This workshop you will learn:

• Why we need to search for theses
• How to locate theses and dissertations from universities in:
  • Hong Kong (CUHK & other local universities)
  • China & Taiwan
  • Other Countries

This workshop you will learn how to:

• Use the two multi-disciplinary databases, EBSCOHost and ProQuest, to discover research information in your research field
• Use the Advanced search features in the databases
• Register for a free account to enjoy the personalized features and services

This workshop you will learn how to:

• Use Scopus to discover quality research information in your research field
• Search with topic, keyword, author, author identifier, etc.
• Find the citation counts of research papers
• Set up alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

This workshop you will learn how to:

• Use Web of Science to discover quality research information in your research field
• Search with topic, keyword, author, author identifier, etc.
• Find the citation counts of research papers
• Set up alerts to receive the most updated information automatically by email

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

This workshop demonstrates how to use RefWorks, a web-based bibliography management tool, to produce bibliographies and in-text references in a variety of citation styles (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.).

Demonstrates how to use EndNote 20, a tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.

Topics covered:

• How to import references into EndNote Desktop from LibrarySearch, databases and organize them
• How to create an EndNote online account
• How to produce bibliographies and in-text citations in a variety of styles (e.g. MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) for your papers

Enquiries: Email to eref@cuhk.edu.hk

This workshop you will learn:

• Why we need to search for theses
• How to locate theses and dissertations from universities in:
  • Hong Kong (CUHK & other local universities)
  • China & Taiwan
  • Other Countries

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require)

This workshop will cover:

• The purpose and process of literature review
• The structure of a literature review
• Effective strategies for identifying relevant literature

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese (English will be used if users require)

Instructor: Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC

In this workshop, you will be introduced to steps for capturing your readers’ interest in your research topic, appreciating the significance of your research and understanding your research purpose. Specific language features which are commonly seen in thesis introductions will be discussed and practiced during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Yvonne Loong, Senior Lecturer, ILC

You will learn how to summarize the most important information in your research as well as describe the most significant contributions that your research has made in a concise, readable and impressive manner. Both the structure and language of the thesis abstracts will be discussed during the workshop.

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Felix Chao, Senior Lecturer, ILC

If the thesis is not written and formulated in the right way, its key ideas will not be able to be communicated effectively. In this workshop, you will study the good language features of a thesis written in Chinese and learn how to avoid the common errors. You will also be introduced to the skills and choice of words for stating your research and theorizing your arguments. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how to write definitions for key terms, the introduction and the conclusion.

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese supplemented with Putonghua

Instructor: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop covers the essential strategies that will help you plan and deliver presentations that effectively convey your message at a conference, research group meeting, or any other research-related events. You will discuss the key steps of preparing a presentation, including how to best present data using visual aids. You will practise effective presentation skills and also explore various ways of preparing for and dealing with questions.

Dr Hodgson was one of the pioneers in advocating technology-mediated learning in Hong Kong. She has been working in higher education since 1997, and served The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Auckland, University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and University of Wollongong College Hong Kong.

Her research areas included technology-enriched teaching and learning, assessment in higher education, and massive open online courses. Serving in the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research in CUHK between 2015 and 2019, she led a variety of institutional projects as a principal investigator and a co-principal investigator in UGC funded projects.

She was invited to present in universities in Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Russia and share exemplary practices with visitors from Germany, China and many tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. She presented papers in conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Information of her published work can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2186-4284

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop covers poster design essentials to help you effectively present your research, both visually and orally, at poster presentation sessions. Through discussions and the analysis of samples, you will learn how to select content for your poster and communicate it effectively using visual aids. You will also explore key strategies to deliver your poster presentation and deal with questions.

Dr Hodgson was one of the pioneers in advocating technology-mediated learning in Hong Kong. She has been working in higher education since 1997, and served The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Auckland, University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and University of Wollongong College Hong Kong.

Her research areas included technology-enriched teaching and learning, assessment in higher education, and massive open online courses. Serving in the Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research in CUHK between 2015 and 2019, she led a variety of institutional projects as a principal investigator and a co-principal investigator in UGC funded projects.

She was invited to present in universities in Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and Russia and share exemplary practices with visitors from Germany, China and many tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. She presented papers in conferences in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Information of her published work can be viewed at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2186-4284

Medium of Instruction: English

Instructor: Dr. Felix Chao, Senior Lecturer, ILC

In this workshop, you will learn about various types of oral presentations for academic purposes. You will discuss how to make the best use of the presentation format, and will examine the issues that you will need to pay attention to when presenting in Cantonese. You will also discuss the use of multimedia tools and how to deal with difficulties that you might experience during oral presentations.

Medium of Instruction: Cantonese supplemented with Putonghua

The workshop will cover:

• What is Open Access (OA) and its implication on research impact
• Highlights of CUHK OA Publishing Plan
• How to deposit full texts in the Academic Information Management System (AIMS) and related copyright issues
• Hints for publishing in OA journals

This workshop will introduce how to use ATLAS.ti to conduct qualitative data analysis. Participants will learn how to use ATLAS.ti to conduct:

• Data description, such as creating codes, coding, using memo, and writing comments on your data
• Data analysis and interpretation such as using the functions of hyperlink, network view, query tool, and co-occurrence to explore patterns

Speaker: Mr Domenic Rosati, Researcher and Software Developer, scite

This workshop will discuss how the new citation tool, scite can help you:

• Discover how articles are cited in the textual context of citation
• Analyze citations as supporting or contrasting evidence
• Evaluate groups of articles with custom dashboard
• Find out how articles are being cited while reading online

Speaker: Fabio Di Bello, Customer Success Manager, Wiley

Starting from 1 Jan 2023, the CUHK Library has entered an Open Access (OA) agreement with Wiley. CUHK corresponding authors can publish OA articles in Wiley and Hindawi journals free of charge. This online workshop provided by Wiley will cover:

• The benefits of OA publishing
• How you can benefit from the CUHK-Wiley OA agreement
• Wiley Author Services workflow for requesting article process charge waivers
• Tips for successful publishing

Speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson

This workshop will cover the key concepts on using NVivo for qualitative research. Starting with research questions, participants will gain ideas from making coding to reading abstracts to extending coding in journal articles as an illustration. Alternatively, researchers can make coding based on the conceptual framework that they are working on.

Through coding with categories/themes, you may learn to create queries to make initial visualization and analysis from a mix of interviews and survey results. You will learn the process of coding while building an understanding of how evidence can be gathered from the cycle to confirm the existing conceptual framework or build a new model for further analysis.

The demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows.

Remarks:

• Interested participants are required to have your own notebooks/laptops installed with the new NVivo before attending the workshop.
• For those using previous versions of NVivo, please note that the software interface of the new version is not the same as yours. (The trial version of NVivo only lasted for 14 days.)

Speaker: Dr. Paula Hodgson

With the latest version of NVivo, the advanced workshop will use research examples to illustrate features and functionalities to allow researchers to use an inductive or deductive approach to sources of data when analysing qualitative data. Coding allows us to formulate a framework or identify sources of evidence with respect to the approaches used. Categories emerge when individual coding is clustered into levels of sub-themes. To address research questions, researchers can further explore relationships between or within cases. The queries function in NVivo allows researchers to retrieve matrix results easily. In addition, NVivo also offers an alternative approach to textual script analysis that provides fresh scope from the sea of data such that this can provide an enlightened scope in addition to existing theories.

The demonstration will be conducted with the latest version in Windows.

Remarks:

• Participants must have experience in using NVivo. No demonstration on basic steps on uploading files to NVivo, coding and organization of coding in the workshop.
• Interested participants are advised to have your own notebooks/laptops with new NVivo installed before attending the workshop.
• For those using previous versions of NVivo, please note that the software interface of the new version is not the same as yours. (The trial version of NVivo only lasted for 14 days.)
• Participants are encouraged to use your own qualitative research project data to practise the steps including setting cases and comparison of cases in the session.
• Priority of registration will be given to staff and postgraduates who have already attended the workshop on “NVivo: A Powerful Tool to Address Your Research Questions”.

Research data management refers to the collection, analysis, archive, sharing, and reuse of research data. This workshop will introduce the principles in managing data, the practice of managing and depositing research data. It will also emphasize how sharing and reuse of research data influences your research impact.

This online workshop will introduce the concept of text analysis and a few examples of text analysis tools. An online text analysing tool – Voyant Tools (http://www.voyant-tools.org/) will be demonstrated to give handy results of textual materials, no matter they are in text file or online.

The CUHK Research Data Repository is the University’s research data repository. It aims to facilitate CUHK researchers to deposit, publish, and curate their research data outputs and for the worldwide to discover, access, and reuse the data. This workshop will introduce the features of the CUHK Research Data Repository and the effective methods for better data self-management, including publishing and sharing data in the Repository, and depositing data for peer review.

Gephi is a free software for visualisation and exploration of graphs and networks. This workshop will demonstrate the use of the software in turning your data into network graphs to discover hidden message.

Remarks:
Participants can install Gephi 0.9.7 (https://gephi.org/) and related plugins in their device.

In the big data era, data become a necessity for research. They are not only confined to an excel table, but also in many other forms. This workshop will introduce what data are, the roles of research data in the data life cycle, and what constitutes big data. It will also present the basic concepts of data science and data analytics.

Invited speaker: Dr. WONG Kwong Cheong, Senior Lecturer, Data Science and Policy Studies Programme, CUHK

Session 1

• Basics: variables, print(), f-strings, input()
• Data types: strings, numbers, Booleans
• Data structures: lists, tuples, dictionaries

Session 2

• Conditionals: if, if-else, if-elif-else statements
• Loops: for loops, while loops
• Functions

Session 3

• Manipulating tabular data using Pandas
• Data visualization using Matplotlib
• Web scraping using requests and Beautiful Soup

Remarks:
Participants are required to bring their own device with Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/) installed prior to the workshop for hands-on practice.

The use of GIS software is effective in showcasing spatial-temporal relationships in research analysis. This workshop will demonstrate the basic use of ArcGIS Pro and QGIS for spatial data display and perform simple spatial analysis with hands-on exercise.

Remarks:
Both ArcGIS Pro and QGIS is available for use at the workstations in DSLab. For home practice:

• ArcGIS Pro can be used in PC only and it provides 21-days of free trial for installation (https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-pro/trial)
• QGIS is a free software that both PCs and iMacs versions are available and users can install for use (https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html)