Need to brush up on your IT and information skills for research?  Why not come to a Research Skills Toolkit? These free 2-hour workshops introduce key software and online tools for your research, hone your searching and information skills and introduce you to subject specialists. Topics on offer include:

• Finding articles, papers, conferences and theses
• Keeping up to date and current awareness
• Using Endnote to manage your references
• Manipulating images using Gimp
• Managing your thesis with word
• Analyzising data with Excel pivot tables
• Podcasting with Audacity
• Plagiarism and how to avoid it
• Your thesis, copyright and ORA
• Finding highly cited journals and measuring research impact

Please book a place at one toolkit for your subject area:

Humanities

Monday 16 January 10.00-12.00 >book now
Tuesday 17 January 14.00-16.00 >book now
Wednesday 18 January 14.00 – 16.00 >book now

Social Sciences

Monday 16 January 14.00-16.00 >book now
Thursday 19 January 9.30-11.30 >book now
Friday 20 January 14.00-16.00 >book now