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Pre-Transfer Development Day for PGR Students
Date and time
Location
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton
Boughton Green Road Northampton NN2 7AL United KingdomDescription
Pre-Transfer Development Day
Who is it for? Research Students between Registration and Transfer
What will it cover? This development day has been designed for research students who are close to transfer and covers Preparing for Transfer, Managing your Research Data, Communicating your Research: Preparing for the mock viva and transfer seminar. All Development Days include lunch and refreshments and the opportunity for students to meet and chat with students from other disciplines.
Schedule
09:15 Arrival and Registration: Refreshments available
09:30 Preparing for transfer: David Watson
10:45 Refreshments
11:00 Create your own data management plan: Dr Miggie Pickton
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Communicating your research: Preparing for the mock viva and transfer seminar: Simone Apel
16:00 Questions and Evaluation
Content
Preparing for transfer
Mr David Watson
This session will generate a discussion about the purpose of the transfer of registration and what is required of students and their supervisors. You will find out what Research Degrees Boards and Research Degrees Committee regard as good practice.
Create your own data management plan
Dr Miggie Pickton & Mr Nick Dimmock
Good research is underpinned by good research data management. A data management plan enables the researcher to plan, monitor and review their data handling and may help them win ethical approval for your project. This workshop, which builds on the basic introduction to research data management given during induction week, will focus on the elements of a successful data management plan, including: data collection; documentation and metadata; ethics and legal compliance; storage and backup; selection and preservation; and data sharing. Students will have the opportunity to use a data management planning tool to complete a plan for their PhD research data.
By the end of this session students will:
• have an understanding of the main elements of a data management plan;
• have made a start on completing a data management plan for their own research project.
Communicating your research
Ms Simone Apel
This session will focus on your communication skills and how you can prepare yourself for both the mock viva and the transfer seminar.
This workshop is open to any student currently registered on a research degree programme at the University of Northampton. Further information is available from Simone Apel (simone.apel@northampton.ac.uk; 01604 893418).
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The Graduate School plays a central role providing a University-wide framework for skills development, career preparation and administration to support all postgraduate research degree students, their supervisors and early career researchers.