Online Training Series

The Graduate School provides free access to a webinar series for all doctoral researchers. These offer research and professional skills training in a live-taught format. You will find that they complement the tailored, interactive face-to-face workshops in the DRDP and will be particularly helpful to those following the Distance Learning study mode or those studying part time who cannot always attend workshops due to other commitments. These webinars take place either between 7pm and 9pm or 10am-12pm.

There is a wide range of topics to choose from (62 sessions in total), which are organised into themed modules. You don’t have to attend a whole module, you can sign up for individual sessions from any module. As with the face-to-face workshops, some topics will be of more relevance at certain stages of your doctoral programme.

Webinar Software

You must download the required software (Electa-live) and you must book in advance. The software is free to the user and can be accessed direct from the Electa website.

The software can be downloaded to a PC, laptop, tablet, or even a smart phone. It is your responsibility to ensure you have the software ready in advance of the webinar. We recommend that you use a personal device because downloads to a work computer will require the university’s IT department to install it for you.

Booking

The webinars are extremely popular and waiting lists may operate. Please be considerate to those who may be on a waiting list and cancel in good time if you find that you are no longer able to take part.

In the 2020-21 academic year, all sessions will open for booking THREE WEEKS BEFORE THEY ARE DUE TO RUN. When you access a specific session in the schedule below and go to ‘Book this Session’, it will tell you that the session is ‘available to book’ after a particular date and time. The opening session, for example, due to run on Tues 6th Oct 2020 at 7pm, will open for booking on Tues 15th Sept at 7pm. The following day’s session, due to run on Weds 7th Oct 2020 at 7pm, will open for booking on Weds 16th Sept 2020 at 7pm, and so on throughout the year. If you wish to attend, therefore, you will have to be ‘clued in’, access this website regularly, and generally be prepared! This little extra effort will, however, mean that places are available for PGRs to book all year round. I’m also hoping it will mean that a greater percentage of booked places are actually used (see ‘Cancelling your Booking’ below).

If you have any problems with any aspect of your booking, please e-mail [simon.d.watts@uea.ac.uk] and/or [ssf.advancedtraining@uea.ac.uk] and we will be happy to help.

BOOKING LINK: https://bookwhen.com/ueaonlinetraining

Handbook: Online Training Series for Doctoral Researchers

Modules

Here is an overview of the webinars organised into modules by theme. You may find it helpful to identify, perhaps with your DoS or School DRDP Coordinator, which individual sessions would be most helpful to you in your current year of study. For example, a doctoral researcher in the first year of study will be working on a literature review, honing their writing skills and exploring research methods, so sessions 1 and 2 in Module 1 and certain sessions in Modules 2 and 5 would be very relevant. Session 4 will be helpful in any year of study but may provide additional, specific support to those who are writing up, as will session 1 of Module 3. If you are interested in teaching, or already have some experience of teaching you will find the Module 4 sessions to be interesting and supportive. These sessions may therefore be relevant in any year of study.