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Tue 19 Mar 2019 – Wed 20 Mar 2019

Tuesday 19 March 2019

09:15	Finance Division Taster Sessions - Accounts Payable & Cashier CANCELLED 09:15 - 12:15 To be confirmed An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with the Accounting Services Team to gain an overview of their roles and a greater appreciation of what they do.
09:30	AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting 2018-19 (19 of 26) Finished 09:30 - 16:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills. In addition to applying for a provisional place here, you will need to complete an application form which can be found on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme
	Finance Division Taster Sessions - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Room F40 An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with the central FP&A to gain an overview of their roles and a greater appreciation of what they do.
	All Cambridge Libraries : Introduction to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room An introduction to the theory and structure of Library of Congress Subject Headings. There is an opportunity for hands-on participation. Course leaders: Vanessa Lacey, vl203@cam.ac.uk (Head of English Cataloguing) and Fiona Grant, fmg24@cam.ac.uk (Metadata Librarian).
10:00	Understanding Implicit or Unconscious Bias Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Greenwich House, Edmonton Room This session will provide an introduction to implicit or unconscious bias and will help you start to understand how our biases influence the decisions we make. These may include decisions around recruitment, selection, assessment and broader interactions with others. The session will include tutor input, group activities and videos and to raise awareness about how to recognise and begin to manage the impact of implicit bias. We will also consider further sources of guidance to support individuals in their roles with specific responsibilities e.g. for managing others, teaching etc.
	Better Presentations: A Practical Guide (Sciences and Technology) Finished 10:00 - 12:30 17 Mill Lane, Seminar Room B Giving presentations is an essential skill for a researcher, be it in your deparment, at a major conference, or in your next job interview! You know your subject but sometimes issues of performance and clarity stop you being your best. Perhaps you can't project your voice, perhaps you are terrified of the Q&A, perhaps you feel your slides let you down, or perhaps you just don't know what to do to get better. This is a highly interactive workshop that requires you to throw yourself into the activities. Everyone will be involved as we apply some of the material from the online Presentation and Performance toolkit and try it out in a safe and supportive environment. The workshop is especially designed for those who feel less confident with the performance aspects of giving presentations. If you are comfortable standing up and talking in front of others then we recommend starting with the online materials.
	Medicine: Getting the best results - improving your database searching (for NHS staff only) Finished 10:00 - 12:00 Clinical School, Medical Library, Library Training Room A course specifically for NHS staff. Attendees will learn how to search databases accessed with an Athens login (such as Medline, Embase and Cinahl) effectively and efficiently, to learn how to save searches and references, and to create and maintain a bibliography. All attendees are required to have an NHS Athens login. University of Cambridge staff and students wanting to learn similar material should book onto the Introduction to Literature Searching (for University) course instead.
12:00	Athena SWAN: SMART Action Planning Finished 12:00 - 14:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 4 This workshop will help Departments to develop appropriate actions for the issues identified in the self-assessment process, and to make action plans SMART and effective tools for achieving gender balance.
12:20	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 12:20 - 12:40 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
12:40	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 12:40 - 13:00 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:00	JTC: English speaking practice Finished 13:00 - 13:20 John Trim Centre A relaxed one-to-one practice speaking session with volunteer native speaker Please book no more than 2 sessions per week and not back to back.
13:30	Writing for the Web Finished 13:30 - 17:00 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 5 Cambridge Admissions Office have organised a series of briefing sessions in the coming weeks aimed at Schools Liaison Officers, Department Outreach Staff, and any academics and staff members who will communicate with potential students. This is aimed at academics or staff in Faculties and Departments, responsible for the prospective applicant section of the website, and will focus on strategies to optimise your Faculty or Department’s website, by creating clear engaging content which will appeal to prospective students.
14:00	Postdoc Mentoring Training (West Cambridge) Finished 14:00 - 16:00 Institute for Manufacturing, Seminar Room 3 Postdoc mentoring training with Katie D'Arcy, organised by the Engineering Department Postdoc Committee (EDPC).
	CamSIS Search Finished 14:00 - 17:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 CamSIS Search is a tool used within CamSIS to create lists of students and update student data. This course will show you how to understand the data structure and how to use CamSIS Search to create student lists.
16:00	Managing Stress During Times of Uncertainty Finished 16:00 - 17:15 Department of Physics, Bragg Building, Small Lecture Theatre The University Staff Counselling Service is offering this workshop for all staff, to be led by Rosemary Parkinson By attending this workshop you will learn why you feel anxious and stressed and what is happening in your body what you can do about anxiety in the short-term how to spot medium and longer term symptoms of stress in yourself and others how to take responsibility for yourself when stressed sources of support in the university and outside The session will be for a one hour duration with 15 minutes at the end for Q&A.
	JTC: 1-to-1 Language Learning Advice Finished 16:00 - 16:30 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore opportunities and resources to help you with your plans and aims for your language learning. We advise on learning strategies across a range of 180+ languages in our learning centre. Click here to view our current index of languages. 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 drop in to the Language Centre or book early in the term rather than wait for an appointment. See our website for details.) Advising appointments can be used to: Decide on your short term and longer term goals Discuss learning strategies for independent language study Formulate a personal learning plan Evaluate your progress so far and identify your next steps Tackle more challenging aspects of your language learning, e.g., strategies for developing listening Talk about ways of shaping a self-study session Explore resources in specialist areas Consider how taught course options in Cambridge can fit in to a longer term plan Find out more about intensive language courses abroad

Wednesday 20 March 2019

09:00	Scientific Writing Finished 09:00 - 17:30 Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 4 This one-day course focuses on the structure of good scientific writing. Including writing exercises as an integral part of the workshop, we will look at the practical process of writing, the nature of scientific publishing, and the importance of editing. The day will finish with a group editing session in which you apply the ideas you have learnt by editing each other's work. For the group editing session you will need to write a 300-word abstract about your work in advance, and bring it with you as a printout (see 'Prerequisites' below for details). REGISTRATION starts at 9.00am on the day. Please ensure you arrive on time as latecomers may be refused entry. Outcomes: Develop skills for producing high-quality scientific papers aimed at the world's top journals Understand the structure of good communication at the level of sentences, paragraphs, abstracts and entire papers Apply these ideas to your own work
09:15	Finance Division Taster Sessions - Helpdesk & Cash Management CANCELLED 09:15 - 12:00 To be confirmed An opportunity for others within the Finance Division to spend some time with the Accounting Services Team to gain an overview of the function of the Helpdesk and the Cash Management function.
09:30	Pressurised Gas and Cryogens Finished 09:30 - 12:30 Greenwich House, Cairo Room This course will cover safe storage and use of cryogens, safe use and stores of compressed gas, and aspects of oxygen depletion with respect to the above.
	iProcurement Part 1: Getting Started in iProcurement (1 of 2) Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders. iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.
	All Cambridge Libraries : Cataloguing for Non-Cataloguers Finished 09:30 - 11:00 Cambridge University Library, IT Training Room An introduction to adding holding and item records to existing catalogue records as part of record-sharing in the Alma database. There is an opportunity for hands-on participation. Course leaders: Vanessa Lacey, vl203@cam.ac.uk (Head of English Cataloguing, UL) and Katherine Sendall, ks344@cam.ac.uk (English Cataloguing, Alma trainer)
	iProcurement Part 1: Getting Started in iProcurement - For Requisitioners Finished 09:30 - 13:00 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders. iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.
10:00	Writing Your First Year Report (Life Sciences) CANCELLED 10:00 - 12:00 Postdoc Centre @ Biomedical Campus, Newman Library Aimed at first-year PhD students, this course is designed to get you thinking and working effectively on writing your end-of-first-year-report. How to start? What is expected? How do you make it work for you? These and many other important questions, hints and tips will be addressed in this half-day session. Outcomes: Understand the standard form and function of the first year report Start planning the structure of your report Experience the benefits of editing and receiveing feedback on writing
	Getting Connected - Induction for Postdocs Finished 10:00 - 12:30 DO NOT USE Postdoc Centre @ Eddington, Sanders Hall A must-attend morning with information tailored to postdocs in Cambridge, whether University-based or employed by Colleges or Research Institutions. At this event, you will be given information about: o Your contract o Professional development & the careers service o Accommodation (including how to apply for accommodation at the new North West Cambridge development) o The postdoc community at Cambridge and have ample opportunity to meet other postdocs and network. If you do not have a CHRIS ID, please book by sending an email to courses.opda@admin.cam.ac.uk stating your full name and Research Institute affiliation. Please use the subject line 'Getting Connected - booking 20th March 2019'.
	Amicus Yellow Box Searching for new starters Finished 10:00 - 11:00 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 Yellow Box Searching is 'advanced searching' in Amicus. You can use it to find specific selections of data or contacts from within Amicus. Many Amicus users use yellow box search in the first step to creating a mailing or inviting contacts to an event. This session will be an introduction to Yellow Box Searching for anyone who has just gained access to Amicus.
10:30	Falcon on Drupal: Migration from Falcon On Plone - An Introduction CANCELLED 10:30 - 13:00 University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 2 This course has been designed for web editors of institutions that are migrating from the Falcon on Plone content management system to the new Falcon on Drupal Content Management Service.
11:30	JTC: Study Abroad Advice Finished 11:30 - 12:00 John Trim Centre A 30 minute appointment with a Language Adviser to explore intensive language courses abroad (usually of 3 weeks as a minimum) for your specific requirements. We can offer pointers for evaluating the options available and share information gleaned from students' feedback on courses that they have attended.
12:00	Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for Chemists (6 of 7) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Todd-Hamied Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the context of chemistry has a long history. The first application was in mass spectrometry, but AI is now being applied to a diverse range of problems, including reaction prediction and drug discovery. Machine learning (ML) is an important part of AI, and the aim of this course is to introduce some of the main ML concepts and techniques, and to illustrate their use in contemporary chemical applications. By the end of the course, you should be able to judge which of these ML techniques are appropriate for a given task and evaluate the results.
	The Future of Open Access: What’s the Plan (S)? (for librarians) Finished 12:00 - 13:00 Office of Scholarly Communication Online Webinar You’ve heard of it but what’s all the fuss about? Since it was announced in September 2018 there has been a great deal of coverage around Plan S – the new initiative for Open Access publishing. The plan calls for all scientific publications resulting from grants funded by public research to be made available on compliant journals or platforms. This decision has drawn both praise and alarm from the research community but what does it all mean? This webinar will discuss the history of Plan S, the principles that make up the plan and the arguments both in favour and against.
13:30	Core Statistics (2 of 6) Finished 13:30 - 16:30 8 Mill Lane, Lecture Room 6 This laptop only course is intended to provide a strong foundation in practical statistics and data analysis using the R software environment. The underlying philosophy of the course is to treat statistics as a practical skill rather than as a theoretical subject and as such the course focuses on methods for addressing real-life issues in the biological sciences. There are three core goals for this course: Use R confidently for statistics and data analysis Be able to analyse datasets using standard statistical techniques Know which tests are and are not appropriate R is a free, software environment for statistical and data analysis, with many useful features that promote and facilitate reproducible research. In this course, we explore classical statistical analysis techniques starting with simple hypothesis testing and building up to generalised linear model analysis. The focus of the course is on practical implementation of these techniques and developing robust statistical analysis skills rather than on the underlying statistical theory After the course you should feel confident to be able to select and implement common statistical techniques using R and moreover know when, and when not, to apply these techniques.
13:45	iProcurement Part 1: Getting Started in iProcurement (2 of 2) Finished 13:45 - 15:45 Finance Division, Greenwich House, Ferrara Room (IT Training Room) This course is aimed at new iProcurement users and provides an introduction to using iProcurement for creating requisitions and purchase orders. iProcurement is also available as an online course for you to learn in your own time. Choose from our available online options if you are unable to make the classroom dates or prefer to study in this way.
14:30	Library lowdown: A brief introduction to the University Library Finished 14:30 - 15:00 Cambridge University Library: Entrance Hall A thirty minute introduction to the UL, aimed at those using our facilities and collections over the summer vacation period. An experienced member of staff will meet you in the Entrance Hall then lead you on a twenty minute tour of the UL,taking in the Locker Room, Open Bookstacks, Reading Room and West Room. Ten minutes are reserved after the tour for a question and answer session.
	Amicus - For new starters Finished 14:30 - 16:30 Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, Training Room Suite 2 This course covers the foundation knowledge required to get you started using Amicus. The following topics are covered in the course: An overview of Amicus and it's uses How to log in and navigate Viewing contact and prospect records How to update biographical details Writing letters and emails Managing contact preferences How to run reports