How to be a Better Researcher
Are you prone to stating the obvious, then offering a citation? Do you pile up citations to demonstrate that you’ve read everything? Do you quote directly from sources when you might be better off paraphrasing?
This half-day workshop will help you make the most out of the research that you’ve already done, by making you aware of a method we’ve adapted from the Johari Window for categorising knowledge and knowledge-finding. It will cover how you might approach shared orcommon knowledge, expert knowledge, original knowledge, blind spots and speculative knowledge, and show you how to identify genuine gaps in the research, pointing the way forwards to where fruitful research has yet to be conducted.
By the end of the workshop you’ll have learned a defter way to calibrate how you present your research to readers who may be more and less familiar with your field of expertise.
Become more discerning in the way you showcase your research
Learn how to recognise categories of knowledge and prioritise them according to
relevanceKnow when to cite, when to paraphrase, and when to reflect and speculate.
Learn how to talk to a wide readership by being aware of what the reader knows