Complete course list

An overview of all our workshops for University of Edinburgh research staff, with information on how to locate and book them in the People and Money Learning App.

Full list of workshops for Research Staff by Theme

For course description and more information please click on the course name

Writing and Publishing (A-Z)	Leadership (A-Z)	Communication (A-Z)	Careers (A-Z)	Funding (A-Z)	Public Engagement (A-Z)
Collaborative Writing and Publishing	Effective Collaborations	Academic Publishing between Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access	Academic Interviews	Attracting your own Research Funding: Writing and Applying for Fellowships	An Introduction to Public Engagement with Research
Get that Paper Written and Published	Gaining Teaching Accreditation for Your PhD Supervision	An Introduction to Copyright	CV briefing sessions – Academic CVs and Non-Academic CVs		Creating Impactful Public Engagement
How to Peer Review Manuscripts for Journals (CAHSS)	How can supervisors help PhD students develop their academic writing?	Archiving Your Research Data	Changing your Career: Where do I Start?		Facilitation Skills for Public Engagement
How to Peer Review Manuscripts for Journals (CSE & CMVM)	Interdisciplinary collaborations: Understanding and navigating the barriers to success	Giving an Effective Presentation	Changing your Career: Exploring Career Options		How to Design a Public or Stakeholder Engagement Process
Researcher Writing Hour & Morning/ Afternoon Writing Retreat	It’s About Time - Managing Workload, Balance And Finding Space To Research	Imposter Syndrome: Getting out of your own way, tackling the inner critic	Getting the First Lecturing Job		Dialogue: Public Engagement Beyond Public Lectures
Writing Freely: Blogging about your Research	Making the Most of your Postdoc (Strategies for Independence	Managing Difficult Conversations Assertively			Storytelling Techniques for Effective Communication
Writer’s Clinic for Research Staff	Project Management	Professional Networking, Engaging and Strategy			Voice and Presentation Skills Workshop
	Supervising Flexibly	Realising the Benefits of Good Research Data Management
	What Does Leadership in Research Look Like?	Social Media: Sharing, Connecting and Building an Audience
		Working with Personal and Sensitive Data
		Writing a Data Management Plan for your Research

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: Induction, Writing, Leadership, Communication, Public Engagement and Funding 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

People & Money - log in to search and enrol on workshops

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 View/Search, Enrol and Withdraw from Learning (Employee guide)

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

People and Money system – all User Guides

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.

For full instruction please follow the user guide:

People and Money User Guide – How to View/Search, Enrol and Withdraw from Learning (Employee guide)

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

People and Money system – all User Guides

This article was published on 7 Nov, 2022