Part-time researcher workshop01 November 2011

Event overview

Please note: This course is now full therefore bookings have closed. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email nwhub@vitae.ac.uk.

The Vitae NW Hub is pleased to announce that a series of workshops especially for part-time researchers will run during the 2011/12 academic year. The first of these will be hosted by the University of Chester at the Warrington campus. Each workshop will follow the same format, with skills sessions changing at each of the different university locations. There is no charge to attend these workshops. Places will be strictly limited to 35 participants per workshop.

Skills sessions covered in this part-time workshop:

• Academic writing styles
• Getting the best from a part-time supervisor

A typical programme for a day's session:

Part-time researcher workshops in 2011/12:

1 November 2011, University of Chester (Warrington campus)

• Skills sessions: Academic writing styles & Getting the best from a part-time supervisor

March 2012 (date tbc), Manchester

• Skills sessions: Structuring your Thesis & Making progress: avoiding defeatism and self sabotage

25 May 2012, University of Cumbria

• Skills sessions: Speed reading essentials & Realising your potential using the Researcher Development Framework

June 2012 (date tbc), Liverpool

• Skills sessions: to be confirmed (tbc)