Friday, January 14, 2022
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
RCR Forum: Becoming an Upstander (GS 715.02)
The Race and Bias Conversations series kicks off spring 2022 with a highly interactive skill-building workshop. In order to help create a culture of respect and civility, we need to learn how to “step in” when we see harmful or disrespectful behaviors. Through presentation, discussion, and role plays, we’ll consider barriers to intervening, explore different ways we can intervene, and then share tips for moving forward.
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Ethics of Data Management and Sharing (GS717.01)
This workshop will explore the many different ethical issues that can arise with data management and sharing as well as strategies to address those issues.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: An Introduction to Reproducible Research Practices (GS714.01)
This workshop will introduce the concept of “reproducibility” and foundational strategies that can increase the reproducibility of your work particularly related to organization, documentation, literate coding techniques, version control, and archiving data and code for future access and use.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum/Research Town Hall: Disseminating Research to the Public (GS714.02)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST for a virtual town hall with Duke Communications experts and researchers (who are also very successful communicators) to discuss best practices and tips for successful and ethical research dissemination.
Monday, February 28, 2022
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Reproducibility Crisis: What Can We Do? (GS714.03)
Participants will review findings related to reproducibility in scientific research in small groups, and as a large group, discuss the challenges associated with enhancing reproducibility.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (GS 717.04)
Students, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, will acquire skills that will allow them to evaluate scholarly aspects of digital scholarly publications, appropriately cite those publications in their work, and understand how to credit the work of other contributors in their own digital works.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Data Management for Humanists (GS717.03)
This workshop will introduce data management practices for humanities scholars to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
8:30 am to 10:00 am
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Counteracting Perverse Incentives in Academia (GS714.04)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity for an interactive virtual event to learn about Perverse Incentives in Academia and how they influence the culture of scientific integrity.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Registered Reports - A Potential New Way to Publish Research (GS714.05)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST to engage in an interactive virtual event to learn about Registered Reports and their role in reducing the risk of error, minimizing questionable research practices and increasing the chances of being published.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
9:00 am to 11:00 am
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities Working with Twitter Data (GS 717.05)
In this in-person workshop, you'll learn about logistical, technical, legal, and ethical issues relevant to the use of data from social media platforms, particularly Twitter.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
RCR Forum: Moving from Mentee to Mentor (GS 716.03)
You are finishing your PhD or postdoctoral research and hoping to secure a faculty or industry position soon. You feel confident about your research, but you may have questions about building your lab personnel. How do you figure out whom to hire? How do you set up productive, working relationships with your mentees from the beginning? How can you give feedback? In this interactive session, discover how to successfully move from mentee to mentor.
Monday, March 21, 2022
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Replicability and Reproducibility in the Humanities (GS714.06)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST to discuss replicability and reproducibility. While this event has a Humanities focus, the event is open to all faculty and staff engaged in research. Interdisciplinary conversations are welcome.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Exploring and Assessing Research Impact (GS714.12)
In this workshop, we will give an introduction to scholarly impact to contextualize and define many measures of research use, from quantitative bibliometrics to qualitative altmetrics.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
RCR Forum: Exploring and Assessing Research Impact (GS714.13)
In this workshop, we will give an introduction to scholarly impact to contextualize and define many measures of research use, from quantitative bibliometrics to qualitative altmetrics.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
RCR Forum: Interactive Mentoring Workshop: Isolation and Wellbeing (GS716.01)
The workshop will use performances by professional actors and scenarios from The Graduate School’s mentoring toolkit to help participants nurture mentoring skills and learn how to deal with common challenges facing graduate students.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 11:00 am
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities Working with Twitter Data (GS 717.06)
In this Zoom workshop, you'll learn about logistical, technical, legal, and ethical issues relevant to the use of data from social media platforms, particularly Twitter.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Shaping Your Professional Identity Online (GS717.07)
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online. We will discuss topics such as what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Reproducibility Crisis: What Can We Do? (GS714.07)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST to review findings related to reproducibility in scientific research in small groups, and as a large group, discuss the challenges associated with enhancing reproducibility.
Thursday, March 31, 2022
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Making College Curricula More Inclusive (GS715.05)
Did you know that 46% of Duke undergraduate students identify as Asian-American, Hispanic/Latinx, African-American, or 2 or more races? Join this interactive Zoom workshop to learn strategies for designing more inclusive college courses!
Friday, April 8, 2022
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: The Crucial Role of Mentoring in Preserving Research Integrity (GS716.02)
Join us for an interactive research integrity roundtable hosted by ASIST to discuss the role of mentoring in preserving research integrity. Attendees will analyze a case study in breakout rooms and report back to the entire audience.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Lessons learned from Duke Misconduct Cases (GS714.08)
Join us for a workshop hosted by the Duke Office of Scientific Integrity to hear about the lessons learned from two Duke research misconduct cases: The Omics Case and the Pulmonary Case.
Thursday, April 14, 2022
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Reproducibility Crisis: What Can We Do? (GS714.09)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST to review findings related to reproducibility in scientific research and discuss the challenges associated with enhancing reproducibility.
Monday, April 18, 2022
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Questionable Research Practices in Academic Research (GS714.10)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity/ASIST to learn about Questionable Research Practices, what they are, and how can they affect academic research.
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum/Roundtable: Counteracting Perverse Incentives in Academia (GS714.11)
Join the Office of Scientific Integrity for an interactive virtual event to learn about perverse incentives in academia and how they influence the culture of scientific integrity.
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
RCR Forum: Celebrating Women in Science (GS715.04)
In this event we will highlight the challenges that women in science face with the goal to create awareness about those challenges and to find ways to empower and support women in science.
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.07)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the natural sciences and engineering.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Social Sciences (GS714.05)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the social sciences.
Friday, September 3, 2021
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Humanities (GS714.03)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices.
Thursday, September 9, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Ethics of Data Management and Sharing (GS717.03)
This workshop will explore the many different ethical issues that can arise with data management and sharing and strategies to address those issues.
Thursday, September 9, 2021
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
RCR Forum: Cultivating a Culture of Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students (GS716.02)
How can you establish supportive mentoring relationships? What is the role of good mentoring in your success as a graduate student? Join in the conversation in this interactive workshop. The goal of the session is to empower members of the graduate student community to become partners in the mentoring process, making it a deeply rooted part of the Duke experience. Registration for this workshop is now full.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Humanities (GS714.04)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the humanities.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Social Sciences (GS714.06)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the social sciences.
Friday, September 17, 2021
9:30 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.08)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the natural sciences and engineering.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Tools for Data Management (GS717.04)
This workshop will first introduce data management practices for researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum: Managing Your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP) (GS717.01)
Your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students can shape the rest of your career, and there are strategies and resources that can increase your chances of getting what you came for. During this program, participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them.
Friday, October 1, 2021
9:30 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.09)
This online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices in the natural sciences and engineering.
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities Working with Twitter Data (GS717.09)
In this Duke Libraries workshop, you'll learn about logistical, technical, legal, and ethical issues relevant to the use of data from social media platforms, particularly Twitter.
Friday, October 8, 2021
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
RCR Forum: Addressing Power Dynamics (GS716.03)
Whether or not we work remotely, power dynamics are part of an academic setting. In this safe space, we will discuss hierarchy in academia, explore how to navigate situations with power differentials, and learn how we can help promote a positive work culture. Waitlist now available.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Project Management for Academics (GS717.12)
This Duke Libraries workshop, appealing to graduate students across disciplines, provides a gentle introduction and overview to key principles and concepts in project management and how they can be applied effectively in academic work.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities Working with Twitter Data (GS717.10)
In this (Zoom only) Duke Libraries workshop, you'll learn about logistical, technical, legal, and ethical issues relevant to the use of data from social media platforms, particularly Twitter.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Introduction: Preparing Data for Publishing (GS717.05)
This Duke Libraries workshop, participants will learn strategies for how to prepare data for publishing by “curating” an example dataset and identifying common data issues
Thursday, October 14, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Project Management for Academics (GS717.13)
This Duke Libraries workshop, appealing to graduate students across disciplines, provides a gentle introduction and overview to key principles and concepts in project management and how they can be applied effectively in academic work.
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Project Management for Academics (GS717.16)
**Extra session added** This Duke Libraries workshop, appealing to graduate students across disciplines, provides a gentle introduction and overview to key principles and concepts in project management and how they can be applied effectively in academic work.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Project Management for Academics - Better Meetings (GS716.04)
This Duke Libraries (in-person) workshop offers a basic introduction to what makes meetings successful and how to help ensure meetings are necessary, efficient, and effective for all involved. We will also touch on how to recognize and address social dimensions of meetings (e.g., status differences, such as advisor/advisee relationships or different roles in a lab; emotional needs, such as inclusion and appreciation).
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities Working with Twitter Data (GS717.17)
In this Duke Libraries workshop, you'll learn about logistical, technical, legal, and ethical issues relevant to the use of data from social media platforms, particularly Twitter.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Project Management for Academics - Better Meetings (GS716.05)
This Duke Libraries (Zoom) workshop offers a basic introduction to what makes meetings successful and how to help ensure meetings are necessary, efficient, and effective for all involved. We will also touch on how to recognize and address social dimensions of meetings (e.g., status differences, such as advisor/advisee relationships or different roles in a lab; emotional needs, such as inclusion and appreciation).
Friday, November 12, 2021
11:45 am to 1:15 pm
RCR Forum: Community-Engaged Research (GS717.14)
The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) will share best practices for community engaged research.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Developing an Anti-Racist Graduate Curriculum for Scientists (GS715.03)
The Graduate School's 2021-2022 Race and Bias Conversations series continues with a discussion of anti-racist practices in graduate education, this time led by three current Duke PhD students. The event is open to all members of the Duke community, including alumni. In this event, you’ll hear about best practices for academic departments, including how graduate students in Duke’s Biology department developed a course called BIOLOGY 750S: Introduction to IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism) in Biology.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 28, 2021
RCR Course: Community-engaged and Community-partnered Research
This course will interrogate the meaning of “community-engaged research” and related terms, explore the ways in which they can be relevant and meaningful for both researchers and community entities, address the ethical considerations and logistical problems that often arise, and consider recommendations for enacting best practices. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 28, 2021
RCR Course: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
This course will introduce qualitative research methods, examining their uses – when they are appropriate, what unique strengths they offer, what challenges they can introduce, and what ethical considerations factor into crafting a qualitative protocol. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 28, 2021
RCR Course: Teaching with Digital Archives
Seminar participants will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by using archival materials, including best practices in using new digital storytelling technologies to present archivally-based research. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 28, 2021
RCR Course: Designing Digital Humanities Research: Formulation to Publication
With an emphasis on the humanities and interpretive social sciences, this short course will provide strategies for locating and acquiring digital or digitized artifacts; organizing research data; and using digital scholarship tools to manage personal archives, analyze data, and share research outcomes. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 28, 2021
RCR Course: Best Practices in Mentoring
The course will provide space for you to reflect on how mentoring has shaped your path thus far, what you can do to improve your current mentoring relationships (as a mentee), and how you can be a more effective mentor to others. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, May 17, 2021 to Friday, May 21, 2021
RCR Course: Leading Teams: Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership
The purpose of this short course is to explore research-based insights about how to make diverse teams perform well and how to lead with self-awareness. Register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, June 7, 2021 to Friday, June 18, 2021
RCR Course: Interdisciplinary Project Management
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of project management, from defining a project’s scope and creating a project plan to managing resources, roles, and workflow. Participants must register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, June 7, 2021 to Friday, June 18, 2021
RCR Course: Communicating Your Research To Non-Experts: Science and Research Communication
In this mini-course, we will present both the theory and practice of effective science communication in written, oral, visual and social media channels. Participants must register by Friday, May 14.
Monday, June 7, 2021 to Friday, June 11, 2021
RCR Course: Digital Humanities: Working with Text
The digital humanities are broad and diverse, but many of their foundational skills, technologies, and methods are centered on textual data. This course is about some of those methods for analyzing text. Participants must register by Friday, May 14.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Shaping Your Professional Identity Online (GS717.08)
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online. We will discuss topics such as what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
RCR Forum: Maintaining the Momentum Towards a More Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Duke (GS715.01)
What strategies and tools can we employ in order to achieve our goals relative to diversity, equity and inclusion in a context that is full of complexities?
Thursday, February 4, 2021
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum: Managing Your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (GS717.06)
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them.
Friday, February 5, 2021
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: The Mentoring Relationship: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (GS716.02)
Do you ever question your role in your lab? Do you hesitate to address issues with your mentor? Do you wonder how to be successful during this step in your career? In this interactive session, learn how to navigate the mentoring relationship, including how to promote open communication, work more productively with your mentor, and get the most out of your training experience.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Tools for Data Management (GS717.03)
This workshop will introduce data management practices for researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle. Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented using examples that span discipline
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Animal Welfare in a Research Environment (GS717.01)
This forum will review animal welfare through a brief overview of civilization’s perceptions of animals and conclude with the oversight requirements and Duke's position on animal use in research, testing, and teaching.
Friday, February 19, 2021
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Moving from Mentee to Mentor (GS 716.07)
You are finishing your PhD or postdoctoral research and hoping to secure a faculty or industry position soon!. You feel confident about your research, but you may have questions about building your lab personnel. How do you figure out whom to hire? How do you set up productive, working relationships with your mentees from the beginning? How can you give feedback? In this interactive session, discover how to successfully move from mentee to mentor.
Thursday, February 25, 2021
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Author Agreements for Publishing in Natural Sciences + Engineering (GS714.01)
The focus of this RCR forum is on increasing graduate student mastery of practical copyright knowledge as emerging scholarly researcher-authors in the Natural Sciences & Engineering.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Developing a Good Informed Consent Process (GS717.02)
In this forum you will learn how to develop fully comprehensible, participant-friendly consent protocols
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Ethics of Data Management and Sharing (GS717.04)
This workshop will explore the many different ethical issues that can arise with data management and sharing and strategies to address those issues to ensure that goals set by publishers and funders around reproducibility and reuse can be met.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Author Agreements for Publishing in Social Sciences + Humanities (GS714.02)
The focus of this RCR forum is on increasing graduate student mastery of practical copyright knowledge as emerging scholarly researcher-authors in the Social Sciences & Humanities.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Preparing Data for Publishing (GS717.05)
In this workshop participants will learn strategies for how to prepare data for publishing by “curating” an example dataset and identifying common data issues. Participants will also learn about the overall role of repositories within the data sharing landscape and apply strategies for locating and assessing repositories.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Ethics of Data Management and Sharing (GS717.07)
This workshop will explore the many different ethical issues that can arise with data management and sharing and strategies to address those issues to ensure that goals set by publishers and funders around reproducibility and reuse can be met.
Friday, August 14, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Humanities (GS714.11)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, using rare materials and manuscripts, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Friday, August 14, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.06)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Humanities (GS714.03)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, using rare materials and manuscripts, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.07)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Social Sciences (GS714.04)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.08)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Social Sciences (GS714.05)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective
Thursday, August 20, 2020
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.09)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Monday, August 24, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Library Toolbox for Responsible Research in the Sciences and Engineering (GS714.10)
This interactive online workshop will introduce you to a variety of library resources to support your research practices. We’ll cover copyright and fair use, citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, research data management, and issues in scholarly publishing from an author’s perspective.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
11:30 am to 1:00 pm
RCR Forum: Moving From Mentee to Mentor (GS716.02)
Congratulations! You are finishing your PhD or postdoctoral research and hoping to secure a faculty or industry position soon! You feel confident about your research, but you may have questions about building your lab personnel. How do you figure out whom to hire? How do you set up productive, working relationships with your mentees from the beginning? How can you give feedback? In this interactive session, discover how to successfully move from mentee to mentor.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Research Data Management 101 (GS717.03)
This workshop will introduce data management practices for researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
Thursday, September 24, 2020
10:00 am to 11:30 am
RCR Forum: Managing Your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (GS717.02)
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Research Data Management 201: How and where to publish your data (GS717.04)
In this workshop participants will learn strategies for how to prepare data for publishing by “curating” an example dataset and identifying common data issues.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
RCR Forum: Cultivating a Culture of Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students (GS716.03)
How can you establish supportive mentoring relationships? What is the role of good mentoring in your success as a graduate student? Join in the conversation in this interactive workshop.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Textual Recycling (GS714.12)
This forum addresses text recycling (AKA “self-plagiarism”) which refers to authors reusing material from their prior work in a new document.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
RCR Forum: Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (GS717.10)
This workshop will help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences evaluate digital scholarly publications, appropriately cite those publications in their work, and understand how to credit the work of other contributors in their own digital works.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Reproducible Research: Tips and Tools (GS717.05)
This workshop will introduce foundational data management strategies that can increase the reproducibility of your work.
Monday, October 19, 2020
9:00 am to 11:00 am
RCR Forum: Digital Humanities: Acquiring and Preparing a Corpus of Texts (GS717.08)
This hands-on digital humanities workshop focuses on the technical dimensions of corpus development.
Thursday, October 22, 2020
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
RCR Forum: Bring a Folding Chair…or Give Up a Seat: The Importance of Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Inclusion (GS715.03)
This talk with Dr. Nicki Washington blends personal narratives with strategies for creating, fostering, and expecting more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus environments and beyond.
Friday, October 23, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Open Educational Resources in the Humanities (GS717.11)
This workshop will focus on key challenges in finding and using Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Humanities.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Copyright and Fair Use in the Humanities and Social Sciences (GS714.13)
This workshop, for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to teaching, research and publishing.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
RCR Forum: Community-Partnered and Community-Engaged Research (GS717.13)
This session will focus on what these and related concepts mean, the ways in which they can be relevant and meaningful for both researchers and community entities, core challenges encountered, and recommendations for enacting these principles in practice.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: Copyright and Fair Use in Engineering and Natural Sciences (GS714.14)
This workshop, for graduate students in engineering and natural sciences, will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to teaching, research and publishing.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
RCR Forum: An Introduction to Human Subjects Review (GS717.09)
This forum will introduce you to the Duke Main Campus IRB and will be of interest to students in any graduate program who expect to be conducting social/ behavioral science research involving human subjects.
Friday, June 12, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: The Empowered Author (GS712.04)
This is a workshop about the process of being an author, about getting published and getting the rewards of being published, while sharing the benefits of your research with as broad an audience as possible.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Shaping Your Professional Identity Online (GS712.05)
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online. We will discuss topics such as what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
RCR Forum: Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (GS 712.06)
This workshop will help graduate students across the disciplines, but primarily in the humanities and social sciences, evaluate digital scholarly publications on the web.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
RCR Forum: Communicating Research and Health Policy during the Pandemic (GS712.08)
This virtual town hall is sponsored by the Duke Office of Scientific Integrity.
Monday, July 13, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (offered again!) (GS712.09)
This workshop will help graduate students across the disciplines, but primarily in the humanities and social sciences, evaluate digital scholarly publications on the web.
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
RCR Forum: Shaping Your Professional Identity Online (offered again!) (GS712.07)
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online. We will discuss topics such as what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy.
Handling Difficult Conversations (GS712.08)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Difficult conversations are a part of our professional careers, so to be successful in them we must learn, practice and hone the skills necessary for this type of work. As with many aspects of life, the more you practice the more confident you will be in handling difficult conversations. In this workshop participants will learn how to actively bring their concerns to the table with the goal of working toward the best win-win scenario for everyone. Time will be spent practicing how to communicate with others in a respectful and professional manner.
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Research Data Management 101 for Social Scientists (GS712.02)
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Social scientists work with lots of data in their research, be it qualitative or quantitative, primary or secondary. This workshop will introduce data management practices for social scientists to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
More information & registration.
Mentoring Diverse Groups: Bringing Out the Best in All (GS712.14)
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
This workshop is for anyone in a mentoring role! It will focus on skills and topics such as active listening, providing constructive feedback, and maximizing equity and inclusion.
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Deconstructing Digital Scholarship (GS712.07)
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
10:00am - 12:00pm
This workshop will help graduate students across the disciplines, but primarily in the humanities and social sciences, evaluate digital scholarly publications on the web. Students will acquire skills that will allow them to evaluate scholarly aspects of digital scholarly publications, appropriately cite those publications in their work, and understand how to credit the work of other contributors in their own digital works.
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Research Data Management 101 for Humanists (GS712.03)
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
10:00am - 12:00pm
Humanists work with various media, content and materials (sources) as part of their research. These sources can be considered data. This workshop will introduce data management practices for humanities scholars to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
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Enhancing Leadership Behaviors for Efficiency & Effectiveness in the Lab (GS712.11)
February 24, 2020
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
People become academic scientists based on their technical excellence, research productivity, and knowledge of the field. Yet there is almost no preparation for a research career that draws upon scientific studies of what makes effective leadership in getting the work done. This session will focus on specific leader behaviors that have been found to have predictable effects on team members.
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Managing your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP) (GS711.01)
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
9:30 am - 11:30 am
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them.
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Copyright and the Scholarly Publishing Cartel (GS711.02)
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This session covers the law and business of scholarly publishing, addressing how to navigate legal and business issues that arise from initial submission of your work to tracking the impact of your book or article. We will cover how copyright, fair use and licensing impact both your writing and your ability to use other people’s copyrighted works. We’ll discuss publishing contracts, online dissemination models, and tools that you can use to maximize the impact of your research.
More information & registration.
Research Data Management 101 for Scientists (GS712.04)
Monday, March 2, 2020
1:30pm - 3:30pm
Scientists work with lots of data both big and small, and in many formats and systems. This workshop will introduce data management practices for scientists to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
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Promoting Equity through Allyship: Exploring Bias Literacy & Power Mapping (GS712.10)
March 3, 2020
8:30 – 10:00 am
Through intersectional case vignettes, we will develop skills in Power Mapping to examine power and privilege at the interpersonal and institutional level & apply best practices in Allyship using the Step-Up Step-Back Model.
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Developing a Good Informed Consent Process (GS711.03)
Thurday, March 5, 2020
3:00pm - 5:00pm
In this forum you will work with IRB staff to learn how to develop fully comprehensible, participant-friendly consent protocols. The workshop includes interactive exercises where you will assess consent form language to ensure that it is appropriate for the target study population and addresses data sharing in a responsible way.
More information & registration.
Beginning March 12, all Spring 2020 RCR forums are being held online at the time originally scheduled. Individual forum facilitators will follow up with registered students to provide details about accessing the forum. We strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with Zoom before joining the online forum; we won't be able to provide tech support during the event.
Music Research (GS712.13) Online
Being rescheduled. Contact Laura Williams <laura.williams@duke.edu>.
This forum is designed to foster core knowledge of scholarly approaches, discourse, and resources in music and to reinforce responsible conduct of research within this field by familiarizing graduate students with the essential categories of music research tools and best practices for finding, using, and critically evaluating music resources.
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Export Controls: What Gradaute Students Need to Know (GS711.04) Online
Thurday, March 26, 2020
3:00pm - 5:00pm
This session will be an overview of complex laws and regulations on export controls and how they apply to university research. Physical exports, working with foreign nationals, and international travel will be explored. Students will have an opportunity to review the export control list to determine if their research may be export controlled. Researchers who anticipate work with U.S. military agencies (DOD, etc.) are highly encouraged to attend this session.
More information & registration.
Research Reproducibility: Tips and Tools (GS712.06) Online
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
1:30pm - 3:30pm
In response to a growing focus on the importance of reproducibility, replication, and transparency in the research endeavor, scholars are adapting their practices and learning new skills and tools. This workshop will introduce some foundational strategies that can increase the reproducibility of your work.
More information & registration.
The Empowered Author (GS712.15) Online
Monday, April 6, 2020
1:00pm - 3:00pm
This is a workshop about the process of being an author, about getting published and getting the rewards of being published, while sharing the benefits of your research with as broad an audience as possible.
More information & registration.
Research Data Management 201: How and where to publish your data (GS712.05) Online
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Building upon the foundational concepts covered in the Data Management 101 courses offered this year, this workshop will provide hands-on experience where participants will learn strategies for how to prepare data for publishing by “curating” an example dataset and identifying common data issues.
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Training Bystanders to Respond Effectively to Harassment Incidents (GS712.09)
*Note* You must be enrolled in Summer term to receive RCR credit for this event, and it will not count towards a Spring 2020 graduation.
May 19, 2020
8:30 am – 11:30 am
We know from the literature that harassment and bias is a persistent and pervasive problem in academic medicine and science (Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - National Academies 2018). Data from the recent survey of Duke faculty and staff reinforces the importance of addressing this issue locally. Bystander training is a powerful method of combatting incidents of harassment, bias and incivility.
(event postponed)
Scholarly Publishing in East Asian Studies
Thursday, September 12, 2019
1:40 pm to 4:10 pm
The event will focus on scholarly publishing in the US and East Asia, addressing the structure of book publishing in each country as well as journal publishing, focusing on questions such as evaluating journals, peer review, citations and open access. It will look at open access at Duke and the Duke repository as well as open access in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
More information and registration.
Gender Differences in Academia: Challenges and Choices along Career Paths in Higher Education
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
9:00 am to 11:00 am
This presentation explores some of the possible situations women and men may encounter (as a faculty member or some other type of position within academia) as well as provide information on current research findings related to the gender divide in college and university settings.
More information and registration.
Research Data Management 101 + Disciplinary Discussions
Tuesday September 17, 2019
1:00 pm to 3:00pm
The first hour of this workshop will introduce good digital data management practices and how they can be practically applied throughout the research lifecycle. The second hour of this workshop will allow participants to break up into broad disciplinary groups (sciences and engineering, social sciences, and humanities) for a facilitated discussion on how to specifically apply good data management in your field. Note: If you register for this workshop, you should not attend Data Management 101 + Tool Demonstrations.
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An Introduction to Human Subjects Review
Thursday, September 26, 2019
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This forum will introduce you to the Duke Main Campus IRB, otherwise known as the Institutional Review Board for Protecting Human Subjects in Non-Medical Research.
More information and registration.
Textual Recycling
Tuesday, Oct 1, 2019
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This forum addresses text recycling (AKA “self-plagiarism”) which refers to authors reusing material from their prior work in a new document.
More information and registration.
Introduction to XML, TEI, and Structured Markup
Thursday, October 3, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
This session introduces the concept of semantic markup and distinguishes between markup and automated textual analysis. Note the follow-on session on October 10.
More information and registration.
Shaping Your Professional Identity Online
Monday, October 7, 2019
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online, including what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy
More information and registration.
Project Management for Academics
Monday, October 7, 2019
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This workshop will present basic principles for managing goals, time, and people, including how these can be applied to work with project teams.
More information and registration.
Project Management for Academics (repeat offering due to high demand)
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This workshop will present basic principles for managing goals, time, and people, including how these can be applied to work with project teams.
More information and registration.
Copyright in Online Environments and International Collaborations
Monday, October 7
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
International collaboration in research, teaching, and publishing requires gathering and sharing archival materials, digital primary sources, and academic publications. What copyright laws apply when sharing materials in learning management systems, digital publishing projects, open educational resources, or academic publications, including the thesis and dissertation? How can scholars be confident in Fair Use analysis? Come learn from a wide-ranging consideration of copyright issues in international online environments.
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The Empowered Author: Evaluating Publishers, Negotiating Contracts, and Navigating the Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This is a workshop about the process of being an author, about getting published and getting the rewards of being published, while sharing the benefits of your research with as broad an audience as possible.
More information and registration.
Digital Text Analysis Methods for Humanities Scholarship
Tuesday, October 8
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
This session provides an overview of text analysis methods that are useful in humanities scholarship. Participants will learn about the kinds of textual analysis that are possible using various techniques and concepts, including collocates, measures of distinctiveness and similarity (e.g., term frequency-inverse document frequency), collocates, topic modeling, and document classification. Using Voyant Tools for hands-on exploration, participants will learn how to apply these techniques to sample corpora and to their own research questions.
More information and registration
Finding a Home for Your Data: An Introduction to Archives and Repositories
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of repositories, including Duke’s own Research Data Repository, and the overall role of repositories within the data sharing landscape.
More information and registration.
Digital Publishing 101: The Audiences of Digital Publishing
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
We’ll learn about some of the ways successful projects connect with their users and promote their work to potential audiences and how you can incorporate these into your own publication planning.
More information and registration.
Ethics and Visualization
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This session introduces participants to core ideas in the ethics of visualization – designing to avoid distortion, designing ethically for broad user communities, developing empathy for people represented within the data, and using reproducibility to increase the transparency of design.
More information and registration.
Applications of TEI for Research
Thursday, October 10, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Building on the content of the previous workshop (on October 3), this session takes an in-depth look at the use of TEI as a research tool.
More information and registration.
Acquiring and Preparing a Corpus of Texts
Thursday, October 17, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
This session focuses on the technical dimensions of corpus development. We will explore:
- the risks and benefits of optical character recognition (OCR)
- file formatting and naming issues
- organization strategies for large corpora
- problems of data cleaning and preparation
- common sources for textual research data
- common legal concerns around the use of textual corpora.
More information and registration.
Analyzing Documents in Context
Thursday, October 24, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
This session focuses on the kinds of textual analysis that are possible using concordances,
document-term matrices, measures of distinctiveness and similarity, and other tools of style or
content analysis based on the characteristics of tokens (words) within documents relative to
general characteristics of a corpus.
More information and registration.
Analyzing Text with Python (1/2)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
We'll use some of Python’s capabilities in this workshop as we discover how to code our own tools for analyzing individual texts and textual corpora.
More information and registration.
Research Data Management 101 + Tool Demonstrations
Thursday October 31, 2019
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
The first hour of this workshop will introduce good digital data management practices and how they can be practically applied throughout the research lifecycle. The second hour of this workshop will offer a mini “tour” of research data management tools including GitHub, LabArchives, and Tropy. Participants will be able to attend two of these demonstrations in the time allotted. Laptops recommended. Note: If you register for this workshop, you should not attend Data Management 101 + Discipline Discussions.
More information and registration.
Analyzing Text with Python (2/2)
Thursday, November 7, 2019
9:00 am – 11:00 am
Continuing where the previous workshop left off, this session is focused on the Python Natural
Language Toolkit (NLTK).
More information and registration.
Topic Modeling for Humanities Research
Thursday, November 14, 2019
9:00 am to 11:00 am
Participants in this session will acquire a general understanding of topic modeling, the automated analysis technique often referred to as "text mining."
More information and registration.
Research Data Management 201: Preparing Your Data for Publishing
Thursday November 14, 2019
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Building upon the foundational concepts covered in the Data Management 101 courses offered this year, this workshop will provide hands-on experience where participants will learn strategies for “curating” a dataset for formal sharing. Participants will identify common data issues, determine recommendations to optimize the dataset, generate metadata and documentation, and consider how these practices might be applied to their own research. Participants are not required to have taken a Data Management 101 course (although it is recommended). Please bring a laptop to participate fully in the workshop.
More information and registration.
Data Management 101 for Social Scientists
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2019
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for social scientists to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
More information and registration.
Open Science: General Principles and Practices
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2019
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
This workshop will present an overview of the Open Science movement and the general principles of the movement including the importance of access to data, publications, and the underlying research process as well as new initiatives within scholarly communications that support “openness” of the research endeavor such as preprints, registered reports, persistent identifiers, and community engagement platforms
More information and registration.
Animal Welfare in a Research Environment: Why do I Care?
Thursday, Feb 7, 2019
3:00pm to 5:00pm
This forum will review animal welfare through a brief overview of civilization’s perceptions of animals and conclude with Dukes position on animal use in research, testing, and teaching.
More information and registration.
Copyright and the Scholarly Publishing Cartel
Tuesday, Feb 12, 2019
3:00pm - 5:00pm
This session covers the law and business of scholarly publishing, addressing how to navigate legal and business issues that arise from initial submission of your work to tracking the impact of your book or article. We will cover how copyright, fair use and licensing impact both your writing and your ability to use other people’s copyrighted works. We’ll discuss publishing contracts, online dissemination models, and tools that you can use to maximize the impact of your research.
More information and registration.
Data Management 101 for Humanists
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for humanities researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
More information and registration.
Managing Sensitive Data
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
In this workshop we will examine common sensitive data types, how Duke’s IRB and Information Technology Security Office (ITSO) expects you to protect that data throughout your project’s lifecycle and the resources available to you for sensitive data storage and analysis, data de-identification, and data archiving and sharing.
More information and registration.
Textual Recycling
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019
3:00pm - 5:00pm
This forum addresses text recycling (AKA “self-plagiarism”) which refers to writers reusing material from their own previously prior work, either verbatim or in a slightly altered form, in a “new” publication. The session will include discussion of ethical and practical issues, presentation of recent findings about author and editor beliefs and practices, and interactive conversation of hypothetical cases.
More information and registration.
Data Management 101 for Scientists
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented through a sciences lens using discipline-based, concrete examples.
More information and registration.
The empowered author: evaluating publishers, negotiating contracts, and navigating the scholarly publishing ecosystem
Friday, March 22, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
This is a workshop about the process of being an author, about getting published and getting the rewards of being published, while sharing the benefits of your research with as broad an audience as possible.
More information and registration.
Cultivating a Culture of Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
How can you establish supportive mentoring relationships? What is the role of good mentoring in your success as a graduate student? Join in the conversation in this interactive workshop. The goal of the session is to empower members of the graduate student community to become partners in the mentoring process, making it a deeply rooted part of the Duke experience.
More information and registration.
Data Management 201: Preparing Data for Publishing
Tuesday, Apr 2, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Building upon the foundational concepts covered in the data management 101 courses offered this year, this workshop will provide hands-on experience where participants will learn strategies for “curating” a dataset for formal sharing. Participants will identify common data issues, determine recommendations to optimize the dataset, generate metadata and documentation, and consider how these practices might be applied to their own research.
More information and registration.
Building Blocks for Reproducibility: Concepts and Practices
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
This workshop will introduce the concepts, practices and tools that will help increase the reproducibility of your work.
More information and registration.
Copyright and the Scholarly Publishing Cartel
Thursday, September 13, 2018
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This session covers the law and business of scholarly publishing, addressing how to navigate legal and business issues that arise from initial submission of your work to tracking the impact of your book or article.
More information & registration.
Data Management 101 for Social Scientists
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for social scientists to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
More information and registration.
Mentoring Matinée: An Interactive Theater Performance
Thursday, September 27, 2018
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Through the performance of realistic scenarios in which characters experience a series of conflicts, Theater Delta will tackle common issues that can undermine successful mentor/mentee relationships.
More information and registration
Data Management 101 for Humanists
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
1:00pm - 3:00pm
This workshop will introduce data management practices for humanities researchers to consider and apply throughout the research lifecycle.
More information and registration.
Managing Your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Thursday, October 4, 2018
9:30 am to 11:30 am
During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives using an IDP, along with a plan for executing them.
More information and registration.
Ethics and Visualization
Monday, October 8, 2018
10:00-12:00
This session introduces participants to core ideas in the ethics of visualization - designing to avoid distortion, designing ethically for broad user communities, developing empathy for people represented within the data, and using reproducibility to increase the transparency of design. This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
Digital Publishing: Multimodal Storytelling
Monday, October 8, 2018
10:00-12:00
This session will provide an overview of common options for publishing sound and video on the Web, focusing on the benefits of various platforms, licensing and rights issues, accessibility issues to consider, and methods of integrating multiple media into research publications. This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
Research Impact Concepts and Tools
Monday, October 8, 2018
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This workshop is designed to help you, as a graduate student, better understand how research impact is currently measured and outline Duke’s resources for assessing impact, from Web of Science to Altmetric Explorer. The workshop will include hands-on exploration of research impact tools, so please bring your laptop to participate.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
Digital Publishing: Reaching and Engaging Audiences
Monday, October 8, 2018
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Who are the intended users of your digital publication? How can you reach new audiences and keep your existing audiences actively engaged? We'll learn about some of the ways successful projects connect with their users and promote their work to potential audiences. Participants will leave this session with a solid grounding in the ethical and logistical dimensions of engaging audiences and incorporating audience involvement into their own publication practices.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
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Image Copyright and Acquisition for Scholars
Monday, October 8, 2018
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Visual literacy standards and the law are necessary for nearly every humanities and social-sciences project. This workshop addresses two aspects of image use in scholarship: 1) techniques in obtaining scholarly images (what a scholarly image is, determining original resolution, searching free- and free-to-use images for scholarly research, and when you should pay), adn 2) a brief course on image copyright and intellectual property--both the scholar’s and the user’s rights and how each can be asserted. Relevant case history examples will be cited to back up a scholar’s use of images. This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
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Retractions in Science and Social Science Literature
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This workshop will discuss the burgeoning phenomena of retractions in the scientific and social scientific literature. No one plans to have an article retracted, so we will cover what to do to avoid or address a retraction or expression of concern and what the existing editorial literature can offer if you do find yourself dealing with a retraction as an author or one of a group of authors.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
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Acquiring and Preparing a Corpus of Texts
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This session focuses on the technical dimensions of corpus development. Using an array of printed matter -- from digital facsimiles of incunabula to modern letterpress/offset books -- we will explore the risks and benefits of optical character recognition (OCR); file formatting and naming issues; organization strategies for large corpora; and problems of data cleaning and preparation. While this session will not examine legal issues in detail, we will discuss some common legal concerns around the use of textual corpora.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
Topic Modeling and Document Classification With MALLET
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Participants in this session will acquire a general understanding of topic modeling, the automated analysis technique often referred to as "text mining." In addition to topic modeling, this session introduces the concepts of sequence labeling and automated document classification, both of which are also possible with MALLET.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
Shaping Your Professional Identity Online
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself online. We will discuss topics such as what to share and how to share, the ethical issues involved, and how to maintain the right balance of privacy. We will also examine some steps you can take, such as creating a profile on Google Scholar, creating a Google alert for your name, creating an ORCID ID, interacting professionally on Twitter, and creating an online portfolio.This workshop is part of Library RCR Days.
More information & registration.
iThenticate and
Thursday, October 18, 2018
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Graduate Academic Affairs and the Provost’s Office invite graduate students to learn about two technical resources with new relevance to students in The Graduate School.
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Conflicts of Interest and How They Can Affect Graduate Students & Postdocs
Thursday, October 25, 2018
3:00pm - 5:00pm
This goal of this RCR forum will be to enable you to identify the types of issues and concerns around working with faculty members in startups, consulting and other research-related projects.
More information and registration.
Data Management 101 for Scientists
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Good data management practices pertaining to planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation will be presented through a sciences lens using discipline-based, concrete examples.
More information and registration.
An Introduction to Human Subjects Review
Thursday, November 1, 2018
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This forum will introduce you to the Duke Main Campus IRB, otherwise known as the Institutional Review Board for Protecting Human Subjects in Non-Medical Research, and will be of interest to students in any graduate program who expect to be conducting social/ behavioral science research involving human subjects.
More information and registration.
Finding a Home for Your Data: An Introduction to Archives & Repositories
Thursday, November 8, 2018
1:00pm - 3:00pm
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of repositories and the overall role of repositories within the data sharing landscape.
More information and registration.
The Graduate School
Copyright and Fair Use in Research and Teaching
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
3:00 to 5:00
This forum will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to research and teaching.
More information & registration.
Data Management Fundamentals
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
1:00 - 3:00
This workshop introduces data management practices to consider throughout the research lifecycle: planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation.
More information & registration.
Reproducibility: Data Management, Git, & RStudio
Monday, January 29, 2018
1:00 to 3:00
This workshop will introduce some general data management strategies that can increase the reproducibility of your work.
More information & registration.
Applications of TEI for Research
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
9:00 to 11:00
This session takes an in-depth look at the use of TEI as a research tool. We'll look in detail at sample projects and explore common technologies for searching and disseminating TEI.
More registration & information.
Export Controls: What Graduate Students Need to Know
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
4:30 to 6:30
This session will be an overview of complex laws and regulations on export controls and how they apply to university research.
More information & registration.
Acquiring and Preparing a Corpus of Texts
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
9:00 to 11:00
This session focuses on the technical dimensions of corpus development, including discussion of some common legal concerns around the use of textual corpora.
More information & registration.
Managing your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018
9:30 to 11:30
During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them.
More information & registration.
Topic Modeling, Document Classification, and Sequence Tagging with MALLET
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
9:00 to 11:00
Participants in this session will acquire a general understanding of topic modeling, the automated analysis technique often referred to as "text mining."
More information & registration.
Developing a Good Informed Consent Process
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
2:00 to 4:00
In this forum you will learn how to develop fully comprehensible, participant-friendly consent protocols.
More information & registration.
Publishing Data with Research and Other Strategies for Increasing Your Impact
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
2:00 to 4:00
In this workshop, we will look at 1) strategies to effectively publish data; 2) journal policies related to data sharing; 3) new types of publications such as data articles and registered reports; and 4) strategies for increasing and measuring the impact of your research. There will also be a hands-on portion of the workshop where participants will create their own ORCID identifier.
More information & registration.
Managing Sensitive Data
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
1:00 to 3:00
In this workshop we will examine common sensitive data types, how Duke’s IRB and Information Technology Security Office (ITSO) expects you to protect that data throughout your project’s lifecycle and the resources available to you for sensitive data storage and analysis, data de-identification, and data archiving and sharing.
More information & registration.
Data Management Fundamentals
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
1:00 - 3:00
This workshop introduces data management practices to consider throughout the research lifecycle: planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation.
More information & registration.
Intro to Scholarly Publishing
Thursday, September 14
3:00 – 5:00
This session covers the law and business of scholarly publishing, addressing how to navigate legal and business issues that arise from initial submission of your work to tracking the impact of your book or article.
More information & registration.
Cultivating a Culture of Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students
Tuesday, September 12
3:00 – 5:00
The goal of the session is to empower members of the graduate student community to become partners in the mentoring process, making it a deeply rooted part of the Duke experience.
More information & registration.
Reproducibility: Data Management, Git, & RStudio
Monday, September 18
1:30 - 3:30
This workshop will introduce some general data management strategies that can increase the reproducibility of your work.
More information & registration.
An Introduction to Human Subjects Review
Thursday, September 28
3:00 – 5:00
This forum will introduce you to the Duke Main Campus IRB, otherwise known as the Institutional Review Board.
More information & registration.
Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research
Tuesday, October 3
9:00 - 12:00
The workshop will be hands-on. Using example studies, attendees will actively participate in creating a reproducible project from start to finish.
More information & registration.
Finding a Home for Your Data: An Introduction to Archives & Repositories
Wednesday, October 18
2:00 - 4:00
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of repositories and the overall role of repositories within the data sharing landscape.
More information & registration.
Gender Differences in Academia:
Challenges and Choices along Career Paths in Higher Education
Thursday, October 19
3:00 – 5:00
This presentation explores some of the possible situations women and men may encounter as well as provide information on current research findings related to the gender divide in college and university settings.
More information & registration.
Research Collaboration Strategies & Tools
Tuesday, November 7
1:00 - 3:00
This workshop will examine considerations for collaborative research and present some strategies for developing and documenting workflows as well as methods for storing and sharing data.
More information & registration.
Copyright 101 for Scholars
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
3:00 to 5:00
This forum will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to research and teaching. More information & registration.
Shaping your Professional Identity Online
Thursday, February 2, 2017
2:00 to 4:00
This workshop is designed to help you consider the best ways to navigate how you want to present yourself as a scholar online. More information & registration.
Data Management Fundamentals
Monday, February 6, 2017
1:30 to 3:00
This workshop introduces data management practices to consider throughout the research lifecycle: planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation. The workshop will focus on general good practices for data management that span disciplines. Sponsored by Perkins Library. This forum is full. It is being offered again on March 8, 2017. See link below.
Data Management and Reproducibility: Enabling Open and Transparent Research through Data Sharing
Monday, February 20, 2017
1:30 to 3:00
Making data available within repositories is an essential aspect of supporting open and transparent research. Today as science is tackling the so-called “reproducibility crisis”, researchers are increasingly faced with journal requirements to share their data for the purposes of verification. This workshop will explore the concept of reproducibility, the growth in journal data sharing policies, and present strategies to help researchers share data that meet standards for reproducibility and reuse. Sponsored by Perkins Library. More information & registration.
What Makes a Good Informed Consent Process?
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
3:00 to 5:00
In this forum, staff from the Institutional Review Board for Protecting Human Subjects in Non-Medical Research (IRB) will discuss consent protocols and waivers, and will be of interest to students in any graduate program who expect to be conducting social/ behavioral science research involving human subjects. In the workshop, you will engage in and exercises for developing comprehensible, participant-friendly processes for ensuring fully-informed human research subjects. More information & registration.
Data Management Fundamentals (encore RCR forum brought back by popular demand)
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
1:00 to 2:30
This workshop introduces data management practices to consider throughout the research lifecycle: planning, organization, documentation, storage and backup, sharing, citation, and preservation. The workshop will focus on general good practices for data management that span disciplines. Sponsored by Perkins Library. More information & registration.
Consent, Data Sharing and Data Reuse
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
1:00 to 2:30
Research involving humans requires multiple approaches to protect participants’ anonymity. If you are planning to (or are required to) share your human subjects’ data outside of your original project team, or plan to re-use data you collected previously for a new research project, you will need to design a consent form/consent protocol that properly addresses these situations. Sponsored by Perkins Library. More information & registration.
Data Management Tools: The Dataverse Project
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
1:00 to 2:30
The Dataverse is an open source repository software platform for sharing, preserving, citing, discovering, exploring, and analyzing research data. This workshop will provide an overview of the Dataverse Project and demonstrate how the Dataverse can be used to discover research data and manage and share data in compliance with best practices. Sponsored by Perkins Library. More information & registration.
Retractions in the Scientific and Social Scientific Literature
Monday, April 3, 2017
3:00 - 4:30
This workshop will discuss the burgeoning phenomena of retractions in the scientific and social scientific literature. No one plans to have an article retracted, so we will cover what to do to avoid a retraction and language the existing editorial literature can offer if you do find yourself dealing with a retraction as an author or one of a group of authors. We will look at retraction notices, notices of withdrawal, errata, statements of editorial concern and other forms of announcement and notification used in journals. Participants will also learn how to find actual notices of retraction, where in databases and journals these statements may reside and how to decipher some of the coded language around articles that are in the process of being withdrawn. More information & registration.
Managing your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
9:30-11:30am
During this forum, participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them. More information & registration.
Images for Scholarship: Copyright & Discovery
Friday, April 7, 2017
1:00 - 2:30
This forum is for social science and humanities graduate students and faculty on how to A) find high-quality research images, B) determine authenticity, C) determine ownership and D) conclude copyright. The hands-on session will be lead by David Hansen, J.D., Duke's scholarly communication officer, and Lee Sorensen, Duke Library's Visual Studies subject specialist. Half the time will be allotted to online experimentation and participant discussion of specific copyright situations. All attendees should bring a laptop. More information & registration.
Transgender Inclusion in the Classroom
Monday, April 17, 2017
10:30 to 12:30
Led by an expert in transgender issues and educational policy, this workshop will provide models and training in creating a classroom that incorporates trans* students, with examples of best-practices and illustrations. It is open to graduate students, undergraduates interested in education or trans* issues, and teachers or instructors.
Workshop Leader: Francisco Galarte, University of Arizona
Co-leader, Cole Rizki, Duke University. More information & registration.
Data Management and Grants: Complying with Mandates
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
10:00 - 11:30am
Today, researchers are increasingly faced with requirements from both federal and private funders to share, archive, and plan for the management of their data. This workshop will provide an overview of funding agencies’ DMP requirements, the primary components of data management plans, and suggestions for integrating data management updates into grant reporting. Attendees will also learn about tools and resources that can help them write a DMP that complies with funder mandates. A portion of this workshop will include a hands-on data management plan exercise. More information and registration.
The RCR Forum series is designed for the professional development of PhD students at Duke. Official transcript credit is awarded toward the overall RCR degree requirement and to document training for funding agencies. Duke postdocs are welcome to participate (space permitting). Beyond RCR Orientation, each PhD student must complete at least 6 hours of additional training; each forum listed here is valid for 2 RCR credits. Follow the links below to register.
An Introduction to Human Subjects Review
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
3:00pm to 5:00pm
This forum will introduce you to the Duke Main Campus IRB, otherwise known as the Institutional Review Board for Protecting Human Subjects in Non-Medical Research, and will be of interest to students in any graduate program who expect to be conducting social/ behavioral science research involving human subjects. More information.
Relationship Engineering: How to Have Great Relationships with Your Advisor and Others
Thursday, September 29, 2016
9:00am to 11:00am
Dr. Samantha Sutton challenges participants to perform an honest evaluation of their relationships, and teaches them how to greatly improve troublesome ones. More information.
Cultivating a Culture of Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
12:00 to 1:30pm
How can you establish supportive mentoring relationships? What is the role of good mentoring in your success as a graduate student? Join in the conversation in this interactive workshop. More information.
Ethics in the Era of Infoveillance:
Data Mining in Biomedical, Scientific & Social Science Research
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
3:00pm to 5:00pm
In this Forum, participants will discuss emerging challenges and opportunities in the era of diminishing funds for large-scale scientific investigations along with a growing interest and capability to gather and use "OPD" (other people's data) from a variety of sources such as social media. More information.
Diversity & Inclusion in the Classroom
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
3:00pm to 5:00pm
This RCR forum will introduce graduate students to pedagogical techniques that speak directly to the diversity of learners in the university classroom. More information
The RCR Forum series is designed for the professional development of PhD students at Duke. Official transcript credit is awarded toward the overall RCR degree requirement and to document training for funding agencies. Duke postdocs are welcome to participate (space permitting). Beyond RCR Orientation, each PhD student must complete at least 6 hours of additional training; each forum listed here is valid for 2 RCR credits. Follow the links below to register.
RCR Forum: Export Controls: What Graduate Students Need to Know
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This session will be an overview of complex laws and regulations on export controls and how they apply to university research. Students will have an opportunity to review the export control list to determine if their research may be export controlled. Researchers who anticipate work with U.S. military agencies (DOD, etc.) are highly encouraged to attend this session. More information & registration.
RCR Forum: Copyright and Fair Use in Research and Teaching
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This forum will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to research and teaching. More information & registration.
RCR Forum: Implicit Bias
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Dr. Benjamin D. Reese will share research findings about implicit bias and encourage us to think more deeply about the work we do and the decisions we make. More information and registration.
RCR Forum: The Ethics of Deception in Research
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
In the social sciences and humanities, there is increasing interest around the use of deception in field research, raising a number of ethical issues. Scott W. Desposato is Associate Professor of Political Science, and has held positions at the University of Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, as well as fellowships at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and the Harvard Academy. More information & registration.
RCR Forum: Animal Welfare in a Research Environment: Why do I Care?
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00pm
This forum will review animal welfare through a brief overview of civilization’s perceptions of animals and conclude with Dukes position on animal use in research, testing, and teaching. More Information & registration.
RCR Forum: Textual Recycling (**note new date, time & location**)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
This forum addresses the issue of "textual recycling," which refers to a writer’s reusing excerpts from previously published writing, either verbatim or in a slightly altered form, in a “new” publication without attribution. More information & registration.
The RCR Forum series is designed for the professional development of Ph.D. students at Duke; official transcript credit is awarded toward the overall RCR degree requirement and to document training for funding agencies. Duke postdocs are welcome to participate (space permitting). Beyond RCR Orientation, each Ph.D. student must complete at least 6 hours of additional training; each forum listed here is valid for 2 RCR credits. Follow the links below to register. Do not register in ACES.
Ethical Issues in Open Access
Tuesday, Sept 15 3:00-5:00pm Love Auditorium [map]
Kevin L. Smith, J.D.
Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communication
Perkins Library, Duke University
As creators of new scholarly works, Ph.D. students are in a unique position to influence the market for such works in ways that will benefit both scholars themselves and the academy as a whole. This workshop will discuss scholars as copyright holders, the managements of rights for greatest advantage, and the benefits and pitfalls of various "flavors" of open access. Participation in this event earns 2 RCR credits. Register here.
Gender Differences in Academia:
Challenges and Choices along Career Paths in Higher Education
Tuesday, September 29 12:00-1:30pm Perkins 217
Dr. Rhonda Sutton
President, STEP Notes, Inc.
Owner, InnerSights Counseling and Consultation
Men and women are still treated differently based on gender stereotypes, and higher education is not immune to gender bias. Whether one is seeking a career as a faculty member or some other type of position within academia, knowing the potential challenges one can experience is important. This presentation explores some of the possible situations women and men may encounter as well as provide information on current research findings related to the gender divide in college and university settings. Case studies will be shared so as to explore solutions and develop approaches to addressing gender discrimination. Feel free to bring your own lunch and drink. Participation in this event earns 2 RCR credits.
Register here.
Managing your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan
Tuesday, October 6 10:00-11:30pm 143 Jones
Dara Wilson-Grant
Associate Director, UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them. Topics covered in this RCR module include:
- The importance of setting goals and developing an IDP
- Introduction to the SMART goals model
- Resources for crafting and executing your IDP
- Strategies for establishing expectations and effectively communicating research and career goals with your mentor/PI
SPEAKER: Dara Wilson-Grant is the Associate Director at the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and a National Certified Career Counselor. With over fifteen years experience providing career management education and counseling, Dara’s mission is to help individuals develop a framework for choosing a meaningful and rewarding career path, plus develop the skills necessary for a lifetime of career success.
NOTE: This Forum provides Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credit. Duke postdocs are required to take yearly RCR training as outlined at http://ors.duke.edu/orsmanual/rcr-postdoctoral-researchers. If you are a Postdoctoral Associate or Postdoctoral Scholar and have attended either the day-long Postdoctoral RCR Forum or the 5-part Trent Center RCR Course, you are thereafter required to attend one RCR Forum (such as this one) every subsequent year of your postdoctoral training.
Questions? Contact Molly Starback, Director of Postdoctoral Services, at molly.starback@duke.edu.
Participation in this event earns 2 RCR credits. Register here.
Digital Research Projects for the Humanities
Using case studies, hands-on activities, and participants’ own research interests, this series of workshops designed for humanities graduate students provides a high-level overview to designing digital research projects around textual analysis and opportunities for participants to apply this approach to their own projects. No prior experience with digital textual analysis research is required. Questions? Contact Liz Milewicz - liz.milewicz@duke.edu. Class size will be limited to 15 per session. We encourage you to attend all three sessions. Graduate students may earn 2 RCR credits for each session, for a total of 6 RCR credits for attending all three sessions.
Session 1: Moving from questions to texts
Register for either session
- Thursday, October 8, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, The Edge / Murthy Digital Studio, Bostock Library Level 1
- Wednesday, October 14, 4:00-6:00 PM, Wired! Lab, 2nd floor Bay 10, Smith Warehouse
Session 2: Preparing texts for analysis
Register for either session
- Thursday, October 15, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, The Edge / Murthy Digital Studio, Bostock Library Level 1
- Wednesday, October 21, 4:00-6:00 PM, Wired! Lab, 2nd floor Bay 10, Smith Warehouse
Session 3: Comparing and choosing text analysis tools
Register for either session
- Thursday, October 22, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, The Edge / Murthy Digital Studio, Bostock Library Level 1
- Wednesday, October 28, 4:00-6:00 PM, Wired! Lab, 2nd floor Bay 10, Smith Warehouse
Ethical Issues in Collaborative Authorship
Tuesday, Nov 10 3:00-5:00pm Love Auditorium [map]
Blake Wilson, D.Sc.
Co-Director, Duke Hearing Center, Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), Durham, NC, USA
In the biomedical sciences and engineering, collaborative research and publishing is central to scholarship, and this practice brings with it implicit ethical questions that are not always easy to navigate: Who should be included as an author? And in what order? What kind of contributions to a paper “count?” In this interactive session, Blake S. Wilson, Adjunct Professor in the departments of surgery, biomedical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering will guide participants through case studies to discuss realistic scenarios faced by graduate students and postdocs engaged in research and publishing in these and related fields.
Register for this session.
The RCR Forum series is designed for the professional development of Ph.D. students at Duke; official transcript credit is awarded toward the overall RCR degree requirement and to document training for funding agencies. Duke postdocs are welcome to participate (space permitting). Beyond RCR Orientation, each Ph.D. student must complete at least 6 hours of additional training; each forum listed here is valid for 2 RCR credits. Follow the links below to register. Do NOT register in ACES.
Copyright & Fair Use in Research & Teaching
Tuesday, January 20 3:00 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [
As more and more scholarship and teaching involves digital resources and digital communications, copyright issues have become more important, and more contentious, than ever before. This forum will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to research and teaching. We will discuss the parameters of the elusive “fair use” privilege and the lawsuits against higher education institutions that it has spawned. We will also consider the issue of intellectual property ownership for scholars and how that ownership can best be managed to serve the interests of the scholar and of the academic community in general. Register here.map]
Kevin Smith, Director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication
Implicit Bias
Friday, January 30 12:00 - 2:00 Perkins 217 [
In this RCR Forum, Dr. Reese will engage us in a discussion about “implicit bias,” which he describes as “the positive or negative unconscious attitude we may hold about an individual or group.” Even well-intentioned people can be affected by subtle, often unconscious beliefs and attitudes. He will share research findings about implicit bias and encourage us to think more deeply about the work we do and the decisions we make. It promises to be a valuable conversation. Register here.map]
Dr. Benjamin D. Reese, Jr., Vice President for Institutional Equity at Duke University
Animal Welfare in a Research Environment: Why do I Care?
Tuesday, February 3 3:00 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [
In his current role, Dr. Banks oversees Duke University’s care and use of animals in research, testing, and teaching; provides several training opportunities for those engaging animals in research, testing, or teaching; and assures institutional integrity with a program of compliance monitoring for animal care & use. This forum will review animal welfare through a brief overview of civilization’s perceptions of animals and conclude with Dukes position on animal use in research, testing, and teaching. Register here.map]
Dr. Ron Banks, Director, Office of Animal Welfare Assurance
Ethics in the Era of Infoveillance:
Data Mining in Biomedical, Scientific & Social Science Research
Tuesday, February 17 3:00 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [
In this Forum, participants will discuss emerging challenges and opportunities in the era of diminishing funds for large-scale scientific investigations along with a growing interest and capability to gather and use "OPD" (other people's data) from a variety of sources such as social media. Dr. Vallero argues there is a fine line between gathering data from self-reporting on Twitter, Google+, and other social media and what might be deemed cyber-voyeurism. Given that large epidemiological, biomedical and environmental studies are becoming more difficult to fund and implement, emerging scholars now must consider new ethical questions like whether or not to use smart technologies to access such information about people’s activities and risks.Case studies will be explored in several fields. For example, data mining can be used to ascertain how and where people come into contact with thousands of chemicals already in (or ready to join) the marketplace. By mining datasets to compare known concentrations of pollutants with social behaviors, researchers might develop models and methods to predict chemical exposure concerns. Other researchers use social media to identify disease outbreak patterns. But how do emerging scholars balance ethical principles like respect for persons, privacy, beneficence, and justice in this new era of research? Register here.map]
Dr. Daniel Vallero, Adjunct Professor of Engineering Ethics, Pratt School of Engineering
Caring and Sharing the Stress Load:
Navigating Stress and Stressors in Graduate School
Tuesday, March 17 3:00 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [
Stress in graduate school has all of the same stressors that students faced in their undergraduate degrees, plus several more. Because graduate study tends to occur in smaller communities, stressors can often be amplified. In particular, a common graduate school stressor is the struggles that other students are having, especially when you become an important part of a struggling student’s support system. This program will provide graduate students with a better understanding of stress and prompt insight toward effective stress management in the context of graduate school. We’ll also explore ways to recognize and set appropriate boundaries when the stress of one of your peers struggling with personal or psychological issues has passed a threshold such that your own well-being is compromised. We’ll provide some basic suggestions toward managing stress while meeting your various demands, utilizing the support of your closest relationships and your academic community. Finally, we will introduce information on when and how to refer yourselves or others to professional resources at Duke University that can help students elaborate on self-care and also help with supporting those struggling in your academic community. Register here.map]
Gary D. Glass, Associate Director for Outreach and Developmental Programming, CAPS
Christine Pesetski, Assistant Dean of Students, DukeReach
Managing your Research Career Using an
Individual Development Plan (IDP)
Tuesday, March 24 9:30-11:30am Room 143 Jones Bldg. [
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them. Topics covered in this RCR module include:map]
Dara Wilson-Grant
Associate Director, UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
- The importance of setting goals and developing an IDP
- Introduction to the SMART goals model
- Resources for crafting and executing your IDP
- Strategies for establishing expectations and effectively communicating research and career goals with your mentor/PI
Register here.
Textual Recycling
Tuesday, March 31 3:00 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [
Dr David Kellog, Associate Professor of English, Costal Carolina Univeristy
This forum addresses the issue of "textual recycling," which refers to a writer’s reusing excerpts from previously published writing, either verbatim or in a slightly altered form, in a “new” publication without attribution. The practice of textual recycling is more common and accepted than generally acknowledged. In some data-driven fields such as the natural and medical sciences, textual recycling is tacitly expected. In contrast, textual recycling is unacceptable in the humanities, where it is referred to as “self-plagiarism.” Those who practice textual recycling in academic writing have two motivations: convenience and consistency. In contexts where originality of prose is not highly valued, authors have no motivation to rework prose that does its job effectively merely for the purpose of avoiding replication. Maintaining consistent language from one paper to another stabilizes meaning for readers of multiple papers comprising an ongoing line of research. Examples from different fields are presented to demonstrate the regularity of textual recycling and to show that recycling tends to occur at specific locations such as in the introduction and methods sections of scientific research reports. Despite its frequent use, textual recycling is routinely ignored in writing guides and textbooks. This talk concludes with comments on pedagogical implications for undergraduate and graduate-level writing instruction. Register here.map]
Dr. Cary Moskovitz, Director, Writing in the Disciplines, Thompson Writing Program
Conflicts of Interest:
Graduate Students & Postdocs in "Outside Activities"
Tuesday, April 14 3:30 - 5:00 LSRC B101 (Love Auditorium) [map]
Brian Lowinger, Assistant Director, Contracts and Compliance, ORS
Dr. Ross McKinney, Director, Trent Center for Bioethics
Graduate students, particularly in STEM fields, may be involved in faculty members' activities outside of an academic program, e.g., startups, private ventures, for-profit entities, etc. This has the potential for the student to be pressured to do the work for free, and it may have impact on progress towards a degree. What are the issues in play here, and how does one navigate this sort of situation? This RCR forum will explore these and related questions. Register here.
The RCR Forum series is designed for the professional development of Ph.D. students at Duke; official transcript credit is awarded toward the overall RCR degree requirement and to document training for funding agencies. Duke postdocs are welcome to participate (space permitting). Beyond RCR Orientation, each Ph.D. student must complete at least 6 hours of additional training; each forum listed here is valid for 2 RCR credits. Follow the links below to register. Do NOT register in ACES.
Gender Differences in Academia:
Challenges and Choices along Career Paths in Higher Education
Monday, September 22 12:00-1:30pm Perkins 217
Dr. Rhonda Sutton
President, STEP Notes, Inc.
Owner, InnerSights Counseling and Consultation
Men and women are still treated differently based on gender stereotypes, and higher education is not immune to gender bias. Whether one is seeking a career as a faculty member or some other type of position within academia, knowing the potential challenges one can experience is important. This presentation explores some of the possible situations women and men may encounter as well as provide information on current research findings related to the gender divide in college and university settings. Case studies will be shared so as to explore solutions and develop approaches to addressing gender discrimination.
Registration closed. Forum is full.
Greening Your Lab:
Environmentally Sustainable Practices for Research Laboratories at Duke
Tuesday, September 30 3:00-5:00pm French Family Science Center 2231
Randy Smith,
Departmental Manager, Biology
Casey Roe,
Sustainability Outreach Coordinator
Did you know that on a per square foot basis, research labs can require five times more energy to operate than classrooms and office spaces? Laboratories also typically utilize hazardous chemicals and a large volume of consumable supplies. This session will discuss steps that researchers can take to lessen their work’s impact on the environment while also improving the safety of their lab and reducing costs. We will also discuss the Duke Green Lab certification requirements and process. See these sites for general info: http://sustainability.duke.edu/action/certifications/labs/index.php and http://sites.duke.edu/greenlabs/. Register here.
Ethical Issues in Open Access
Tuesday, October 28 3:00-5:00pm
French Family Science Center 2231
Kevin L. Smith, J.D.
Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communication
Perkins Library, Duke University
As creators of new scholarly works, Ph.D. students are in a unique position to influence the market for such works in ways that will benefit both scholars themselves and the academy as a whole. This workshop will discuss scholars as copyright holders, the managements of rights for greatest advantage, and the benefits and pitfalls of various "flavors" of open access. Registration closed. Forum is full.
Humanities and Social Science Research in the Digital Age:
Ethical Issues in Research
Tuesday, November 18 3:00-5:00pm
French Family Science Center 2231
Heidi Madden, PhD Librarian for Western European and Medieval/Renaissance Studies
Liz Milewicz, PhD Head of Digital Scholarship Services
Michael Peper, Head of Natural Sciences and Engineering Section
Greta Boers, Librarian for Linguistics & Classical Studies
Digital workflows are becoming more central to research in the humanities & social sciences. Duke University Library specialists will focus on these emerging research challenges. This Forum will address how to use digital tools to gather, share, and disseminate research. Topics will include an overview of Duke Library resources, as well as a hands-on demonstration for downloading and managing citations and bibliographies in two citation management tools (likely Endnote and Zotero ). The session will include tips on the use of databases and other digital tools to maximize research integrity. NOTE: Participants should bring a laptop and review some of the website related to Citation prior to the workshop: http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/index.html. Register here.
Managing your Research Career Using an Individual Development Plan
Thursday, December 4 9:00-11:00am
Room 143 Jones Building
Dara Wilson-Grant
Associate Director, UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
For better or for worse, your experiences and the training you receive as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers can greatly impact and shape the rest of your career. However, there are strategies and resources that can enhance your chances of getting what you came for. During this program participants will learn how to develop clear and specific goals and objectives, along with a plan for executing them. Topics covered in this RCR module include:
- The importance of setting goals and developing an IDP
- Introduction to the SMART goals model
- Resources for crafting and executing your IDP
- Strategies for establishing expectations and effectively communicating research and career goals with your mentor/PI
SPEAKER: Dara Wilson-Grant is the Associate Director at the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and a National Certified Career Counselor. With over fifteen years experience providing career management education and counseling, Dara’s mission is to help individuals develop a framework for choosing a meaningful and rewarding career path, plus develop the skills necessary for a lifetime of career success.
NOTE: This Forum provides Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credit. Duke postdocs are required to take yearly RCR training as outlined at http://ors.duke.edu/orsmanual/rcr-postdoctoral-researchers. If you are a Postdoctoral Associate or Postdoctoral Scholar and have attended either the day-long Postdoctoral RCR Forum or the 5-part Trent Center RCR Course, you are thereafter required to attend one RCR Forum (such as this one) every subsequent year of your postdoctoral training.
Questions? Contact Molly Starback, Director of Postdoctoral Services, at molly.starback@duke.edu.
Registration closed. Forum is full.