Transferable Skills Training - Cluster Research & Valorisation

Target group: Members of the Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law and the Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
If the Members do not take up all the places, Guests of the Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law and the Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences will have the opportunity to participate in the seminar.
In spring 2008, this seminar will be organised for Members of the Doctoral School of Natural Sciences, the Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine and the Doctoral School of (Bioscience) Engineering.

Level: 1st or 2nd year of PhD

Content:
4 items will be dealt with:

Part 1. The importance of scientific communication
On many occasions publications of researchers are used in an evaluation process, such as a grant/project application, a job vacancy or promotion, applications for conference lectures, etc. It is of great importance to publish in the right journals, to register these publications in the appropriate databases and to maximize the impact of your publication. In addition, some tools will be discussed that can help you getting the most out of your publications. Also copyright and patent issues will be addressed.

Part 2. Quality management in research
Quality management in research involves a focus on the process of research conduct as well as focus on the product. During this session the European Charter for Researchers is taken as a starting point for an elaboration of rights and duties of researchers, their employers and their supervisors. Various evaluation tools that help research teams to assess their collaborative projects, will also be discussed in detail. The second part of this session focuses on research output. Although there are various “outcomes” for research practice, research must be communicated to the (specialized or wider) public in order to have any effect, and some channels have more impact than others. Finally, the significance of research output in the current allocation model for funding in higher education will add an extra dimension to the discussion of quality standards in research.

Part 3. Research skills in practice (group will be split according to research discipline)
Which databases are important for your discipline? How to work with them in depth?
Which other sources are available in the University to find relevant information?
How to distinguish trustworthy information on the internet?

Part 4. Endnote or Reference Manager (group will be split according to software participants choose to use)

• create, work with and revise a database
• import data
• print bibliographies
• cite-while-you-write (citations in word documents)
• exercise

Language: English

Credit(s): 1

Evaluation criteria: 75% participation required for earning credits, i.e. 3 out of 4 modules. PhD students who have already taken a session of Endnote or Reference Manager, can contact the Doctoral Schools Coordination Unit to consider exemptions.

Registration procedure: Registration closed

Registration fee: Free of charge

Programme:

Tuesday 8 January 2008

• 9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.: Part 1. The importance of scientific communication (for all participants)
  Auditorium A, Blandijnberg 2 (Ghent)
• 1.30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Part 2. Quality management in research (for all participants)
  Auditorium A, Blandijnberg 2 (Ghent)

Thursday 10 January 2008

• 9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.: Part 3. Research skills in practice (Arts & Humanities – not Law!)
  PC-room University Library, Rozier 9 (Ghent)
• 1.30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Part 3. Research skills in practice (Social & Behavioural Sciences)
  PC-room Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2 (Ghent)

Friday 11 January 2008

• 9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.: Part 4. Endnote (not Law!)
  PC-room University Library, Rozier 9 (Ghent)
• 1.30 p.m. – 5 p.m.: Part 4. Reference Manager (not Law!)
  PC-room Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2 (Ghent)

Only for PhD candidates from the Faculty of Law

Tuesday 20 May 2008

• 9 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.: Part 3. Research skills in practice
  PC-room Faculty of Law, Universiteitstraat (Ghent)
• 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Part 4. Endnote
  PC-room Faculty of Law, Universiteitstraat (Ghent)