Workshops
Join our range of workshops covering reproducibility, career development, and communicating your research
Browse the workshop titles below to find out more. Workshop booking is now open!
RMarkdown with Coding Club
R Markdown. R Markdown is a file format for making dynamic, reproducible documents with R. An R Markdown document is written in markdown (an easy-to-write plain text format) and contains chunks of embedded R code. Join this workshop to learn how to write R Markdown documents and what you can do with them.
Open Science with Dr Emily Sena
Why is open science important and why is it beneficial for laboratory researchers across the Neurosciences?
The use and implementation of open science approaches can improve the quality and transparency of laboratory research, for the benefit of human health.
If studies in model systems are used to inform future research decisions in the life sciences their design, conduct and reporting must be rigorous and their results disseminated in an unbiased and timely manner. Improving our approach to preclinical practice and evidence based clinical trial design may improve translation from bench to bedside.
Selecting the right antibodies and nanobodies fluorescent imaging with Dr Rebecca Northeast
Polyclonal, monoclonal, recombinants, cross-absorbed, nanobodies, isotype specific… Understanding the antibody lingo can be complicated! Designing an immunofluorescence experiments requires knowledge of the different reagents involved, and antibodies play a major role in the IF workflow. This talk from Proteintech’s antibody expert Dr Rebecca Northeast will enable you to navigate the minefield of different antibodies available to you, helping you select the best tools for the job!
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Registered Reports with Dr Flavia H. Santos
Registered Reports (RRs) involve a pre-study peer review of the research plan, which improves research rigour and reduces wasting resources. Over 190 journals now accept registered reports and there is a strong call for all fields to adopt pre-study peer review to avoid wasting time and resources on methods that cannot answer the proposed questions, as well as prevent practices that degrade the validity of the research.
The Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCIRR) is interested in getting the practice of RRs more accepted by authors and mainly to change scholarly publishing. This PCI RR workshop will present positive and negative aspects of conducting peer review before the data are collected and describe the registered report lifecycle at PCI RR.
Experimental Design with Dr Jonathan Cairns
Reproducibility issues are endemic through science, and poor experimental design has been highlighted as one of the sources. In contrast, a well-designed experiment better allows us to draw reliable and reproducible conclusions with confidence, and reduce the cost of failed experiments along the way. In this interactive workshop, through discussions and examples, we will explore how to design a robust experiment.
Science Communication with Lewis Hou
Join this interactive session to explore science communication and community engagement of neuroscience and wider biomedical sciences. Award-winning public engagement specialist Lewis Hou (Science Ceilidh) will share case-studies as well as practical tips and resources, reflections around supporting equity and inclusion and host a few creative tasks and discussions to get you thinking about what you can do to share your own research with others!
Leadership with Nadia Soliman
Former British Army officer and current PhD student, Nadia Soliman, will discuss the importance of leadership in academia and the lessons we can learn from the Army’s renowned leadership programmes. In this interactive workshop, Nadia will lead discussions on different leadership styles, and the lessons that academia can learn to better prepare academics for the rigours and challenges of academic life.
Getting your work published with Prof. Antoine Adamantidis
The ability to disseminate results from scientific investigations is an essential skill for scientists. With the advent of open access publishing and the extraordinary proliferation of new journal titles, platforms and formats, it has become very challenging to navigate the complex evolving word of scientific publishing. This workshop will provide advice on manuscript writing, submission process, pros and cons of various publishing models, and will attempt to deconstruct some of the emerging myths. We will discuss what happens to a paper once one presses the ‘submit’ button and how editors handle manuscripts before sending it out for review. We will discuss what is expected from reviewers, what we expect in a good paper, how journals expect data to be represented and statistical analyses reported, and issues around journal metrics. The workshop will be presented by the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Editors of the European Journal of Neuroscience, the official journal of FENS. Editors will be available for discussion about current papers, prospective papers and special issues.