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  • DataTrain. This page provides links to training materials targetted at post-graduate students, giving discipline-specific information for Archaeology and Social Anthropology.

Cambridge training courses

  • Cambridge University Skills Portal. The Skills Portal is a searchable database with a variety classroom and online 'transferable skills' courses available to staff and students. This includes courses in research management, software, funding bids, and information security, among others.

  • University Computing Service Training page. This page allows you to sign up for I.T. courses, including software training, basic programming, web authoring, and database design. These include classroom courses and self-paced materials. Click on 'Timetable' in the UCS Training page right-side menu for a list of upcoming courses.

  • The Centre for Professional Development. This website links to courses for staff and students ranging from time management and completing your first-year report (postgraduate students) to presentation skills and assertiveness in management.

  • University Library Research Skills Programme. The University Library teaches research skills courses (e.g. referencing, literature searches, using paper and electronic data sources) in term, many of which are designed for students. The Programme also offers tailored courses to departments and research groups on request.

  • DSpace@Cambridge. The DSpace@Cambridge support team offers training upon request on topics such as depositing or finding files in the DSpace@Cambridge repository and copyright issues associated with depositing materials online.

  • CamTools Help & Support. This page links to scheduled CamTools training sessions, and includes video tutorials and guides for using CamTools (for beginners, more complex features, and administration of long-lived sites). The CamTools team will also do on-request training seminars for faculties or departments (minimum of 5 users).

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External training

  • JISC Digital Media. This organisation offers a range of interactive courses on a range of subjects pertaining to digital media, including creating screencasts, working with digital image formats, copyright for digital media, and various other aspects of visual, audio, and video files.

  • Digital Curation Centre (DCC). These courses focus on principles of data management, preservation, and archiving, sometimes with a train-the-trainder approach that university staff can bring back to their institution.

  • Discipline-specific data management training
    • Many disciplines have prominent data centres (e.g. the UK Data Archive for social sciences, the Archaeology Data Service). Check their websites or call them for more details -- many data centres provide data management support and guidance, and some will even come to your department or centre to provide a few hours of training.

    • The UK Data Archive runs a range of data management training for social science research and has produced an excellent introductory guide to 'Managing and Sharing Data' for all researchers, regardless of discipline.

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Presentations from topical seminars

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Short video interviews

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