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The courses include the following:
Creating Successful Research Posters
1. Research Integrity: Publication Ethics
2. Effective Science Communication
3. Formerly known as Scientific Writing and Publishing – NEW! Writing a Research Paper: 2nd Edition
o Writing and Publishing a Review Paper
5. Narrative Tools for Researchers
6. Advancing your Scientific Presentations
7. Getting an Academic Research Position
8. Experiments: From Idea to Design
10. Finding Funding Opportunities
11. Managing Research Data to Unlock it’s Potential
12. Data Analysis: Planning and Preparing
13. Data Analysis: Conducting and Troubleshooting
14. Interpreting Scientific Results
15. Networking for Researchers
16. Formerly known as Effective Collaboration in Research, this course has been restructured and split into 3 separate components:
