Past Events

The Reliability of Wikipedia…and What You Can Do To Help

Thursday, 22 June, 2017

13:00-16:30

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Is Wikipedia a reliable source of information? What can you do to help make it better?

In this session we will have a talk and Q&A session to discuss these questions and more. We will explore the history of Wikipedia, what happens behind the scenes to make it all work, how information is fact-checked and kept trustworthy, as well as the role of the extensive Wikipedia editorial community. There will also be a free sandwich lunch.

After this interesting discussion, there will be a 2 hour hands-on session to help you understand the Wikipedia editorial process. Please bring your own device and sign up for a Wikipedia account before the session.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Research

Monday, 10 April, 2017

13:00 - 16:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

This hands-on workshop is aimed at graduate students and postdocs, across disciplines, who are engaged in quantitative research. Using example studies, attendees will actively participate in creating a reproducible project from start to finish. The workshop does not require any specialized knowledge of programming. Participants will gain a foundation for incorporating reproducible, transparent practices into their current workflows.

Topics covered:

Project documentation
Version control
Pre-Analysis plans
Open source tools to easily implement these concepts in a scientific workflow.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Success With Social Media

Friday, 17 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

In the last of our lunchtime "March Munches" sessions, we will introduce you to all things social media and how you can use some of the most popular platforms out there for your research.

From blogging to Twitter and YouTube to Instagram, we will help you decide which tools are right for you to not only share your own research but also find other people's work.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Managing Your Online Presence Like A Pro

Wednesday, 15 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Fancy a free lunch and a chance to learn something new?

In this lunchtime "March Munches" session, we will introduce you to ways of managing your professional online presence through tools and services such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, ORCID, and Google Scholar. We will also cover issues such as privacy, protecting your rights as a researcher, and how to make these services work for you rather than against you.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Sharing Your Outputs And Getting All The Citations!

Monday, 13 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Do you want to share your research and get more citations? If yes, then you should upload it to the University repository!

But did you know the University's Open Access and Open Data upload systems are changing (for the better)?

Come along to this session of our "March Munches" series to find out how to use the new system for uploading your research outputs to the University repository. We'll show you how to deposit your publications and data via Symplectic - the University's research information system. It is painless and easy! Promise!

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Who Actually Owns My Work?

Friday, 10 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Do you read copyright agreements before you sign them? Do you know who owns the rights to YOUR publications? Do you know what an open access licence is? What on earth are Creative Commons licences and how can they help you?

Come along to this session of our "March Munches" series and learn more about your rights as an author and how you can share your publications for free. You'll also learn what Creative Commons licences are and what rights these give you as an author and other people over your work.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

How NOT To Share Your Data

Wednesday, 8 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Sharing your research data can be a great way of getting more citations, finding collaborators and making your work more reproducible, but how can you get the most benefit from doing this?

Come along to this session, part of our "March Munches" series, to find out how to avoid all the mistakes which will undermine your data sharing from inappropriate formats and the wrong location, to poor descriptions and incomprehensible spreadsheets.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Selfish Reasons To Work Reproducibly

Monday, 6 March, 2017

13:00 - 14:00

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

As part of our lunchtime "March Munches" series, we will explore the importance of reproducibility in STEM research and discuss approaches on how you can avoid disaster, work more productively, and do better science.

Arrive at 13:00 for a free sandwich lunch and the session will start at 13:15 and will end by 13:55.

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Helping STEM Researchers Publish

Wednesday, 8 February, 2017

09:15 - 13:30

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

This session offers the chance to learn about available tools and options in publishing and reviewing, and ask questions of the experts.

Topics and speakers:

returning scientific publishing to the scientists: innovative approaches to publishing and peer-reviewing single observations (Laurence Rajendran, ScienceMatters)
post publication peer review, open peer review and preprints (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte)
using collaborative writing tools for your papers (Overleaf)
dos and don'ts of peer review: the role of the journal peer reviewer (Jennifer Wright, CUP)
connecting active research management and research publishing (Nigel Goddard, Research Space)
peer review and the benefits of openness (Tom Culley, Publons)

This session is now fully booked. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Beginners' Guide To Version Control With Git And GitHub

Friday, 13 January, 2017

13:30 - 17:30

Glass Room, Betty & Gordon Moore Library

Version control is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, and other collections of information. Version control systems like subversion (svn) and git are frequently used for groups writing software and code, but can be used for any kind of files or projects. Many people share their git repositories on GitHub. This course will provide an introduction to git and how you can use github to share your projects, or for your own private use if you wish.

During this course you will learn about version control and why it is crucial for research, what the difference between git and github is, and about creating your first repository.

This session is open to current University of Cambridge Graduate students, PostDocs, and Staff Members. No programming experience will be required or expected.

More information: https://kirstiejane.github.io/friendly-github-intro/

The Reliability of Wikipedia…and What You Can Do To Help

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Research

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Success With Social Media

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Managing Your Online Presence Like A Pro

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Sharing Your Outputs And Getting All The Citations!

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Who Actually Owns My Work?

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

How NOT To Share Your Data

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Selfish Reasons To Work Reproducibly

This session has now finished. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Helping STEM Researchers Publish

This session is now fully booked. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

Beginners' Guide To Version Control With Git And GitHub

This session is now fully booked. If you would like us to repeat it, please let us know.

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