Newcomers Research Week returns from the 12th to the 16th January 2026. The week-long programme of online training sessions will include returning classics and brand-new sessions highlighting the latest support the University offers researchers.

View the full programme below, and sign-up to as many sessions as you like here!

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This year, we're also including some additional content alongside our live sessions that you can complete in your own time. Why not take a look at: 

• Open Access Publishing tutorial: find out about opportunities and requirements for open access publishing at Essex. This should take around 20 minutes.
• Training module on Responsible Metrics: learn about using research metrics (such as citations) responsibly, and complete the short quiz to check your understanding. This should take around 20 minutes.
• Essex Startups: start a business while you study: Watch this approximately 5 minute video introducing the Essex startups team, and find out how you can start a business while you study.

Newcomers Research Week is organised once a year - in January - and offers early career researchers and new starters at Essex bite size sessions as introductions to the research support offered at the University of Essex. 

Newcomers Research Week has sessions that map to the research lifecycle; from ideas to grant writing to publication and sharing. Sessions are delivered by staff from Library and Cultural Services, Research and Enterprise Office, the UK Data Archive, CER, and others.

We repeat many of the essential sessions each Research Week, but we also introduce or change some sessions based on the feedback and suggestions we get from participants throughout the Newcomers Research Weeks.