More information Book your place Did you know social media can be used to enliven your career and not just your social life? Do you blog & tweet and would like to know more about online tools which can help with your research? Whether you’re social media savvy or social media shy this one day workshop will give you an … Continue reading
Guest blogger Liz Thackray, doctoral researcher at Sussex whose research spans the disciplines of Sociology and Informatics, discusses how digital networking can reduce the doctoral-lonliness in different ways. Check out Liz’s own blog and researcher profile. Doing a doctorate is a lonely journey – but does it have to be, in a networked world? Open … Continue reading
Activities for postgraduate researchers and research staff http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers Vitae is now on Facebook! You can keep in touch with Vitae via Vitae fan page and Vitae GRADschools alumni page! http://www.facebook.com/vitae.fanpage. We’re also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vitae_news The Researcher Development Framework is a useful career tool to enable you to identify skills you want to develop further, … Continue reading
The Growing Knowledge exhibition demonstrates the vision for future digital research services at the British Library, and provide a test bed for the evaluation of digital research tools and services that have the potential to support researchers’ needs. The exhibition consists of a number of features including digital signage, video demonstrations, interactive welcome animations and … Continue reading
Found this circulating on a JISCmail group: Growing Knowledge: The evolution of research 12 October 2010 – 16 July 2011 Join the debate and take part in our exciting new exhibition of innovative digital research services and tools. http://www.bl.uk/growingknowledge #blgk Visit our new exhibition and tell us what you think. Get involved: Search large audio … Continue reading
*Excursions*, the Journal for Interdisciplinary Research, is based in the Sussex Doctoral School, and run by Sussex doctoral researchers. The journal is Open Access (freely available to all), online, and most importantly: peer-reviewed. Which is why Excursions is looking for doctoral researchers and early career academics from all disciplines, to join their editorial team. So … Continue reading
Guest post: Aristea Fotopoulou (doctoral researcher in the school of Media, Film and Music) reflects on her experiences of setting up and running the Digital Methods and Feminist Approaches one-day graduate conference. In this post I am going to say a few words about the process of setting up the Digital Methods and Feminist Approaches … Continue reading
NVivo is qualitative data analysis software, designed to assist you in your research. Unfortunately, it won’t find the answers for you, but it does a cracking job of organising your data and helping you to interrogate it. You can link your data internally and externally, use demographic variables, and explore relationships between participants and ideas. … Continue reading
With our aggregated blog feed “Researcher Blogs” growing fast, we now have 7 contributers. But what if you want to subscribe to the Researcher Blogs feed and read the posts from somewhere other than the Doctoral School blog? Today’s guest blogger, Liz Thackray (lizit) explains… If asked what Internet facility I would most miss, RSS … Continue reading
A doctoral researcher asked me about the QuickSearch and SubjectSearch options in the Electronic Library: Why is it that I cannot select either a) all sets; or b) no sets? Good question. So I asked Helen in the Library’s Research Liaison section, and she very helpfully gave the following explanation… Quick search and Subject search…. … Continue reading
