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2025 Edition 1, Trimester 1: January, IN-PERSON
Target: Early-career staff
Session:
  • 22/01/2025 09:30 - 17:30
    Charles Darwin room

SYSTEMS skills

How to read a scientific paper using common sense and AI

Aim

The goal of this course is to help participants to read scientific literature in a more systematic way, with processes and appropriate tools to help gather, manage, and extract scientific evidence from the literature.

Language

English

For

Early-career staff

Contents

This workshop we will cover basic competencies for one of the most common and important tasks for early stage researchers: gather, manage, and extract scientific evidence from the literature. The workshop will review key competencies and processes to digest the literature in a systematic way, highlighting also some practical tools to speed up this process.

You will learn about:

  • Establishing a workflow
  • Finding and managing the information
  • Extracting information from the literature in a systematic way
  • Using AI tools to get things done

Study commitment

Before the course the trainer will send a simple preparatory task and some reading material

Other relevant information

Please note that you'll need to bring a laptop for this workshop.

For any issue regarding attendance before or during the course, please note that you should contact the Intervals team directly by sending an email to intervals@prbb.org.

 

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Trainer

Lisa Saemisch
Lisa Saemisch

Lisa Saemisch is a physicist with a PhD in Photonics and more than 8 years of experience as a publishing researcher. She has also extensive experience as project manager and trainer.

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