Departmental Skills Development and Training
Departmental Workshops
The department runs a series of workshops to meet the specific training and progression needs of Computer Science research students. Topics tend to be re-visited on a yearly basis and have previously approached issues such as research poster and conference paper presentation, preparation for upgrades and final viva examinations, succeeding in a research career as well as more technical subjects.
Dates and material for the next series of workshops are listed below. Details of other workshops will be added as and when arranged.
Places are usually on a first come first serve basis, so if you wish to attend any of the workshops please email the Research Student Administrator in advance.
It is the responsibility of research students to register points accrued for attending departmental and college courses and workshops via the Research Log.
Sessions for 2012-2013
| Date | Time | Aimed at | Topic and Venue | Roberts Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 5th March 2013 | 10-12pm | First Years | Research Basics and Preparing 1st Year Report MPEB 6.12 | 1 |
| Tuesday 12th March 2013 | 10-12pm | Second Years | Preparing for the Transfer Viva Aimed at second year students soon to undertake their upgrade viva before being able to transfer their registration from MPhil to PhD. | 1 |
| Monday 15th May 2013 | 1-2pm | Third/Final Year Students | Getting Started in your Research Career | 1 |
tbc | tbc | Second Years | Preparing a Successful Research Poster | 1 |
| tbc | tbc | All attendees will be at a stage in their career where they have some research results and that they might even have presented these at a conference. In preparation, attendees should prepare a 5-minute presentation on a single aspect of their work and by prepared to talk about this during the workshop. | How to prepare and present a research talk tbc This half-day (three hour) workshop is aimed at encouraging PhD students to think about how to present their work at academic conferences and talks. Gabriel Brostow will give advice on best practice for constructing and preparing for your talk. Duncan Brumby will lead an interactive hands-on session in which attendees will present their work and be given feedback from others. | tbc |
| Tuesday 19th March | tbc | Final Year and writing up students | Thesis and Viva Preparation Aimed at those students who have completed their transfer viva and will soon be writing up or are already on CRS and are thinking about submission and the final viva. Focuses on giving an overview of the requirements of a thesis, the typical content and structure, the procedures involved in submission and what can be expected in the final viva. | 1 |
Departmental Seminars
Often involving distinguished visitors, departmental seminars take place frequently and regular attendance by both staff and research students is expected. Additionally, each research group runs its own series of seminars. Students are expected to attend those that are relevant to their research and to contribute to the appropriate series on a regular basis from the beginning of their second year.
The participation of individual students in appropriate conferences and summer schools, including the EPSRC graduate schools, is furthermore strongly encouraged.
For information on how to apply for financial support to attend conferences and other training events please see our page on conference funding.
Research Notes
Students are encouraged to contribute to the system of Internal Notes (also known as 'Technical Reports' or 'Research Notes'), which are short working papers. We have found that this is one of the best ways for research students to make progress towards the completion of their theses since these reports or notes are good practice for writing the thesis. Some students have had three or four papers published by the time they take their PhD examination. On the whole the department thinks that the production of three or four formal reports per year is not unreasonable. These reports form part of the material on which the student is assessed in their first year and transfer vivas.
For a list of current and past research notes, and for information on how to submit them then see the Research Notes page.
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