Future courses
Expression of interest:
We're planning a range of future training sessions, with dates yet to be confirmed. If you're interested in attending any of the sessions listed below, please contact the DLTP Team to register your interest.
Course title: Research Governance, Ethics and Integrity Workshop
MANDATORY: Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (Dec/Jan), 9:30am - 16:30pm
Delivery: In-person, Bristol
Content: This workshop will provide PGR researchers with the skills needed to navigate complex regulatory approval pathways for research involving human participants, their tissue and / or data. This session will outline the purpose of the research governance approvals, research ethics review process, and how implementing a robust research ethics framework for your research helps facilitate innovative, ground-breaking research that stands up to public scrutiny.
The workshop will help demystify the research governance and ethics review process by using real life case studies to highlight the importance of and requirements for a research ethics review.
Trainer/s: Research Governance, Ethics & Integrity Team, Research, Enterprise and Innovation, University of Bristol
Event category: Laying the foundations
Course title: Brilliant Club Tutoring information Webinar
Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (Nov/Jan)
Delivery: Online (1 hour session)
Content: Would you like to gain paid teaching experience and share your research? Are keen to use your skills and expertise to make access to higher education fairer... please read on!
One of our GW4+ DLTP Partners, The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity who recruit and train PhD researchers to support less advantaged school pupils to access university and succeed when they get there. As well as providing our doctoral researchers with training in public engagement and teaching, they pay our trained tutors to deliver academically rigorous programmes to small groups of pupils in state schools across the UK.
The Brilliant Club are running an online event to provide more information.
Trainer/s: Katrina Roberts
Event category: Impact, knowledge exchange and collaborative working
Course title: Inclusive environmental communication training (Black Seeds network
Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (April/May)
Delivery: Online (one day split into morning and afternoon sessions)
Content: Inclusive environmental communication training refers to initiatives aimed at promoting understanding and engagement in environmental issues while ensuring that all community members, particularly those from diverse backgrounds, are represented and included.
The morning session will focus on ‘Who is an environmentalist?’ covering:
challenging our assumptions of who an environmentalist is
reasons for exclusion of Global Majority people in environmentalism
barriers and solutions
The afternoon session will focus on ‘Imagery’ covering:
exploring imagery and reducing tokenism
Trainer/s: Gnisha Bevan , Black Seeds Network
Event category: Research Skills
Course title: BAS Mapping and Geospatial Information Centre (MAGIC)
Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (April/May)
Delivery: In-person (1-2 days, BAS)
Content:Explore the use of mapping and geospatial information in environmental and polar research. This training will introduce students to the work of the British Antarctic Survey’s Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC), including mapping, geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial data, and how these tools support scientific research and environmental analysis.
Trainer/s: Louise Ireland, BAS
Event category: Research Skills
Course title: Science to Policy Training (with Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales)
Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (April/May)
Delivery: In-person (2-3 days, Cardiff)
Content: This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in first-hand workplace experience with Policy Makers alongside our Partners, the Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales.
Schedule (TBC closer to the date)
Tuesday – Travel to Cardiff and half-day academic-policy workshop
Wednesday – Welsh Government Discovery Day
Thursday – Natural Resources Wales (NRW) site visit and return travel
Trainer/s: tbc
Event category: Impact, knowledge exchange and collaborative working
Course title: Science Communication at the Natural History Museum
Open to all DLTP students
Date: TBC (May)
Delivery: In-person (2 days, NHM. London)
Content: An afternoon science communication masterclass Museum Creative Producer Alastair Hendry
Children’s author and former scientist Dr Nick Crumpton in conversation with Museum Principle Curator and author Dr Erica McAlister on writing, working with television, radio and podcasts
A guide to public engagement in galleries, with Louis Platman, Senior Interpretation Developer for the brand-new dinosaur gallery currently being developed for the Museum’s 150 year anniversary
A Q&A session with Duncan Gregory. Duncan is the Head of NHM Studios at the Natural History Museum and overseas the Museum’s audio-visual output, including the Museum’s YouTube channel.
Free tickets to some of our current exhibitions like Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Will be an excellent opportunity to network with your peers from other DLAs
Trainer/s: tbc
Event category: Impact, knowledge exchange and collaborative working