Workshops
For this years DCC, we wanted to offer a variety of workshops that would offer the greatest benefit for our audience and participants. We are proud to bring you several exciting options to choose from.
How to Manage Stress
23 June @ 13:30-14:30
Benefits of attending the workshop:
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A summary of the stress and the physical and mental impact that it has on the body
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Guidance for controlling stress in different situations
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Lifestyle enhancement strategies to reduce stress
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Using humour, music, and support to cope up with stress
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Enhancing your ability to cope with the pressures in your everyday life
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Knowing how to handle rare stressful situations
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Enhancing general self-esteem and boosting confidence
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Gaining a renewed enthusiasm for life
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Developing higher levels of concentration
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Tips to get a sound sleep
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Develops positive attitude towards life
About the Team
Vernon Sankey
Vernon co-founded a coaching company where he honed his cognitive psychology and NLP skills. He is an expert in clinical hypnotherapy and EQ assessment, as well as an enthusiastic student of Eastern and Western philosophy. Vernon frequently lectures and teaches courses on leadership, motivation, corporate transformation, and personal development in businesses, universities, schools, and international conferences.
The Stairway to Happiness is his first book, and it is based on his experiences as a coach and a businessman. His second book, The Way – Finding Peace in Turbulent Times, was co-written with Katey Lockwood.
Katey Lockwood
Born and educated in the UK, Katey began her career working with the Harry Potter franchise and the special effects team. She studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) with Richard Bandler and The Kabbalah for a further 5 years. She then went on to study philosophy at the LSE. During the past decade, she has analysed and studied many philosophical and metaphysical principles, including the Universal Laws and The Hermetica and is also well versed in spiritual practices, including meditation.
Katey's expertise in cognitive psychology, EQ assessment, clinical hypnotherapy, philosophy, and spirituality enables her to coach, teach, guide, and mentor at the highest level. She has taken part in and led podcasts, workshops, discussions, and courses on a variety of topics, including stress management, life skills, and personal transformation.
Check them out for yourself: https://www.improvemyworld.com/
Open Research
22 June @ 13:30-14:30
Ten reasons to practise Open Research
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Open Access to research outputs benefits both anyone who needs access to the research findings – researchers, innovators, policy makers, practitioners, students, the public – and the researchers who created these outputs. Openly available research is highly visible and has the potential for wide impact
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Being open and transparent throughout the research process – sharing the underlying data, materials, methods and analyses – supports replicability and reproducibility of the research
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Assigning accurate metadata and unique identifiers to research outputs ensures that the research is discoverable
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Sharing outputs under licences allowing adaptation and reuse in various contexts fosters collaboration and creativity
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Being transparent about the research evaluation itself (e.g. open peer review, grant review panels) reduces biases and creates an environment of dialogue and debate
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Being clear and open about the initial motives, context, and predictions of the research (e.g. by using pre-registration) supports integrity and potentially replicability
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Conducting and disseminating research in ways that involve the public (public engagement, citizen science) opens opportunities for innovation and collaboration
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Creating and sharing educational resources, including resources drawn from research, openly benefits learners and advances research literacy
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Research outcomes may need to be ‘as closed as necessary’ at different points of the research cycle. Even if some outcomes of the research cannot be openly available, being transparent about why this is not possible, i.e. declaring IP and respecting data protection and confidentiality, ensures integrity and public confidence in the research process
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The values of Open Research extend to having an overall more transparent and inclusive working culture, including transparency in ways researchers, collaborators and research projects are recruited and evaluated.
About the Workshop
Open Research - used interchangeably with Open Science - is a set of values and practices that seek to make research easily discoverable, transparent, publicly available and re-usable. The aim of our Open Research initiative is to foster a collaborative and inclusive research culture; to spur innovation and creativity; and, where applicable, to support the reproducibility of research findings.
Open Research was defined by the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) as, An inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community. It comprises all scientific disciplines and aspects of scholarly practices, including basic and applied sciences, natural and social sciences, and the humanities, and it builds on the following key pillars: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, science communication, open engagement of societal actors and open dialogue with other knowledge systems."
Check the link to learn more: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/library/open-research/why-open-research-surrey
Skillfluence: “Moving Ideas Forward”
23 June @ 13:30-14:30
3 Key Messages:
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Find the value you can offer - ask yourself whose problem(s) you think you can solve
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Test before you invest - confront your riskiest assumptions before "solutionising"
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Create a news headline objective that is clear, motivating & shows a quantified benefit
About the workshop
Do you have ideas to commercialise your research? Are you feeling drawn towards the bright lights of innovation?! Everyone has ideas, but how do we know which ones to pursue? In this session, Julia will share 3 top tips to get you off the starting block and away from making some common early mistakes.
SkillFluence is specialised in transferable skills training that equips Researchers to work with others, both inside and outside of academia. Their aim is to help researchers maximise the social and economic impact of their research, but also to realise the value their skills and expertise could have on industry and society. They use digital tools, trainer know-how and a deep understanding of researchers to provide sessions that are highly applicable, interactive, and engaging
Check them out for yourself: http://www.skillfluence.co.uk/
Networking
22 June @ 13:30-14:30
Benefits of the Workshop:
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Be ready to explore, connect and interact with confidence
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Have fresh perspectives on networking and your own networking aspirations
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Have practical tools and tips to apply to your own networking mix
About the Workshop:
Conversations and Connections
The art of confident networking
Our dynamic modern world continually presents interesting and rewarding opportunities. Whether in academia or industry; building a career or a business; championing a cause or helping communities, making the most of these opportunities means reaching out beyond what and who we know.
It means interacting with other people. Real-life human beings ready to explore ideas and connect; ready to share stories and conversations.
So how do you connect and build relationships with people you don’t know? How do you grow and nurture a professional network from those initial interactions? How do you network with confidence?
During this interactive, upbeat workshop, Dr Elaine, an experienced networker, will help and inspire you to get the most out of your networking adventures. Boosting your networking confidence and enabling you to shine wherever your conversations and connections take you.
About Dr. Elaine
Dr Elaine Hickmott is a Career Energiser and Co-founder of the Re-energising Your Career Hub. Her career adventure began with a PhD in chemistry after which she achieved her early-career aspiration of becoming an industrial chemist. Whilst working in manufacturing she decided on a more commercial path, moving into various business leadership roles en route to becoming executive director of a training company.
At the height of her corporate career, fuelled by a desire for something different, she left her board-level role to follow her entrepreneurial dream. Initial business ventures challenged her in new ways and helped her find her purpose and passion: lifelong learning and career development. An experienced networker, she counts her network of trusted, talented people as one of her most precious assets.
Join Dr Elaine and gain practical tips, insights and ideas that will give you a fresh perspective on networking and help you network with confidence today, tomorrow and always.