Events Calendar

Data visualisation is one of the most important steps in any analysis journey.

Visualisations allow us to explore our data, identify errors and outliers, generate hypotheses about possible relationships between variables, and communicate results clearly and efficiently.

ggplot2 is a powerful R package that was designed to create publication-quality graphics in seconds. The joy of ggplot2 is its flexibility: graphs are built in layers which can be easily customised, ensuring novel plots to fit almost any situation.

This online course will introduce the ggplot2 package and its underlying grammar of graphics.

Participants will understand how to choose the most appropriate type of visualisation, based on the type and number of variables, and the intention of the plot. We will then build visualisations, layer by customisable layer, to transform simple plots into beautiful, informative graphics.

This course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13619

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In this session, the Student Disability and Inclusion team will discuss a variety of support, mechanisms and services aimed at supporting disabled students.  

Alongside a presentation, this interactive session allows to explore a range of case scenarios that PATs or other academics may encounter when dealing with their students. 

Finally, the session will provide tips on inclusive/accessible practice that benefits all learners.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Outline the support provided by the Student Disability and Inclusion  

• Understand what Student Support Recommendations are and their significance in providing students with equal access to education 

• Take part in a set of case studies and identify support that could be provided to disabled students  

• Identify few ways of making teaching more inclusive and accessible

Session led by:

Anna McCann (Student Disability Faculty Liaison), Student Disability and Inclusion, 

Beth Lawson (Student Disability Faculty Liaison Lead), Student Disability and Inclusion 

& Lawrence Pearman (Student Disability Lead Practitioner), Student Disability and Inclusion.

BFE Autumn Conference 2024 (Online/University of Southampton) Tickets, Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 9:45 AM | Eventbrite

BFE Autumn Conference 2024 | British Forum for Ethnomusicology

Workplace Stress Assessment Training for Line Managers

As managers, we are responsible for managing workplace stress. It’s in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.

• To use a stress risk assessment to assess the causes of workplace stress..

• To identify actions that will reduce the risk or manage existing workplace stress.

• Know what support is available for you and your team.

Notes:

• Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.

• Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.

• Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked. 

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Workplace Stress Assessment Training for Line Managers

As managers, we are responsible for managing workplace stress. It’s in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.

• To use a stress risk assessment to assess the causes of workplace stress..

• To identify actions that will reduce the risk or manage existing workplace stress.

• Know what support is available for you and your team.

Notes:

• Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.

• Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.

• Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked. 

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Material Interests Lecture Series

Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by Winchester School of Art's Department of Art and Media Technology.

‘Electile Dysfunction’: Influencer politainment in the 2024 UK elections, with Shepuya Famwang

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, East Building, Winchester School of Art, Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8DL  / Online via Teams

In this talk, Shepuya Famwang will introduce notions of influencing, politics and entertainment in the last UK elections by focusing on social media satirist influencers to highlight an experiment in both influencing and its consequent effects on the distribution of entertaining political information in the digital age. 

Register HERE to attend

Shepuya Famwang is a Teaching Fellow in Journalism and Communication and Alternative Journalism Strand Lead in MA Global Media Management in the Department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art.

The Material Interests Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Media Technology and Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities 

https://www.turnersims.co.uk/events/free-uos-music-presents-a-christmas-concert/

Location: Turner Sims Concert Hall

Workplace Stress Awareness Training for All Staff

Our wellbeing has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. Taking small actions to build our personal resilience can make a big difference.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.

• Know what to expect of the university to manage the causes of workplace stress.

• Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.

• Know what support is available to you when you need it.

Notes:

• If the session is online, please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.

• Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.

• Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked. 

• If a session is fully booked, please contact wellbeing@soton.ac.uk. We’ll add you to our waitlist and keep you notified.

In this one-day online training workshop you will be introduced to four qualitative research methods to better understand diverse lives – Photo Go-Alongs, Collage, Life History Interviews and Participant Packs.

When researching social groups, researchers may focus on categories such as age, gender, sexuality and so on. These categories can turn catch-all terms into catch-all agendas.

Treating groups of people with one shared characteristic as homogenous risks a cookie-cutter approach which overlooks diverse lives and needs. Given the complexity of what it means to be a person, a one-size fits all approach to engagement cannot suffice.

The methods introduced in this training workshop are beneficial in exploring diverse lives and can be used when researching with any group.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13411

The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university. 

As the first university to set up a full international campus in India under the University Grants Commission, we are immensely proud of the hard work of all colleagues involved.

To enable staff to find out more and ask questions about TNE in general, as well as our new and exciting campus, sessions with tea and coffee will be hosted by Professor Andrew Atherton, Vice-President (International and Engagement) and Zoë Marlow, Associate Director (TNE), across our campuses.

Free and bookable by all staff, the sessions will include a 20-minute presentation, with 30 minutes for Q&A.

Location

This event will take place on Avenue campus, B65 R1097.

Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tne-growth-programme-ask-us-anything-avenue-tickets-995198173527

The aim of this two-day online training course is to introduce participants to the practice and ethics of ethnographic research.

Through a mix of plenary sessions, group and independent work, participants will learn the basic principles of participant observation and research design, as well as the foundations of ethical ethnographic research.

The course will also examine the ways in which other qualitative and creative methods of data collection may be productively integrated in ethnographic research.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13824

This in-person workshop will introduce basic facilitation techniques to get students talking in seminars and classes. We will explore barriers to participation and introduce simple techniques to develop students’ confidence and encourage active learning in seminars.

The workshop will model facilitation techniques that you can use to get students participating in your sessions, and participants should expect to take part in activities and discussion.

This workshop is suitable for anyone delivering discussion seminars and classes for small groups (up to about 30 students).

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Identify some of the most common barriers to student participation in seminars.

• Plan and structure classroom activities to encourage active participation from all students whilst covering the content.

• Apply communication techniques such as positive affirmation, listening and questioning, and re-directing questions to create a positive and inclusive learning environment.

Session led by:

Neil Ford, Principal Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP) & Dr Pina Franco, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP) 

A new resource guide

There is a new resource guide to complement this workshop: Facilitation skills: A resource guide for small group learning and teaching

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Learn how to create manage and find your online reading lists, including: ordering resources, requesting digitisations and accessing student engagement data.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

·         Create a Talis online reading list.

·         Add a list structure.

·         Order library resources via their reading list.

·         Request a digitisation via their reading list.

·         Access and understand the list analytics (student engagement data).

·         Locate your list: on Blackboard and from the Talis home page.

·         Know where to find additional support and online guidance – including information on best practice.

Session led by: 

Nick Gates, Reading List Manager, Library

Liesbeth Meilink, Reading List Principal Library Assistant
 

This one day online course (taught over two mornings) is designed to raise your awareness of why and how you need to think and act ethically in practice throughout your research work.

The current system of ethical review by committee can lead to the misleading sense of having 'done ethics'.

This course shows you how to conduct research which is truly ethical. It also provides the opportunity for discussion of your own ethical dilemmas, if you wish.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13698

This course moves beyond standard understandings of ethnography that depict it as a generic qualitative method founded on ‘participant observation’ to provide learners with a sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach based on cutting-edge academic research.

The course will blend theorical and practical considerations.

On the one hand, the course examines the theoretical scaffolding of ethnography, recognising that a thorough understanding of the epistemological foundations of the methods we use is essential to conducting rigorous and ethical research.

On the other, the spirit of the course is inherently practical and pragmatic, as it aims at preparing researchers to design and conduct ethnographic fieldwork, as well as writing it up for academic and non-academic audiences.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13861

This session will provide practical approaches to creating Theories of Change and Pathways to Impact, for your education, student experience, research or knowledge exchange projects and activities. Change Busters aims to reconceptualize evaluation as a dynamic and interactive learning experience. This session is suitable for any level of evaluation experience and we welcome staff from all career pathways, and PGR students.

Change Busters poses fundamental evaluation questions within a playful environment. During this session, players will engage in creating a Theory of Change. Players will participate in discussions focusing on how change happens, how we evidence change, and how we can rethink traditional evaluation methods.   

The session will be particularly useful for staff and PGRs grappling with how to evidence the impact of their work.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Understand the stages of a Theory of Change. 

• Confidence with theorising change by using pre-determined scenarios. 

• Extend learning through application to your own context.

Session led by:

Naomi Clements, Senior Teaching Fellow in Academic Practice (Evaluation), Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Tahrima Hossain, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Jess Macpherson, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

This online course will introduce you to various empirical, quantitative methods that can be used to estimate the impact of a specific policy intervention.

These methods can be referred to as “programme evaluation”, “impact assessment”, “causal estimation” or “impact evaluation”.

The course assumes knowledge of basic algebra and statistical concepts (mean, median, correlation, expected value, statistical significance and confidence intervals).

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13785

Featuring Andy Hamilton

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

This practical, one-day course provides a guided introduction to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a cloud-based GIS platform that allows users to create maps and other web applications for data sharing, collaboration and analysis.

You will learn how to publish existing vector data to AGOL, set sharing and group privileges and create a web map that drives field-based data collection.

You will use Experience Builder to create a web application that is used for sharing and visualising spatial data. The course comprises hands-on exercises each introduced with a short presentation and a live demonstration.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13863

In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Toolkit and find out how you can use it to support students, in a blended context or by using resources as additional support materials for self-study. 

You will learn how to add the resources to your courses, and find out about the improvements we've made to broaden the range of resources to allow them to be used with both home students and those for whom English is not a first language.

By end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Find the EAP Toolkit on Blackboard

• Understand the basis of the pedagogy behind the resources

• Understand the type and range of resources available in the Toolkit

• Know how to select resources to use in their teaching

• Know how to encourage use of the Toolkit by their own students

• Insert resources from the Toolkit into their own Blackboard modules

Session led by:

Andrew Davey, Specialist Technician, eLanguages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture, organised by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (hybrid).

Further details will be added in due course.

Please contact fahevent@soton.ac.uk for more information.

Following the success of Winchester's first artist book and 'zine fair, Into the Fold will return on the weekend of 28 February and 1 March.

More details will be available in due course. In the meantime, please see the Into The Fold 2024 event webpage for more information about last year's event.

For more information, please contact fahevent@soton.ac.uk and wsaabf@soton.ac.uk. 

Our Day Skipper package is ideal for anyone looking to get their Day Skipper qualification or International Certificate of Competence. 

The following courses will take you through the basics of undertaking a short passage from harbour to harbour in a safe manor. Please access each course and arrange the dates in the following sequence:

• RYA Competent Crew        

• RYA Day Skipper Theory        

• RYA Day Skipper Practical    

  You can schedule the following 2 courses at at a time suitable for you.

• RYA First Aid        

• RYA Marine Radio SRC (VHF)

These qualifications are the base level required for students or staff to charter the University yacht.

You will need these qualifications to apply for an International Certificate of Competence (ICC) for a sailing vessel.

Prices

If you book all of these courses at the same time through our Day Skipper Package, you will save money. 

A Southampton sports member will pay £896.50 booking our Day Skipper Package compared with a non-member paying £1,790.00 to book the courses seperately. This is a potential saving of £893.50! 

Course

Southampton Sports Membership

Mayflower Member, Sports Pass or Non-Member

RYA Competent Crew

£346.50

£630.00

RYA Day Skipper Theory

£203.50

£370.00

RYA Day Skipper Practical

£346.50

£630.00

RYA First Aid    

£52.25

£95.00

RYA Marine Radio SRC (VHF)

£35.75

£65.00

Total booking seperately

£984.50

£1,790.00

Day Skipper Package

£896.50

£1,630.00

Booking the Day Skipper Package

To book the Day Skipper Package, please contact the booking team directly. 

The booking team work 9am to 5pm on Monday to Friday. 

Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 2199

Email: southamptonsport@soton.ac.uk 

Discounts will not be applied directly if you book online.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss if this is the right course for you, please contact the watersports team:

Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 0110

Email: watersports@soton.ac.uk 

Featuring Sara Glojnarić

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

This course is run as a collaboration between the National Centre for Research Methods and Administrative Data Research UK and is part of a series on short courses on administrative data.

The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the Growing Up in England (GUiE) dataset. GUiE is a flagship ADR dataset and provides a link between 2011 Census data and longitudinal administrative data from the education and children’s social care systems.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13624

Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) the University of Southampton’s annual, award-winning interdisciplinary science festival that welcomes everyone to explore and discover the world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).

The annual 10 day festival celebrating all things STEAM is run to coincide with British Science Week

For more information including how you can get involved please visit www.sotsef.co.uk

This workshop aims to empower you to challenge poor behaviours, and bring about cultural change through reinforcing messages defining the boundaries of unacceptable behaviour.

This session includes tips on:

• Overcoming fear and paralysis in challenging situations.
• Using the right words and expressions when challenging behaviours.
• How to tackle micro-aggressions, including eye-rolling, sighing and constant interruptions.

Please note this session is not recorded. If you have any accessibility requirements or any questions, please contact diversity@soton.ac.uk 

​The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university. 

Science and Engineering Day is part of Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) the University of Southampton’s annual, award-winning interdisciplinary science festival that welcomes everyone to explore and discover the world of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).

Established in 2002, this event has grown to welcome over 5,000 people every year from across the region and further afield.

Attendees explore over 145 different practical festival stalls, workshops and talks – ranging from close encounters with local fossil finds, learning about how choices in life can influence dementia likelihood to writing poetry inspired by black holes.

The festival is focused on providing positive experiences with STEAM, innovation, and diverse career role models for attendees. Many of the exhibits focus on practical skills encounters and development and invite visitors to go beyond the one-off by contributing and getting involved in current research.

In this live online course, learn about questionnaire design in the context of different modes of data collection.

Explore question wording issues, the questionnaire as a whole and visual concerns when moving from interviewer-administered to web survey, when creating a web survey in general and when facing the questionnaire design challenges in creating mobile-friendly web surveys.

Mirroring in-person training this will be an interactive course and will also have breakout rooms sessions throughout.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13699

In this online two day course (taught over four mornings) you will learn what GIS is, how it works and how you can use it to create maps and perform spatial analysis.

We assume no prior knowledge of GIS and you will learn how to get data into the GIS, how to produce maps using your own data and what you can and cannot do with spatial data.

You will also learn how to work with a variety of different data sources and types (including XY coordinate data and address or postcode data) and using spatial overlays, point in polygon analysis and spatial joins.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13700

This online workshop will introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives.

IE is not just a methodology, but an entire approach to research with a specific ontology of how the social world works and the organising role of texts and language.

In IE, the researcher ‘takes sides’ using a specific version of standpoint to explore how institutions work in practice rooted in peoples’ experiences.

This often involves researching as, with, or alongside marginalised groups and making visible how institutions exclude or make invisible certain groups of people and experiences.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13851

This course will provide participants with an understanding of how Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data are collected and coded, their structure, and how to clean and analyse HES data.

A key focus will be on developing an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of HES, how inconsistencies arise, and approaches to deal with these.

Participants will also learn how to ensure individuals’ anonymity and confidentiality when carrying out analyses and publishing results based on HES.

The course consists of a mixture of lectures and practicals for which participants will use Stata software to clean and analyse HES data.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13731

​The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university. 

This online workshop aims to give participants a range of practical approaches they can adopt when writing about methodology in the social sciences, with a particular focus on writing a PhD methodology chapter.

Using a range of exercises throughout, the course focuses on 20 or so writing strategies and thought experiments designed to provide more clarity and power to the often-difficult challenge of writing about methods.

The course also looks at common mistakes and how to avoid them when writing about methods.

The focus throughout is on building confidence and increasing our repertoire of writing strategies and skills.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13732

Featuring Yvonne Liao

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

This practical, one-day hands-on course provides a guided introduction to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a cloud-based GIS platform that allows users to create maps and other web applications for data sharing, collaboration and analysis.

You will learn how to publish existing vector data to AGOL, set sharing and group privileges and create a web map that drives field-based data collection.

You will use Experience Builder to create a web application that is used for sharing and visualising spatial data. The course comprises hands-on exercises each introduced with a short presentation and a live demonstration.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13864

In this one day online course (taught over 2 mornings) we will explore how to use R to import, manage and process spatial data.

We will also cover the process of making choropleth maps, as well as some basic spatial analysis.

Finally, we will cover the use of loops to make multiple maps quickly and easily, one of the major benefits of using a scripting language to make maps, rather than traditional graphic point-and-click interface.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13706

In this one-day online training workshop you will be introduced to four qualitative research methods to better understand diverse lives - Photo Go-Alongs, Collage, Life History Interviews and Participant Packs.

When researching social groups, researchers may focus on categories such as age, gender, sexuality and so on. These categories can turn catch-all terms into catch-all agendas.

Treating groups of people with one shared characteristic as homogenous risks a cookie-cutter approach which overlooks diverse lives and needs.

Given the complexity of what it means to be a person, a one-size fits all approach to engagement cannot suffice. The methods introduced in this training workshop are beneficial in exploring diverse lives and can be used when researching with any group.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13853

​The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university. 

In this online course, run over two mornings, we will show you how to prepare and conduct spatial analysis on a variety of spatial data in R, including a range of spatial overlays and data processing techniques.

We will also cover how to use GeoDa to perform exploratory spatial data analysis, including making use of linked displays and measures of spatial autocorrelation and clustering.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13707

​The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university.