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.).

Online

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

Online

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

Invited Instructor: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop covers the essential strategies that will help you plan and deliver presentations that effectively convey your message at a conference, group meeting or any other research-related event. You will discuss the key steps of the development process and learn how to optimize the design and use of visual aids, as well as how to best present both quantitative and qualitative data. You will also explore various ways of preparing for and dealing with questions.

Dr. Hodgson was one of the pioneers in advocating technology-mediated learning in Hong Kong. She has been invited to present in universities in Hong Kong, Philippine, Malaysia, Vietnam and Russia and share exemplary practices with visitors from Germany, China and many tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. She has presented papers in conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Information of her published work can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2186-4284

Remark: Participants are recommended to turn the video on during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

1 Mar 2022 (Tue)
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Invited Instructor: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop covers poster design essentials to help you effectively present your research, both visually and orally, at poster presentation sessions. Through discussions and the analysis of samples, you will learn how to select content for your poster and communicate it effectively using visual aids. You will also explore key strategies to deliver your poster presentation and deal with questions.

Dr. Hodgson was one of the pioneers in advocating technology-mediated learning in Hong Kong. She has been invited to present in universities in Hong Kong, Philippine, Malaysia, Vietnam and Russia and share exemplary practices with visitors from Germany, China and many tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. She has presented papers in conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Information of her published work can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2186-4284

Remark: Participants are recommended to turn the video on during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Felix Chao, Senior Lecturer, ILC

In this workshop, you will learn about various types of oral presentations for academic purposes. You will discuss how to make the best use of the presentation format, and will examine the issues that you will need to pay attention to when presenting in Cantonese. You will also discuss the use of multimedia tools and how to deal with difficulties that you might experience during oral presentations.

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese supplemented with Putonghua

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Invited Instructor: Paul Nerney

One task of journal editors is to decide whether a submitted manuscript clearly argues how its research findings lead to a new understanding of a research topic. A "yes" increases a manuscript's chances of being peer reviewed. A "no" means the manuscript will probably be rejected. This workshop is broken into three main sections. The first section discusses the challenges to constructing well written midsection arguments. The second section describes a planning strategy for developing arguments in a research paper—reviewing your research topic, problem, and answer. The third section describes follow-up strategies for constructing your claims, reasons, evidence, and responses to alternative arguments. In addition, participants will be taken through a step-by-step analysis of selected arguments from a research paper.

Paul Nerney designed, taught and coordinated courses in English as a Second Language and English as a First-School Language for the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also worked under the NUS Provost’s Office to design, teach and coordinate writing and critical thinking modules for the University Scholars Programme and the University Town Residential Programme. Since 2013, he has designed and conducted workshops for writing and publishing research journal papers throughout South-East and East Asia.

Medium of Instruction: English

27 Apr 2022 (Wed)
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Invited Instructor: Paul Nerney

Abstracts are summaries of research journal articles that are typically 100-200 words long. Their main goal is to suggest to potential readers that your paper's research findings match the reader's need to better understand the paper's research topic. This aim makes abstracts an integral part of disseminating your ideas to readers in your research community and beyond. This workshop is broken into two sections. The first section is a discussion built around questions that writers frequently ask about developing well written abstracts for research papers. The second section details and illustrates specific planning strategies for drafting and revising abstracts.

Paul Nerney designed, taught and coordinated courses in English as a Second Language and English as a First-School Language for the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also worked under the NUS Provost’s Office to design, teach and coordinate writing and critical thinking modules for the University Scholars Programme and the University Town Residential Programme. Since 2013, he has designed and conducted workshops for writing and publishing research journal papers throughout South-East and East Asia.

Medium of Instruction: English

Invited Instructor: Susan Lopez-Nerney

Tips on how to produce successful, i.e. publishable, research papers in English abound. The sheer number of tips can confuse writers hoping to break into publication. This workshop presents the most salient features of the language of publishable research papers. The goal is to help writers to identify these features and to understand how and why they work, so that they can replicate these features in their own writing. In this workshop, participants will analyse and discuss these features and learn with other writers who are working towards the same goal -- publication of their work.

Susan Lopez-Nerney designed, coordinated and taught language, writing and professional communication courses for undergraduates and graduates in the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore from 1992 until 2013. She has conducted writing workshops for graduate degree candidates and junior faculty in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Medium of Instruction: English

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.

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. 

Remark: Participants are recommended to turn the video on during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

Invited speaker: Dr. Sarah E. Webb

Scientific writing is a central part of the scientific process as the ability to effectively communicate your research findings is a key requirement for success. Professional scientists worldwide are evaluated by the quantity and quality of articles they publish, and many PG students are now required to write and publish at least one paper before they graduate. Receiving a solid foundation in scientific writing is therefore of utmost importance. In this workshop, the speaker will provide a simple guide to scientific writing, and break down the process of writing and publishing a scientific article into easily understandable steps. She will start by describing the IMRAD (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion) system of formatting scientific manuscripts and then participants shall look in more detail at the specific formatting requirements of different journals.

Dr. Sarah E Webb was born and brought up in the UK. She obtained a BSc. (Hons.) in Biochemistry at the University of Bath, and a PhD in Cell Biology from King’s College London. She has worked in Hong Kong for over 25 years, first at the CUHK and then at the HKUST. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Division of Life Science at the HKUST, where she pursues her interest in investigating the role of Ca2+ in embryogenesis. She has many years’ experience in writing, proof-reading and editing scientific research articles and reviews, and has taught a number of scientific writing courses and workshops. Dr. Webb also runs a company (EDITXL) to help academics and students in Hong Kong and China proof-read and edit their work.

Medium of Instruction: English

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.)

Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

Online

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".

Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

Online

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

User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library

Online

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.)

Speaker: Joe Ng (Acquisitions editor, CUP)

Short description:

• Publishing landscape for Open Access journals and books
• Publishing opportunities with the CUHK’s Open Access Agreements
• Tips on journal selection, submission and the editorial review process
• Overview of the CUP journals and author services

Medium of Instruction: English

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

Topics:

• Basic Data Types and Computational Operations
• Data Acquisition and Pre-processing with NumPy and pandas
• Data Visualization with Matplotlib/Seaborn
• Statistical analysis with statsmodels/scikit-learn
• Introduction to Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup

Remarks:

1. Participants are highly recommended to install "Anaconda Individual Edition" before the workshop.  You can refer to the following videos:

• (Video) How to Install Anaconda (Python) on Windows 10 | 2021
• (Video) How to install Python through Anaconda on macOS in 2021. So easy!

2. Alternatively, participants may use the trial versions at:

• Jupyter Lab
• Colaboratory - Google Research

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

Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library
Online

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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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