Workshops and talks on literature review, strategies for publishing in academic journals, research alert, citation management, researcher identifier creating and research impact showcasing are provided to CUHK postgraduates, researchers and faculty members during the academic year. Attendance proof may be issued on request. In addition, discussion workshops for postgraduate studies, including successful presentations, thesis writing tips and scientific writing are also organized.
- Research Skills Workshops Series
- Researcher Workshops
- Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops
- Workshops on AIMS and Research Portal
- Scientific Writing Workshops
- NVivo Workshops
- Thesis Writing Tips Workshops
- Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) Courses (Organized by Graduate School and CLEAR)
- Request a Seminar
Research Skills Workshops Series (Sep 2020)
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Registration |
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| Program 1: Sharpening Your Research Skills | |||
| Exploring Research Information in Your Field in Multi-disciplinary Databases (I)
This workshop will demonstrate:
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14 Sep 2020 (Mon) | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Completed |
| 17 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Completed | |
| Exploring Research Information in Your Field in Multi-disciplinary Databases (II)
This workshop will demonstrate:
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14 Sep 2020 (Mon) | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Completed |
| 17 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Completed | |
| Exploring Research Information in Your Field in Citation Databases
This workshop will demonstrate:
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15 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Completed |
| 21 Sep 2020 (Mon) | 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Completed | |
| Getting New Research Information Automatically
This workshop will demonstrate how to use Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus and ScienceDirect to set up:
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15 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Completed |
| 21 Sep 2020 (Mon) | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Completed | |
| Literature Review for a Good Research Paper
This workshop covers the following to help you conduct a good literature review:
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25 Sep 2020 (Fri) | 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Completed Online Workshop Recording |
| Program 2: Managing Citations for Your Research | |||
| EndNote for Postgraduates and Researchers (Windows version)
This workshop will help you get started with EndNote, a bibliography management tool. It will demonstrate:
Remark: EndNote LibGuide available. |
23 Sep 2020 (Wed) | 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Completed |
| 29 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Completed | |
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Venue: Online Workshops Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English might be used if users require.) Enquiries: Email to research@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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Researcher Workshops (Oct 2020)
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Time |
Registration |
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| Program: Enhancing Your Research Impact | |||
| How to Measure Impact of Research Papers
This workshop will cover:
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6 Oct 2020 (Tue) |
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Completed Online Workshop Recording |
| Citation Analysis Tools for Ranking Journals
The workshop will introduce how to:
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14 Oct 2020 (Wed) |
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Completed Online Workshop Recording |
| Understanding Open Access Publishing
The workshop will cover:
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Rescheduled to 4 Nov 2020 (Wed) |
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Click here to register |
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Venue: Online Workshops Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English might be used if users require.) Enquiries: Email to researchportal@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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Digital Scholarship and Research Data Workshops (Sep - Oct 2020)
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Time |
Registration |
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Mastering Data Management Plan in One Hour A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that outlines how research data are acquired, managed, described, analyzed, stored, preserved, and shared. Some funding agencies require researchers to prepare a DMP at the proposal preparation stage. This workshop introduces the rationale of having a DMP, the tools for preparing a DMP, and the practice of creating and managing a DMP. |
17 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed Online Workshop Recording |
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Introduction to GIS & ArcGIS 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. |
22 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Completed |
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Introducing Digital Humanities for Study and Research Digital humanities is a new form of research increasingly embraced by scholars in arts and humanities. This seminar will show to you:
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25 Sep 2020 (Fri) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| 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 (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 2020 (Tue) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed |
| 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: |
15 Oct 2020 (Thu) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed |
| Research Data in the Big Data Era
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 explain what data are, the principles in managing data, and the roles of research data in the data life cycle. It will also introduce the concepts of data science and data analytics. |
29 Oct 2020 (Thu) | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Click here to register |
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Introduction to R Programming and Data Analysis (Hands-on) 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:
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30 Oct 2020 (Fri) | 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
Click here to register |
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Venue: Online Workshops |
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Workshops on AIMS and Research Portal (Sep 2020)
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Date |
Time |
Medium of Instruction |
Registration |
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| Research Output Management with AIMS
AIMS is the Academic Information Management System of CUHK for managing and depositing full text of your research outputs. This workshop will demonstrate:
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15 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Cantonese (Powerpoint in English) | Completed Online Guide |
| 24 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
English | ||
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Venue: Online Workshops Enquiries: Email to researchportal@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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Scientific Writing Workshops
The Library is pleased to offer the following scientific writing workshops co-organized with The Independent Learning Centre (ILC) for postgraduate students. All postgraduates are welcome to join.
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Title |
Date |
Time |
Guest Speaker |
Registration |
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| Successful Writing in the Life Sciences: Designing Effective Figures and Tables
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. |
08 Oct 2020 (Thu) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Dr. Sarah E. Webb, Visiting Scholar, Division of Life Science, HKUST | Completed |
| 15 Oct 2020 (Thu) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Completed | ||
| Venue: Online Workshops
Language: English Enquiries: Email to research@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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NVivo Workshops
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Date |
Time |
Guest Speaker |
Registration |
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| NVivo: A Powerful Tool to Address Your Research Questions
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. Demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows. Remark:
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Rescheduled to 18 Nov 2020 (Wed) |
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon | Dr. Paula Hodgson | Click here to register |
Rescheduled to 2 Dec 2020 (Wed) |
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon | Click here to register |
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| NVivo: Strategies to Advance Qualitative Data Analysis
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. Demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows. Remarks:
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Rescheduled to 24 Nov 2020 (Tue) |
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon | Dr. Paula Hodgson | Click here to register |
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Venue: Online Workshops Language: English Enquiries: Email to research@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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Library Workshops for Research Postgraduates: Thesis Writing Tips (Oct 2020)
Co-organized with The Independent Learning Centre (ILC), the Library is pleased to offer discussion workshops for research postgraduate students on thesis writing (in Chinese), thesis introduction (in English) and thesis abstract (in English) in Oct 2020.
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Title |
Date |
Time |
Language |
Instructor |
Registration |
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| Structuring a Thesis Introduction: How to Get Readers Hooked at the Beginning
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. |
19 Oct 2020 (Mon) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | English | Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC | Completed |
| Writing an Abstract for Your Thesis: How to Summarize Your Research in 500 Words
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. |
21 Oct 2020 (Wed) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | English | Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC | Completed |
| Intensive and Profound: Chinese Thesis Writing Skills
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. |
13 Oct 2020 (Tue) | 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Cantonese supplemented with Putonghua | Dr. Felix Chao, Senior Lecturer, ILC | Completed |
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Venue: Online Workshops Enquiries: Email to research@lib.cuhk.edu.hk |
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Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) Courses offered by Library
Topics:
- Discover Research Information at Your Discipline
- Managing and Creating Reference Citations with RefWorks
- Observing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research
Registration begins on 17 August 2020.
| Discover Research Information at Your Discipline
The online workshops for Arts, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Medicine, Science, Social Science, Law and Chinese Law will cover:
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Discipline / Course |
Date |
Time |
Venue |
| Group 1: Arts | 1 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 2: Business Administration | 19 Sep 2020 (Sat) | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed |
| Group 3: Education | 25 Sep 2020 (Fri) | 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 4: Engineering | 1 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 5: Medicine | 2 Sep 2020 (Wed) | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 6: Science | 3 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 7: Social Science | 8 Sep 2020 (Tue) | 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| Group 8: Law | 3 Oct 2020 (Sat) | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed |
| Group 9: Chinese Law | 26 Sep 2020 (Sat) | 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Completed |
| Managing and Creating Reference Citations with RefWorks
This online workshop will cover:
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Date |
Time |
Venue |
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| Managing and Creating Reference Citations with RefWorks | 24 Sep 2020 (Thu) | 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
Completed |
| 26 Sep 2020 (Sat) | 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
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| Observing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research | |||
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Time |
Venue |
| Observing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research | On-line course available on Blackboard Compulsory for ALL RESEARCH postgraduate students |
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Medium of Instruction: English Details and registration: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/clear/prodev/ipl.html Enquiries: |
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Request a Seminar
Course instructors and students in groups may request seminars for a particular subject area or a specific assignment at any time during the year. From the planning stage of a course or research project, Liaison Librarians with different subject backgrounds can work with you to strengthen research skills for gathering and managing scholarly information sources.
Please contact Research Services (for postgraduate training requirements) for details.
