Library research workshops: HDR students and researchers
The library has developed a series of interactive workshops for HDR students and researchers to support skill development across the lifecycle of their projects.
The workshops will delve into advanced literature searches, research data management, open access publishing, and the ethical use of AI in research, offering practical insights and techniques.
Upcoming workshops
Wednesday 24 July, 10am–2pm
This session will help you to develop your advanced searching skills to support your research. You will learn how to select databases and other information sources for your search needs, work with advanced search functions and search management techniques, and adapt these for your own purposes. You will also learn how to search comprehensively to situate your project in the existing literature, and how to locate hard-to-find material.
Some of the key skills we will cover are how to:
- frame your information need as a search strategy
- identify suitable search terms
- select databases and other information sources
- apply powerful search functions
- manage your search results and stay current with the literature
- find theses
- keep track of your search processes.
Systematic literature searching for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses
Tuesday 20 August, 10am–2pm
This session will help you to develop your knowledge of systematic and scoping reviews and other evidence syntheses in the Health and Sciences disciplines.
You will gain:
- an overview of systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses
- techniques for developing systematic searches and translating searches across databases
- an introduction to searching for grey literature
- information on documenting and reporting search strategies
- strategies for minimising bias in your reviews.
Pre-requisite: an understanding of advanced database search functions including subject headings, proximity searches and line-by-line searching. This content is covered in the Advanced searching: positioning your research project workshop.
This workshop will be useful to HDR students from the Health and SEBE faculties planning on conducting a systematic review or other evidence synthesis.
Thursday 19 September, 10am–2pm
This session will help you to develop your publication strategy. You will learn how to select publishers and journals that will contribute to your goals and priorities, the individual and societal benefits of publishing research openly and the different routes for open access publishing. You will also learn how to use different tools to find and evaluate relevant journals, including interpreting journal metrics and rankings and how to recognise red flags across the scholarly publishing landscape.
Some of the key skills we will cover are how to:
- identify your publishing goals and priorities
- recognise the differences between green, gold, hybrid and diamond models of Open Access
- use different strategies and tools to identify a shortlist of relevant journals
- interpret and access journal metrics and ranking sources
- recognise red flags to avoid when choosing a journal, conference or other publishing opportunity.
Responsible use of GenAI in research
Thursday 24 October, 10–11am
This session will help you to develop your understanding of the responsible use of Generative AI tools in research and the importance of maintaining awareness of and compliance with policy and guidelines. You will explore case examples of GenAI use in different stages of the research life cycle and considerations for choosing and using GenAI tools in research.
Some of the key areas we will cover are:
- broad overview of GenAI use in the research lifecycle
- ensuring transparency, reporting and referencing GenAI tool usage
- case examples
- considerations in using Gen AI
- integrity issues.
The workshop will be useful for all HDR students from any discipline area. You may also be interested in reading our ‘Responsible use of GenAI in research’ LibGuide before or after the session.
Past workshops
The recordings of these workshops are now available for Deakin users to view:
- Advanced searching: positioning your research project workshop
- Systematic literature searching for systematic reviews and other evidence syntheses: Health and SEBE
- Publishing and Open Access
- Responsible use of GenAI in research