Seminars and Workshops in 2007

13 December. Employer Exposure and Trust Speaker: Prof. Theo Nichols. (Dacanay, J.)

8 November. Globalisation, Employment and Transitory Migration: The Example of Seafarers; Speaker: Prof. Helen Sampson. (all fellows)

31 October. MBTI Personality Inventory. (Li, L.)

24 October. Starting Out: Induction Event for New Research Students.(Anand, N.; Dacanay, J.; Edmund, S.; Leong, P., Xue, C.)

October. Cardiff Work Environment Research Center Second International Seminar.(Turgo, N.)

10 October. Work and Health in Europe: An International Seminar on Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety. School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. (Bhattacharya, S.; Gekara, V.; Tang, L.; Zhao, Z.)

September. On Postcolonial Reason, Seminar given by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.Goldsmith College, London. (Turgo, N.)

September. Postgraduate Seminar on Ethnography and Fieldwork. Goldsmith College, London. (Turgo, N.)

3 April. Seminars headed by the SIRC Director through our study Introduction to Business. (Li, L.)

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Research Skills Training Courses Attended in 2007

10 December. EndNote. (Li, L.)

6 December. Working with Long Documents. (Li, L.)

6 December. Rapid Reading. (Leong, P.)

7 November - Academic Writing in the Social Sciences: Introduction / Dr Sara Delamont. (Anand, N.; Dacanay, J.; Edmund, S.; Leong, P.)

2 November. Excel (Graphing Numeric Data). (Leong, P.)

31 October. Publishing a Journal Article in the Social Sciences / Dr Sara Delamont. (Abou-Elkawam, M.; Tang, L.)

29 October. Time Management / Ms Karen Cooke. (Anand, N.; Edmund, S.)

26 October. Presenting Yourself Professionally. (Li, L.)

26 October. Information/Internet Resources for Social Science Research students. (Leong, P.)

19 October. EndNotes. (Leong, P.)

2 October. Practical Finance for Small Businesses. (Li, L.)

21 June. Mapping Your Mind – Creative Notemaking for Research. (Li, L.)

13 June. Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. (Li, L.)

11 June. Level 2 Award in Health & Safety in the Workplace. (Li, L.)

May. Effective Presentation. (Bhattacharya, S.; Gekara, V.; Tang, L.)

2-4 May. A GRAD course consisting of Personal Effectiveness, Communication Skills, Networking and Teamworking, and Career Management. (Li, L.)

4 April. Communication Skills by Cardiff University Students’ Union. (Li, L.)

14 March. Avoiding Plagiarism / Mr Andrew Lloyd. (Abou-Elkawam, M.) 

6 March. Managing Your Supervisor / Dr Hanno Koppel. (Abou-Elkawam, M.) 

5 March. Beating Thesis Blues (Humanities and Social Sciences) / Dr Sara Delamont. (Abou-Elkawam, M.)

4 March. Internet Based Literature Searching for Social Scientists. (Li, L.)

3 March. Presentation Skills. (Li, L.)

6 February. China Employability Roadshow Workshop in Cardiff . (Li, L.)

29 January. Qualitative Analysis in the Social Sciences: Hands-on Introduction to NVivo / Dr Christina Silver. (Abou-Elkawam, M.)

Various workshops in Cardiff University. (Acejo, I.)

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