University of Dundee

The following Organisational and Professional Development (OPD) workshops, taking place May/June 2017, for Research Staff, still have places available. For further information, please follow the links after the workshop descriptions below, and make a booking by signing into your OPD account.

Workshops for which there is information below include:

  • Practical Presentation Skills for Researchers
  • Critiquing and Evaluating a Paper [PILOT]
  • Research Data Management at the University of Dundee
  • Defining Your Digital Presence [PILOT]
  • Introduction to Research Statistics Using R for Arts Research Staff and Postgraduate Researchers
  • Finding Humour in Your Research - Bright Club Workshop
  • Taking Control of Your Career [NEW]
  • Confident Networking [NEW]
  • One-to-One Careers Advisory Session [NEW] [VARIOUS SESSIONS]

Sessions are provided free of charge. If you have any issues, please email OPD@dundee.ac.uk

PLEASE NOTE: Though places on the OPD workshops are free of charge, the workshops are costly to run. Therefore, we require sufficient notice of cancellation and non-attendance to allow others the opportunity to attend these workshops, or to allow the workshops to be cancelled if insufficient places are filled. Our Terms and Conditions can be viewed on our website.

Workshop Descriptions and booking links
Practical Presentation Skills for Researchers

18/05/2017 9:30 - 16:30

This workshop is aimed at those who will have to give presentations particularly on their work and current research. It gives participants the opportunity to practise the skills of delivering a short presentation and to respond confidently to questions. Time is spent analysing the nature of the request for a presentation using a checklist which can assess this and the presenter’s responsibilities. Advice is given on how best to cope with nerves and how to prepare, especially how best to overcome any objections and difficulties that the audience may find difficult. Examples are provided of different ways of structuring a presentation and the use of a script or cue cards. Advice is given on the way to use slides effectively and selectively and how other forms of visual aids might complement these. Participants will be asked to give two short (1-2min) presentations in the morning to assist in building up their technique and confidence. In the afternoon they will present their talks, which will have been prepared in draft format. Advice will be provided as to how these drafts can be firmed up and made more effective as presentations.

For more information and to book.

Critiquing and Evaluating a Paper

 25/05/2017 9:30 - 12:30

This half day workshop is designed specifically for researchers who are interested in developing their literature analysis skills. The workshop will also cover how to get the most out of journal clubs: understanding the aims, what your supervisor expects, tackling interdisciplinary papers and how to ask pertinent questions that stimulate discussion. We will cover the key aspects to critiquing a paper, how to extract the main points and techniques to optimise your time.

For more information and to book.

Research Data Management at the University of Dundee

25/05/2017 13:30 16:30

What is research data and data management planning?
Why do this now? 
What does my publisher require? 
What formats and systems should I use?


The benefits of sharing data are well understood, this half-day workshop will help explain how to do this legally and ethically taking into consideration security, copyright and restricted access. It will also introduce you to the tools you will need to create a data management plan prior to submitting a funding application.

For more information and to book.

Defining Your Digital Presence

25/05/2017 16:00 16:30

This half day workshop is designed specifically for postgraduates & staff who are interested in developing their digital presence, with a particular focus on using the professional networks ResearchGate and LinkedIn. This workshop will cover how to set up an effective online profile (for networks such as LinkedIn, RG and Piirus), how to engage online and how to develop an online strategy that works for you. We will also cover professional integrity, a digital “health check”, the challenges of online engagement and privacy issues.

For more information and to book.

Introduction to Research Statistics Using R for Arts Research Staff and Postgraduate Researchers

25-26/05/2017 9:30 16:30

his course introduces statistical analysis using the freeware program R and its associated graphical user interface RStudio.

For more information and to book.

Finding Humour in Your Research - Bright Club Workshop

05/06/2017 17:00 21:00

Bright Club is a stand-up comedy show that collides worlds of comedy and research. We hope that each participant will take part in one of our Bright Club comedy shows but there is much more to finding humour in your research. It’s useful when speaking to any audience including funders, collaborators and the general public. More importantly it breeds confidence and makes you more memorable, which supports career progression and media work.
The biggest incentive we can offer is that the workshop enhances skills and is brilliant fun.

For more information and to book.

Taking Control of Your Career

12/06/2017 9:30 12:30

This session is designed to take you through a career planning process which includes a personal evaluation of skills and interests which you can use to evaluate career options and articulate your skills and strengths to potential employers.

For more information and to book.

Confident Networking

12/06/2017 13:30 16:30

Networking is an essential skill in academia and beyond. Connecting effectively with others will give you access not just to information (about job vacancies, funding opportunities and potential collaborations) but also channels through which your work can be communicated to their networks.

This session will look at the key opportunities that researchers have for networking (conferences, online networks, careers events) and take participants through a series of scenarios to help them develop personal strategies for the future.

For more information and to book.

One-to-One Careers Advisory Session

Various Sessions

Careers guidance is the process that enables you to make well-informed, realistic decisions about the next steps towards your future career. You do not need to know what you want to do before you come to see us – we see people at all different stages of their plans.

For more information and to book.

Other Opportunities and Resources
Train the Trainer

Are you interested in developing your skills as a trainer or interested in delivering a workshop on the OPD programme?  If so, we are running a 2 day Train the Trainer workshop on the 11th and 12th of December 2017. 

If you are keen to participate, and are available to attend both days in full, then please provide an expression of interest by Monday 29th May to opd-secretary@dundee.ac.uk with a short paragraph as to why this opportunity would be of benefit to your career development.

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You are able to login to this resource with your University of Dundee username and password, Lynda.com.

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