| Page Contents |
| Research career |
| Research ethics |
| Administration & safety |
| Science communication |
| Scientific development |
On this page, I keep a record of training I have undertaken to improve my skills in a variety of different areas.
Research career
| 2005-2006 (three modules totalling 10 days) | “Leading in Science”: course on science, leadership, innovation and economics organised jointly by the Royal Society and the Tanaka Business School of Imperial College, London. |
| May 24 2006 | Supervising international research students, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit. |
| Jun 19-20 2006 | Royal Society new research fellows’ seminar and discussion day. |
| Sep-Dec 2006 | “Science in a spin”: A new Business Development Programme for academics and researchers, Newcastle University. 7 1-hour sessions. |
| Nov 16 2006 | Supervising research students, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit. |
| Jun 5-6 2007 | Positive People Management, 2-day course run by Aware UK at Newcastle’s Staff Development Unit. |
| Sep 13 2007 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| May 1 2008 | Supervising research students: Assessment and Examination, Faculty of Medical Sciences. |
| May 2 2008 | Applying for MRC grants, Faculty of Medical Sciences |
| May 8 2008 | Graduate student development and e-portfolio, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit. |
| Sep 15 2008 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Feb-Jun 2009 | “Bite-sized chunks” series of workshops on applying for research grants, Newcastle University. |
| Apr 30 2009 | Seminar on submitting to Nature, with Lesley Anson, a Senior Editor of Nature |
| May 19 2009 | Workshop on getting research published, with Irene Hames. |
| Sep 23 2009 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Oct 1 2009 | Moving into a management role in the research environment, with Robin Henderson, MY Consultants Ltd. |
| Mar 26 2010 | PI development: support to survive, with Liz Kemp & Lesley Heseltine, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit |
| Apr 27 2010 | PI development: the PI as manager, with Sue Nobb, Insp!rations |
| Jun 16 2010 | PI development: Managing your Research Project, with Robin Henderson, MY Consultants Ltd. |
| Jul 12 2010 | PI development: Looking to the future, with Robin Henderson, MY Consultants Ltd. |
| Sep 16 2010 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Jan 14 2011 | Institute of Neuroscience / Institute of Health & Society research day, Newcastle University. |
| Jan 17 2011 | seminar on “Building relationships with corporate partners”, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University. |
| Feb 4 2011 | Briefing on BBSRC and MRC grants panels, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University. |
| Sep 19 2011 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Sep 17 2012 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Nov 12-13 2012 | Royal Society workshop on Understanding Grant Processes, Chicheley Hall. |
| Sep 16 2013 | Institute of Neuroscience research away day, Newcastle University. |
| Oct 1 2013 | Faculty of Medical Sciences Symposium on Consultancy, Newcastle University. |
| Jan 14 2014 | Rapid Networking Event on security, sensing, surveillance and autonomous technologies, Newcastle University. |
| Feb 6 2014 | Horizon 2020 Information and Networking Day on Work Programme 2014-2015 for Advanced digital gaming/gamification technologies, European Commission, Luxembourg |
| Mar 26 2015 | Research Impact celebration event, Great North Museum, Newcastle |
| April 29 2016 | Leadership in the role of professor, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit, led by Prof John Ramsden |
Research ethics
| Apr 27-28, May 22 2007 | 10-credit module on Research Ethics, run by Northumbria University. |
| Jun 12-13 2008 | two-day course on Research Ethics in a Higher Education context, run by Keele University. |
| Jul 23 2008 | Law, Ethics and Research: induction training for members of Faculty of Medical Sciences Ethics Committee, run by Newcastle University’s Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre. |
| Dec 2 2009 | Legal issues in clinical research, run by Newcastle Clinical Research Centre. |
| Mar 10 2010 | Newcastle University Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre seminar on the TGN1412 disaster, Prof Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University. |
| May 4 2010 | Good Clinical Practice for research, run by Newcastle Clinical Research Centre with Tanya Symons. |
| Feb 1 2012 | Good Clinical Practice Refresher Training, run by National Institute of Health Research Clinical Research Network with Paul Maher |
Administration & safety
| Jul 26 2006 | RAE Overview and Progress so far, Newcastle University. |
| Aug 18 2006 | pFACT (Project Financial Appraisal & Costing Tool) training course, Newcastle University. |
| Jul 15 2009 | Risk assessment training course, Newcastle University. |
| Jun 9 2010 | University IT systems, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit. |
| Mar 29 2012 | Safety for Principal Investigators, University Safety Office. |
| Oct 4 2012 | Emergency First Aid At Work (1 day course), North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust. |
| Jan 14-17 2013 | First Aid At Work (3 day course), North East Ambulance Service NHS Trust. |
| Jan 18 2013 | Chemical safety training course, Newcastle University. |
| Jan 22 2013 | Biological safety training course, Newcastle University. |
| May 23 2013 | Workshop on conducting effective Performance & Development Reviews, Newcastle University. |
| May 13 2014 | Human Resources briefing for Principal Investigators, Newcastle University. |
Science communication
| December 7 2005 | attended Royal Society Media Training Course, taught by Judith Hann and John Exelby |
| March 16 2006 | attended Media Skills Workshop, Newcastle University Staff Development Unit. |
| April 30-May 1 2007 | attended Royal Society Scientist workshop at the National Science Learning Centre, learning how to communicate science effectively to school children. |
| May 24-25 2010 | attended 2-day Story Seminar given by Robert McKee |
| Feb 11 2011 | seminar on “Proactive Media Relations”, Staff Development Unit, Newcastle University. |
| Jun 25 2013 | “Everyone can be a film maker”, Robin Fearon |
| Jul 1 2013 | “Using animation to engage”, Siobhan Fenton |
Scientific development
| Aug 28-Sep 5 2006 | Spike Train Analysis Workshop, Newcastle University. |
| Aug 27-28 2008 | Spike Train Analysis Workshop, Newcastle University. |
| Sep 18 2009 | North East Epilepsy Research Meeting, Durham University (5 CPD credits). |
| Oct 21-24 2009 | Statistical Parametric Mapping Course, University College London. |
| Nov 5 2009 | Orbital and neuro-imaging for ophthalmology, Newcastle University. |
| May 26-27 2010 | Thinking Digital, The Sage Centre, Gateshead, |
| Sep 23-24 2010 | Statistical Parametric Mapping Course, run by University College London at Durham University. |
| Oct 20 2010 | Cooperation and Conflict in Human and Animal Behaviour, symposium to mark the retirement of Dr John Lazarus, Newcastle University. |
| Jun 13 2011 | 9th BriSCEV (British Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision) Course on unexplained visual loss and Conference, Baltic Centre, Gateshead |
| Jun 13-14 2011 | 9th BriSCEV (British Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision) Conference, Baltic Centre, Gateshead |
| 18-20 July 2011. | Introduction to human brain anatomy, with dissection room practical sessions, University College London, course director Dr Paul Johns |
| 15-16 March 2012. | Epilepsy Research UK’s International Expert Workshop “Why do some brains seize? Molecular, cellular and network mechanisms”, St Anne’s College, Oxford |
| 17 October 2012. | Epilepsy awareness training at Epilepsy Action, Yeadon, Leeds |
| 10 January 2013. | Translational Research Day: Chronic disease – what’s the point and are we missing it? Newcastle University |
| 11 January 2013. | Newcastle University Centre for Behaviour and Evolution conference |
| 20 June 2013. | Postgraduate ophthalmology teaching session on strabismus, with Mr Anthony Vivian |
| 26 Jan 2014. | Paediatric Ophthalmology 2014, day 4: strabismus, University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital |
| 15-16 March 2016. | UK Neuro-ophthalmology special interest group annual meeting, University College London Queen’s Square and Guy’s Hospital. |
| 12-15 Sept 2016. | Optical Foundations of Full-Parallax Imaging, Universitat de València. |
| 19 Oct 2016. | British Machine Vision Association technical meeting: Vision for Interaction: from humans to robots, London UK. |
| 23-25 Oct 2016. | 20th Machine Intelligence: Human-Like Computing, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor UK. |
NB Scientific conferences where my own work was presented are listed separately, here.
DataCamp courses
- Jan 2018. Introduction to R.
- Jan 2018. Intermediate R.
- Jan 2018. Cleaning Data in R.
- Jan 2018. Working with the RStudio IDE (Part 1).
- Feb 2018. Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 1)
- Feb 2018. Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 2)
- Mar 2018. Deep Learning in Python.
- Apr 2018. Intro to Python for Data Science.
- May 2018. Intermediate Python for Data Science.
Coursera courses
- Nov 2016. Machine Learning, by Stanford University.
- Jan 2017. Neural Networks for Machine Learning, by Toronto University
- Apr 2018. Neural Networks and Deep Learning by deeplearning.ai
- Apr 2018. Structuring Machine Learning Projects by deeplearning.ai
- Apr 2018. Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization by deeplearning.ai
- May 2018. Convolutional Neural Networks by deeplearning.ai
- Feb 2020. Computational Neuroscience by University of Washington.
- Mar 2020. Google Cloud Product Fundamentals by Google Cloud.
- Apr 2020. Google Cloud Product Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure by Google Cloud.
- Apr 2020. How Google does Machine Learning by Google Cloud.
- May 2020. Getting Started With Application Development by Google Cloud.
- May 2020. Improving your statistical inferences by Eindhoven University of Technology.
- May 2020. Launching into Machine Learning by Google Cloud.
- May 2020. Introduction to TensorFlow by Google Cloud.
- Jan 2022. Introduction to Genomic Technologies by Johns Hopkins University.
- Feb 2022. Causal Inference by Columbia University.