All-provider course timetable
Friday 25 April
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A series of 30 minute drop-in sessions to talk with one of the Continuous Improvement team. We offer expert, impartial advice relating all things process improvement and want to support our colleagues on their own continuous improvement journeys. Please note, these sessions are informal, 1-2-1 meetings where colleagues can ask for advice and guidance from the team. These are not workshops or taught sessions. The team will be available 9-10 and 4-5 every Tuesday and Friday - each hour can be split into two sessions of 30 minutes depending on demand. |
| 10:00 |
This beginner’s course is designed to get you thinking about preparing your first poster. A good poster’s worth 1000 words… but a bad poster’s just a bit of messy paper. When it’s time for you to present your scientific poster how are you going to make the most of the opportunity? We’ll think about why we use posters to present our research, what makes the difference between a good and bad poster and some useful tips to help you present your data in style. |
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Virtual Writing Retreats
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Do you have a deadline coming up or a piece of writing that’s long overdue? Or maybe some data analysis that keeps slipping to the bottom of your to-do list? Our online retreats give you time, peace, and space to think and write. Each session will provide a friendly and constructive environment in which to meet like-minded peers, discuss challenges, and work in a focused way using the Pomodoro technique. These virtual retreats are being hosted collaboratively across several institutions to encourage researchers across career stages and institutions to come together in a sustainable writing environment. The retreats will take place several times per month throughout the academic year and you can attend as many as you like (within booking limits for each session). Please note: It is important that when you book this course, on the booking confirmation page, click on Add to Calendar to start the process of importing the course appointment to your calendar. |
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Fair attribution for technicians through either co-authorship or direct acknowledgement in research publications is a key component of the ‘visibility’ and ‘recognition’ areas of the Technician Commitment, of which the University of Cambridge was a founding signatory in 2017. However, there is currently no policy or standard practice for acknowledging the role of technicians, equipment and facilities in the University or the wider sector. Technicians experience a great disparity in their recognition and visibility in scholarly outputs. This interactive workshop will introduce you to the scholarly communications process as well as tools such as CRediT and ORCID, and facilitate conversation amongst peers. |
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| 11:00 |
Tableau Drop In Sessions (via Teams)
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This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges. |
| 11:30 |
This is an opportunity for the members of the University to go one-on-one with Tableau experts across the Business Information and Strategic Insights Team, who can help you solve challenges. |
| 12:00 |
Do you feel anxious or apprehensive about how to handle Q&A sessions after a conference paper? Come along to this session to talk about what to expect from a Q&A, how to prepare, and how to handle challenging questions. You will get the chance to meet with other PhD students who are preparing to give conference papers, and work through some friendly activities to practice your question-answering skills! If you’re interested in developing your presentation skills further, you may also be interested in ‘Practicing your Presentation Skills’ or ‘The Basics of Academic Presentations’. |
| 16:00 |
A series of 30 minute drop-in sessions to talk with one of the Continuous Improvement team. We offer expert, impartial advice relating all things process improvement and want to support our colleagues on their own continuous improvement journeys. Please note, these sessions are informal, 1-2-1 meetings where colleagues can ask for advice and guidance from the team. These are not workshops or taught sessions. The team will be available 9-10 and 4-5 every Tuesday and Friday - each hour can be split into two sessions of 30 minutes depending on demand. |
Monday 28 April
| 09:00 |
CULP: Chinese (Mandarin) Elementary 1
CANCELLED
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre webiste. |
| 09:30 |
CULP: Italian Basic 1
CANCELLED
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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This online writing retreat is designed to offer structured sessions of academic writing for PhD students with autism and ADHD. You do NOT need to have a diagnosis to attend this retreat. If you feel like you would benefit from an online workspace that accommodates neurodivergence, please come along! The sessions will be run on a Discord server which allows you to engage both on video, and via text chat. Before the event, you will be sent instructions for how to join, both in written format and as a video. You can also take a look at the Discord website beforehand, if you like: https://discord.com/ We start the first day with an introduction that discusses the kinds of challenges that Autism and ADHD can present in doctoral research, as well as strengths they confer. This is followed by discussion sessions on finding adaptive ways to work when handling executive dysfunction, or issues with your environment. The rest of the first day is dedicated to writing, with short sessions to test out new ways to approach your work. The second day will be a fully dedicated writing retreat to crack on with some writing! A full schedule for the two days will be sent out at least a week in advance. |
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This course will provide an introduction to Docker. Writing research software in Python presents numerous challenges to reproducibility - what version of Python is being used? What about the versions of PyTorch, Scikit Learn or Numpy? Should we use Conda, or venv, or Poetry to manage dependencies and environments? How can we control randomness? Do I have the right version of Cuda Toolkit? In principle, given the same data, and same algorithms and methodology, we should be able to reproduce the results of any given experiment to within an acceptable degree of error. Dealing with the above questions introduces significant problems to reproducing experiments in machine learning. This workshop will explore the use of Docker to help alleviate almost all of these questions. Furthermore, combining Docker, git and GitHub can be a powerful workflow, helping to minimise your tech stack, and declutter your python development experience. |
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| 10:00 |
A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser VIA ZOOM to explore ways to keep up with your language learning goals. These appointments are for advice on learning languages other than English. Should you want support for language skills in English, please do not book into one of these appointments but send your request to adtis@langcen.cam.ac.uk instead. (Please note that if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to visit our website for information about online courses to be offered next term). |
| 10:30 |
A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser VIA ZOOM to explore ways to keep up with your language learning goals. These appointments are for advice on learning languages other than English. Should you want support for language skills in English, please do not book into one of these appointments but send your request to adtis@langcen.cam.ac.uk instead. (Please note that if you are seeking advice about our taught courses, you are encouraged to visit our website for information about online courses to be offered next term). |
| 12:00 |
As a recent new starter to the Finance Division, we would like to invite you to attend a welcome session in Greenwich House with Finance Leadership Team (FLT). These sessions are an opportunity for you to meet with other members of staff who have recently joined Finance, as well as hearing from Daniel and senior members of the team. Please book onto a session below that suits your office working pattern best. We encourage you to attend in your first three months in the Finance Division but if you are unable to attend either of these dates, more dates will follow later in the year. |
| 13:00 |
This session will provide an overview of the support and resources available from libraries and other useful departments from across the University of Cambridge for new postgraduates and researchers. It will also provide an introduction to the various training opportunities on offer from library staff on a wide range of useful research themes and skills. After this session, participants will have a better understanding of what services are out there to help support them in their time at Cambridge and who they can ask for help. |
| 14:00 |
CULP: German Basic 1
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
| 15:00 |
CULP: French Intermediate 2
[Full]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level, the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. More detailed information is available on our website. |
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CULP: Russian Basic 1
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre. |
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CULP: German Intermediate 1
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. |
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| 16:00 |
CULP: Spanish Basic 2
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
| 17:00 |
A language course for students who have an intermediate command of the Spanish Language (completed B1), ideally suited to those students who have completed the CULP Intermediate 2 course or have taken Spanish at GCSE Level. The level is upper-intermediate. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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CULP: Arabic Basic 1
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The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At basic level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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CULP: Swahili Basic 2
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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CULP: Greek Basic 2
CANCELLED
This is a continuation of the Greek Basic 1 course, suitable for students who have picked up the basics in their previous studies at the introductory level. More detailed information is available from the Language Centre website. |
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| 18:00 |
CULP: German Intermediate 2
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 2 level the focus shifts slightly towards reading and writing whilst still offering plenty an opportunity for oral communication. The syllabus is more topical and the contents feature many a cultural, historical, political and current affairs theme. While the grammar is analysed within a context, explicit grammar instruction becomes an integral part of the course. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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CULP: Italian Basic 2
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At a basic level, the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |
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| 18:15 |
CULP: Spanish Intermediate 1
[Places]
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence. At intermediate 1 level the focus is on every day and real-time, oral/aural communication. Each course features a functional-notional syllabus and grammar points are analysed in context. For more detailed information about the course please visit our website. |