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COSHH Training

Safety, Health & Environment |

Training

 Keywords:  COSHH, Health and Safety.
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By registering your interest for this course you will be added to a waiting list and informed once a course is scheduled.
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Academic Achievement Drop-In

Academic Achievement |

Academic Skills

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Student Life Building - The Hub, Upper Ground Floor
Format: Drop-in
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Academic Skills drop-ins are great for asking questions about things like understanding assignment briefs and questions, planning assignment answers, looking at assignment drafts, and writing with academic style. So, come along at any time during the drop-in and bring your questions.

Introduction to Symplectic (the university’s research information management system)

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  18
 Keywords:  Postgraduate, Professional Services, Researcher Development, Staff.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Symplectic (also known as Symplectic Elements) is the tool that helps you to manage your front facing LJMU staff profile as well as deposit your publications to the institutional open access repositories.

This session will cover:

  • Navigation of the system.
  • How to edit and populate your biography.
  • How to optimise your search and automatic claiming settings.
  • How to add publications and professional activities.
  • How and what to deposit to the institutional repositories.
  • Common queries related to the system and staff profiles.

There will also be the opportunity to ask questions during the session.

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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LJMU Profiles for Research and Professional Services Staff

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  2
 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Postgraduate, Professional Services, Researcher Development.
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Come along to get help with how to make the most of your LJMU Profile. LJMU Profiles are available to researchers, academics, professional services staff and PGRs

In this session you will learn:

  • How to access Symplectic the tool that allows you to edit your profile
  • How to edit and populate your biography and other narrative sections of your profile
  • How to add publications, professional activities and teaching activities
  • How to manage visibility within your profile

There will also be the opportunity to ask questions during the session.

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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Social Media for Researchers

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  19
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
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Come along to find out different ways that you can utilise social media tools to promote your research profile, using social media in your field and understand social media more generally.

This session will involve:

  • Looking at different social media tools
  • Give you tips on where to start
  • Looking at social media metrics within publishing

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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Journal Finders and Scopus

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  22
 Keywords:  Postgraduate, Professional Services, Researcher Development, Staff.
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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This session will demonstrate:

  • How to use journal finders to discover new places to publish-including some within our institutional open access deals and initiatives
  • Utilise the ‘compare journals’ function within Scopus to make informed choices
  • Discover other research/academics within your field and their publishing choices

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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Postgraduate Dissertations: Writing about your Methodology & Methods

Academic Achievement |

Academic Skills

Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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  • what to include in your methodology and methods section 

  • how to structure it 

  • how make it relevant to your own dissertation 

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Maths/Stats/Data analysis drop-in

Academic Achievement |

Maths and Statistics

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Student Life Building - The Hub, Upper Ground Floor
Format: Drop-in
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Drop by and ask our Maths & Stats tutors for advice on topics in mathematics, statistics, or data analysis — quantitative or qualitative — including use of software, e.g. Excel, R, SPSS, NVivo, Matlab, Python,... Just remember to bring your maths, statistics, or data analysis query with you, as well as any relevant course materials or data.

You may also like to enrol on the Maths & Statistics Canvas NCSKI02 module to find resources and recordings of classes.

Evidencing Your Research Impact with Metrics

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  21
 Keywords:  Postgraduate, Professional Services, Researcher Development, Staff.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Heard about H index but not sure what it means? Having difficulty finding the best metrics to use to demonstrate what you do? Confused by SNIP and FWCI?

During this workshop we will discuss the above metrics and more, giving to time to plan and think about where you can locate and utilise research metrics to demonstrate your work best.

We will discuss a variety of publication metrics from a variety of databases, like Scopus, SciVal, Dimensions and Overton and other tools like the LJMU Repository and OCLC WorldCat.

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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LinkedIn for Research

Researcher Engagement |

Researcher Development

 Remaining Places:  19
 Keywords:  Postgraduate, Professional Services, Researcher Development, Staff.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Online
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This session will give you an overview of using LinkedIn as a researcher, with examples of how you can use LinkedIn to connect with others, follow other research organisations and use LinkedIn Learning. There will be live demonstrations and plenty of time for questions.

Enrol on our Library Researcher Engagement Canvas page to access slides, recording and notes.

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Using AI to help with quantitative research

Academic Achievement |

Maths and Statistics

 Remaining Places:  27
 Keywords:  Generative AI.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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AI is an exciting new tool which can be used to help with your research. This session will explore ways in which it may be able to help you with planning your research, conducting analysis, and understanding the results. Please note that you should check with your module leader or supervisor as to how much (if at all) you are permitted to use AI, and how you should acknowledge its use.

Further information will be posted on the Maths & Statistics Canvas module before the class.

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Introduction to using NVivo for qualitative data analysis

Academic Achievement |

Maths and Statistics

 Remaining Places:  5
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Henry Cotton Building - 209
Format: Class
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In qualitative research your data are words, pictures, audio or video, rather than the numbers used in quantitative research. NVivo is a program which helps researchers to organise their sources, and help with the coding and analysis of the data.

This one day workshop will provide an introduction to NVivo and using it to do thematic analysis. Topics covered during the day will include:

  • Tour of NVivo and its capabilities
  • Getting data into NVivo
  • Coding, querying and visualising your data
  • Using NVivo to help with thematic analysis

The day will run from 10am to 4pm with morning and afternoon breaks, and an hour for lunch.

Further information will be posted on the Maths & Statistics Canvas module before the class.

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