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York Health Economics Consortium have just announced several workshops that HYMS researchers may find interesting:

Health Economic Evaluations and Economic Evidence (6th September 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/economic-evaluations-and-evidence/

   Searching Trials Registers and Regulatory Agency Sources (11th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/searching-trials-registers/

 Advanced Search Techniques for Systematic Reviews, HTA and Guidelines (17th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/advanced-search-techniques/

  Advanced Search Strategy Design for Complex Topics (18th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/advanced-search-strategy-design/

 Software to Support the Systematic Review Process (19th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/software-to-support-systematic-review/

For further information on these courses please visit our training pages at: http://www.yhec.co.uk/training

New Web Page for HYMS Researchers

We know that the research landscape can seem like an over complicated place. As if just doing the research and writing up isn’t hard enough, there’s: RDM, OA, ORCID, REF and no doubt a whole host more acronyms out there, and they are important! But getting your head around what they all mean, what’s best for your publication, or just getting to grips with how an ORCID can help you, or how to make your research REF-ready is not always easy. We also appreciate that our parent institutions use different pieces of kit to help manage the scholarly communication process, does PURE or Hydra mean anything to you? With all that in mind, and from some of our conversations with you, we thought we would set up a page that contains key guidance on the entire research process, linking out to relevant training, guidance, or contacts from either York or Hull as relevant. We hope you find this page useful, let us know if you love it, or would like to suggest how we can improve it by emailing library@hyms.ac.uk.  

In the meantime best of luck with your research!

Post Graduate Skills Development

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If you're a HYMS post grad then this autumn we have some treats for you! Whether you want to sharpen your skills or learn something new; there's support at Hull and York with sessions covering everything from open access publishing to computing for research, and everything in between. 

York are running PG Wednesdays: Staff from across the University run most of the sessions and they also provide opportunities for you to get involved, for example to showcase your own research or talk about your ‘top tips’ for research practice. PG Wednesdays run every Wednesday afternoon. The 2016-17 programme starts on Wednesday 5 October 2016 and runs through to Wednesday 27 September 2017.

At Hull you can check out the PG Skills Development Programme which provides development opportunities for postgraduate students (taught/research), researchers and staff.

Also coming up at Hull is a credited module on Research Data Management

Don't forget that as a HYMS student you are able to take advantage of the training offered at both sites, so if you're interested, click on the links for further information and booking details.

Post Graduate Workshops in Statistics

Statistics, data collection and analysis, predictive analytics; whatever you want to call it, if you are using statistics in your research, then you may well want to take advantage of a series of statistics workshops  run by the University of York's Maths Skills Centre. The workshops are running from April- June 2016 for all postgraduate students.   

The 4 workshops being offered (all on Wednesday afternoons - see website for dates & more details) are:

An Introduction to SPSS

Descriptive Statistics and Exploratory Analysis

Using Graphs and Measures of Association

Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing

Feedback suggests that these workshops have been useful complements to courses available in departments and they have become very popular. There are limited places available so if you are interested we recommend that you sign up to the workshops as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. More details and an on-line course sign up are available at:

The Maths Centre web pages

HYMS postgraduates who are based at Hull are more than welcome to sign up for these workshops if they are able to make it York, if not, don’t forget that there are similar workshops available from the skills development programme at Hull. 

York based PhD Training

If you are studying a PhD at York and feel like you need to know more about managing your research data and best practice for the successful organisation, storage, documentation and archiving / sharing of research data then get yourself on the Research Support Team’s Managing Your Research Data workshop!

To find out more and to register for a place, see the workshop page for: research students or research staff.

The workshops will be held on:

• Thursday 04 February, 10:00-12:30
• Monday 15 February, 10:00-12:30
• Wednesday 02 March, 10:00-12:30 

The Library’s Research Support and Academic Liaison Librarians are also working with the Researcher Development Team to deliver this term’s Searching the Literature sessions. These workshops are specifically created for PhD students - particularly PhD students undertaking their literature reviews - and for research staff. The workshops include opportunities for practical work using your own topics.

Forthcoming sessions include:

• Thursday 11 February, 10:00-12:00
• Tuesday 23 February, 1000-1200

To find out more and to register for a place, see the workshop page for: research students or research staff,

 

New Year New Training Courses

It's a new year and maybe time to learn some new skills, or just brush up on some dusty ones!
York Health Economics Consortium are holding several courses throughout spring and summer 2016 covering everything from Patient Reported Outcomes, Health Economics and Advanced Search Techniques for systematic reviews. All the courses are  held at York University Campus; click the image to go straight to the website.

 

 

Shut up and write for Postgraduate Research Students, University of York Graduate Research School

York Graduate Research School are offering the following event:

Shut Up and Write for Postgraduate Research Studentsis a simple concept: it is an opportunity for you to start, continue, or finish written work in a supportive environment with other postgraduates.
How does it work?Come and work in silence but in the company of other research students. Switch off your phone and, using the power of peer pressure, avoid temptations to do anything but work on a piece of writing.What do I need to bring?A piece of work that you are working on. You can spend the time reading, taking notes, doing analysis, or anything else related to your research: it is up to you, but do have a goal in mind for what you want to achieve by the end of the event.A laptop or pen and paper – it depends what you are working on and how you prefer to work.What is the benefit?Hopefully you will surprise yourself when you see how much you get done when you focus. You will also meet new people from across University. Once you experience it, you may be inspired to start up your ownShut Up and Write sessions with your new or current colleagues.
DuringShut Up and Writewe will also be offering a drop-in service to provide help with:searching/finding informationusing reference management software (e.g. Endnote)referencingformatting documentsmanaging research dataopen access publicationcopyright (e.g. using third-party materials in your thesis).
When: Thursday 26 November, Thursday 3 December and Wednesday 9 December.Time: Any time from 9am to 5pm.Where: Room LFA 204/5 (2nd floor), Harry Fairhurst Building, University Library