Training & Workshops
Training & workshops
For registered students, externals, and other stakeholders, KUHES Libraries provide a variety of training and workshops which are designed to help our researchers achieve their teaching, learning, and research objectives.
What we offer
KUHeS Libraries provide a huge range of workshops and events. These workshops are also widely publicized via social media and emails, among other channels.
This training outlines a process for selecting a research topic, narrowing the topic down to a specific research question, and carrying out literature review. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training outlines effective searching techniques when using Google, Google Scholar, and other Google resources. It also provides tips for evaluating search results. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training provides an overview of a range of freely available and other tools researchers can use to manage their references, such as Mendeley and Zotero. The purpose is to assist researchers in deciding which service is appropriate for their specific needs. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training will cover strategies and tools that can be used to help researchers stay up to date with the published literature in their topic. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
Social media platforms are becoming increasingly important as tools for disseminating research, discovering new publications and ideas, and conversing with other researchers. This training introduces academics and researchers to a variety of popular and useful social networks. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training will give you an overview of what bibliometrics is, how to use metrics correctly, and what their limitations are. It is intended for those with no or little prior knowledge of the subject and explains the most commonly used author metrics (e.g., citations, field-weighted citation impact, h-index) as well as the tools that can be used to calculate them. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training addresses the critical issues involved in managing research data as well as the overall benefits of adhering to best practices in this area. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training increases knowledge of research data management and provides practical skills for writing data management plans. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
Academic integrity is the commitment to and demonstration of honest and moral behaviour in the classroom. This is especially important at the university level because it pertains to giving credit to others when using their ideas and work by acknowledging their contributions. Academic integrity training covers topics like plagiarism and citation, as well as copyright and fake news. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
The training covers publishing and delves deeper into journal publishing. It also examines how researchers can maximize the impact of their research through a variety of means, including collaboration, increasing discoverability and visibility, and communicating, promoting, and monitoring research output. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training clarifies common sources of confusion about metrics, describes types of impact, introduces core metrics concepts, and explores sources of metrics. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training covers a variety of freely available research resources as well as specialist search engines, tools, and resources for locating theses, freely available articles, books, images, newspapers, statistics, and datasets, among other things. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training covers the open access environment, its drivers, and how researchers can use the various open access routes to make their research output more visible and citable. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
The training explains how an institutional repository boosts the visibility of research outputs by making them freely and globally accessible. It walks researchers through the process of uploading research outputs to an institutional repository, discusses library services associated with depositing research into an institutional repository, and describes the processes and workflows for submitting research outputs to a repository manager.
Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training shows researchers how sharing preprints can help them improve their research and promote open science. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training explains the advantages of creating a researcher profile and introduces the primary research identifiers. It also delves deeper into ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), an internationally recognized, free, and essential tool for author disambiguation. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training covers Systematic Reviews and Meta analyses as reliable methods for reducing bias in the collection, summarization, presentation, interpretation, and reporting of research evidence. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This course is designed to teach clinicians and other healthcare professionals evidence-based practice (EBP) skills that will allow them to conduct extensive evaluations of existing literature to improve patient care. The program provides a comprehensive overview of EBP as well as the components required for EBP implementation in a clinical setting. It is intended to concentrate on the skills required to critically evaluate information derived from research findings and professional consensus statements. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
This training workshop introduces the publishing process, as well as tips for writing an abstract, introduction, methodology, data presentation, discussion, and conclusion. The training sessions also cover topics such as declaration and referencing styles. Offered@Lilongwe and Blantyre campuses.
Our Delivery Phases
Group Trainings
We provide group trainings to KUHeS registered students and staff.
One on One Traintings
We offers trainings on one on one basis to scholars and researchers.
Demand Driven Trainings
We provide trainings to individuals, institutional workers.
How to request for a training?
These Library Training and Workshops can be requested by completing the Ask Librarian form on the library’s website or contact our librarians via email or phone.
Call Us
+0 1757456 l Lilongwe
+0 1871911 l Blantyre
+1 123 456 7890 l Kameza
Email Us
lllibrarian@kuhes.ac.mw l Lilongwe
btlibrarian@kuhes.ac.mw l Blantyre
kmlibrarian@kuhes.ac.mw l Kameza