Research is most useful when it can be used and understood by stakeholders. Given that not all stakeholders will be experts in your research area, learning the skills which enable you to write for wide audiences opens numerous doors to alternative careers, should academia not work out (the age-old problem).

Translating your academic research for non-specialist audiences also enables you to apply your existing research to topical agendas, which may have significant policy and cultural implications, or may serve to enhance society’s foundational knowledge base by providing tangible access to sometimes inaccessible research. It can also serve to enhance your own understanding of the research, potentially unlocking new insights by forcing you to consider the research in different contexts.

Is this session not on the skills sessions timetable? Would you or a group be interested in attending this session, but the Skills Centre is currently not offering it? Let us know! We would be happy to know what session students look forward to the most, so the Skills Centre can cater to all of your academic needs, simply email us skillscentre@ucc.ie about the sessions you or a group would like to attend.

There is a lot more to publishing than simply shipping a piece of work off to an editor. The path to publication is windy, foggy, and sometimes unpleasant. This workshop is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of turning your research proposal into a publishable product by providing student-based insights on what has worked for us in our publication endeavours.

We also hope to inspire you to get creative with your research and find multiple purposes for your current projects. We will do this by guiding you through publishing academic work and translating aspects of this work into unique publishable pieces for wide audiences.

Is this session not on the skills sessions timetable? Would you or a group be interested in attending this session, but the Skills Centre is currently not offering it? Let us know! We would be happy to know what session students look forward to the most, so the Skills Centre can cater to all of your academic needs, simply email us at skillscentre@ucc.ie about the sessions you or a group would like to attend.

Abstracts. The bane of many peoples’ lives.

Is an abstract a summary? How can I turn 10,000 words into 300 words? What do you mean I cannot copy and paste bits and pieces of my introduction and conclusions?

Through this workshop, we hope to answer these questions, and also guide you through the writing of abstracts from a student-based perspective. That is, while we are still learning the art itself, we hope to give novices the best chance of success by providing our insights into how we learnt the skills necessary to turn 10,000 words into 300 words.

Is this session not on the skills sessions timetable? Would you or a group be interested in attending this session, but the Skills Centre is currently not offering it? Let us know! We would be happy to know what session students look forward to the most, so the Skills Centre can cater to all of your academic needs, simply email us at skillscentre@ucc.ie about the sessions you or a group would like to attend.

As an undergraduate, feedback specific to your work may have alluded you. Suddenly, as a postgraduate, everyone wants to review and critique your work. This can be a bit daunting at first. But I assure you, you will get used to it.

This workshop hopes to guide you through the process of receiving, interpreting, and applying feedback. Hopefully you can exit this workshop not dreading the feedback you are due to receive from your supervisors any day now, and instead maybe embrace it.

This workshop serves to compliment and tie together the previous three parts of Research Dissemination 101, while also complimenting existing Skills Centre workshops, such as, Making Feedback Work For You.

Is this session not on the skills sessions timetable? Would you or a group be interested in attending this session, but the Skills Centre is currently not offering it? Let us know! We would be happy to know what session students look forward to the most, so the Skills Centre can cater to all of your academic needs, simply email us at skillscentre@ucc.ie about the sessions you or a group would like to attend.