Speaking in tongues: navigating English language.

These regular sessions provide opportunities to share and nuance any difficulties with English in either reading, writing and speaking, and explore potential ways forward for navigating these in your work plan. The sessions will vary week on week so please connect with the RDO channel to see what is coming up the following week.

Public Engagement: What is it and why should I do it?

We all want people to be interested in our research and understand what we do. Our audience for this is changing and includes people outside of academia; more often it could be school groups, community groups, the media, professional presentations- the scope is wide. But how do we do it? The workshop will cover some key tips and techniques to develop public engagement opportunities for our research; examine broader social contexts for our research; tailor our materials to reach our audience’s needs.

We will look at the different audiences, different styles and leave with a briefing presentation for our chosen audience. We will source ideas for different opportunities and contacts; and plan our activities. We will look at opportunities for getting involved locally and nationally.

Looking after your wellbeing

This masterclass is aimed at Post Graduate Research (PGR) students to provide a snapshot of strategies and tips that you can use to look after your wellbeing.

We understand that as a PGR student you may be faced with challenges throughout your course both academically and personally; juggling study with work or family commitments, stress surrounding future career choices or pressures of a financial nature for example.

The session will provide you with advice on how to manage some of these and other challenges that may arise during your Post Graduate course. You will come away with a range of practical tools and resources that you can use to remain motivated, productive and that can help you to manage competing demands.

Initiating Research Collaborations:

There are great benefits to being part or leading on a research collaboration; new ideas, new questions, new approaches. y the end of the workshop, you should be able to:

• Tackle some of the challenges embedded in multidisciplinary collaborations.
• Be able to create an action plan that helps you achieve tangible results.
• Understand what makes collaboration complex when you work across different areas of expertise, cultures, or in virtual spaces.
• Expand your current network through topical engagements with students and workshop facilitators.
• Self-reflect on how you can create your own research network and what particular steps you are doing right or wrong