Professional Networking for Researchers
Duration 0.5 days
Team Researcher Academy
Please note: this workshop is open to postgraduate research students and research staff in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences only

Overview

Being a confident and effective networker will set you apart from the crowd. You will become more visible and always create more opportunities than the average person. However, many researchers dread this vital activity or feel they could perform better.

During this 2 hour workshop, you will learn the basic principals of networking, including how to work a room and how to follow up potential opportunities.

Objectives

Researchers attending this workshop will:

  • Understand the purpose of networking and the skill sets involved
  • Improve their skills for building relationships
  • Learn how to prepare effectively for networking opportunities
  • Practice their networking skills to improve confidence
  • Know how to follow up new contacts

Booking Guidelines       

Latecomer policy
Researchers should plan to arrive prior to the advertised course start time. Except for exceptional reasons, there will be no admittance to a Researcher Academy or Faculty Training Programme (FTP) course 15 minutes after the advertised course start time.

Importance of booking commitment
When booking on to a Researcher Academy short course you are entering into a commitment to attend. If you find that you are no longer available to attend you MUST cancel your place (on the system if more than three days before the course or if at short notice by emailing pg-training@nottingham.ac.uk). This will ensure that your place can be offered to another researcher on the waiting list. Failure to cancel a place results in other researchers missing out on places through the waiting list process.


It is unacceptable for researchers to just not attend when booked onto a course. Researcher Academy maintains records of those who repeatedly do not attend courses they have booked. This may affect future eligibility to book onto further Researcher Academy courses and will affect considerations for Researcher Academy funded opportunities.

Course dates for 2017/18 will be published in early October 2017 with courses running from late November 2017 to June 2018.

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