Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) Courses (Organized by Graduate School and CLEAR)

Date & Time
2023/09/01 to 2024/04/12

The Improving Postgraduate Learning (IPL) programme, organized by the Graduate School and the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR), is a structured and cross-disciplinary framework which aims to facilitate the learning of research skills for all postgraduate students. It is highly recommended for postgraduate students to build a solid foundation for their postgraduate studies. All postgraduates are welcome to join!

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Registration begins on 14 August 2023.

Discovering Research Information Skills Online Course

This is an online course available on Blackboard. Designed for ALL postgraduate students to learn the basic research skills. After completion of this online course, students are Strongly Recommended to enroll in one of the sessions under Discovering Research Information in Your Discipline.

Objective & Brief Description Enrollment Deadline Venue Registration
As a postgraduate student, you may want to equip yourself with the essential research skills. This online course is a great starting point! The CUHK librarians have developed this online module to enhance your research skills, particularly with postgraduate students in mind. After completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify keywords of your topic and formulate a search statement for searching resources;
  • Use LibrarySearch to search for resources, particularly theses;
  • Understand different types of library databases, and use Scopus to discover quality research information; and
  • Find a journal to publish in and increase the visibility of a published article.
 Group 1 : 1 Sep 23 Self-learning online course on Blackboard Please register by the enrollment deadline for each group.

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group)
Group 2 : 29 Sep 23
Group 3 : 27 Oct 23
Group 4 : 24 Nov 23
Group 5 : 5 Jan 24
Group 6 : 9 Feb 24
Group 7 : 15 Mar 24
Group 8 : 12 Apr 24

Discovering Research Information at Your Discipline

Conducted by the corresponding Faculty Liaison Librarian, these courses focus on discovering discipline-specific scholarly and research information. They are highly recommended to enhance your research information skills. Students are recommended to go through the Discovering Research Information Skills Online Course before taking these discipline-specific courses.

Discipline / Course Date & Time Venue Registration
Group 1: Arts 18 Sep 2023 (Mon)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.		 Online Register
Group 2: Business Administration 14 Oct 2023 (Sat)
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Group 3: Education 19 Sep 2023 (Tue)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Group 4: Engineering 23 Sep 2023 (Sat)
10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Group 5: Medicine 21 Sep 2023 (Thu)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Group 6: Science 23 Sep 2023 (Sat)
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Group 7: Social Science 20 Sep 2023 (Wed)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Group 8: Law 7 Oct 2023 (Sat)
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Group 9: Chinese Law 23 Sep 2023 (Sat)
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued if you:
  1. Completed the whole online course and the quiz at the end with at least 60% passing score (i.e. with at least 12 questions answered correctly out of 20 questions). There is only ONE attempt. You are recommended to go through the whole course before taking the quiz; AND
  2. Attended ONE of the Discovering Research Information at Your Discipline workshops with at least 1.5 hours of attendance.

Managing and Creating Reference Citations with Reference Managing Tools

At the end of the courses, students will be able to:

  • Create and format in-text citations and bibliographies for their papers using the two Reference Management Tools, EndNote and RefWorks;
  • Create personal references database by importing references from online databases and other sources; and
  • Manage references in the personal database.
Discipline / Course Date & Time Venue Registration
Managing and Creating Reference Citations with EndNote 25 Sep 2023 (Mon)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.		 Online Register
Managing and Creating Reference Citations with RefWorks 5 Oct 2023 (Thu)
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Research Data Management for Your Discipline

The workshops for different disciplines will cover:

  • Key concepts of research data management;
  • Features of Data Management Plans (DMPs) and using DMPTool to create DMPs;
  • Data repositories and dataset deposit in the CUHK Research Data Repository;
  • Data collection and reuse (according to disciplines); and
  • Data ethics (according to disciplines).

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Discipline / Course Date & Time Venue Registration
Group 1: Arts and Education 7 Oct 2023 (Sat)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.		 Online Register
Group 2: Engineering 4 Oct 2023 (Wed)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Group 3: Medicine 10 Oct 2023 (Tue)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Group 4: Science 12 Oct 2023 (Thu)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Group 5: Business, Law, Social Science, and Inter-faculty 16 Oct 2023 (Mon)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Group 6: Multi-disciplines 18 Jan 2024 (Thu)
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Basics of Research Data Management

This is an online course available on Blackboard. Compulsory for ALL research postgraduate and taught doctoral students (admitted in 2022/23 or after). Students are required to complete this online course in their 1st year of studies.

Objective & Brief Description Enrollment Deadline Venue Registration
Research Data Management (RDM) is of growing importance throughout the research life cycle. This self-learning online course covers an overview of RDM, Data Management Plan, data deposit, and data ethics. After completion of this course, students will be able to understand the purpose and principles in research data management. Group 1 : 1 Sep 23 Self-learning online course on Blackboard Please register by the enrollment deadline for each group.

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group) 
Group 2 : 29 Sep 23
Group 3 : 27 Oct 23
Group 4 : 24 Nov 23
Group 5 : 5 Jan 24
Group 6 : 9 Feb 24
Group 7 : 15 Mar 24
Group 8 : 12 Apr 24

Observing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law during Research

This is an online course available on Blackboard. Compulsory for ALL research postgraduate students.

Objective & Brief Description Enrollment Deadline Venue Registration
It is very important for students to know how to avoid infringing the Intellectual Property and Copyright of others. This course will introduce CUHK research students to updated issues in Intellectual Property and Copyright which are applicable in academic circles. To link the issues to global research, the subject of ‘Plagiarism’ is also included. Group 1 : 1 Sep 23 Self-learning online course on Blackboard Please register by the enrollment deadline for each group.

(All groups are identical. Please only register for one group)
Group 2 : 29 Sep 23
Group 3 : 27 Oct 23
Group 4 : 24 Nov 23
Group 5 : 5 Jan 24
Group 6 : 9 Feb 24
Group 7 : 15 Mar 24
Group 8 : 12 Apr 24

Medium of Instruction: English

Enquiries related to IPL:
Email: clear@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 6201

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