Our Activities

Workshops, panels, salons, and everything the club has been up to.

Browse everything below — use the category filters or the search box to narrow things down (e.g. show only writing bootcamp sessions, or everything from 2025).

Library Buffet: A taste of what’s new this academic year
2026
networking
tools

The SMU Researcher Club’s August 2026 networking session — connect with fellow researchers and get a taste of new resources: Altmetric Explorer, Sage Campus & Research…

Aug 20, 2026
Covidence 101: Supporting Systematic and Scoping Reviews
2026
webinar
tools

A webinar and live demo of Covidence for faculty, research staff, and PhD students — covering importing references, title and abstract screening, full-text review, data…

May 28, 2026
Structured Dialogue: How Researchers Are Using AI in Practice
2026
panel
ai-tools

A candid, conversational panel where PhD students, early-career researchers, and practitioners shared their real experiences using AI tools for writing, coding, analysis…

Jan 22, 2026
Research Integrity and Generative AI in Publishing: A 2-Part Seminar with Elsevier
2025
talks
ai-tools

A two-part seminar with Elsevier on research integrity, AI declarations, evolving peer review, and the opportunities and risks of Generative AI in publishing.

Jul 29, 2025
Inside Research Careers: Growth, Skills, and Hiring Insights from PIs and Research Fellows
2025
panel
professional-development

An honest conversation with experienced PIs, Research Fellows, and industry professionals on building a sustainable research career, followed by a networking lunch.

May 29, 2025
LinkedIn for Academic Researchers
2025
workshop
professional-development

A 3-hour workshop on using LinkedIn to build a digital presence, showcase research impact, and position yourself as a thought leader.

Mar 6, 2025
Shut Up and Write Sessions (9-Week Programme)
2025
writing-bootcamp

A structured nine-week writing programme using the Pomodoro technique to help researchers make tangible progress on papers, with an on-site librarian at every session.

Feb 8, 2025
Research Salon & Writing Bootcamp — Pitching and Matchmaking Session
2025
research-salon
writing-bootcamp

Pitch your article idea, find collaborators, and form a team for a 9-week writing bootcamp.

Jan 15, 2025
Taming Information Overload for Literature Review — Strategies, Practices, and AI’s Growing Influence
2025
panel
ai-tools

A cross-disciplinary panel on organising and synthesising research information, including the evolving role of AI tools, followed by a networking session.

Jan 15, 2025
Try-it-together: Building Your Research Website — From Quarto to the Web
2024
workshop
try-it-together
tools

The final workshop in the series — hosting Quarto sites for free on Quarto Pub and GitHub Pages, covering site organisation and customisation.

Oct 29, 2024
Try-it-together: Generate Reports and Presentations with Quarto
2024
workshop
try-it-together
tools

Building on Quarto basics — managing citations, using academic journal templates, and creating dynamic RevealJS presentations for research communication.

Oct 22, 2024
Try-it-together: LaTeX 101 for Beginners
2024
workshop
try-it-together
tools

A beginner-friendly, hands-on introduction to LaTeX using Overleaf — formatting text, writing formulae, inserting figures and tables, and adding references.

Oct 16, 2024
Try-it-together: Getting Started with Quarto for Academic Writing
2024
workshop
try-it-together
tools

A hands-on introduction to Quarto in RStudio — Markdown basics, integrating narrative, R code, and citations to produce polished, reproducible documents.

Oct 15, 2024
IIE Support for Research Commercialisation + SMU Researcher Club Networking Session
2024
talks
commercialisation
networking

A talk on bringing research from the university to society and business — the pathway from discovery to IP protection and commercialisation — followed by a networking lunch.

Aug 20, 2024
Publication Series Part 4: My Paper is Rejected. What Now?
2024
panel
publication-series

A panel of academics, journal editors, and early-career researchers on turning paper rejection into a stepping stone for future success.

Jun 25, 2024
Publication Series Part 3: Writing with AI — Insights and Experiences from Researchers
2024
panel
publication-series
ai-tools

Researchers from various disciplines share how they’ve used AI to augment manuscript writing and their workflow — including best practices and pitfalls. Part of AI for…

May 29, 2024
Publication Series Part 2: Negotiating Authorship — How should you be credited for your work?
2024
panel
publication-series

As research grows more collaborative, what does it take to be an author? A panel on authorship criteria and how to negotiate the credit you deserve.

Apr 30, 2024
Publication Series Part 1: Evaluating Journals and Conference Proceedings
2024
panel
publication-series

What makes a good journal or proceeding to reference and submit to? A panel on evaluating publication venues and the considerations that matter.

Apr 2, 2024
Smart Citations and scite Assistant
2024
webinar
ai-tools-series
ai-tools

A webinar with scite co-founder Sean Rife on using scite.ai for the discovery and evaluation of scholarly literature, with a focus on the AI-based scite Assistant.

Mar 27, 2024
Making Your Literature Review More Efficient with Elicit
2024
webinar
ai-tools-series
ai-tools

A webinar with Elicit co-founder Jungwon Byun on using language models to search 125M+ papers, extract data for systematic reviews, and map concepts across studies.

Feb 29, 2024
Using Scispace to Boost Your Research Productivity
2024
webinar
ai-tools-series
ai-tools

A webinar with Scispace co-founder Saikiran Chanda on an AI-powered discovery tool that generates cited answers and extracts information into research matrices.

Jan 18, 2024
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