Research Skills Toolkit for Social Sciences
At this hands-on session, graduate researchers in the Social Sciences are invited to try out some IT and library skills and services to support their work
## Covid update: we have no plans to run Research Skills Toolkits in Hilary Term, 2021. Explore the programme of taught workshops from the IT Learning Centre. ##
A free hands-on workshop for graduate researchers in Social Sciences. An opportunity for you to learn about a broad range of resources in one time-efficient session.
This 2-hour session focusses on the skills and tools that will streamline your academic work. You will encounter a variety of IT and Library tools and services to support your research. Relevant software, online services and libraries techniques are on offer for you to try out.
You will also meet with subject specialists for help and guidance on further learning.
Topics are likely to include:
- EndNote - manage your research reading and citations
- Corpora - why would I use a corpus?
- GIMP - image editing
- Word - for your thesis
- Excel - organise & analyse data using pivot tables
- Excel - sort & filter data
- Audacity - recording audio
- LinkedIn Learning - IT video courses
- Your thesis, copyright and ORA
- Keeping up to date using email alerts
- Keeping up to date using RSS feeds
- Citation searching with Web of Science
- Dissertations and theses
- Finding data and statistics
## Covid update: we have no plans to run Research Skills Toolkits in Hilary Term, 2021. Explore the programme of taught workshops from the IT Learning Centre. ##
