Research Culture at the Graduate School
Monday 3rd June 2019: Present
WORKSHOP
Tell your Research Story At Conferences
10.00am - 1.00pm, Training Room 7
Learn the main elements of a successful conference submission, understand how to use your communication toolkit for planning and delivering at conferences and explore strategies to effectively ace a question and answer session.
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Workshop
Hearing the ‘Echo’, Seeking the ‘Answer’ Critical Social Research, Power and Justice
2.10pm - 4.10pm, The Social Space
Reflecting on his personal journey and drawing on his published in-depth research Phil Scraton explores the profound challenges involved in bearing witness to the ‘pain of others’, foregrounding their social, political and economic rights in the processes of investigation and inquiry.
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Workshop
To Postdoc or not to Postdoc? That is the question! with Dr Alice Dubois
10.00am - 11.30am, Training Room 2
The end of your PhD is approaching so you do what everybody does, look for a postdoc! But did you actually take the time to ask yourself if doing a postdoc will have any benefit for your career? Have you considered alternatives? In this short session, we will look at what postdocs do, reasons to do a postdoc and what to consider if deciding to go ahead and get the best out of a postdoc.
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Competition
Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)
1.00pm - 2.15pm, Training Room 7
The 3 Minute Thesis Competition challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research and its significance in just three minutes. The winner will be nominated to represent QUB at the National Vitae 3MT final in Birmingham on 16th September 2019. Participating Schools should register the names of those students representing them to pg.skills@qub.ac.uk by Friday 17th May 2019.
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Masterclass
Master Your Interview Technique
2.30pm - 4.30pm, Training Room 2
This workshop is designed to help you perform confidently at interviews. We will look at common interview questions to help you succeed at interviews.
Register via MyFuture.
Wednesday 5th June 2019: Post
Competition
5th Annual Researcher Poster Competition
11.30am - 1.15pm, The Social Space
Schools who participated in this year's competition have nominated the winner/s from their School for the finals. Winning students with shortlisted posters will be displayed in the Graduate School from Friday 31st May. The competition final will be judged on Wednesday 5th June by Faculty representative judges and winning students will be annouced at 1.15pm in the Graduate School.
Workshop
How to Build a Strong Online Presence for Researchers with Linzi Conway
10.30-12.30, Training Room 7
Current Selection
By improving your online presence, you can reach potential employers or customers from around the world. Increasing your online presence is absolutely crucial to the success of your job hunt or business. This workshop will focus on hints and tips on raising your profile online. This Workshop is delivered by Linzi Conway.
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Workshop
Research Impact and the Research Excellence Framework with James Dillon
11.30am -1.00pm, The Social Space
This session will provide an overview on the Research Excellence Framework (REF), the system for assessing the quality of research in UK Higher Education Institutions. In particular, there will be a focus on Research Impact - the effect that academic research is having on non-academic audiences. The session will discuss the means by which impact is measured and assessed in the REF, and will provide examples of world leading research impact, both from Queen’s, and from further afield.
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Masterclass
Innovating Research in Academia
2.00pm - 3.00pm, The Social Space
The world is changing, faster than ever before. Humanity faces problems of unprecedented scope and scale. More than ever we need to heed Einstein’s words that “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” The ability to innovate as well as a willingness to experiment have become prerequisites to research and academia.
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Event
Innovation After Hours and Launch of Student-Led Journal
6.00pm - 7.00pm, The Social Space
Powering inspiration beyond the 9-5, Dr Bettina von Stamm, an original and visionary thinker in the field of innovation, will discuss the current challenges surrounding innovating research. Dr Bettina von Stamm will explain ways in which researchers can experiment with various tools to address innovation challenges in research.
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Interdisciplinary working
Research Sandpit
10.00am - 2.00pm, Training Room 7
A research sandpit is an intensive, interactive workshop designed to inspire and produce radically innovative and multi-disciplinary research proposals. Participants from a diverse range of disciplines come together in a creative, free-thinking environment and immerse themselves in a collaborative process around a critical global challenge…. It’s also a lot of fun!
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