*We also offer a 20% discount for bookings of 4 or more people on to the
same ScHARR Short Course. Please **email Karen Holden**, for further
details of how to book at this discounted rate.*
Introduction to Stata
1 day course - Tuesday 3rd December 2019
*Overview*: This one-day course provides a basic overview of the uses and
functions of the statistical software Stata, which includes:
- Understanding the Stata interface(s)
- Reading in data, and data manipulation
- Help files and do files
- Basic statistical analyses and graph production
*Who should attend this course?: *This course is aimed at individuals with
little or no experience in Stata (or those who have only used the drop-down
system within Stata and wish to transition to the coding language). The
delivery of this course is through live demonstration, with intermittent
practical activities throughout the course to reinforce understanding. A
basic knowledge of statistics is advantageous, but not essential.
*Objectives:*
After this course you should be able to:
- Know the different windows, benefits and limitations of Stata
- Import data and plot graphs in Stata
- Create/ modify variables when needed
- Utilise basic commands to analyse your data
- Know how to proceed if/when you get stuck in the future
*Early bird rates for this course will close on 3rd October 2019*
*Standard booking will close on 19th November 2019*
Here is the direct link to the course information, including fees:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit/introtostata
An Introduction to Using Social Media to Communicate Research
*1 day course: Thur 27th Feb 2020*
*Background:* The treadmill of academia is a relentless one: proposal,
research, write, present and then hopefully publish before starting all
over again, all in the hope that the research is recognised as being of
good quality, worthy and valuable. There's one problem though - journals
are not geared up for the modern online world of instant sharing and
communication. Tools and ways of communicating research such as Twitter,
YouTube, ResearchGate, Slideshare, blogging, infographics, animation and
many others will be covered. The good news is they are mostly free and can
work together to help research to reach a wider audience. That audience is
not just academic peers, but publishers, editors, fund holders and the
general public.*Course Overview: *The aim of the workshop is to offer an
introduction to the many tools you can use to help you communicate research
and work smarter. The purpose of the day is to help attendees come away
with a variety of tools and artefacts they can use to help communicate and
share their work. We will teach you basics of social media in an academic
setting and demystify some of the barriers that may have put you off from
using these tools in your work.We will show you how to make the most from
these technologies and show you how to find out alternative ways of
discussing and communicating research. Attention will be paid to the
various ethical issues to working more on the web from copyright and
Creative Commons to making more use of your mobile device, from safety and
security to how you conduct yourself online and netiquette.This short
course will benefit a wide range of people including (but not exhaustive
of):
- Researchers,
- Masters and PhD students,
- Research Support Staff and Managers,
- Library and Information Professionals,
- Communications and Marketing Professionals.
*Early bird booking for this course will close 27th December 2019*
*Standard rate booking will close 13th February 2020*
Link to further course information:
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit/introtosocialmedia
*Link to our Online Store, where all of our ScHARR short course bookings
are initially processed:*
http://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-events/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/school-of-health-and-related-research-scharr
*If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact the
ScHARR Short Course Unit via this email address.*
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*Mrs Karen Holden*
*Short Courses & Events Officer*
*ScHARR Knowledge Exchange*
*University of Sheffield*
*ScHARR*
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Tel: 0114 222 2968
Fax: 0114 272 4095
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit
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