Events Calendar

BDO have presented the Business & Industry Partnerships team with their Innovation Roadmap, including various challenges around emerging and innovative technologies, and we are excited to invite you to an exclusive workshop on the 15^th January 2025.

BDO are an accountancy and business advisory firm, with an office in Southampton, that are looking to understand how these technologies could be applied to their business, as well as the wider professional services and accounting industry.

They wish to engage with academics and researchers with expertise in the following topics:

•  Liquid Neural Networks
• Blockchain & Web 3.0
• Net Zero Carbon Emissions
• Digital Employees
• Digital Twins
• Value Vs. Chargeable Models

The workshop aims to foster collaboration with innovative projects such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), interdisciplinary research studies and consultancy opportunities.

Each session will consist of BDO introducing the project requirements, with time for academics with linked research interests to respond. Following the workshop, they will send through a Request for Proposal (RFP) with their Terms & Conditions outlined and will include a request for costings, with a set deadline.

The agenda is as follows:

• 09.30 – 10.15 Liquid Neural Networks
• 10.30 – 11.15 Blockchain and Web 3.0
• 11.30 – 12.15 Net Zero
• 13.30 – 14.15 Digital Employee
• 14.30 – 15.15 Digital Twins
• 15.30 – 16.15 Value v Chargeable Model 

 Location: Sir James Matthews Building (135), Room 6031

This is an exciting opportunity, and we hope you can join us in exploring this potential collaboration. We also invite you to share these meeting invitations with colleagues that you feel may be interested in any of the workshops.

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 and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.

Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination

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

Speaker: Prof Kathleen E. Kennedy, British Academy Global Professor, University of Bristol | Hosted by Prof Louise Siddons

Come, learn to appreciate early Tudor art using Scott McCloud’s classic Understanding Comics, and why late medieval English illumination lies at the foundation of design theory. 

When comics theorist Scott McCloud launched Understanding Comics in 1993 he did not know that he was fueling a new field of scholarly inquiry. He was trying to introduce audiences, viewers who might otherwise have dismissed comics as unserious, or who might not looked at comics at all, to “the invisible art” of comics. 

Surprisingly, late medieval English illumination suffers from a similar invisibility, and even more surprisingly yet, McCloud’s theories about twentieth-century comics can help us see early Tudor illumination, and understand how it functioned on the page. 

Register HERE to attend

Join Gift of Sight at St Paul’s Church, Winchester for a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio by Bach Winchester Voices and Orchestra.

The talented musicians, led by Andrew Hayman, will perform the last four cantatas of the Oratorio, in a vivid musical depiction of the Christmas Story, featuring Sebastian Hill as Evangelist.

Traditionally played from the Third Day of Christmas, leading to Epiphany, the Oratorio’s wonderful choruses and intimate solo arias are sure to inspire and delight, whatever your personal beliefs.

Professor of Ophthalmology, Andrew Lotery, will give a warm welcome and a short talk about recent vision research projects taking place at the University of Southampton.

Entry is free, donations are welcome at the event, with all funds raised going towards sight saving eye research at the University of Southampton.

Places are limited so please ensure you reserve your space prior to the event.

Addressing workplace stress for all staff and managers

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
• Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
• Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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

The Business & Industry Partnerships team would like to invite you to a demonstration of the collaboration platform – KONFER.

Developed by the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), on behalf of UKRI, konfer is an innovation collaboration platform, that uses smart matching technology to connect research and innovation partners. 

For businesses, it opens up research, researchers and services in UK universities and research institutions. For academics, it is a great way to find impact partners beyond your usual reach.  

 A single point of access connecting UK academics and businesses  

Using machine learning and natural language processing, all konfer data is indexed and categorised to power advanced search and discovery and our smart-matching technology. You can use konfer to:  

• Search and discover research, experts and innovative companies 
• Promote your call for collaboration or consortium partners  

• Respond to challenges  

  konfer is a free resource open to all UK businesses, charities, research and technology organisations, universities, academics and individuals.  

 We hope you’re able to join us!

Twenty artist's books made from crochet and clay. Each book contains one tile of twenty and are referenced in Nonsuch Memory Of My Birth. This piece, and the artist's books and performance accompanying the installation, document the experiences of the artist working through the book, and performance accompanying the installation, document the experiences of the artist working through the book, 'Surviving A Borderline Parent'. The books are contained within a specially designed and built suitcase. 

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)

Join us on Highfield Campus for the opportunity to meet a range of employers and industry professionals in the fields of Engineering, Finance, Business Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Electronics and Computer Science, Photonics and Optoelectronics. Book your space via MyCareer.

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

CHEP, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Global, Recruitment, Admissions and Marketing, the Confucius Institute, and Jo Bloxham (founder of Kynfolk) is delighted to announce two online sessions open to all Academic and Professional Services colleagues that centre the lived experience of our students joining us from China.

The session will take place on Wednesday 12 February from 09:30-12:00, with an optional Q&A from 11:30-12:00. This session will be hosted via Microsoft Teams Webinar.

This workshop offers an opportunity to find out more about the cultural surprises and challenges our Chinese students face while they are studying with us. We will look at a range of areas including communication, language, academic expectations, and student life outside the classroom.

By the end of this event, we will have:

• Had an opportunity to listen to the personal experiences of some Chinese students studying with us;

• Explored some of the surprises and challenges Chinese students may face in studying and living with us, academically, socially, and in terms of communication and language;

• Shared some further sources of learning and support;

Session led by:

Jo Bloxham, Founder, Kynfolk

Bryony Whitmarsh, Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Xinyang Lu, Post-Doctoral Researcher, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

4 x PGT students, names to be confirmed

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

Addressing workplace stress for all staff and managers

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
• Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
• Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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

This practical, interactive workshop offers an introduction to using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching, learning and assessment. 

It will give a basic overview of what GenAI is alongside an explanation of the University’s current position on use of GenAI. 

Practical activities will offer the opportunity to explore a GenAI tool in your context and to reflect on how assessment tasks might be adjusted to reduce vulnerability to misuse of AI. 

The workshop is aimed at GenAI novices!

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

·       Understand the University’s current position on the use of generative artificial intelligence in education

·       Explore how to use CoPilot to support education related tasks

·       Identify opportunities and challenges in education presented by GenAI

·       Reflect upon how GenAI impacts different kinds of assessment

·       Consider how assessment approaches might be adjusted to reduce vulnerability to misuse of GenAI

·       Identify where to find suitable resources and support within UoS

Session led by:

Prof. Kate Borthwick, Professorial Fellow of Enterprise, Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Steven White, Senior Teaching Fellow (Education Development), Business School

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 

Workplace stress conversations for line managers

You know the importance of addressing workplace stress and are familiar with the workplace stress assessments having read the guidance and/or having done the training. You just need some extra tips on things to look out for when having a workplace stress conversation. 

This course will help you to:

• Know the different responses you might get when having a workplace stress conversation.
• Put in place mitigations for common challenges you may face.
• Know the skills needed for a successful workplace stress conversation.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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

In this session, Anna and Beth from the Student Disability and Inclusion team will discuss a variety of support available to support disabled students during their time at University.  

The session also aims to provide an opportunity for colleagues to interact with some fictional case studies and discuss how best to support disabled students in the scenarios. 

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 (SSR's) are and their significance in providing students with equal access to education. 

•       Reflect on a set of case studies and identify support that could be provided to disabled students.

• Identify a few ways of making teaching/communication with students more inclusive and accessible.

Session led by:

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

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

​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.

Addressing workplace stress for all staff and managers

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
• Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
• Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Non-Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

• Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
• Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
• Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

• 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 also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

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

The following session will provide participants with an introduction to supporting Autistic students at the University. 

It will include interactive case studies and discussions and will encourage participants to reflect on their roles and how they can provide better experience for Autistic students.

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

-          Feel confident in basic understanding of Autism.

-          Be able to identify barriers some autistic students may face at university.

-          Reflect on their own practice and role at University and consider ways in which they may be able to make this more inclusive and supportive for neurodivergent students.

Session led by:

Anna McCann, Student Disability Faculty Liaison Lead, Student Disability & Inclusion, SES

Beth Lawson, Student Disability Faculty Liaison Lead, Student Disability & Inclusion, SES

Lizzie Nash, Student Disability & Inclusion Support Co-ordinator, Student Disability & Inclusion, SES

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

Addressing workplace stress for all staff and managers

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

• Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
• Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
• Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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. 

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

• Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
• Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
• Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

• 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 also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

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

Workplace stress conversations for line managers

You know the importance of addressing workplace stress and are familiar with the workplace stress assessments having read the guidance and/or having done the training. You just need some extra tips on things to look out for when having a workplace stress conversation. 

This course will help you to:

• Know the different responses you might get when having a workplace stress conversation.
• Put in place mitigations for common challenges you may face.
• Know the skills needed for a successful workplace stress conversation.
• Know what support is available to all staff.

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 have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

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

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Non-Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

• Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
• Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
• Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

• 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 also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

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