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This Forum allows research staff the valuable opportunity to join discussions, hear developments, share practice and network.

This conference showcases presentations and posters from UoP research students. We offer research students a valuable opportunity to practice presenting, listen to presenters, test their posters, view the work of other research students and, participate in the overall experience of a cross-discipline researcher conference.

Ketso is an interactive, hands-on toolkit for bringing meetings and workshops to life. It is compact and portable, simple to use and accessible to everyone. Ketso extends people's ability to run effective and enjoyable workshops - virtually anywhere and in any setting. It encourages people to be creative and share in productive dialogue, while also generating real results that can be put into action. Ketso provides a set of tabletop tools that can be used to capture and display people's ideas. It consists of colourful 'branches', 'leaves' and other materials, which can be placed on a felt workspace and easily moved around in response to changing discussion. Ketso is robust and portable, and comes in a handy carrying bag, making it easy to transport to and from events. Ketso provides a series of free resources to help you run effective workshops and engagement processes - such as workshop plans and training videos in planning and running a workshop.

The course provides generic first year skills training for postgraduate researchers that are off-site, part-time or geographically distant from the university and offers equivalent opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary networking and discussion of shared problems that researchers have at the on campus First Year Skills Workshops. The online course focusess on three main activities: * Participants present their research online to students from different academic backgrounds, as a "Research Blog", then both provide and receive, formal and informal feedback on these presentations; * Participants engage in group discussions to share knowledge and provide mutual self-help in asynchronous online discussions with other part-time and off-site students. * Participants engage with self-selected materials, from a wide range of materials offering advice on generic skills development, and share ideas for their generic skills development with other participants.

Online Poster Day augment's the university's annual Poster day where all second year postgraduate researchers exhibit a poster. Online Poster day serves as a means for those PGRs that study abroad or who cannot attend Poster day in person to submit a poster online and have opportunities to view other posters and receive feedback on their own poster through an asynchronous dialogue.

The Northern Enterprise Schools Consortium aims to create a series of 3 to 4 residential workshops on both sides of the Pennines annually. It utilises Knowledge transfer, social enterprise and intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial activity to deliver a number of career skill needs to early career researchers. It is a collaborative exercise between the universities of Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster, Leeds, Salford, Durham, and York.

Three-day intensive non-residential research skills workshop for first-year research students, based on UK GradSchool practice but adapted for the needs of first-year research students.

Building Impact into Social Science Research was funded by vitae innovate fund applied for and successfully awarded to Professor Richard Thorpe and Dr Paul Ellwood. The event was supported by the Staff and Departmental Development Unit at Leeds. Much of the following text formed part of a proposal to Vitae written by Paul Ellwood and Richard Thorpe, with summary and context written by Jenn Chubb at the University of York. This Vitae Innovate funded project enabled the development of a module to be integrated into postgraduate training programmes – it contained both concepts and practical tools aimed at helping students understand and connect with aspects related to the impact of social science research. The Innovate fund supported a two day Leeds University Business School course entitled Building Impact into Social Science Research followed by a two day Social Science- wide White Rose residential event at Bodington Hall with input from academics reporting on the impact of their research and interactive group work activities. Building Impact into Social Science Research aimed to provide an introduction to this increasingly important aspect of a researcher’s life. Through a mixture of presentations, specialist speakers and practical exercises, the workshop provided a grounding in the emerging UK policy environment, appropriate research design and practical engagement mechanisms with research stakeholders.

This course gives researchers the hands-on opportunity to learn about the process involved in publishing and reviewing journal articles over a 3 month period.

This session takes researchers through every stage of conference planning, so that they consider all aspects from management issues such as budget and marketing and timeline for planning, through to academic issues such as putting out the call for papers and selecting presentations.