Practical Webinars
for Researchers
A series of free webinars for academics, doctoral candidates, and researchers. Practical tools and strategies you can put to work straight away — join us live, or watch the recording.
Upcoming Sessions
The Researcher's Guide to Digital Tools
New tools, new platforms, AI features being added to everything — keeping up with research technology can feel like a full-time job in itself. How do you know what is genuinely useful and what should be ignored, and how do you stay sane as you navigate technology changes? This session isn't a tool review. It's about helping you think more clearly about technology so you can make confident decisions about what's actually worth your time — and we'll use some of our favourite tools as examples along the way.
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Reclaiming Your Research Time
For most researchers, the problem isn't caring about their work — it's finding the time to actually do it, and finding it consistently, week after week, rather than watching it slowly get swallowed by everything else. This session looked at why research keeps losing the battle for your time and worked through practical approaches to protecting it — not just in theory, but in the reality of a genuinely full week.
Watch the recordingNotebookLM for Researchers
Researchers read widely and gather notes from all directions — that's part of doing thorough, curious work. The challenge is navigating all of that material when you need it, especially when you're deep in a project and connections between sources aren't easy to see. This session looked at exactly how to use NotebookLM — Google's free AI-powered research tool — to get a much clearer handle on your literature and find what you need, without having to re-read everything from scratch.
Watch the recordingReclaim Your Research Momentum
You know what it feels like when your research life is working well — steady progress, clear thinking, work that feels meaningful even when it's hard. When that feeling slips away, it can be difficult to find your way back. This session looked at what actually disrupts research momentum, and walked through practical strategies for getting grounded and moving forward again at a pace that's sustainable.
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About Lyn Lavery
Dr Lyn Lavery is the director of Academic Consulting Ltd and the founder of Research Accelerator — an online membership platform for academics and doctoral candidates who want practical, ongoing support for their research.
With a background in qualitative research methods and over a decade of experience working one-on-one with researchers at all stages, she's known for making research skills genuinely accessible and useful. She is based in New Zealand and works with researchers across the country and beyond.
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