Developing Researcher Skills at York

The University of York Library's Research Support Team deliver workshops on Managing Your Research Data, Searching the Literature and Know your (Copy)Rights this term.

Managing Your Research Data

This workshop is an introduction to research data management, covering best practice for the successful organisation, storage, documentation and archiving/sharing of research data. The workshops include opportunities for participants to start to plan and record their data management and to start a data management action checklist.

This term's workshops will be held on:

• Monday 19 Oct, 09:30 - 12:00
• Monday 16 Nov, 10:00 - 12:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff

Searching the Literature

This workshop is designed to help PhD students and research staff to search for scholarly literature. It is particularly relevant to PhD students working on their literature review but the skills covered can be applied in a range of contexts. The workshops include opportunities for practical work using attendees own topics.

Forthcoming sessions will be held on:

• Tuesday 3 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 10 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Wednesday 25 Nov, 10:00 - 12:00
• Tuesday 8 Dec, 10:00 - 12:00

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.


Know your (Copy)Rights: protecting your own work and re-using other people’s
This workshop is aimed at PhD students and research staff from any discipline who are preparing material for a thesis or scholarly publication. Participants in this session will explore the legal terms and licences which permit the re-use of third party materials, consider strategies for requesting additional permissions and review the licences available for releasing their own material.

This term's workshop will be held on:

• Monday 30 Nov, 13:30 - 15:30

To find out more and to register for a place, please visit the Researcher Development web page for Research Students or Research Staff.