Get your diary at the ready! As we enter a new academic year, we are pleased to announce that our training programme for 2021-22 is now open for booking. 

All of our training sessions are run online through Adobe Connect and (unless otherwise stated) are open to all OU research staff, postgraduate research students and research support staff. Booking is through Eventbrite and can be accessed via the links below.

Note: details of all forthcoming training sessions are also available on our training webpage 

Monday 27th September, 11.00 – 11.45 : Writing successful Data Management Plans

Monday 18th October, 11.00 – 11.45 : Declutter your data: hints and tips for managing your research data

Monday 1st November, 14.00 – 14.45 : Copyright: using third party content in conferences, workshops and presentations

Tuesday 9th November, 14.00-15.00 : Sage Research Methods: database introduction

Monday 15th November, 11.00-11.45 : Working with personal and senstive research data

Wednesday 15th December, 11.00-11.45 : Introduction to ORDO – the OU’s research data repository

Monday 10th January, 11.00-11.45 : Data sharing : how, what and why?

Thursday 20th January, 11.00-12.00 : Introduction to ORO – the OU’s research publications repository

Tuesday 1st February, Tuesday 8th February, Tuesday 15th February, 14.00-15.00 : Literature Searching Series for PGRs (3 sessions)

Monday 7th February, 11.00-12.00 : Introduction to ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs)

Thursday 17th February, 11.00-11.45 : Data sharing: legal and ethical issues

Tuesday 8th March, 14.00-14.45 : Copyright: using third-party content in your thesis

Tuesday 22nd March, 11.00-12.00 : Introduction to open access publishing