{"id":4597,"date":"2025-08-05T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2025-08-05T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:12:20","slug":"digital-skills-training-for-scientists-and-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2025\/08\/05\/digital-skills-training-for-scientists-and-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital skills training for scientists and engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/TobermoryLighthouse-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3811\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/TobermoryLighthouse-2-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/TobermoryLighthouse-2-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/09\/TobermoryLighthouse-2.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>Building on previous research\u00a0 analysis on who attends training, in what mode:<\/p>\n<p>We know from our research that men in College of Science and Engineering (CSE)\u00a0 are less likely to access digital skills training than women. This highlights a risk that they may get left behind.<\/p>\n<p>My Digital Skills Training Team conducted a mapping exercise, matching our existing courses to the identified skills gaps, and \u2018Digital Skills for CSE\u2019 was born \u2013 a programme of 18 training sessions delivered over the course of two months, specifically for CSE staff audiences.<\/p>\n<p>202 CSE colleagues attended the programme of training \u2013 this represents approximately 20% of the total annual CSE staff attendance across the entire Digital Skills Programme. \u2018Digital Skills for CSE\u2019 had a mean attendance of 11.2 people per session, which is slightly higher than our usual average attendance rate. We saw a no-show rate of 25% \u2013 this is lower than our usual no-show rate, which can vary between 30%-50%, depending on the course, time of year, and demographic breakdown of attendees (we usually see a higher no-show rate among student attendees).<\/p>\n<p>The feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive, with 96% of respondents stating that the course was relevant to their needs, and 98% of respondents agreeing that attending the course had given them a greater understanding of the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk\/dsdt\/digital-skills\/digital-skills-for-cse-a-data-driven-success-story\">Digital Skills for CSE \u2013 a data-driven success story \u2013 Digital Skills, Design and Training<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on previous research\u00a0 analysis on who attends training, in what mode: We know from our research that men in College of Science and Engineering (CSE)\u00a0 are less likely to access digital skills training than women. This highlights a risk that they may get left behind. My Digital Skills Training Team conducted a mapping exercise, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,371,115,337],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-digital","tag-men","tag-skills","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4600,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}