration: 1 day
Research Ventures
However big, however small your ideas, Research Ventures is about finding out how you can develop them into a business that matters for you. This two-day course, aimed primarily at scientists and engineers, covers the areas you would expect from an entrepreneurship course, and more. You'll learn about research commercialisation, protecting your ideas, and different business models, meet some inspirational people, and come away with new ideas, friends and collaborators, as well as a better understanding of what motivates you and how to transform your ideas into reality.
Speaker: Researcher Development team
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff, particularly those in scientific disciplines
Duration: 2 days
Intellectual Property for STEM/SHAPE Researchers
Do you want to learn more about protecting your intellectual property from your research? The University of Glasgow can support you. This workshop is intended for researchers looking to understand the basic fundamentals of intellectual property. Workshops are tailed specifically to STEM projects for MVLS/CoSE researchers, and to SHAPE projects for CoSS/Arts researchers. The content will include an introduction to IP, and why IP is important, a discussion of IP Rights (primarily patents, copyright, and design rights) and the institution’s approach to IP, the role of the IP & Innovation team, and their support for research projects.
Speaker: Darian Brookes, IP and Innovation Manager
Target Group: All PGRs and Research Staff
Duration: 2 hours