Keep going, keep improving: Upcoming GRADskills workshops highlights for this autumnal season
Dears,
With the semester progressing quickly, October approaching, all the pumpkins and autumnal decorations out, and even mince pies and Christmas puddings already in the stores, it is worth giving a thought and time to further improving your academic skills still early within the semester. This is the perfect time for it!
So here is a gentle reminder for you about what is going on at the moment – workshops that you can already sign up to, which aren’t yet completely full:
- Writing a literature review in the Arts, Tuesday 4 October 2022.
- Careers beyond research: applying your skills outside academia, Thursday 6 October 2022.
- Attracting your own research funding: writing and applying for fellowships, Thursday 6 October 2022.
- Finding your (public engagement) voice, Thursday 6 October 2022.
- Positive habits for your doctorate: Managing your time and wellbeing, Friday 7 October 2022.
- Writing well: coherence, structure and argumentation, Tuesday 11 October 2022.
- Communicating your research, Wednesday 12 October 2022.
- Publish or perish: academic publishing in a nutshell, Friday 14 October 2022.
- How to be your own best editor, Tuesday 18 October 2022.
- Getting and staying organised for success, Monday 3 October 2022.
- Writing a literature review in the Sciences, Thursday 20 October 2022.
- Research data: why, when and how to publish them, Thursday 20 October 2022.
- Rapid, critical and strategic reading, Friday 21 October 2022.
- Managing your research and working effectively with your supervisor (Sciences), Tuesday 25 October 2022.
- Managing your research and working effectively with your supervisor (Arts) ,Tuesday 25 October 2022.
- Is my writing ‘academic’ enough?, Wednesday 26 October 2022.
- Influencing skills: How to handle challenging conversations to achieve your goals, Monday 31 October 2022.
- Fundraising for your postdoc, Tuesday 1 November 2022.
- Evaluation of Public Engagement, Wednesday 2 November 2022.
And if you are you nearing the end of your PhD and would like some support with writing up your thesis, if you tend to put off writing tasks until ‘tomorrow’, if you are you finding it tough ‘doing it alone’…
We know what you might need just now – Thesis Marathon! Dedicated solely to getting words down on paper (or a computer screen), this once-a-year event is designed to help late-stage doctoral students get over that final hurdle or to kick-start their writing progress if it has stalled.
Applications for Thesis Marathon (formerly Thesis Boot Camp) open on 3rd October 2022. Thesis Marathon will run in-person from 1st March – 3rd March 2023. For more information and how to apply visit the Thesis Marathon webpage.
See you there!