Coming soon: the 2023 Visualise Your Thesis competition!

Visualise Your Thesis is an exciting competition that helps researchers achieve advanced visual literacy and supports PhD candidates to develop their digital presentation skills - in this era of ‘be visible or vanish’, these are essential items in the engaged researcher’s toolkit.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to acquire skills, communicate your research and compete for prizes! Stay tuned and check the next HDR update for more information.

Stress Survival Kit

This workshop is part of the Resilient Researcher program which is designed to support HDR candidates and ECR's throughout their research by building and maintaining psychological wellbeing, enhancing communication and relationship skills and developing career confidence.
This Webinar supports you in:
➢ Understanding stress and research stressors
➢ Daily actions for stress protection
➢ How to managing during stressful times

11 July | Stress Survival Kit

Examination and iThenticate

HDRs now have access to iThenticate. This text-matching software is like Turnitin, but specifically designed for researchers – it doesn’t save your material, and it can handle much bigger files. From July, HDRs will be required to include an iThenticate similarity report alongside their thesis when submitting for examination. This online workshop will help you get maximum benefit from using this tool. During this workshop you will:

explore how and why plagiarism can appear in PhD theses
become familiar with the iThenticate software
interpret the similarity report
understand how to use this tool to improve your writing

13 July | How to use iThenticate

PR for Academics

We live in an increasingly visual culture; for a story to be news-worthy it must have a photo opportunity, and if we can click a link to a video, so much the better. Technology has also made potential film makers out of all of us. This session will explore the creative, technical and logistical elements of putting your research stories on the screen as striking Vimeo, YouTube or TikTok content that can be seen, enjoyed and remembered by potentially huge audiences. If done well, with little more than smart phone and a laptop, you can shine a whole new light on your research and bring it to life in an exciting, dynamic and accessible way.

27 June| From YouTube to TikTok- Making Effective Visual Presentations