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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 a Research Paper

o   Publishing a Research Paper

o   Writing and Publishing a Review Paper

4. Focus on Peer Review

5. Narrative Tools for Researchers

6. Advancing your Scientific Presentations

7. Getting an Academic Research Position

8. Experiments: From Idea to Design

9. Persuasive Grant Writing

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:

o   Introduction to Collaboration

o   Leading a Collaboration

o   Participating in a Collaboration