Postgraduate, Researcher and Faculty Workshops

This workshop will demonstrate how to locate theses and dissertations from universities in Hong Kong, China and other countries.

This workshop will demonstrate:

• How to use ScienceDirect and IEEE Xplore to discover research information in your research field
• Advanced search features in the databases
• Multiple databases selection (where applicable)

This workshop will demonstrate:

• How to use EBSCOHost and ProQuest to discover research information in your research field
• Advanced search features in the databases
• Multiple databases selection (where applicable)

This workshop will demonstrate:

• How to use Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, etc.) and Scopus to discover research information (journal and book articles, and conference papers) in your research field
• How to search with topic, keywords, author, author identifier, etc.

This workshop will demonstrate how to use Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and ScienceDirect to to set up:

• search alerts so that the most updated search results will be sent to you automatically by email
• citation alerts of journal articles and authors (where appropriate)
• journal alerts (where appropriate)

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require.)

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Demonstrates how to use EndNote 20, a tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.

Topics covered:

• How to download and install EndNote 20 from CUHK Library
• How to import references into EndNote Desktop from LibrarySearch, databases and organizing them
• How to create an EndNote online account
• How to produce bibliographies and in-text citations in a variety of styles (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) for your papers

Acknowledging the Sources – RefWorks Hands-on Experience

This workshop demonstrates how to use RefWorks, a web-based bibliography management tool, to produce bibliographies and in-text references in a variety of citation styles (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.).

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require.)

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Successful Writing in the Life Sciences: Designing Effective Figures and Tables

Invited speaker: Dr. Sarah E. Webb, Visiting Scholar, Division of Life Science, HKUST

Students will learn how to present scientific information in their thesis, research publications and conference presentations. Topics to be covered include the preparation of figures (line illustrations, photomicrographs and graphs) and tables.

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Instructor: Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC

In this workshop, you will be introduced to steps for capturing your readers' interest in your research topic, appreciating the significance of your research and understanding your research purpose. Specific language features which are commonly seen in thesis introductions will be discussed and practiced during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

19 Oct 2021 (Tue)
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Instructor: Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC

You will learn how to summarize the most important information in your research as well as describe the most significant contributions that your research has made in a concise, readable and impressive manner. Both the structure and language of the thesis abstracts will be discussed during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Felix Chao, Senior Lecturer, ILC

If the thesis is not written and formulated in the right way, its key ideas will not be able to be communicated effectively. In this workshop, you will study the good language features of a thesis written in Chinese and learn how to avoid the common errors. You will also be introduced to the skills and choice of words for stating your research and theorizing your arguments. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how to write definitions for key terms, the introduction and the conclusion.

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese supplemented with Putonghua

12 Oct 2021 (Tue)
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Postponed to
2 Nov 2021 (Tue)
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. 

Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F,
University Library

Online

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Invited speaker: Dr. Maria Luisa C. Sadorra

This workshop for postgraduate students is designed to prepare participants for their oral defence. It familiarizes them with the common structure and expected content of the defence, and management of public self-presentation. Participants will be introduced to principles of presentation and notions of public persona. Two Q&A sessions will provide opportunities for participants to ask questions and receive feedback specific to their viva.

Speaker's profile:
Dr. Maria Luisa C. Sadorra is a language consultant and independent researcher. She pioneered persona studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) through the Ideas and Exposition Programme where she offered “Public Persona and Self-Presentation” to undergraduate students at the University Town College Programme. At NUS, she also taught and coordinated undergraduate and postgraduate academic writing and communication courses. 

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

The Academic Information Management System (AIMS) is the system for CUHK researchers to manage and deposit the full text of their research outputs.

This workshop will demonstrate:

• Key features of AIMS and its public interface Research Portal
• How to input your publication records into AIMS
• How to deposit the full texts and related the copyright issues

CUHK researchers, administrative staff, and research postgraduates who need to input publication records into AIMS are all welcome to join.

This workshop will cover:

• What is citation impact and how to find it
• How to use citation counts and other metrics to quantify the impact of research papers
• How to find an author’s h-index
• What are the alternative metrics and how to find them
• What are the strengths and limitations of citation metrics

The workshop will introduce how to:

• Find the ranking of journals and compare journal performance from Journal Citation Reports and Scopus
• Use online tools to find the right journals for your manuscript

The workshop will cover:

• What is open access and its implication on research impact
• Open Access publishing opportunities with the CUHK’s Transformative Agreement
• Types of open access and their archiving policies
• Tips on publishing in open access journals

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require.)

Guest Speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop will cover the key concepts on using NVivo for qualitative research. Starting with research questions, participants will gain ideas from making coding to reading abstracts to extending coding in journal articles as an illustration. Alternatively, researchers can make coding based on the conceptual framework that they are working on.

Through coding with categories/themes, you may learn to create queries to make initial visualization and analysis from a mix of interviews and survey results. You will learn the process of coding while building an understanding of how evidence can be gathered from the cycle to confirm the existing conceptual framework or build a new model for further analysis.

The demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows.

Remarks:

Interested participants are required to have your own notebooks/laptops installed with the new NVivo before attending the workshop. For those using previous versions of NVivo, please note that the software interface of the new version is not the same as yours.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson

With the latest version of NVivo, the advanced workshop will use research examples to illustrate features and functionalities to allow researchers to use an inductive or deductive approach to sources of data when analysing qualitative data. Coding allows us to formulate a framework or identify sources of evidence with respect to the approaches used. Categories emerge when individual coding is clustered into levels of sub-themes. To address research questions, researchers can further explore relationships between or within cases. The queries function in NVivo allows researchers to retrieve matrix results easily. In addition, NVivo also offers an alternative approach to textual script analysis that provides fresh scope from the sea of data such that this can provide an enlightened scope in addition to existing theories.

The demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows.

Remarks:

Participants must have experience in using NVivo. No demonstration on basic steps on uploading files to NVivo, coding and organization of coding in the workshop.

Interested participants are advised to have your own notebooks/laptops with new NVivo installed before attending the workshop. For those using previous versions of NVivo, please note that the software interface of the new version is not the same as yours. Participants are encouraged to use your own qualitative research project data to practise the steps including setting cases and comparison of cases in the session.

Priority of registration will be given to staff and postgraduates who have already attended the workshop on “NVivo: A Powerful Tool to Address Your Research Questions".

Enquiries: Email to research@lib.cuhk.edu.hk

Research data management refers to the collection, analysis, archive, sharing, and reuse of research data. This workshop will introduce the principles in managing data, the practice of managing and depositing research data. It will also emphasize how sharing and reuse of research data influence your research impact.

14 Sep 2021 (Tue)
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(English session)

15 Sep 2021 (Wed)
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(English session)

Digital humanities is a new form of research increasingly embraced by scholars in arts and humanities. This seminar will show you:

• Concepts of digital humanities research and the research methods used
• How to apply popular digital tools on GIS, text mining and analysis, data and network visualisation, etc. in digital humanities research
• Examples on digital humanities research projects from worldwide to illustrate the use of research methods and tools used

17 Sep 2021 (Fri)
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that outlines how research data are managed in a research project. Some funding agencies require researchers to prepare a DMP at the proposal preparation stage.  CUHK has been affiliated with DMPTool, on which templates of some popular funding agencies are also available. Besides introducing the rationale of having a DMP, this workshop will guide you to write a DMP with DMPTool.

23 Sep 2021 (Thu)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
(English session)

This online workshop will introduce the concept of text analysis and a few examples of text analysis tools.  An online text analysing tool – Voyant Tools (https://www.voyant-tools.org/) will be demonstrated to give handy results of textual materials, no matter they are in text file or online.

6 Oct 2021 (Wed)
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Conducted by ArcGIS vendor, this seminar will introduce the concept of Geographic Information System (GIS) and its use in research.  It will also cover the use of the software ArcGIS with illustration from examples of research projects.

7 Oct 2021 (Thu)
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Gephi is a free software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks.  This workshop will demonstrate with hands-on exercise in turning your data into network graphs to discover hidden message.

Remarks:
Participants can bring their own device with Gephi 0.9.2 (https://gephi.org/) installed for practice.

R is a popular software for statistical computing and programming. This seminar will introduce the differences between R for programming and R for data analysis with hands-on exercises.

Remarks:
Participants

1. Should install (in sequence) R (https://www.r-project.org/) and R Studio (https://www.rstudio.com/) to their device prior to the workshop
2. Are required to create a free account on R Studio Cloud (https://rstudio.cloud/)
3. May install the R package swirl (https://swirlstats.com/students.html) to learn some R coding prior to the workshop

29 Oct 2021 (Fri)
2:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require.)
Enquiries: Email to dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk

Discipline / Course

Date & Time

Venue

Registration

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: 
Email: clear@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 6201

Discipline / Course

Date & Time

Venue

Registration

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: 
Email: clear@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 6201

Discipline / Course

Date & Time

Venue

Registration

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: 
Email: clear@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 6201

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: 
Email: clear@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 6201