This course is delivered by the Graduate School in Partnership with the Library Research Support Team

Target audience

Early stage postgraduate research students

Early career researchers

Training aims: To develop your understanding of the implications of copyright when planning and conducting your research.

Process: This course will consist of presentation and small group participation.

Learning outcomes/objectives: By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand what copyright is and what rights a copyright owner has
• Identify what copyright stops you from doing
• Understand what is protected by copyright but also what copyright does not protect
• Develop knowledge around the length of copyright for different types of works
• Understand how you may legally use copyrighted works
• Be aware of other types of rights held within works
• Feel confident in how be a copyright angel

Overview: Understanding and properly handling issues around copyright is a legal obligation, and also goes to the heart of academic research ethics. In the contemporary research context the proliferation of digital ways of handling information makes an understanding of these issues increasingly important. We will explore what to consider in order to utilise all sorts of sources, published and unpublished,printed and online, in ways that safeguard your research from accusations of ethical or legal infringement.

Who should attend:This course is primarily intended for PhD students in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences. However members of research-active staff would also benefit.

Related Course

If you would like to explore copyright issues relevant to your research in more depth you may want to attend Copyright and publication for the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences

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.