Friday 20 January 2012

ScHARR Bite Size for Research #20 Maintaining your Research Grant - 25th January 2012 - 2.30pm - Pemberton Lecture Theatre

Posted by Andy

The first Bite Size for Research in 2012 kicks off with everything you want to know about holding the purse strings for your research project. Presented by Julie Foers from ScHARR Central Resources Group, it will be a great help for research grant budget holders and grant administrators this 20 minute session zips through the key features of the financial
management of your budget.

Tuesday 17 January 2012

LATEST Research Funding Update - Fellowships and Studentships

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Post by Anna
 
The latest issue of the Research Funding Update for Fellowships and Studentships can be viewed by following this link

Previous editions of the update can be viewed here

ScHARR Bite Size for Teaching #17 - How to Become a PhD Supervisor


Posted by Andy


Take Five - January 2012

Photo by Rich Jacques
Post by Anna
 
The latest edition of Take Five is packed full of new websites, research funding opportunities,training courses and current awareness.

You can view it here

An archive of the Take Five Newsletter and other research funding updates can be viewed here

Friday 13 January 2012

There's nothing like a real book!

                                                          
In this time of technology and digitisation and libraries being closed due to funding cuts it's easy to forget about the simplest pleasures in life.  One of mine is spending hours in book stores browsing the shelves and handling the books!  Come on....I know you feel the same way too.  That's why you're going to love this film made by Sean Ohlenkamp and Lisa Blonder Ohlenkamp.  So don't forget to support both your local bookshops and your local libraries.

Posted by Sonia

Friday 6 January 2012

ScHARR Bite Size is Back!!!

 Posted by Andy
 
It's a new year, so why not make a new year's resolution of finding at
least one new way of working, or discover a new resource that will
help you teach, support students or carry out your research.

For anyone unaware of what ScHARR Bite Size is:
https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/bite-size/about-bite-size

Bite Size is for everyone in ScHARR - if you manage a research
project, write a paper, supervise a student, search a database, use
the library, use any of the Google tools, have virtual meetings - then
an investment of 20-30 minutes might be time well spent.

ScHARR Bite Size for Research returns on the 17th January - so what's
happening in 2012?

17-Jan-12               Pemberton                       PhD Supervision                                 Dawn Teare
25-Jan-12               Pemberton                       Maintaining your Research Grant                         Julie Foers
02-Feb-12               Eric Wilkes             Interactive Whiteboards                                         Luke Miller
15-Feb-12               Eric Wilkes             Pebblepad                                               Sara Watkinson/Professor
Ian Douglas
23-Feb-12              Pemberton                        REF                             Andrew Booth
07-Mar-12               Eric Wilkes             Medline                 Helen Buckley Woods
15-Mar-12               Pemberton                       Facilitating Online Discussions                                         Chris Carroll
28-Mar-12               Eric Wilkes             TASH (The Academic Skills Hub for Students
19-Apr-12               Eric Wilkes             Google Apps                                     Tom Jenkins
02-May-12               Eric Wilkes             What ScHARR Library Can Do For You                              Helen
Buckley Woods/ Sonia Rizzo
10-May-12               Pemberton                       PhD Supervision  #2                     Dawn Teare
23-May-12               Eric Wilkes             Dissertation Supervision                        Amy Barnes
31-May-12               Eric Wilkes             Web Conferencing Tools                          Andy Tattersall
12-Jun-12               Eric Wilkes             Online Marking                  Janet Harris
20-Jun-12               Eric Wilkes             Sheffield Healthcare Gateway: Support for
Commercialisation, Consultacy and Collaboration    Karen Booth

Plus there are many more sessions planned for Autumn and Winter 2012 -
grey literature, animation tools, facilitating small groups, CINAHL,
Making memorable presentations, creating effective posters, marketing
yourself, Turnitin amongst others.

Stay up to date by subscribing to our calendar - scharrbitesize@gmail.com

There is also a new ScHARR Bite Size website - we hope to add lots of
resources from the many previous Bite Size sessions in the coming
months.