How to read a Paper Workshop
How to read a Paper using Common Sense and AI
This workshop aims to equip junior scientists with systematic approaches and tools to effectively navigate and manage the scientific literature, as well as extracting key information from papers.
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Great guidance in how to search and understand papers in an efficient way
Workshop Summary
Title: How to read a Paper using Common Sense and AI
Target audience: Junior researchers at MSc. or 1st year PhD level
Format: In-person and Online
Workshop Goals
Reading the scientific literature is one of the most common tasks we have to do as scientists – however, most of us rarely receive training on how to do this important task. The goal of this workshop is to help participants tackle this challenge in a more scientific way – with processes and appropriate tools to help gather, manage, and extract scientific evidence from the literature. In this workshop, we will review key competencies and good practices for approaching this task in a more systematic way. We will explore the growing offering of AI tools that we can use to speed up and automate different parts of the process.
Workshop Content
- Establishing your workflow
- The basics: finding and managing the information
- Extracting information from the literature in a systematic way
- Supercharge: Using AI tools to get things done
Workshop Style
This is an interactive workshop with extensive elements of partner work, exercises, group discussion. We use innovative training methods and proven didactic techniques, and place special emphasis on sharing and learning from the participants’ own expertise and experience. To increase impact and applicability, we work with real-life cases from the participants whenever possible. We may ask participants to reserve time for individual preparatory work before the workshop
Our Trainers
All our trainers are scientists with many years of experience as researchers and scientific communicators. Please refer to our teams page to have a more detailed look at the trainers.
Comments from Past Participants and Organisers
I learned useful tools to improve my reading skills and it gave me another perspective to do this task more effectively.
The workshop was dynamic and fun. I enjoyed having some exercises to test and also using the computer to test the tools at the same moment. It was great to share experiences within the group.
The content, organisation, materials and trainers were amazing. It was a great learning and competence-developing activity.