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Portfolio Change Proposals
The Corporate and International and External Engagement Portfolio Change proposals will be issued tomorrow Tuesday 8 April 2025 with the town halls to take place on Thursday 10 April 2025.
Understanding predatory publishing
Identifying predatory publishers is important as publishing your work with them can damage your research impact and professional reputation. This workshop will help you to understand how to assess a journal or conference to identify whether it is legitimate, or might be predatory. Thursday 17 April, 11 am to 12 pm. Online. Register.
ADEPT check for integrity
If you are responsible for marking, this session will prepare you to detect the signs and signals that may indicate breaches of the Academic Integrity Policy. It will include both document and technical indicators for a number of types of cheating. Academic Integrity Officers will share learnings from their experience. Friday 11 April, 11.30 am to 1 pm. Online. Register.
Chi-square and correlation in R
In this hands-on training, we will traverse into the realm of inferential statistics in R, beginning with correlation and reliability. We will present a brief conceptual overview and the R procedures for computing reliability and correlation (Pearson’s r, Spearman’s Rho and Kendall’s tau) in real world datasets. Thursday 24 April, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
Data manipulation and visualisation in R
If you have a good knowledge of the basic concepts and techniques in R and want to level up, this workshop will teach you how to use popular packages to manipulate, explore and get insights from your data, and how to visualise the results. Wednesday 16 to Thursday 17 April, 1.30–4.30 pm. Online. Register.
Advance HE Fellowship support sessions
In the Fellowship support program, you will engage in three Zoom sessions which will guide you through the process of writing your application. Past participants in the program found the encouragement and support of peers to be very motivating. Use the Advance HE Fellowship Category Tool to determine the category of fellowship appropriate for you. Tuesday 29 April, 12–1 pm. Online. Register.
2025 Country Impact Snapshots
The 2025 Country Impact Snapshots for Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, UK, USA and Vietnam are now available. These snapshots provide an overview of the breadth of our collaboration in a particular country, including strategic insights and case studies.
Traversing t tests in R
This workshop aims to familiarise you with basic statistical concepts in R from reading in and manipulating data, checking assumptions, statistical tests and visualisations. This is not an advanced statistics course, but is instead designed to gently introduce statistical comparisons and hypothesis testing in R. Tuesday 29 April, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
Exploring ANOVAs in R
This workshop covers one and two-way Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) and their non-parametric counterparts in R. We will be using a real-world dataset to better understand the tests, what assumptions need to be checked and other associated concepts. Thursday 1 May, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
Share your practice with a global audience in Times Higher Education Campus+
Times Higher Education Campus+ provides a platform for academic and professional staff to disseminate insights and advice on key areas of higher education. For further information on topics, due dates, and how to submit, click here.
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