You will receive a link to the Teams meeting while registering for a workshop, which will also be repeated in the reminder e-mail before the time.

If you attend three or more of our workshops, you may request a certificate of attendance. Please send your request to Kirchner van Deventer.

Please consult the links below for a full description of the sessions and to make a booking.

Workshop titles according to the steps in the Research Process	Date and booking
Plan and design
Library induction for postgraduate students and academic staff Instructor: Pieter du Plessis, Marié Roux, Sizwe Ngcobo, Paulette Talliard, Norman Hebler and Kirchner van Deventer Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 13 February: 10:00 – 13:00 5 March: 10:00 – 13:00 24 July: 10:00 – 13:00
Finding Government Statistics Instructor: Statistics SA Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 11 March: 11:00 – 13:00 6 August: 14:00 – 16:00
How to conduct a literature review Instructor: Kirchner van Deventer Target group: Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 18 February: 11:00 – 13:00 8 April: 14:00 – 16:00 29 July: 11:00 – 13:00
Systematic reviews Instructor: Elizabeth Moll-Willard Target group: Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 4 March: 11:00 – 13:00 5 August: 14:00 – 16:00
Systematic reviews for Medicine and Health Sciences Instructor: Yusuf Ras Target group: Medicine and Health Sciences Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 4 March: 11:00 – 13:00 5 August: 14:00 – 16:00
Tools and applications for research [Library guide] Instructor: Kirchner van Deventer and Letlao Seloma Target group: Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 6 March: 11:00 – 13:00 30 July: 14:00 – 16:00
Collect and capture
SunDMP (SU data management tool) for data management plan creation Instructor: Sizwe Ncgobo Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 12 March: 12:00 – 13:00 7 August: 14:00 – 15:00
Introduction to Research Data Management and Data Management Plans Instructor: Sizwe Ncgobo Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 26 March: 11:00 – 13:00 12 August: 14:00 – 16:00
Analyse, collaborate and create
Copyright issues in theses and dissertation writing Instructor: Gert van Deventer (INNOVUS) Target group: Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 13 March: 12:00 – 13:00 6 August: 12:00 – 13:00
EndNote for reference management and academic networking Instructors: Kirchner van Deventer and Letlao Seloma Target group: Postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 19 February: 11:00 – 13:00 18 March: 14:00 – 16:00 9 April: 11:00 – 13:00 6 May: 14:00 – 16:00 17 July: 11:00 – 13:00 7 August: 11:00 – 13:00 2 September: 14:00 – 16:00 1 October: 11:00 – 13:00
EndNote for reference management and academic networking at Medicine and Health Sciences Instructors: Yusuf Ras Target group: Medicine and Health Sciences postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 19 February: 14:00 – 16:00 9 April: 14:00 – 16:00 17 July: 14:00 – 16:00 16 September: 14:00 – 16:00
Tips on how to format your thesis (MS Word) Instructor: Kirchner van Deventer and Letlao Seloma Target group: Postgraduate students	Follow the links below to make a booking: 20 February: 11:00 – 13:00 19 March: 14:00 – 16:00 16 July: 11:00 – 13:00
Overview of software for effective data analysis and data visualisation Instructor: Marié Roux and Kirchner van Deventer Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 10 April: 14:00 – 16:00 19 August: 11:00 – 13:00
Principles of data visualisation Instructor: Marié Roux Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 25 March: 11:00 – 12:30 5 August: 11:00 – 12:30
Introduction to Tableau and Flourish for data visualisation Instructor: Marié Roux Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 15 April: 11:00 – 13:00 26 August: 14:00 – 16:00
Introduction to Microsoft Power BI Instructor: Marié Roux Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 8 April: 11:00 – 13:00 23 September: 14:00 – 16:00
Manage, store and preserve
An overview of SUNScholarData – the SU institutional data repository Instructor: Sizwe Ncgobo Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 25 March: 14:00 – 16:00 13 August: 14:00 – 16:00
Thesis management for the submission theses and dissertations for graduation Instructor: Cathrin Baadjies and Paulette Talliard Target group: Academic staff and supervisors	Follow the links below to make a booking: 12 February: 11:00 – 12:00 30 September: 14:00 – 15:00
Share and publish
Increasing the visibility of your research output through self-archiving Instructor: Paulette Talliard Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researcher	Follow the links below to make a booking: 16 April: 11:00 – 12:30 18 September: 14:00 – 15:30
Managing your unique author iD with ORCID [Library guide] Instructor: Marié Roux and Kirchner van Deventer Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 11 March: 14:00 – 15:00 4 September: 11:00 – 12:00
Enhancing your research impact through open access publishing Instructor: Sakhile Mngomezulu Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 23 April: 11:00 – 12:30 3 September: 14:00 – 15:30
Making important decisions about publishing your research [Library guide] Instructors: Siviwe Bangani, Paulette Talliard, Dalene Pieterse Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 19 March: 10:00 – 13:00 16 September: 10:00 – 13:00
Monitor and evaluate
Maximise your research impact Instructor: Marié Roux Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 24 April: 11:00 – 13:00 18 September: 11:00 – 13:00
Introduction to SciVal for research evaluation Instructor: Marié Roux Target group: Academic staff, postgraduate students and researchers	Follow the links below to make a booking: 7 May: 11:00 – 13:00 2 October: 14:00 – 16:00

Curriculum-integrated or curriculum-related group training programme - Postgraduates

Curriculum integrated training outcomes
Developed in collaboration with the lecturer/department. A module is identified in which information literacy is formulated as an outcome. Information skills are integrated within the module and assessed accordingly.

Curriculum related training outcomes
Developed in collaboration with the lecturer/department. Students will learn how to find information for a specific assignment, how to evaluate the information found and how to cite the information correctly but without proper assessment.

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