Register for Research Training Week at Warrnambool Campus
Accelerate your research by attending our Research Training Week events at Warrnambool Campus. Deakin Library and eResearch are hosting a five-day professional development suite covering:
- an introduction to programming with R
- research data management tools
- Introduction to EndNote and Advanced EndNote
- systematic searching
- text mining
- Code to the Node with NVivo.
When: 26–30 August 2019
Where: Warrnambool Campus Library, room B2.35
Register for the whole week or choose the events that suit you best! Read more about the program below.
Research Training Week – Warrnambool program
Monday 26 August
9.30am–3.30pm Introduction to Programming with R
R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment and the Shiny web application framework.
But getting started with R can be challenging, particularly if you’ve never programmed before. That’s where this introductory course comes in.
eResearch analyst Jerry Lai will draw on his extensive experience in data gathering and statistics management software to present this practical workshop. You will learn to write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (software-carpentry.org).
Tuesday 27 August
10am–12pm Research Data Management Tools @ Deakin
The session is specifically for academic supervisors and research students who would like to learn about the Research Data Management (RDM) tools at Deakin.
Bec Muir, Warrnambool Campus and Liaison Librarian, will provide a brief 15-30 minutes overview of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018) and the Deakin Research Data and Primary Materials Management procedure. She will also outline what information should be in an RDM plan.
Dr Jerry Lai from Deakin eResearch will demonstrate how to access the Research Data Store (RDS) and create an RDS collection, as well as various aspects of Syncplicity and how it is related to RDS.
Dr Christopher McAvaney, Director Deakin eResearch, will provide a brief demonstration of Deakin’s Research Data Footprints, a platform for creating metadata and RDM plans for Deakin projects.
1–4pm Researcher Drop-In
Drop in to discuss your questions with one of our expert librarians or researchers.
Wednesday 28 August
1–2.30pm Developing programming thought with Scratch
The ability to code is an important part of digital literacy. However, transitioning to program or coding thought requires the ability to break down each step in a sequence – completing each action prior to beginning a new step.
Scratch is a block-based visual programming language that can be used to start building programming and sequence thought. Scratch can be used to program robots, create interactive stories or develop games.
This session provides a foundation for future coding by introducing the concept of block-based programming in an easy to use and understand interface.
3–4pm Introduction to EndNote
Join us for an introduction to the EndNote reference management software. Before coming to the workshop, we suggest that you download and install EndNote X9. It’s free for Deakin staff and students. View the instructions on the EndNote Library Resource Guide.
This session is appropriate for both Mac and PC users, with demonstrations on a PC. This session will include hints and tips on using groups, searching for full text and emailing citations.
Thursday 29 August
10–11am Getting started with your systematic search
Systematic searching is the art of organising, translating and performing your search across databases in a pre-planned and structured way. It requires a range of skills and abilities. This includes knowing where to look to find information, how to develop your search questions and where to search.
This session is part of the systematic review suite run by the Health Liaison Librarian Team. It is open to all faculties.
11.30am–12.30pm Text mining for systematic search
Learn how to ramp up your precision searching skills in this session. You will learn how to use text mining tools to improve the quality of your searches.
Please bring at least two Gold Standard articles (articles that you would expect to appear in a systematic search that you may run) to this session.
2–3.30pm Code to the Node with NVivo
NVivo provides a powerful way of managing and coding your qualitative research data. It provides a comprehensive overview of your dataset and imported files to help manage your data and draw out themes and content.
This session provides an introduction to using NVivo to code your qualitative data in two ways – Code to the Node and InVivo coding. The content is aimed at beginners who have only just started to use NVivo, or who are interested in learning more about how the program can be used for thematic analysis. This session does not replace the comprehensive NVivo introduction sessions offered by faculties and is a standalone session.
Friday 30 August
11.30am–12.30pm Advanced Endnote
Join us for an Advanced EndNote session and learn how to:
- edit a referencing style
- copy library references and merge libraries
- create Groups, Smart Groups, and Groups from Groups
- troubleshoot recovery of a damaged library.
This session is appropriate for both Mac and PC users (session demonstrated on PC).
Before coming to the workshop, we suggest you attend the Introduction to EndNote session.
NOTE: This is a fast-paced session aimed at users already proficient in the basics of EndNote. For further assistance please contact your Liaison Librarian.