Research Skills Toolkit
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University College Dublin
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Epigeum Research Skills Toolkit
Doctoral students can apply for a licence to access a suite 18 online courses in research skills provided by online training specialist Epigeum. You will find the details of each course, including estimated completion time, on the Research Skills Toolkit page on the Epigeum website (link opens in new browser window). Courses include:
Ethical Research
- Becoming an Ethical Researcher
- Research Ethics in Practice
Research Methods
- Undertaking a Literature Review
- Principles of Research Methods
- Research Methods in Practice: Social Sciences
- Research Methods in Practice: Arts and Humanities
- Research Methods in Practice: STEM
Transferable Skills
- Working with your Supervisor
- Managing your Research Project
- Intellectual Property in the Research Context
- Getting Published in the Arts
- Getting Published in Sciences
- Conferences, Presenting and Networking
- Career Planning in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Career Planning Sciences
Entrepreneurship in the Research Context
- Academic Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Recognition and Evaluation
- Entrepreneurial Resources: People, Teams and Finance
With your token, you will be able to access all courses with the Research Skills Toolkit: International logo. Please note that there will be some upcoming changes to the way in which Epigeum courses are organised by theme. This will not impact your access.
GRADskills has 25 licences to allocate for 2022-23. We will prioritise applications using the following criteria:
- Research Students studying outside of the UK and unable to attend workshops due to timezone differences
- Research Students who are unable to attend workshops due to caring responsibilities or health issues
- Research Students not living in St Andrews
- Research Students living in St Andrews
In the event that we do not allocate all licences in semester 1, we will broader our criteria and contact anyone who applied but was ineligible in the first instance.
The licence gives you access to the online training materials from 31 July 2022 to 31 July 2023 .
To apply for access to the Research Skills Master Programme please complete this online application form . (You will need to login to OneDrive to submit the form - your name and email address will be logged automatically).
You will receive an email from CEED (this may take up to 3 weeks) with the outcome of your application. If it is approved, your email will include an access code to enable you to log in to the Epigeum online learning website to complete the full programme.
Research Skills Toolkit
- Welcome to the Research Skills Toolkit!
- Track: Library 101
- Track: Research 101
- Track: Find an Article
- Track: The Free Web
- Lesson Plans
- For Faculty
The Research Process
Students will learn the steps of The Research Process, ways in which it is the same and different between personal and academic situations, and begin to think about ways that their own research processes (both personal and academic) are good and bad.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to recall the steps of The Research Process.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast The Research Process in personal and academic scenarios.
- Students will be able to describe their own research processes, both for their own personal research and their academic research.
Assessment Examples:
- reflective short essay/discussion board (200-300 words) on their personal and/or academic research processes
- quiz on the research process
Types of Information
Students will learn about the three types of information: scholarly, trade, and popular. They will begin to think about the types of information they use in their personal and academic research and why different situations call for different types of information.
- Students will be able to identify the three types of information.
- Students will be able to describe situations in which the three types of information are most appropriate.
- quiz on the different types of information
- reflective short essay/discussion board (200-300 words) on the different ways the three types of information could be used appropriately
The Information Timeline
Students will learn about how information is created using The Information Timeline, with a special emphasis on what that means for the various assignments they will encounter in a particular class or college in general.
- Students will be able to recall the sections of The Information Timeline.
- Students will be able to identify types of information they can expect to use in various information need scenarios.
- quiz on The Information Timeline
- discussion board/reflective essay (200-300 words) breaking down an assignment with the information types most appropriate for it
Evaluate Information
Students will learn techniques for evaluating the appropriateness of a piece of information for both their personal and academic needs.
- Students will be able to identify key criteria for evaluating information.
- quiz on criteria for evaluating information
- reflective short essay/discussion board (200-300 words) on their experience with evaluating information according to one or more of the criteria
- short essay/discussion board (200-300 words) evaluating a piece of information according to one or more of the criteria
Creating a Search Strategy
Students will take a topic they were either assigned or selected themselves and use background research to develop good research questions and search terms.
- Students will be able to develop research questions around a specific topic.
- Student will be able to develop search terms for a research question.
- reflective essay/discussion board (200-300 words) describing how their research question(s) and search terms were developed
- handout/quiz submitting research question(s) and search terms
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Provide ‘choose your own adventure’ training for researchers to fit project needs and skill level. Support key milestones with interactive, mobile-responsive, bite-sized courses. Offer a single source solution for postgraduate researchers to master critical research skills.
Epigeum’s Research Skills Toolkit is a flexible suite of programmes that comprehensively supports the modern researcher’s journey from start to finish. Structured around four key programmes – allowing you to select and combine specific courses to suit the unique needs of your researchers – the Toolkit is expanding to five programmes ...
The Research Skills Toolkit is made up of five core courses; Becoming a Researcher, Ethical Research, Research Methods, Disseminating your Research, and Beyond Research. Each of the programmes can be undertaken independently or combined with other elements of the Toolkit—supporting the unique needs of your
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Epigeum Research Skills Toolkit. Doctoral students can apply for a licence to access a suite 18 online courses in research skills provided by online training specialist Epigeum.
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Students will be able to describe their own research processes, both for their own personal research and their academic research. Assessment Examples: reflective short essay/discussion board (200-300 words) on their personal and/or academic research processes; quiz on the research process