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Spring skills training 

This event is held in the first week of the Undergraduate Easter vacation each year. Term dates.

Year 1 students, including late starters, are expected to attend training on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and at least one session of Year 2 talks on Friday.

There is an overview of skills week but the training sessions will also appear on the university timetable. There are sessions on:

  • Introduction to Easter Skills Week

  • How to Give a Great Presentation

  • What happens to your manuscript?

  • Technology transfer: an academic perspective

  • Data Skills - Novice: For those with little to no experience with R (or similar)

  • How to Present Your Poster at a Conference Group

  • Enhancing your Oral Presentation Skills - Videoed Presentations

You will give a 7 minute presentation on your research or another aspect of science, with up to 3 minutes for questions, which will be recorded.  

  • Data Skills - Intermediate: Reproducibly importing, cleaning, tidying and analysing data and reporting.

You will be divided into groups, given in the overview, for some of these session.

Year 2 students give a talk on Friday as part of their mandatory training. Talk sessions are research themed and chaired and judged by academic members of staff. Talks should last for 15 minutes with a 5 minute session at the end for questions from the audience. The judges provide feedback for each speaker and select the best talk, in their academic opinion, which will be awarded a KM Stott prize.