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Tue 26 Mar 2019 – Wed 27 Mar 2019

Tuesday 26 March 2019

09:15	Communication Skills Introduction: "Are you receiving me?" Finished 09:15 - 15:30 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room Increase your confidence and skills in one-to-one communication with this highly participative course. Effective communication starts in your head and it isn’t just about the words you say. Your tone of voice, facial expression and body language all communicate a message. This course will help you get your message across more clearly. You will also have the opportunity to practise communication skills on a one-to-one basis.
09:30	AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting 2018-19 (20 of 26) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills. In addition to applying for a provisional place here, you will need to complete an application form which can be found on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme
	Springboard: A Women's Development Programme (2 of 4) Finished 09:30 - 15:30 Hughes Hall, Peter Richards Room Springboard is a personal development programme for all female staff/graduate students. It will give you the opportunity to take stock and consider your personal and professional goals. During the programme you will explore your future in a practical way and learn how to develop your potential. You will undertake realistic self-assessment and set challenging goals. Key areas covered include communication skills, assertiveness, self confidence, improving your work/life balance and developing positive skills and attitude. If you want to progress and develop, then this programme is for you. The programme comprises four days over a three-month period and a workbook to be completed between sessions.
	An Introduction to Solving Biological Problems with R (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building R is a highly-regarded, free, software environment for statistical analysis, with many useful features that promote and facilitate reproducible research. In this course, we give an introduction to the R environment and explain how it can be used to import, manipulate and analyse tabular data. After the course you should feel confident to start exploring your own dataset using the materials and references provided. The course website providing links to the course materials is here. Please note that although we will demonstrate how to perform statistical analysis in R, we will not cover the theory of statistical analysis in this course. Those seeking an in-depth explanation of how to perform and interpret statistical tests are advised to see the list of Related courses. Moreover, those with some programming experience in other languages (e.g. Python, Perl) might wish to attend the follow-on Data Analysis and Visualisation in R course. This event is supported by the BBSRC Strategic Training Awards for Research Skills (STARS) grant (BB/P022766/1). The training room is located on the first floor and there is currently no wheelchair or level access available to this level. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book or register your interest by linking here.
	Mobile App Building and Augmented Reality: An Introduction (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This introduction to building mobile apps explores the basic elements and options for an app, from the simpler menu-driven and webpage rendering approaches, to some of the possibilities involved in orientation and location-sensitive data inputs and augmented reality techniques. The course will include a review of some existing apps which help demonstrate many of the options available for apps, and provide the opportunity to design a basic app incorporating some of those elements. There will also be an overview of important security considerations, and ways to share and distribute a more polished app, either independently or via existing app repositories and stores.
	Falcon: An Introduction for Content and Site Managers (Part 1 and Part 2) (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course will cover the use of Falcon Content Management Service by content and site managers. Please note: Falcon on Plone will be migrating to Falcon-on-Drupal over the the 2019-2020 academic year. If you are new to Falcon on Plone and have a requirement to learn the Falcon system, this course is for you. If your department plans to migrate soon (please ask your departmental IT Officer) there is a Falcon on Drupal: Migration from Falcon On Plone - An Introduction course. If you are new to Drupal there is a Drupal: An introduction course.
	Recruitment Administration System (RAS) Finished 09:30 - 12:45 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 This course is for those who are new to the Recruitment Administration System (RAS) or those who wish to have a refresher.
	External - Cambridge Enterprise Ltd: Consultancy 101 Finished 09:30 - 13:30 University Centre, Hicks Room Consultancy 101 is a training workshop designed to provide advice for academics and researchers that carry out consultancy for external organisations, and to explain why consulting can be a great way to share research knowledge. Are you considering becoming a consultant? Perhaps you are already consulting, but want to find out how to work more effectively, get the best price for your skills or discover how to simplify your administrative work? Cambridge Enterprise is delighted to offer this half-day training course to academics and researchers of the University. We will share expertise on best practice, tips on making life easier, and troubleshoot some of the key issues faced by consultants. This is an ideal opportunity to develop your skills. The workshop will offer a refresher for those already acting as consultants, and as an introduction for those considering consultancy in the near future. Book here to attend our workshop.
09:55	Physics Health & Safety: Induction Part 1 Briefing Finished 09:55 - 11:15 Department of Physics, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room (Floor 2) This induction briefing is mandatory for all new or temporary staff, new students, and visitors (from other departments or elsewhere) to the Cavendish Laboratory who are staying for more than one week, or are visiting regularly. It begins with a short HR induction. You will also need to book and attend Part 2 Induction if you do practical work - it follows 10 minutes after this session.
10:00	Better Presentations: A Practical Guide (Sciences and Technology) Finished 10:00 - 12:30 Postdoc Centre @ Biomedical Campus, Newman Library Giving presentations is an essential skill for a researcher, be it in your deparment, at a major conference, or in your next job interview! You know your subject but sometimes issues of performance and clarity stop you being your best. Perhaps you can't project your voice, perhaps you are terrified of the Q&A, perhaps you feel your slides let you down, or perhaps you just don't know what to do to get better. This is a highly interactive workshop that requires you to throw yourself into the activities. Everyone will be involved as we apply some of the material from the online Presentation and Performance toolkit and try it out in a safe and supportive environment. The workshop is especially designed for those who feel less confident with the performance aspects of giving presentations. If you are comfortable standing up and talking in front of others then we recommend starting with the online materials.
11:30	Physics Health & Safety: Induction Part 2 - Risk Assessment Briefing Finished 11:30 - 12:35 Department of Physics, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room (Floor 2) This risk assessment briefing follows the basic departmental induction and is mandatory for all new staff, students or visitors who will be doing one or more of the following: running experiments providing technical support carrying out workshop or maintenance work managing other people's work running events You may only attend this session if you have done Part 1 (see "prerequisites" below).
12:00	Making a Bigger Impact with Public Engagement CANCELLED 12:00 - 14:00 Postdoc Centre @ Eddington, Sanders Hall We’ll be looking at the what, why and how of public engagement and introducing researchers to some of the ways to plan an effective public engagement project. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book by linking here.
	Medicine: Creating a Conference Poster (for University and NHS) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course to take you through conference poster design, with tips and resources to help with the content and presentation in order to ensure you communicate your research effectively. The course will cover where to source good quality, free graphics, how to include references in your poster, and advice about how best to present it at a conference.
12:20	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 12:20 - 12:40 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
12:40	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 12:40 - 13:00 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:00	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 13:00 - 13:20 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:30	Evaluation Training for Outreach Practitioners (3 of 3) Finished 13:30 - 16:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 6 The series aims to help outreach practitioners at the University develop Evaluation Plans for their current projects and embed evaluation into the development of any future outreach activity. To get the full benefit from the series, participants are expected to attend all three workshops. We understand that for practitioners this may be difficult due to workload, so we have allowed the option to sign up and indicate if you are unlikely to make one or more of the sessions. If you are unable to attend a session the expectation would be that you read up on the content before the subsequent session and complete any tasks.
14:00	Physics Health and Safety - Maxwell Centre Induction (1 of 2) Finished 14:00 - 14:25 Department of Physics, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room (Floor 2) This induction is required for anyone planning to work unsupervised at the Maxwell Centre, Department of Physics. It has two parts: Part 1 is for people working anywhere in the building Part 2 is only for those working at the Maxwell laboratories
14:25	Physics Health and Safety - Maxwell Centre Induction (2 of 2) Finished 14:25 - 14:55 Department of Physics, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room (Floor 2) This induction is required for anyone planning to work unsupervised at the Maxwell Centre, Department of Physics. It has two parts: Part 1 is for people working anywhere in the building Part 2 is only for those working at the Maxwell laboratories

Wednesday 27 March 2019

09:15	Staff Review and Development for Reviewers Finished 09:15 - 13:00 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room The Staff Review and Development process provides the opportunity for supervisors, managers and academics to engage in constructive discussion with their staff or academic colleagues about current and future work and their personal and career development. This course will focus on practical advice and development of a range of skills and techniques that may be used effectively when reviewing others. It will provide an opportunity for review practice, discussion with other reviewers and provide useful reminders of good practice.
09:30	GL Part 2: Reporting in the General Ledger Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course provides users the opportunity to run General Ledger reports and how to interpret them when managing departmental funds. You are invited to bring with you any reference documents that you may have detailing your own departmental codes.
	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 09:30 - 10:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
	Introduction to RNA-seq data analysis (1 of 3) Finished 09:30 - 17:30 Bioinformatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building The aim of this course is to familiarize the participants with the primary analysis of RNA-seq data. This course starts with a brief introduction to RNA-seq and discusses quality control issues. Next, we will present the alignment step, quantification of expression and differential expression analysis. For downstream analysis we will focus on tools available through the Bioconductor project for manipulating and analysing bulk RNA-seq. The training room is located on the first floor and there is currently no wheelchair or level access available to this level. Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to book or register your interest by linking here.
	Mobile App Building and Augmented Reality: An Introduction (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This introduction to building mobile apps explores the basic elements and options for an app, from the simpler menu-driven and webpage rendering approaches, to some of the possibilities involved in orientation and location-sensitive data inputs and augmented reality techniques. The course will include a review of some existing apps which help demonstrate many of the options available for apps, and provide the opportunity to design a basic app incorporating some of those elements. There will also be an overview of important security considerations, and ways to share and distribute a more polished app, either independently or via existing app repositories and stores.
	Falcon: An Introduction for Content and Site Managers (Part 1 and Part 2) (2 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Titan Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site This course will cover the use of Falcon Content Management Service by content and site managers. Please note: Falcon on Plone will be migrating to Falcon-on-Drupal over the the 2019-2020 academic year. If you are new to Falcon on Plone and have a requirement to learn the Falcon system, this course is for you. If your department plans to migrate soon (please ask your departmental IT Officer) there is a Falcon on Drupal: Migration from Falcon On Plone - An Introduction course. If you are new to Drupal there is a Drupal: An introduction course.
09:45	Radiation Protection Supervisors' Update Finished 09:45 - 12:15 Department of Biochemistry, Thomas Lecture Theatre An annual update meeting for Radiation Protection Supervisors (RPSs). Please contact Emma Clarke for further details and to book a place.
10:00	Writing Your First Year Report (Life Sciences) CANCELLED 10:00 - 12:00 17 Mill Lane, Seminar Room B Aimed at first-year PhD students, this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on writing your end-of-first-year-report. How to start? What is expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this half-day session. Outcomes: Understand the standard form and function of the first year report Start planning the structure of your report Experience the benefits of editing and receiveing feedback on writing
	Policy Workshop (CSaP and Cambridge ESRC DTP) Finished 10:00 - 14:30 Judge Business School WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN HOW YOUR RESEARCH CAN BE HEARD IN GOVERNMENT? This workshop is open to all postgraduates in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Join the Cambridge ESRC DTP with the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) for a workshop where you will learn how policy is written, how to engage with policy officials and decision makers, and learn key skills around how to make your research have an impact within government. This workshop is open to all PhD students within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (including non-ESRC funded students) Details are also available at: https://www.esrcdtp.group.cam.ac.uk/Doctoral-Training/understanding-policy
	Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search (for students and researchers at the University of Cambridge) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room One session - four medicine and life science databases - widest coverage for your literature search. PubMed is great, but it doesn't cover all the journals relevant to life sciences and medicine. Embase, Web of Science and Scopus can also be relevant and each covers unique material. Come to this hands-on session to learn how to get the best from each of these "4 tops".
	Introduction to CamSIS Finished 10:00 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 CamSIS is Cambridge’s system for handling student information, records and transactions, from initial contact and application all the way through to graduation. This course will teach you the basics of using the system to view student records and to produce basic lists of students. Supporting documentation Introduction to CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=138371 Understanding Student Data in CamSIS https://www.vle.cam.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=139441
10:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 10:30 - 11:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
11:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 11:30 - 12:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
13:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 13:30 - 14:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
	Core Statistics (4 of 6) Finished 13:30 - 16:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 6 This laptop only course is intended to provide a strong foundation in practical statistics and data analysis using the R software environment. The underlying philosophy of the course is to treat statistics as a practical skill rather than as a theoretical subject and as such the course focuses on methods for addressing real-life issues in the biological sciences. There are three core goals for this course: Use R confidently for statistics and data analysis Be able to analyse datasets using standard statistical techniques Know which tests are and are not appropriate R is a free, software environment for statistical and data analysis, with many useful features that promote and facilitate reproducible research. In this course, we explore classical statistical analysis techniques starting with simple hypothesis testing and building up to generalised linear model analysis. The focus of the course is on practical implementation of these techniques and developing robust statistical analysis skills rather than on the underlying statistical theory After the course you should feel confident to be able to select and implement common statistical techniques using R and moreover know when, and when not, to apply these techniques.
14:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 14:30 - 15:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style
	Library lowdown: A brief introduction to the University Library Finished 14:30 - 15:00 Cambridge University Library: Entrance Hall A thirty minute introduction to the UL, aimed at those using our facilities and collections over the summer vacation period. An experienced member of staff will meet you in the Entrance Hall then lead you on a twenty minute tour of the UL,taking in the Locker Room, Open Bookstacks, Reading Room and West Room. Ten minutes are reserved after the tour for a question and answer session.
	Librarians in Training: CILIP Chartership - Evidence Finished 14:30 - 16:30 Cambridge University Library, Milstein Room Chartership portfolios rely on candidates displaying a range of evidence of their development but it can be hard to know where to start. What counts as evidence? How many pieces can I include? How do I choose what to include in my submission? This session will answer these questions and offer attendees tips, tricks and the chance to work on compiling their evidence. You are also more than welcome to just use the session for as a quiet time to get some work done on whichever aspect of your Chartership portfolio you choose.
15:30	Postdocs: Effective Research Presentations (1:1s) Finished 15:30 - 16:30 16 Mill Lane, Office of Post-Doctoral Affairs, Seminar Room Do you achieve the desired results from your presentations? This interactive, individualised workshop, which centres on your delivery of a five-minute presentation, will help you communicate your research engagingly and effectively. In addition to reviewing useful patterns and styles of presentation, you will have the chance to observe yourself in action, as we will record and watch together your five-minute presentation. This workshop is for postdocs who want to achieve the greatest impact while presenting their work and to improve their public-speaking skills in a safe and supportive environment. Outcomes - Improve on designing and delivering a successful presentation - Consider how to understand and engage your audience - Observe yourself presenting and further develop your style