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Effective note making is an essential bridge between reading and writing. When making notes for a long piece of writing, if you paraphrase and interpret as you go along, you will be able to retrieve what you have learned from reading quickly and efficiently and often produce sections that you can drop straight into your work. This session will introduce you to the theory of good note making, discuss different note making techniques and offer advice for deciding which approach best suits your practices.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session, you should be able to:
- Explain the importance of strategic reading
- Identify strategic reading approaches that fit your needs
- Explain the difference between note taking and note making
- Explain the link between reading, note making and academic writing
Please note: This session will be offered again in Easter term, date to be confirmed.
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Wed 18 Oct 2023 | 11:00 | Finished |
Wed 28 Feb 2024 | 11:00 | Finished |
The Critical Reading course aims to improve students' ability to read critically and evaluate sources, as well as giving helpful tips about productive reading, note taking and providing a checklist of questions to help them with their reading going forward. It is suitable for all students but aimed mostly at undergraduates.
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This workshop session aims to address the following:
- What is critical reading?
- Reading productively
- Reading critically
- Effective note-taking techniques
The course will be a mixture of front-led instruction and interactive small group discussions.
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Wed 4 Dec 2019 | 13:00 | Finished |
This session provides an overview of the extensive e-resources available to Divinity Undergraduates, including e-books, e-journals, databases and the use of Moodle.
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Fri 5 Oct 2018 | 14:15 | Finished |
Mon 8 Oct 2018 | 10:00 | Finished |
Thu 11 Oct 2018 | 12:00 | Finished |
This session provides an overview of the extensive e-resources relevant to Theology, Religious Studies and the Philosophy of Religion, including e-books, e-journals, databases and electronic legal deposit materials (journal articles and monographs).
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Thu 4 Oct 2018 | 11:00 | Finished |
This session provides an introduction to the use of IDiscover (the University Library catalogue), for new Postgraduate students and Academic staff, demonstrating the main functions of the catalogue and showing how to make the most effective use of its capabilities for locating books and journals in print and electronic form.
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Thu 4 Oct 2018 | 10:30 | Finished |
Thu 11 Oct 2018 | 11:00 | Finished |
This session provides an introduction to the use of IDiscover (the University Library catalogue), for new Undergraduate students, demonstrating the main functions of the catalogue and showing how to make the most effective use of its capabilities for locating books and journals in print and electronic form.
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Thu 11 Oct 2018 | 11:30 | Finished |
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These 30 minute small group sessions are an opportunity for you to obtain support for searching databases and using referencing software. General advice and support will be offered, and any specific queries will be addressed.
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Mon 25 Nov 2019 | 14:00 | Finished |
Mon 25 Nov 2019 | 14:30 | Finished |
Mon 2 Dec 2019 | 14:00 | CANCELLED |
Mon 2 Dec 2019 | 14:30 | CANCELLED |
Mon 2 Dec 2019 | 15:00 | CANCELLED |
Tue 3 Dec 2019 | 14:00 | CANCELLED |
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These 30 minute small group sessions are an opportunity for you to obtain support for searching databases and using referencing software. General advice and support will be offered, and any specific queries will be addressed.
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Tue 26 Nov 2019 | 10:00 | Finished |
Tue 26 Nov 2019 | 10:30 | Finished |
Tue 26 Nov 2019 | 11:00 | Finished |
Tue 3 Dec 2019 | 10:00 | CANCELLED |
Tue 3 Dec 2019 | 10:30 | CANCELLED |
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These 30 minute small group sessions are an opportunity for you to obtain support for searching databases and using referencing software. General advice and support will be offered, and any specific queries will be addressed.
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Thu 7 Nov 2019 | 10:00 | Finished |
Thu 7 Nov 2019 | 10:30 | Finished |
Thu 21 Nov 2019 | 10:00 | CANCELLED |
Thu 21 Nov 2019 | 10:30 | CANCELLED |
Thu 28 Nov 2019 | 10:00 | CANCELLED |
Thu 28 Nov 2019 | 10:30 | Finished |
Thu 30 Jan 2020 | 10:00 | CANCELLED |
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These twenty-minute sessions are chance to practice searching medical/scientific databases, use referencing software, and have your questions answered about literature searching for your dissertations.
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Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 14:00 | Finished |
Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 14:20 | Finished |
Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 14:40 | Finished |
Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | Finished |
Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 15:20 | Finished |
Tue 15 Oct 2019 | 15:40 | Finished |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 14:00 | CANCELLED |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 14:20 | CANCELLED |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 14:40 | CANCELLED |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | CANCELLED |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 15:20 | CANCELLED |
Wed 23 Oct 2019 | 15:40 | CANCELLED |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 14:00 | Finished |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 14:20 | Finished |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 14:40 | Finished |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | Finished |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 15:20 | Finished |
Fri 25 Oct 2019 | 15:40 | Finished |
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | 14:00 | CANCELLED |
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | 14:20 | CANCELLED |
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | 14:40 | CANCELLED |
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | 15:00 | CANCELLED |
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | 15:20 | CANCELLED |
Introduction to Bibliographic Searching in Theology and Religious Studies will give a brief overview of the issues of searching for publications in general, and follow this up with searching the specialist Theology and Religious studies bibliographic database ATLA and Index Theologicus.
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Tue 21 Nov 2017 | 11:15 | Finished |
Wed 22 Nov 2017 | 12:15 | Finished |
Tue 16 Oct 2018 | 11:15 | Finished |
Mon 29 Oct 2018 | 12:30 | Finished |
Fri 25 Jan 2019 | 11:30 | Finished |
Tue 5 Mar 2019 | 16:00 | Finished |
Tue 29 Oct 2019 | 11:30 | Finished |
Giving a presentation is something everyone has to do whether it is for your course, for an extracurricular activity or society event, or even in the workplace. In this session we'll take you through planning your presentation, how to make everything look good as well as accessible for a diverse range of audiences, as well as introducing you to techniques to present with confidence. And to help finish things off, we'll also give you some tips on how to deal with situations when it all goes a bit wrong.
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Wed 23 Nov 2022 | 14:00 | Finished |
This live session is designed to build your skills in reading and assessing research articles for your Part II studies in Biological Sciences. We will cover how to approach reading for different purposes, apply different reading strategies, and critically evaluate articles. We will also spend some time on managing what you’ve read (or not yet read) and writing your literature review, including how to select items to include and reference them properly. There will be activities and discussions throughout the session so you can try your new skills and ask any questions you may have.
This session is for students taking a Biological Sciences route (NST and PBST) for Part II.
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Tue 17 Nov 2020 | 15:00 | Finished |
Thu 19 Nov 2020 | 15:00 | Finished |
Tue 24 Nov 2020 | 15:00 | Finished |
Wed 3 Nov 2021 | 14:30 | Finished |
Mon 8 Nov 2021 | 14:30 | Finished |
Mon 7 Nov 2022 | 15:00 | Finished |
Wed 9 Nov 2022 | 14:00 | Finished |
Fri 11 Nov 2022 | 10:00 | Finished |
Mon 6 Nov 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
Wed 8 Nov 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
Using a reference manager is one of the best ways to look after all of the reading, notes and research that make up undergraduate study in a biological sciences subject. A really good reference manager can even take some of the pain out of referencing in essays and assignments, making sure you don't miss a thing while working to a deadline.
This session will introduce Zotero, an open source reference manager tool. Using live demonstrations, discussions, and troubleshooting common referencing issues, the session will give an in-depth look at how Zotero (and tools like it) can help you manage your work in the first year or two of your degree, ensuring that you don't lose any essential resources and are well equipped with a useful tool for when you start having to do research work for your Part II studies.
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Mon 25 Oct 2021 | 15:00 | Finished |
Fri 29 Oct 2021 | 15:00 | Finished |
Wed 19 Oct 2022 | 15:30 | Finished |
Mon 24 Oct 2022 | 15:00 | Finished |
Mon 30 Oct 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
This live session is designed to build your skills in reading critically and assessing resources as part of your first year studies. Additional techniques around using effective note-taking, selecting what to read from lectures, as well as building your critical language when writing your first pieces of work will also be covered. There will opportunities for discussion throughout the session so you can ask any questions you may have.
This session is for students taking a Biological Sciences route (Natural Sciences, Psychology & MedVet) at Part IA/IB.
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Mon 18 Oct 2021 | 14:30 | Finished |
Wed 20 Oct 2021 | 14:30 | Finished |
Wed 12 Oct 2022 | 14:00 | Finished |
Fri 14 Oct 2022 | 15:00 | Finished |
Fri 27 Jan 2023 | 15:00 | Finished |
Mon 30 Jan 2023 | 15:00 | Finished |
Mon 16 Oct 2023 | 14:30 | CANCELLED |
Wed 18 Oct 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
Designing your first academic poster can be a bit overwhelming with lots of choices to be made: how much information do you include? How do you get your key message across? How do you make it look good?
Join us for our introductory session which will explore these things and more. We'll help you work out what your key message is, give you some advice on what to include (and what to cut out), how to make everything look visually appealing as well as accessible for a diverse range of audiences. We'll even give you some tips on how to present your poster to others.
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Mon 14 Nov 2022 | 15:00 | Finished |
Wed 16 Nov 2022 | 14:00 | Finished |
This course is based on a typical literature review lifecycle. You start by planning your search. You then carry out your search. Once you've found some results, you evaluate what you have found to see if it is relevant to your needs. You manage your results by saving them to a suitable place so you can come back to them. If you are interested in tracking changes in your field, you enact approaches to keep up to date with new research. And as your research evolves, you refine your search to reflect new concepts and new terms. And so the cycle continues.
While you may not be as focused on the longer term tracking of new research in your field, being able to plan, search, evaluate and manage effectively are additional skills which we will cover in this course. The course will be structured around the first four stages described above, with optional additional information about the last two stages for those who are interested.
This course is supplemented by live workshop opportunities throughout the academic year.
Need to find scientific literature and resources for your Part II dissertation or project? We've got you covered.
In this session, we will introduce you to breaking down your research question, developing your keywords or vocabulary for what you want to search for, before putting it all together using tried and tested techniques to get the best results quickly. We'll show you where to find relevant and reliable resources, how to navigate pesky paywalls and even how to hack Google...legally of course!
If you can't make our live sessions, everything we talk about (and a little bit more) is covered in our self-guided online course.
Want something a bit more advanced? Check out our Going further with your literature searching for your Biological Sciences dissertation or project workshop which will show more detailed searching, demonstrate how the reference manager Zotero can help you at Part II, as well as leaving lots of time for questions and troubleshooting.
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Mon 17 Oct 2022 | 15:00 | Finished |
Fri 21 Oct 2022 | 10:00 | Finished |
Wed 26 Oct 2022 | 14:00 | Finished |
Mon 6 Feb 2023 | 15:00 | Finished |
Fri 10 Feb 2023 | 15:00 | CANCELLED |
Mon 23 Oct 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
Wed 25 Oct 2023 | 14:30 | Finished |
This session discusses the benefits and challenges of maintaining an online presence as a researcher. Part of two sessions on this topic, this first session looks at setting up your academic persona and using academic platforms. Starting with exploring what comes up through a quick Google search all the way through to maintaining profiles on academic sites, we will look at the pros and cons of online engagement. This will include tools such as ORCID, and networking sites such as academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Participants should expect to have the opportunity to critically evaluate the various options presented in this session with the overall aim of being better informed when deciding where to invest their time and efforts when building an academic presence online.
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Mon 28 Nov 2022 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 15 May 2023 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 20 Nov 2023 | 13:00 | Finished |
Using a reference manager is one of the best ways to look after crucial research literature, whether planning for a literature review or simply keeping track of developments in a particular discipline. This session will introduce Zotero, an open source reference manager tool.
Using live demonstrations, discussions, and troubleshooting common referencing issues, the session will give an in-depth look at how Zotero (and tools like it) can help maximise a research project workflow while also ensuring that critical resources and information are not lost at any point in the research process.
Date | Availability | |
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Fri 14 May 2021 | 13:00 | Finished |
Fri 5 Nov 2021 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 7 Feb 2022 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 31 Oct 2022 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 30 Jan 2023 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 23 Oct 2023 | 13:00 | Finished |
Mon 29 Jan 2024 | 13:00 | Finished |
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In November 2021 UNESCO announced a Recommendation on Open Science to be adopted by member states. The Recommendation aims to define shared values and principles for open research and outline proposals to help facilitate the dissemination of research results to a wide audience.
As part of our Research Roundup series we will be holding a virtual brown bag lunchtime discussion on the Recommendation and what it could mean for local practice at Cambridge. Join us via Teams for an informal exploration of the Recommendation and share your thoughts with colleagues.
If you have any specific questions or areas you would like to discuss in the session please email Claire Sewell (ces43@cam.ac.uk) prior to the session.
Resources: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. You may also like to watch this webinar recording of a session on recommended actions for publishers to take regarding the Recommendation.
Most people have online profiles and, as a researchers, your online presence offers many rich opportunities. It is helpful to be aware of tools and tips that can help you boost your visibility online, as well as common mistakes to avoid.
In this course, you will:
- begin to develop your online research profile by making yourself visible to others in a way(s) that suits you.
- learn what an ORCID is and how to obtain one.
- learn what your Symplectic Elements account is for and begin to make it work for you
- review your current visibility and consider the next steps
You will receive the URL for the course in the confirmation email after booking.
Narrative CVs provide space for candidates to elaborate on their contributions to the research community that go beyond traditional outputs such as publications. The hope is that, by encouraging candidates to provide evidence for, and selection panels to consider, qualities that promote good research cultures, such as open research practice, we will start to select candidates who demonstrate this in addition to their traditional research contributions. What does this mean for researchers at Cambridge? This session will introduce some of the current formats of narrative CVs being used or considered by funding bodies in the UK and Europe and the implications for researchers, and recruiters and selectors of researchers who might use them. Since the format is still very much under development in the sector, the session will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and feed back on what they see as the benefits and challenges of narrative CVs. The workshop leaders will feed the outcome of this session into relevant discussions happening nationally around the development and adoption of narrative CVs.
From fair dealing to sharing your research online it seems that nothing with copyright is ever simple. There are few black and white rules about copyright but there can be serious consequences for getting things wrong! This session will cover the basics of UK copyright law and how these impact researchers such as dealing with third party materials, seeking permissions and how to manage risk.
Please note: This session will be offered, either online or in person, in Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms.
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Thu 23 Nov 2023 | 11:00 | Finished |
Tue 12 Mar 2024 | 11:00 | Finished |