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This Poster Presentation workshops will cover aspects of designing, writing and presenting scientific posters.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

This Poster Presentation workshops will cover aspects of designing, writing and presenting scientific posters.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

In this workshop we will cover the correct use of punctuation in English including the comma, colon, semi-colon and hyphen. Through looking at published papers, we'll analyse punctuation in the Engineering field and then put everything into practice.

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

Holding the reader in mind is key to good writing. In this workshop we will analyse attributes of a reader in order to create better pieces of writing. In doing so we will cover the danger of overload, clarity in developing ideas and the use of conventions in scientific writing.

This is a two-week course which includes individual supervisions. It focuses on your own drafts of first year report, thesis, or research paper.

Week 1 comprises five 2-hour whole-class lessons, one each morning, and concentrates on writing abstracts, literature reviews, discussions and conclusions and on preparing poster presentations. It also includes one individual supervision of 30 minutes which will take place on one of the following afternoons: Thursday 17 July 2.30-4.30, or Friday 18 July 2.30-4.30.

In Week 2 there will be one 2-hour whole-class lesson on Thursday afternoon based on points arising from students’ work-in-progress, plus one individual supervision of an hour. The time of this will be arranged with the teacher at the start of the course and will be held at one of the following times: Monday, 21st July 2.30-4.30pm, Tuesday, 22nd July 11.30-1.30pm or 2.30-4.30pm, Wednesday, 23rd July 2.30-4.30pm.

• Please send in drafts of your own work for feedback. These can be any part of your report, dissertation or paper - or any other piece of scientific writing that is important to you.
• Please send in these drafts well in advance of the course start (at least a week!).

This workshop is tailored to the needs of Native and Non-native 1st Year PhD students MPhil (Res).

This is a Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering students.

This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student.

• Presenting your results and findings (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections
• What makes a good abstract and title?
• Preparing successful poster presentations

This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student. These run throughout the year.

• What makes a good abstract and title? (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Presenting your results and findings
• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections
• Preparing successful poster presentations

This is one in a series of five Scientific Writing Skills Workshops tailored to the needs of the PhD/PostDoc Engineering student.

• Working on the Discussions and Conclusions Sections (see topics covered section for more details)

The following workshops are also available:

• Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• Presenting your results and findings
• What makes a good abstract and title?
• Preparing successful poster presentations

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

Learn from a CUP guest speaker how to use an effective online tool to improve and enrich your use of English words and expressions in scientific writing.

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

This workshop will concentrate on using sources effectively and appropriately in English (i.e., summarizing, paraphrasing and referencing techniques in English). It will discuss how to achieve the best synthesis of ideas from carefully acknowledging sources to drawing your own innovative conclusions.

The writing workshops will cover a mixture of structure, accuracy and style in academic English writing.

• NB. Please read ATTENDANCE section below before signing up for this course.

The Ensembl project provides an interface and an infrastructure for accessing genomic information, including genes, variants, comparative genomics and gene regulation data, covering over 300 vertebrate species.

This workshop is aimed at researchers and developers interested in exploring Ensembl beyond the website. The workshop covers how to use the Ensembl REST APIs, including understanding the major endpoints and how to write scripts to call them.

If you do not have a University of Cambridge Raven account please book or register your interest here.

• Our courses are only free for registered University of Cambridge students. All other participants will be charged according to our charging policy.
• Attendance will be taken on all courses and a charge is applied for non-attendance, including for University of Cambridge students. After you have booked a place, if you are unable to attend any of the live sessions, please email the Bioinfo Team.
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here.

Do you know about environmental legislation that you need to comply with in your University role?

The University has committed to developing an Environmental Management System (EMS) in line with the international standard ISO:14001. As part of this, a programme of audits will soon take place, to determine compliance of University buildings and sites with environmental legislation. In this briefing session, we're providing relevant University staff with an overview of some of the key areas of environmental legislation that a typical EMS audit would cover, including practical tips and actions for staying compliant.

• To inform staff of the University's environmental commitments and to give staff the knowledge they need to contribute to meeting these targets

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• As a University we have environmental impact in the resources we use and also in the sustainable research that we do. This webinar will give you an introduction to some of the efforts the University is making to improve environmental performance and you will learn how you can get involved in this effort.
• The same content will be covered in session 1 and 2

• This hour-long session provides an introduction to the sustainable innovations happening across the University
• The course introduces staff to the sustainability targets that University staff and students are working towards

• This module introduces Equality & Diversity at the University