This free, online-only course aimed primarily at research students and early career researchers will introduce a variety of essential online resources to enhance how you conduct, manage and communicate your research. The course is now open for enrolment, and will run from 11 January 2016 through to 26 March 2016.

By the end of the course you will have:

  • Gained hands-on experience of using a range of digital tools
  • Enhanced your online identity across different platforms
  • Learnt more about using social networking to enhance your academic practice
  • Explored web publishing as a means to disseminate your research
  • Reflected on the usefulness of different digital tools for your own academic practice
  • Engaged with key current issues and debates relating to digital technology in the academic context

The course convenors are David Beck (IT Services and History), Yvonne Budden (Library), and Annie Bryan (Student Careers and Skills).

Further details at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/academictechnology/research/digitaltools/