Postgraduate, Researcher and Faculty Workshops

This workshop you will learn:

• Why we need to search for theses
• How to locate theses and dissertations from universities in:
  • Hong Kong (CUHK & other local universities)
  • China & Taiwan
  • Other Countries

• Use the two multi-disciplinary databases, EBSCOHost and ProQuest, to discover research information in your research field
• Use the Advanced search features in the databases
• Register for a free account to enjoy the personalized features and services

This workshop you will learn how to:

• Use Scopus to discover quality research information in your research field
• Search with topic, keyword, author, author identifier, etc.
• Find the citation counts of research papers
• Set up alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

This workshop you will learn how to:

• Use Web of Science to discover quality research information in your research field
• Search with topic, keyword, author, author identifier, etc.
• Find the citation counts of research papers
• Set up alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

Medium of Instruction: English
Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

This workshop you will learn:

• Why we need to search for theses
• How to locate theses and dissertations from universities in:
  • Hong Kong (CUHK & other local universities)
  • China & Taiwan
  • Other Countries

Medium of Instruction: English

Speaker: 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

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson

Presenting your research at conferences is a powerful way to share your work and build professional networks. This workshop will equip you with essential skills to excel in both poster and paper presentations. You will learn to:

(1) Design visually appealing posters with clear layouts and concise information;

(2) Organize a logical flow of concepts in presentations,

(3) Communicate confidently with appropriate tone and pace, and

(4) Handle Q&A time professionally.

Medium of Instruction: English

Speaker: 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

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.

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 influences your research impact.

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 should bring their own device with Gephi 0.10.1 (https://gephi.org/) and related plugins installed for hands-on practice.

A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a written document that outlines how research data will be managed throughout a research project. Some funding agencies require researchers to prepare and include a DMP in their grant application proposals.  CUHK is affiliated with DMPTool, which provides access to the CUHK Data Management Plan Template as well as templates from several major funding agencies. This workshop will explain the rationale for creating a DMP and guide participants through the steps of writing one using DMPTool.

Invited speakers: Mr. Steve LAU, GIS Specialist, Geospatial Lab

This workshop offers hands-on training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a focus on practical applications using cloud-based tools. It covers foundational spatial data concepts, core GIS principles, and sourcing open data from Hong Kong’s Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI) portal. 

Participants will learn to perform site selection analysis in ArcGIS Online using real Hong Kong open datasets, following the basic GIS workflow: data collection, processing, visualisation, querying, and sharing results through maps and presentations. The workshop emphasises real-world tasks like suitability modelling and interactive mapping to support decision-making in urban planning or smart city projects. 

Remarks:
Participants will need to bring their own device for hands-on practice. 

The CUHK Research Data Repository (https://researchdata.cuhk.edu.hk/) 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 features of the CUHK Research Data Repository and the effective methods for better data self-management, including publishing and sharing data in the Repository, and depositing data for peer review.

Invited speaker: Dr. Kwong-cheong WONG, Senior Lecturer, Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK

This workshop series offers hands-on training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) using Python.  Designed for beginners and intermediate learners, the series covers essential NLP techniques – from text preprocessing (including tokenization, lemmatization, and stopword removal) and word embeddings to advanced topics such as Transformer and large language models (LLM).

Participants will explore practical applications such as text classification, named entity recognition, topic modeling, and question answering. The workshops also delve into cutting-edge tools like spaCy, BERT, and OpenAI models, with sessions on visualizing text data and building chatbots.

Workshop Outline

• Lesson 1: NLP Basics – Text Preprocessing and Grammar
• Lesson 2: Word Embeddings and Text Classification
• Lesson 3: Named Entity Recognition and Topic Modeling
• Lesson 4: Transformers and Question Answering
• Lesson 5: Large Language Models and Chatbots

Through hands-on exercises, this series equips attendees with the skills to effectively implement NLP solutions.

Remarks:

1. Participants must have Python knowledge;
2. Participants will need to bring their own device for hands-on practice.

• Identify keywords of your topic and formulate a search statement for searching resources;
• Use LibrarySearch to search for resources, particularly theses;
• Understand different types of library databases, and use Scopus to discover quality research information; and
• Find a journal to publish in and increase the visibility of a published article.

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group)

• • Fundamental concepts of RDM;
  • Key benefits of effective RDM;
  • Core components in RDM;
  • RDM practices in the CUHK context; and
  • Data depositing and sharing in the CUHK Research Data Repository.

*These sessions are identical, please join only one session.

• • Fundamental concepts of DMP;
  • Benefits of creating a DMP;
  • Core components in a DMP; and
  • Detailed steps on how to create a DMP using the CUHK DMP Template in DMPTool.

*These sessions are identical, please join only one session.

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group) 

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group)