Here you can see a selection of sessions that will be taking place during the CU Research Hootenanny 2020, Elm Bank Building
To sign up to a session, please click the session title which will take you through to the session sign up page.
Research Impact
Pathways to impact: how to make your funding application impact rich
An introduction to research impact
Research and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Interactive discussion panel on Research and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Women in Research Networking Event
Research, Scholarly Support and PURE Support
Research, Scholarly Support and PURE Support Drop-in
The Library’s Research and Scholarly Publications Team, along with a member of the Research Office to support with PURE, host monthly drop-in support session. This drop-in session covers all aspects relating to research and publication services that are provided at the University. You are welcome to pop by and see the team, whatever your academic discipline. If you’d like specific guidance at one of the drop-in sessions, please get in touch beforehand (rdm.lib@coventry.ac.uk) and we’ll invite colleagues who specialise in the advice to join.
Research Data Management: Meta Data Lego
The Research & Scholarly Publications (RSP) Team will be hosting a 45 minute session to support you with research data management. To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to add ‘documentation’ or ‘metadata’ (data about data) to the documents and datasets you create. Test your descriptive skills during this session as you create and describe your Lego constructs, and see if your colleagues can recreate your structures.
Open Access: The Publishing Trap
The Research & Scholarly Publications (RSP) Team will be hosting this 90 minute session. The Publishing Trap is a game developed by Dr Jane Secker and Chris Morrison at UK Copyright Literacy. The game involves playing as one of 4 researchers, taking you through from PhD to retirement via a (hopefully) illustrious academic career. The game is a ‘fun’ introduction to issues around academic publishing, open access to research and the conflicting pressures which an academic may face over the course of a career.
PGR Community
PGR Society Networking Event
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
This is a popular competition held both nationally and internationally between universities. During the 3MT competition heats doctoral researchers talk about their research for 3 minutes only and a winner is selected by a panel of judges. The emphasis is on communicating research clearly and coherently to a non-specialist audience. There will be three heats taking place during the CU Research Hootenanny week. The finalists of each heat will go head to head at the 3MT grand finale on the 16th January 2020 where one winner will be selected from Coventry University.
Sign up to attend a 3MT heat as a member of the audience:
Postgraduate of the Year Competition
The annual PGR of the year competition will take place on Thursday 16th January 2020 as a part of the CU Research Hootenanny. One nominee has been put forward by each of the Faculties and University Research Centres and each will make a 15 minute presentation summarising their research. You are invited to be part of the audience during the PGR’s presentations.
Writing for Research
CAW: Informing your writing with language data
Drawing on the Centre for Academic Writing’s (CAW) research on Academic Writing, this session focuses researchers’ attention to resources that can support their writing development and equip them with knowledge of their disciplinary writing practices. Using linguistic research and language analysis software, this short workshop empowers participants to analyse large databases of academic language so that they can identify overarching features of academic writing as well as differences across genres and disciplines. The goal of this workshop is to deliver research informed academic writing support in order to help researchers create practices that will allow them to continue to improve their writing over time.
Shut Up & Write Sessions