Training

We offer a range of over 25 workshops for research students and staff throughout the year, in addition to our asynchronous self-paced courses. 

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Our training

Electv Training specialises in designing and delivering researcher development workshops and online courses. We offer:

  • Privately booked workshops for universities, CDTs & institutes (delivered either live online or in person)
  • Self-paced (asynchronous) online courses on our Electv training platform, these can be booked in batches or individually
  • Open courses that are available for individual or group bookings

Our courses are very popular with MSc, PhD and postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines. Please see our testimonials or request one of our brochures for more details and feedback comments from our course participants.

Workshops

We offer a range of over 25 workshops in the following areas:

  • Writing and publishing
  • Essential skills
  • Career planning

All workshops are designed for group training and our content is regularly updated to ensure that we keep up with advances in policy, publishing, digital tools and researcher development. All of our workshops can be delivered as live online sessions via Zoom or in person on campus.

In our workshop brochure, we describe each workshop in detail, including learning outcomes, and each one is mapped to the relevant Vitae RDP sub-domains. Some short descriptions of our workshops are below.



Self-paced courses

  • In addition to our group workshops, we offer a suite of short, self-paced (asynchronous) online courses that individuals can complete in their own time.
  • These can be purchased easily in batches of 10+ and access is available for one year. Available all year round.

 

Do it! Joanna was a great presenter and very helpful in responses to individual questions. Use of Zoom was really good – felt smaller task work in breakout rooms emulated small group work you would do at an in person course.

Excellent. Practical, hands-on mentorship that gets you into the fellowship funding rationale and provides you with the tools to proceed. I would recommend it to all early-career researchers.

Thanks so much, Jo, always v informative and encouraging; helped me to organise my thoughts and gives me tools to strategise effectively!

Loved it! Highly relevant, very hands on! There should be more courses like this!

It was extremely helpful to know that we are not the only ones in this situation (wanting to move away from academia after getting PhDs/ postdocs). It gave me hope and insights into how to approach my next career step.

An open minded workshop of new resources for achieving more research impact.

Our workshops include:

An introduction to the scholarly publishing process

  • Includes an overview of the publishing process, author responsibilities, selecting journals, peer review and more
  • Essential information for all researchers regarding publishing
  • Consists of presentations by the instructor, group discussion, individual exercises and use of multimedia
  • After the workshop, participants may register for a follow on course online

“This was a thorough overview of the publishing process with useful insights from firsthand experience of the process.” – PhD student, Centre for Doctoral Training

Attracting your own research funding: writing & applying for fellowships

  • Delivered by instructor who successfully obtained a research fellowship
  • Insights into the process, timelines, defining your proposal, resources
  • Session includes the unique Electv® strategic planning tool

“Competent, encouraging and inspiring! Thank you for sharing your own experience of getting a fellowship too, very useful!” – Researcher, Wellcome Trust

Careers beyond research: applying your skills outside academia

  • Highlights a range different career options, uses case studies and provides resources for participants to explore in their own time
  • Opportunity to complete the unique Electv Elements™ skills evaluation and apply it to their CV

“Enthusiastic, engaging & encouraging workshop. I especially liked the dynamic style of the presenter.” – PhD student