Multi-media Online Resources
The LDC Development Team would like to improve the content of the online resources and to ensure relevant content for all Postgraduate researchers. All PGRs registered on the scheme are invited to produce a short, 2 – 5 minute online resource, taking the form of a multi-media presentation, for example on one of the topics covered below.
You can choose your own method of delivery for this multi-media presentation:
- As an audio file, which might be one part of an audio podcast, together with any associated images or links for further information,
- As a screen cast, for example an audio spoken to accompany a short PowerPoint.
- As a speech to camera, which could also be presented interview style.
- A short animation or video, for example using animation software such as Powtoon.
Please ask if you have further ideas for delivery.
Each presentation or audio is ideally between 2 and five minutes (max) long. You will ideally describe your own experience here, and do not need to present yourself as an ‘expert advisor’.
All online resources will be reviewed. We recommend that you send us an outline of the proposed contents before you complete your delivery.
Payment: We will pay each resources on a case-by-case basis, for a minimum of 3 hours total delivery and preparation.
Topics
We suggest that your multi-media presentation focusses on one of the following areas:
As Advertisement for your own workshop
You could provide a short podcast to support the marketing for your workshop. The multi-media presentation might feature some of the common problems that PGRs face in the area of your workshop material, why it is important to address these problems and how your workshop will help your attendees.
For a new online Induction package
Were you told of a particularly useful tip, an online tool or did you attend an insightful workshop that you found particularly useful at the start of your PhD?
We would like to enhance our package of online induction resources with a collection of hints and tips for new PhD researchers that come from and are spoken by recent researchers. The following range of topics that we are interested in includes: time management, presenting, starting writing, maintaining a ‘work-life balance’, finding Library resources and so on. However, we are open to suggestions.
We recommend that your multi-media presentation includes:
- A short introduction to the topic and its relevance to PhD research, along with possible problems that new researchers might have in this area.
- Suggestions for how new PhD researchers might solve their problems. This could include reference to specific workshops run by the LDC Development Team or the library, or a tool or good tip that you found useful for your own research management.
For Careers Preparation
How early did you start your career preparation? Were you engaged in networking with experienced professionals in your first or second years or did you ensure you were developing essential skills for your potential future or engaging in activities outside the immediate needs of your research?
We are also hoping to further develop our resources on Career Preparation and would like to include short introductions from researchers who have addressed these issues early in their PhD. You might consider specific topics such as networking, professional development planning, internships and public engagement. Your multi-media presentation might cover:
- Why you specifically engaged in this activity
- What you did – how easy was it to gain the experience that you wanted?
- What other benefits did you gain from your involvement, for example opportunities for mixing with others or learning more about yourself?