HII Transferable Skills Sessions for Graduate Students
The UCD Humanities Institute provides Transferable Skills courses for all graduate students, both MA and Ph.D. in the Colleges of Arts and Celtic Studies and Human Sciences. All courses take place in room H204 on the second floor of the UCD HII. If you are interested in attending these free sessions you should send an email to hii@ucd.ie with the following information:
- Your name
- Your discipline
- Whether you are doing a masters or a Ph.D.
As, in some cases, places are limited please register as soon as possible.
There is a full range of other transferable skills courses being run each year in UCD. For further information please see: http://www.ucd.ie/graduatestudies/transferableskills/
Semester II 2010-2011
Project Managing Your Thesis
* SECOND DATE ADDED 29th April 2011
This seminar will help students to develop a project plan to manage a thesis. It covers the principles of project planning, organising and scheduling. Through use of a case study, participants gain further insight into successful management of projects. Ideally, Participants Will be at Early Stages of Thesis Preparation. No Experience of Project Management is required. At the end of this seminar, you will be able to:
- Understand the Concepts and Principles of Project Management
- Develop a Realistic Project Plan to Complete Your Thesis
- Apply Project Management Principles to Control, Monitor & Adjust Your Thesis Plan
- Gain Familiarity with the Tools of Project Management (e.g. MS Project or alternatives)
Dates: 25 March 2011 & 29 April 2011
Time: 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Dr Cathal Coleman
Number of places: 10
Writing and Giving Conference Papers
Date and Time: Part 1 - Monday, 16 May 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm
Date and Time: Part 2 - Tuesday, 17 May 9.30 am - 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Facilitator: Josie Dixon, Publishing and Research Training Consultant
Number of Places: 16
Application procedure: This workshop is open to early stage researchers and beyond. To register for this workshop please email the Manager of the Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies, Barbara Gannon, at gs.artsceltic@ucd.ie on or before Friday 8th April 2011. Please provide the following information:
- Your name
- Name of principal supervisor
- Student number
- Discipline
- Degree
- Year of registration
- Thesis title
Please note that this workshop is an initiative of the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies and the Humanities Institute of Ireland and is open to research graduate students in the UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies.
For more information on the workshop please follow this link Writing and Giving Conference Papers or contact the Manager of the Graduate School in Arts and Celtic Studies, Barbara Gannon, at gs@artsceltic.ie.
Publishing Your Research
This workshop is designed for postgraduates in the final year of their PhD and at the Postdoctoral stage, when they are ready to focus on the transition between a thesis and a publication. Josie Dixon will be discussing factors involved in the decision between book and article publication, but the primary focus is on monographs, with some coverage of essay collections.
This half day workshop is scheduled to take place in the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 May 2011 from 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm. The workshop is held in conjunction with an initial lecture presented in the morning of 18 May 2011 commencing at 10.30 am and finishing at 12 noon. Students registering for the half day workshop should also attend the lecture.
Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Time: Lecture from 10.30 am -12 noon, workshop from 1.00pm - 4.30 pm
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Facilitator: Josie Dixon, Pubishing and Research Training Consultant
Number of Places: 12
Application Procedure: To register for this workshop please email the Manager of the UCD Humanities Institute, Ciara Lockhart, at hii@ucd.ie on or before Friday 8th April 2011. Please provide the following information:
- Your name
- Name of principal supervisor
- Student number
- Discipline
- Degree
- Year of registration
- Thesis title
Please note that this workshop is an initiative of the Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies and the Humanities Institute of Ireland and is open to research graduate students in the UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies.
For more information on the workshop please follow this link Publishing Your Research or contact the Manager of the UCD Humanities Institute, Ciara Lockhart, at hii@ucd.ie.
Publishing Academic Books
Barbara Mennell and Noelle Moran of UCD Press will talk about preparing book proposals, editing and manuscript preparation, the review and production processes, and any other aspects of publishing requested by the participants. This will be an informal session for ten to fifteen people who will be invited to select the items for discussion.
Date: 24 May 2011
Time: 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Number of places: 10-15
PowerPoint for PhDs
Date: Wednesday 25th May
Time: 10 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Dr Cathal Coleman, UCD School of Politics and International Relations
No of places: 8
This course is designed for PhD students who make presentations and deliver lectures/seminars. This seminar will help students to develop presentations using MS PowerPoint. It covers the principles of presentation skills using PowerPoint to enhance delivery skills for academics, and critically assesses when and when not to use the tools. At the end of this seminar, you will be able to:
- Grasp the Essentials of PowerPoint
- Appreciate the Benefits of Using PowerPoint in Academic Settings
- Assess When & When Not to Use PowerPoint in Academic Settings
Participants are encouraged to participate fully in this session and may bring their own laptops however this is not essential. The session will include a case study.
Contents:
- Why Use PowerPoint?
- The Basics for Presentations/Lectures
- Master Slide
- Using Templates
- Layout of Slides
- Using Animation/Audio/Video
- Working with Blackboard
Semester I 2010-2011
Podcasting - two separate sessions
Date: Wednesday, 13 October xand Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Mike Liffey
Number of Places: 5 on each course
Presentation Skills
This 1-day course will look at the basics of how to make an oral presentation. It will also look at some tools for explaining your research work to a non-expert audience. Each participant will make a 5-minute presentation on a topic of their choice at the start of the day. This will be video-taped and feedback given at the end of the course.
The main topics are:
- Setting a realistic and useful aim.
- Structuring a talk so that it will engaging at the outset, clear during delivery, and memorable in the future.
- Harnessing your conversational skills when presenting.Conquering nerves.
- Creating effective visual aids.
- Understanding how to make complex concepts accessible with the use of analogies, examples, demonstrations and stories.
- Engaging with the audience and dealing with questions.
Date: Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Time: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Dr Barry Brophy
Number of places: 10
Endnote
Date: Thursday, 28 October 2010
Venue: Daedalus Building computer lab
Course given by: Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
Number of Places: 15
Introduction to GIS from a humanities perspective
Date: to be confirmed
Time: to be confirmed
Venue: H204, Humanities Institute Seminar Room
Course given by: To be confirmed
Academic Blogging
This two hour seminar will provide students with the skills for blogging in an academic context, while also emphasising the possibilities blogging holds for the communication of academic research to a broader public. The seminar aims to survey key examples of academic blogs, address how blogging can create new academic networks, and how it provides a preliminary outlet for the student's own research. The seminar will also illustrate how academic blogging encourages writing skills which are transferrable to other media, including print newspaper and other web-based outlets; in addition, academic blogging also cultivates web design skills which can be utilised usefully in other online contexts. This introduction to blogging will give students the necessary skills and knowledge to begin blogging immediately.
Date: 20 October 2010
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Dr Ian Russell
Number of places: 40
Project Managing Your Thesis
This seminar will help students to develop a project plan to manage a thesis. It covers the principles of project planning, organising and scheduling. Through use of a case study, participants gain further insight into successful management of projects. Ideally, Participants Will be at Early Stages of Thesis Preparation. No Experience of Project Management is required. At the end of this seminar, you will be able to:
Understand the Concepts and Principles of Project Management
Develop a Realistic Project Plan to Complete Your Thesis
Apply Project Management Principles to Control, Monitor & Adjust Your Thesis Plan
Gain Familiarity with the Tools of Project Management (e.g. MS Project or alternatives)
Date: 3 November 2010; 1 December 2010 - a third date will be added after Christmas
Time: 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Venue: Room H204, UCD Humanities Institute, Belfield
Presenter: Dr Cathal Coleman
Number of places: 10
Please click on the link to download a copy of the slides from this course.