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 EBSCOHost and ProQuest to discover research information in your research field
• Advanced search features in the databases

This workshop will demonstrate:

• How to use Scopus to discover research information in your research field
• How to search with topic, keywords, author, author identifier, etc.
• How to set up search alerts,citation alerts, and journal alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

This workshop will demonstrate:

• How to use Web of Science to discover research information in your research field
• How to search with topic, keywords, author, author identifier, etc.
• How to set up search alerts,citation alerts, and journal alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

This workshop will cover:

• The purpose and process of literature review
• The structure of a literature review
• Effective strategies for identifying relevant literature

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

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

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

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

20 Jan 2022 (Thu)
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

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

Writing an Abstract for Your Thesis: How to Summarize Your Research in 500 Words

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

Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

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This workshop will cover:

• The purpose and process of literature review
• The structure of a literature review
• Effective strategies for identifying relevant literature

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

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Speaker: Sara Rouhi (Director, Strategic Partnerships, PLOS)

From Jan 2022, CUHK authors can publish open access articles in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) journals for free. Join this online workshop to learn about:

• PLOS Journals: Which journals to publish?
• PLOS-CUHK OA Agreement Models
• How to publish? Author Submission Procedures
• Fee waiver for CUHK authors

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. (The trial version of NVivo only lasted for 14 days.)

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. (The trial version of NVivo only lasted for 14 days.)
• 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".

Medium of Instruction: English

The workshop will cover:

• What is open access and its implication on research impact
• Different types of open access and their archiving policies
• Open Access publishing opportunities with the CUHK’s Open Access Agreements
• Points to consider when publishing in open access journals

An author ID is to distinguish yourself accurately in the research community from others with similar names so that your scholarly publications can be easily recognized.

This workshop will demonstrate:

• What are ORCID, Publon, Scopus Author Profile, and Google Scholar Profile
• How to record your research activities such as your publications and presentations in these systems
• How to transfer information from these systems to AIMS

This workshop will introduce how to use ATLAS.ti to conduct qualitative data analysis. Participants will learn how to use ATLAS.ti to conduct:

• Data description, such as creating codes, coding, using memo, and writing comments on your data
• Data analysis and interpretation such as using the functions of hyperlink, network view, query tool, and co-occurrence to explore patterns

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

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.

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.

A Quick Glance of Online Text Analysing Tools

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 (http://www.voyant-tools.org/) will be demonstrated to give handy results of textual materials, no matter they are in text file or online.

In the big data era, data become a necessity for research. They are not only confined to an excel table, but also in many other forms. This workshop will introduce what data are, the roles of research data in the data life cycle, and what constitutes big data. It will also present the basic concepts of data science and data analytics.

The CUHK Research Data Repository is the University’s research data repository. It aims to facilitate CUHK researchers to deposit, publish, and curate their research data outputs and for the worldwide to discover, access, and reuse the data. This workshop will introduce the functions of this Research Data Repository, and the effective methods for better data management, including how to publish and share data in the Repository, and deposit data for peer review.

Visualising Network Relationships with Gephi

Gephi is a free software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks.  This workshop will demonstrate the use of the software in turning your data into network graphs to discover hidden message.

Remarks:
Participants can install Gephi 0.9.2 (https://gephi.org/) and replated plugins in their device.

Introduction to Python for Data Analysis
Invited Speaker: Dr. LO Man Fung Kelvin, Lecturer, BSSc Programme in Data Science and Policy Studies, CUHK

11 Mar 2022 (Fri)
2:00 p.m. –
5:00 p.m.

Introduction to ArcGIS and QGIS for Digital Scholarship Projects

The use of GIS software is effective in showcasing spatial-temporal relationships in research analysis.  This workshop will demonstrate the basic use of ArcGIS Pro and QGIS for spatial data display and perform simple spatial analysis.

Remarks:
Both ArcGIS Pro and QGIS are available for use at the workstations in DS Lab.  For home practice:

• ArcGIS Pro can be used in PC only and it provides 21-days of free trial for installation (https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-pro/trial)
• QGIS is a free software that both PCs and iMacs versions are available and users can install for use (https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html)

18 Mar 2022 (Fri)
3:00 p.m. –
4:45 p.m.

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

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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