This training will focus on ethical and collaborative interview and research methods that focuses on the specifics of data collection and ongoing, participant informed consent.

This workshop helps doctoral researchers to be strategic with time allocation and, from that, the confidence that they can set and meet deadlines. It looks at the challenges faced by doctoral researchers, including competing demands within the PhD itself, side projects, and other personal factors such as family commitments, working style, and neurodiversity, to ensure any strategy promotes rather than detracts from wellbeing.

The purpose of this workshop is to help researchers to learn how to think strategically about career planning and to make decisions in which they can have confidence throughout their career. It encourages doctoral researchers to take a big picture view of the way they plan and manage their post-PhD careers.

Do you put off writing journal articles until the last moment? Are you feeling overwhelmed by looming deadlines and blank screens? In this interactive and supportive session, you’ll discover effective techniques for planning, writing, and editing your article.

This workshop for researchers seeking to publish in peer-reviewed journals focuses on the key criteria involved in journal editors’ selection processes and peer-review, and how to meet them. Based on the inside knowledge of an experienced academic publisher, it is designed to develop essential skills in writing articles in order to increase researchers’ chances of placing their work in premium scholarly journals, to the benefit of their academic profile and career prospects.

Writing is a dance between two processes: the creative process (drafting) and the critical process (crafting), which are separate, yet overlapping. The first half of this workshop will give you tools to get your raw material onto the page, to interrogate your ideas more deeply, and to find your own unique voice. Next, you will step into the shoes of your reader and revise your material so as to make your ideas clear to follow and compelling to read. Students are asked to have a draft section of their thesis in mind to work on during the course.

This programme offers an array of assertive approaches that help you assess your current responses to situations and people, and identify what you'd like to change in the way you communicate in certain situations.

Writing research papers as a doctoral student can be daunting. This half-day workshop aims to make the process of identifying what might work as a paper, as well as how to write it, that little bit easier.

This interactive workshop demystifies and simplifies the process of writing a narrative CV. Through discussion, activities, and examples, you’ll learn how best to present your research story.

We meet you ‘as writers’ and reflect on the challenges that all writers face. Perhaps you’re in the ‘Muddled Middle’, feeling your research proliferate, bringing you original plans into question. Can you re-orientate yourself with skilful questioning and feedback from your peers?

Are you struggling with the tyranny of the blank page? Is your writing progress imperceptible to the naked eye? In this interactive and supportive session, you’ll break free from perfectionism, conquer writer’s block, and unleash your creativity. You’ll also apply the techniques to create a short piece of writing.

This workshop addresses the all-too-common problem of front-loading the writing process, whereby some students spend the bulk of their time researching, leaving their write-up until the end, with too little time for thinking. We instill early on a habit of multiple drafting and polishing.

This workshop focuses on the preparation for talking about your research, rather than the delivery of presentations. By using storytelling techniques and focusing on the message, this workshop will help researchers communicate their passion to any audience. There are four key parts to the the workshop: audiences, storytelling structures, storyboarding, visual aids.

This half day workshop will equip you with the skills to identify and shape a thorough, clear, logical, relevant, and critical argument that makes an original contribution to your field. 

This 1-month programme will help you identify strengths and explore post-PhD options. The how2glu approach is practical, responsive and action-oriented. The programme has three main components: x1 online workshop, a coaching session and an online toolbox.

In this interactive workshop we will aim to de-mystify the policies and processes of research funding, exploring how doctoral research fits within the funding environment and examining the types of funding that might be available to you during and beyond your doctoral studies. 

This workshop given by an experienced publishing professional is designed to demystify the task, shedding light on the decision-making process and helping researchers considering book publication to present their work to publishers in the best way.

This interactive session guides you through the process of preparing for your viva and giving your best possible performance on the day. Through activities, discussion, and short training sessions, you’ll learn lots of techniques for successfully defending your thesis.