Upcoming Academia 101 sessions:
Pitching contributions in PhD research
- Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024
- Time: 10-11.30 am
- Location: 1-7 Abercromby Square – Seminar Room 6
- Online: TBC
This Academia 101 session will be hosted by Dr Ahmed Al-Abdin, Deputy Associate Dean International and Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School.
In this session Ahmed will cover:
- Mapping out your PhD research contributions (regardless of what stage in your PhD you are at)
- How you can lexically phrase your contributions
- How you can broaden your contributions beyond just a gap spotting approach
- How you can narrate your contributions with internal and external stakeholders
PhD Project Planning
- Date: Tuesday 11 June 2024
- Time: 10-11.30 am
- Location: Rendall Building – Seminar room 1
- Online:
- Join Zoom meeting
- Meeting ID: 952 3908 0504
- Passcode: KH?1T=YC
This Academia 101 session will be hosted by Professor Liz Parsons, Chair in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School.
This workshop will help you to translate a paper into a presentation, by covering the following areas:
- Presenting your paper
- Understanding your objectives and audience
- Getting the pitch right while keeping it simple
- Preparing your material - Structuring, designing and rehearsing your talk
- Delivering your talk - Key tips on delivery and addressing potential pitfalls
The session will also include a series of practical exercises.
How Academia 101 supports your development as a researcher
These sessions have been built around the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF), the national professional development framework for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers.
The Vitae RDF is structured into 4 domains to capture the knowledge, behaviours, and attributes identified as significant for researchers across a wide range of stakeholders:
- Domain A: Knowledge and intellectual abilities: The knowledge, intellectual abilities and techniques to do research
- Domain B: Personal effectiveness: The personal qualities and approach to be an effective researcher
- Domain C: Research governance and organisation:
Knowledge of the professional standards and requirements to do research - Domain D: Engagement, influence and impact: The knowledge and skills to work with others to ensure the wider impact of research
- Each of the Academia 101 sessions is explicitly linked to at least one of the Vitae RDF domains, sub-domains and descriptors, to help you track your progress and development within these specific areas.
This also allows you to select sessions that are particularly relevant to your personal research development.
Joining Academia 101 sessions
Academia 101 sessions are hybrid and open to student from any of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) universities:
Please, only register if you are able to commit to engaging fully with the training event.
You will be expected to engage with the training leaders and one another, so cameras should be switched on at all times where possible.
Please, note that non-attendance is monitored, so if you are no longer able to attend an event you have registered for, please do let us know in advance by emailing Academia 101 Lead Charlie Harding (C.M.Harding@liverpool.ac.uk).
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