In the past ECRs and postdocs have been able to attend Graduate School training courses, but priority has been given to postgraduate students. As such staff might not have been aware that these courses are available to them.
I’m currently arranging the programme of workshops and events for the ECR Network, and I thought it would be worth highlighting the excellent programme offered by GS which complements and broadens the training available to those at an early stage of their career. Do take the opportunity to look at their workshops, and sign up (by emailing skills@kent.ac.uk) for those that may be useful to your career or personal development.
This year’s programme includes:
- Measuring research impact;
- Visual and multimedia resources for the arts and humanities;
- Data and privacy;
- Skills for navigating research ethics and integrity;
- Intellectual property in the research context;
- Managing your research project;
- Fundamentals of statistics;
- Presentation skills;
- Using the media to publicise your research;
- Visual communication of social science research;
- How to create an exciting podcast;
- Academia and social media;
- Engaging the public with your research;
- Conference and event organising;
- Academic entrepreneurship;
- Career planning in the Sciences/Social Sciences/Humanities;
- Managing academic relationships;
- Managing your time effectively;
- Managing self-confidence and handling criticism effectively;
- Leading myself, leading others;
- Building and developing effective teams;
- Negotiation;
- Coaching;
- Publishing rights and wrongs: an introduction to copyright and open access.
More details of the ECR Network sessions will be available shortly.