Brush up on your research skills with our upcoming training sessions
We are excited to announce the Spring Skills Refresher series of research training sessions. Running from 12-16 September, these workshops will help you refresh and further develop your research skills. These sessions will take place virtually to allow researchers from any location to attend simultaneously.
The Spring Skills Refresher series is targeted at Higher Degree by Research students, however, other Deakin students, researchers, and professional staff are more than welcome to attend.
Find out more about each session below and follow the links to register.
Copyright and what it means for your research
Monday 12 September 2-3pm
Copyright issues can impact how your research is conducted, submitted, accessed, and published. This session will help you consider, prepare for and navigate copyright issues as they arise in your research. It’s an opportunity to listen, ask questions, clarify what you do know and learn more about what you don’t know yet.
Introduction to Human Research Ethics
Tuesday 13 September 10.30-11.30am
This session will briefly introduce the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (updated 2018) and its 4 guiding principles. These principles underpin ethics review here at Deakin. Lisa will include some of the review pathways available including exemption and low risk. She will also cover some key ethical considerations when involving human participants in research, such as recruitment and consent.
Research Data Storage – Options and Deakin Endorsed Tools
Tuesday 13 September 2-3pm
This session provides an overview on tools for storing and sharing data and introduces the Deakin Research Data Store (RDS) for managing your research data.
Unpacking your options in scholarly publishing
Wednesday 14 September 2-3pm
This session will cover the evolving landscape in scholarly publishing; ‘open’ vs paid access; types of open publishing such as Green, Hybrid, and Deakin’s ‘Read and Publish’ deals.
Data capture and survey platforms at Deakin
Thursday 15 September 10-11am
This session provides an overview on the Survey and Data Capture platforms endorsed by Deakin Ethics – REDCap and Qualtrics.
Getting started with NVivo for your literature review
Thursday 15 September 1-3pm
Are you working on a literature review? Join us for an introductory workshop on analysing your literature search results using NVivo. By the end of this workshop, you should have a clear understanding of how NVivo can benefit your reading and analysis. You will also have begun to learn the core skills you will need to use NVivo for your literature review.
The session will look at how to get started with:
- Downloading and installing NVivo
- Importing source documents such as journal articles, conference papers, or theses
- Identifying themes
- Capturing (or ‘coding’) excerpts of your source documents and grouping them according to theme
This workshop will include demonstration, hands-on activities, question time and breaks. For best outcomes, users are encouraged to download NVivo from the Deakin Software Library (personal computers) or Software Self Service (Deakin staff computers) prior to attending. Please contact Deakin IT Help for technical support.
Maximising your literature review analysis
Friday 16 September 10am-12pm
NVivo can help even the most casual users with their literature review. However, some of the software’s more in-depth features can be especially useful in this context. By the end of this workshop, you will understand some of the more intermediate functions that make NVivo the industry standard software for qualitative analysis. You will also have acquired practical knowledge and/or hands-on experience about how these skills they can be applied to a literature review.
Some of the NVivo features we will consider include:
- Importing EndNote library files and creating Memos
- Structuring an NVivo project file as a hub for different elements of a research project
- Advanced coding techniques to assist with developing and revising themes, and recording page numbers
- Using text queries to target themes with systematic searches
- Exporting Codebooks and Word documents for interim reports and final drafting
This workshop will include demonstration, hands-on activities, question time and breaks. Attendance at Thursday’s ‘Getting started with NVivo for your literature review‘ is not a prerequisite, but previous experience using NVivo will be an advantage.
It is not essential to have the software ready to use, although users are encouraged to download NVivo from the Deakin Software Library (personal computers) or Software Self Service (Deakin staff computers) prior to attending.
We hope you’ll join us for some of these engaging sessions.