Science and Engineering Library Support for Early Career Researchers

Suitable for all new and early-career researchers, including PhD students and research staff, within the Faculty of Science & Engineering who are interested in exploring and developing their understanding of information and research skills and the scope of key resources within their area of research.

This session is designed to be highly interactive and participant driven -  If there are aspects of your interest in this subject that are not included in the session coverage shown below, please contact your Faculty Liaison Librarian, James Soderman (j.soderman@qmul.ac.uk) and he make every effort to incorporate them into the session.

 

Let’s search it! provides a deeper exploration of some of the topics covered in Research it! and takes a comprehensive look into the skills and resources which can be used for a successful (re)search experience. Suitable for all new and early-career researchers, including PhD students and research staff within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, who are interested in developing their search skills. This session is designed to be highly interactive and participant driven.

This is a skills workshop suitable for academic staff and post graduate teaching or research assistants in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, who are interested in using the referencing system Endnote.

With the Mendeley Reference Manager, you can easily organize and search your personal library, annotate documents and cite as you write. The examples in the session will mainly be geared towards Science and Engineering students.

The session will centre around the web version. Please bring a laptop with Mendeley pre-installed, if you do want to follow along when I go through a few features of the desktop version. The desktop version is currently not fully installed on the stationary computers in the Library.

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:

• Create a Mendeley account
• Use Mendeley to discover and organise references
• Use Mendeley for collaboration, and strengthening your research profile

 

Positives from previous participants

"The tips and tricks I wouldn't have found out without."

"Finding out how to collaborate using Mendeley"

 

Provided by: Library Services

Duration: 2 hours

A practical hands-on session covering the process of research. It gives the participants a chance to explore their research topics, and plan for the future, in a supportive environment, through four destinct exercises.

Anyone can join in, either in their first steps of defining a topic or to acquire a new fresh look on their research, skills and practices.

The session was created with S&E PHD students in mind, but could also be useful for other Early Career Researchers from any Faculty. 

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:

• Creatively construct and/or explore a research topic
• Identify skills needed to successfully conclude a research process
• Plan for a successful completion of their research projects

Feedback from previous participants

"I learned how to take a bird's eye view of my project."

"It was a lot of fun!"

"It was good to talk to people doing a range of different projects and see their opinions."

"We get a better understanding of our research via the visualised way proposed during the session"

 

Provided by: Library Services

Duration: 2 hours