SciVal Training: Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (quantitative focus)

Course description

SciVal is a tool recently introduced into the university to make it easier for our research community to analyse research quality, benchmark against other researchers around the world and identify collaborators to improve research outcomes.

Cassandra Sims from Elsevier will provide hands-on, discipline specific metric sessions to help enable our research community in using SciVal.

This interactive sessions will be a great opportunity for our research community to start using SciVal (if you haven’t already!) and focus on your areas of specific interest, including covering off comparative information people can use in their grant and promotion applications.

This interactive face-to-face sessions will be in  Alere North.

Note – it’s recommended that you bring a fully charged laptop computer.

There are other discipline specific sessions as follows (access iEnrol - Research to book): 

• Tuesday 30 August, 9 – 11am: Social Sciences including Education, Social Work (qualitative focus)
• Tuesday 30 August, 12 – 2pm: Sciences (quantitative focus)
• Wednesday 31 August, 9 – 11am: Humanities and Creative Arts (qualitative focus)

For more information please contact Hayley Scott at hayley.scott@flinders.edu.au.

Type of course

Workshop

Who should attend

• Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (this session will have a quantitative focus)
• Research professionals supporting researchers in Medical and Health Sciences, Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

What you will learn

• Hands on workshop using SciVal in real time
• How to access comparative information to use in grant and promotion applications