Domain B: Personal effectiveness

Our workshops for University of Edinburgh research staff which map to RDF Domain B: Personal effectiveness. Information on how to locate and book them in the People and Money Learning App.

List of workshops for Research Staff by RDF Domain B

  • Academic Interviews
  • Advanced Presentation Skills Masterclass
  • Afternoon Writing Retreat
  • An Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
  • Briefing Session: Career Decision Making
  • Collaborative Writing and Publishing
  • CV Briefing Sessions (Academic & Non-Academic)
  • Facilitation Skills for Public Engagement
  • Giving an Effective Presentation
  • How can supervisors help PhD students develop their academic writing?
  • How to Collaborate Effectively
  • How to Design a Public or Stakeholder Engagement Process
  • How to Develop your Research Leadership
  • How to write your Fellowship Application
  • How to Get the Most out of your Postdoc
  • LinkedIn and Social Media Retreat
  • Morning Writing Retreat
  • Briefing Session: Narrative CVs
  • Research Staff Career Consultations 1-1
  • Researcher Writing Hour
  • Supervising Flexibly
  • Storytelling Techniques for Effective Communication
  • Squiggly Careers and your Options
  • The Imposter Syndrome: Why successful people often feel like frauds
  • Voice and Presentation Skills Workshop
  • Writing freely: Turning an Idea into a Blogpost

Eligibility, Booking and Cancelling

Eligibility

We understand it can sometimes be unclear knowing what workshops are suitable for your career stage, or responsibilities. Please note below our workshop eligibility:

Workshops Theme: Careers Our careers workshops are open to early career academic research-only staff on fixed term contracts (research assistants and associates, post-docs, and research fellows) and early career academic teaching staff on fixed term contracts (teaching assistants and teaching fellows). This does not include academic staff on open-ended lecturing contracts.

Workshops Themes: Themes: Professional Development, Research Connections and Collaborations, Publications, Funding, Research-Led Teaching, Research Projects. These workshops are open for booking to all academic research staff (post-docs, research fellows, research assistants and associates and technicians).

Booking: these courses generally open for booking once we have scheduled a date

Cancelling: If you need to cancel your booking, please do so at your earliest opportunity and at least 3 days before the event. Someone else may be able to take your place, but we need time to contact them. Also, although you are not charged for an event, there are costs we incur (e.g. photocopying) which relate directly to places reserved.

How to book

  • Log in to People and Money (EASE log in required)
  • From your People & Money home page, click on Me, then on the Learning tile to open the Learning app.
  • Type the name of the workshop into the search bar at the top of the screen (e.g. Archiving your Research Data) and press Enter
  • Click on the workshop name. Full workshop information is under Details.
  • Dates available to book will be listed under Available Offerings; click the Enroll button next to the date you wish to book

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If you are unable to use People & Money to book a place on a workshop please contact iad.researchers@ed.a.uk and we can register a place on your behalf 

For full instructions, please follow the relevant user guide:

People and Money User Guide – How to Manage Your Learning (Employee guide)

You can find all the People and Money user guides here:

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How to cancel

  • Log in to People & Money
  • From your People & Money home page, click on Me, then on the Learning tile to open the Learning app.
  • Click on Current Learning
  • Click on the name of the workshop booking you wish to cancel
  • In the Actions menu (top right corner) select Withdraw, complete the Reason to Withdraw questions, and click Submit.