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Students have 24/7 access to a vast collection of audio books, e-books, movies, magazines, journals, newspapers and other digital resources through the POWER Library.

Students have 24/7 access to a vast collection of audio books, e-books, movies, magazines, journals, newspapers and other digital resources through the POWER Library.

Research projects are rarely linear, and managing them effectively requires more than task lists and occasional meetings. Join our interactive two-day online workshop, Agile Research Project Management, led by Dr Estefania Mancini from the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, designed for PhD students, postdoctoral and staff scientists, and professional researchers who want to bring more structure, transparency, and momentum to their work. Through short lectures, group exercises, and real research case studies, you’ll learn how to adapt Agile, Scrum, Kanban, OKRs, KPIs, mentoring routines, and feedback practices to academic research environments. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use immediately, including research backlog templates, Kanban-style boards, simple Scrum routines, dashboards for tracking goals and metrics, and a personal action plan for improving collaboration and communication. The seminar is delivered live via Zoom, with recordings, materials, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days after the workshop, making it easy to attend live or revisit the content asynchronously. An official Instats certificate of completion is provided. #Management #OrganizationStudies #OperationsResearch #Education #InformationScience #Communication #Notion #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

Political and social scientists are working with more text than ever, from parliamentary speeches and treaty preambles to government reports, news coverage, social media posts, and policy documents. This 3-day intensive online seminar shows PhD students and professional researchers how to use large language models to turn complex text into defensible, analysis-ready data without requiring prior machine learning or Python experience. Through live Google Colab demonstrations, participants will learn when to use encoder models such as BERT and DeBERTa, when generative models such as GPT or Claude are more appropriate, how to apply zero-shot classification, build and validate gold-standard datasets, evaluate performance with metrics such as accuracy, F1 scores, Cohen’s kappa, and confusion matrices, and create end-to-end pipelines for extracting and cleaning data from PDFs, websites, and other messy sources. The seminar is designed to help researchers strengthen methodological credibility, accelerate data collection and coding, and expand the range of research questions that can be tackled with text. All sessions are livestreamed via Zoom, with recordings, slides, code, data, and a monitored Q&A forum available for 30 days after the seminar, plus an official Instats certificate of completion. #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputationalSocialScience #PoliticalScience #ComputerScience #Statistics #DataScience #InformationScience #SocialTheory #Sociology #Claude #GoogleColab #HuggingFace #Jupyter #Python #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

Join our online seminar on AI-assisted systematic reviewing and meta-analytic workflow design with Moses Boudourides, designed for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, academic staff, and professional researchers working with large and complex bodies of literature. This practical, methodologically rigorous seminar shows how to use bibliographic APIs, machine learning, large language models, and structured human verification to build transparent, reproducible, and defensible review workflows without requiring programming experience. Participants will learn how to formulate review questions, construct and clean bibliographic corpora, apply AI-assisted screening, extract structured information from full-text PDFs, produce preliminary syntheses and visualizations, and document decisions in ways that support PRISMA-aligned reporting, publication, dissertations, grant applications, and peer review. The seminar is relevant across health and life sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and related fields, with attention to ethical use, algorithmic bias, hallucination risks, audit trails, and the continuing importance of expert human judgment. Livestream sessions take place via Zoom, recordings and materials remain available for 30 days, an online Q&A forum is monitored after the seminar, and participants receive an official Instats certificate of completion. disciplines #Education #Statistics #DataScience #InformationScience #ComputerScience #Nosoftwarerequired #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

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