For Postgraduate Students, Post-Docs & Research Staff 2017-18

The Research Skills Training Programme is open to all Researchers at DkIT and focuses on key skills for research and future employment. It is open to all full-time and part-time PG Students (at whatever stage of study), Post-Docs and Research Staff. 

The new programme starts with a PG Induction Event on Tuesday 3 October 2017 –thereafter running every month on Wednesdays and Thursdays from15 November 2017 through to 10 May, 2018. The Workshops are designed to help all Researchers – from PGs to Post-Docs – progress their research project from start to finish.

They include Research Planning, Presentation Skills, Thesis Writing, Surviving the Viva – plus two new Workshops on Intellectual Property Rights, and Career Development. This year’s Research Skills Training Programme offers a wide range of career and research skills – selected to enhance the research effectiveness of every participant, and also to help secure appropriate employment when leaving the College.

Research Skills Training for Postgraduate Students

The College expects every Postgraduate Student to attend appropriate Workshops in the Research Skills Training Programme during each year of their PG registration – this is a condition for Academic Progression to the next year of their programme.  All Postgraduate Students who attend this year’s Training Programme will receive an Attendance Certificate in May 2018.  This transcript will give evidence of all Researcher Development Training received during the year, for the purpose of Academic Progression – and can be used as information on Skills Training for any future employer, and/or for any other academic institution the Student may wish to attend.

A highlight of this year’s Research Skills Training Programme is the annual DkIT Mini-Conference on Thursday 15 March, 2018.   At this event – now in its 6th year – PGs, Post-Docs and Research Staff present a short 10-minute paper on their current research programme (or proposals for the future) – followed by discussion with other Researchers and Supervisors.

Researcher Development for Post-Docs and Researchers

This year two new Workshops – on 16th November 2017 and 25th January, 2018 – have been designed specifically for Post-Docs and Researchers. They will focus on Research Management and Personal Development for Post-Docs and Researchers – including essential skills for PG Research Supervision, Project Management, successful Publishing, Exploiting and Commercialising Research, Financial Management and Post-Doc/Researcher Career Development.  In addition, several of the training events in the current Research Skills Training Programme on the Research Office website have been designed to serve the needs of Post-Docs and other Researchers.

The Research Skills Training Programme is presented by DkIT staff in partnership with an external facilitator (Professor Tony Fell, University of Bradford, UK).  Further information can be obtained from Mary Matthews, who coordinates the programme in the Research & Graduate Studies Office: mary.matthews@dkit.ie

You are warmly invited to take part in any of this year’s Workshops.  A documentation pack will be emailed to all participants before each session.  Please register on-line using the Registration Form on the Research Office website, at least one week before the event you wish to attend: this will guarantee you a place on the Course List – and make sure you receive the documentation pack for each Workshop in time.

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