Research Skills Online

For: Masters, PhD students, junior post docs and academics who have recently begun their research careers

Used by: 50 universities in the UK and Ireland

Lead Advisor: Dr Douglas Halliday, Dean of the Graduate School, Durham University

Contributors include:

• Sir Harry Kroto, (Florida State), Nobel Prize winner
• Professor Roy Glauber (Harvard), Nobel Prize Winner
• Professor Lord Winston (Imperial College London)
• Professor Lord Rees (Cambridge University), President of the Royal Society
• Professor Priscilla Alderson (IOE, London)

Content:

Many of the skills that researchers need for their academic careers are covered in this programme. With 30 hours of content, these 15 courses introduce research students and staff to key areas including research methods, the literature review, intellectual property, publishing, ethics, project management, and career planning. There is also an introductory video* – designed as a motivational tool - to encourage students to understand why this training can be so useful to them.

* Introductory video  due for release Spring 2010.

Course list

• RS 001. Intellectual Property in the Research Context
• RS 002. Getting Published in the Arts
• RS 003. Getting Published in the Sciences
• RS 004. Ethics 1: Good Research Practice
• RS 005. Ethics 2: Working with Human Subjects
• RS 006. Project Management in the Research Context
• RS 007. Career Planning in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• RS 008. Career Planning in the Sciences
• RS 009. Managing your Research Supervisor or Principal Investigator
• RS 010. Selecting a Conference, Presenting & Networking
• RS 011. Video: An Introductory to Research Skills - Coming Feb 2010
• RS 012. Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities
• RS 013. Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• RS 014. Research Methods in the Sciences
• RS 015. Research Methods in Literature Review

Development Group:

Fifteen universities in the UK and Ireland formed the  Development Groups for these courses:

Universities participating in the development of the courses include.

• Aberdeen University
• University of Birmingham
• Cambridge University
• Cardiff University
• Cranfield University
• City University
• Durham University
• Kings College London
• Limerick University (Ireland)
  
• Liverpool University
• London Metropolitan University
• Reading University
• University College Dublin (UCD) (Ireland)
  
• University College London (UCL)
• Warwick University

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