Events Calendar

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

In this webinar, Professor Stacy Clemes (Loughborough University) will describe how her and her colleagues have embedded PPIE throughout their research to implementation journey for the Structured Health Intervention for Truckers (SHIFT) programme. 

Stacy will begin the session describing how the initial idea, and need, for this research came from health and safety personnel working within logistics and transport. She will describe the initial developmental work, conducted with drivers and industry stakeholders, followed by the feasibility testing and subsequent refinement of the programme. 

Stacy will then talk about PPIE involvement during the planning of their NIHR PHR Project Grant application, and extensive PPIE involvement throughout the grant. After summarising the key findings of her NIHR PHR grant, Stacy will conclude the session by talking about her current work, in collaboration with logistics partners and key stakeholders which has seen the translation and scaling up of the SHIFT programme into a DVSA-approved driver training module. Stacy will also talk about the findings to date, or their PPIE-informed implementation evaluation of the SHIFT module/module component.

Next steps and further information:

You can register using the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnaqdyyDRweqEMcBIwxtsQ#/registration 

Once registration closes, further details will be sent to everyone who has reserved a ticket.

The event lasts for 1 hour with a 30 minute presentation and 30 minutes allocated for Q&A.

The event will be recorded and shared with those who have registered as well as publicly on our NIHR platforms and may be downloaded in countries where data protection legislation differs from the UK.

Should you wish to join anonymously please refer to the following guidance: https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0063788

Your personal information is held and used in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (2018). The Department of Health and Social Care, NIHR is the Data Controller under GDPR. Under GDPR, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you.

You should be aware that information given to us might be shared with other NIHR bodies for the purposes of statistical analysis and other NIHR management purposes.

You may be assured that NIHR is committed to protecting privacy and to processing all personal information in a manner that meets the requirements of GDPR. For more information, please view the NIHR Privacy Policy

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. 

Welcome to the AI@Southampton Roadshow! Whether you're an AI professional working with AI, or are simply curious join us at one of our informative online briefing sessions or visit our exciting campus pop-ups to discover more about this new initiative.  For enquiries, contact AI@Southampton.ac.uk.

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

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network invites all students and staff to join weekly vigils in solidarity with Palestine with regular speeches from members to find out more about the network, engage in open discourse, and provide hope. Located on the Redbrick on Highfield Campus (outside of Nisa/SUSU Shop), drop by anytime between 11.30am and 12.30pm. 

Find out more about the University's Palestine Solidarity Network at: psn.uos

Southampton Stonewall Lecture 2025

Guest Speaker Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) will talk on "The Shape of Sex: A History of Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity"

The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the annual Southampton Stonewall lecture, which will take place on Thursday 27 February at 18:00 on the University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus.
We are delighted to welcome Leah DeVun (Rutgers University) to speak at this event in the School of Humanities' annual lecture series.

About this event
This lecture focuses on ideas and individuals who allegedly crossed sex or gender categories in Europe from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, the lecture will explore how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex and gender. In a moment when questions about sex, gender, and identity have become incredibly urgent, the lecture will cast new light on a complex and often contradictory past. It shows how premodern thinkers created a system of sex and embodiment that both anticipates and challenges modern beliefs about what it means to be male, female—and human.

Speaker information
Leah DeVun is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. She is the author, most recently, of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, and co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici) of Trans*historicities, a special issue of TSQ devoted to transgender history. DeVun is also the author of articles in GLQ, WSQ, Osiris, postmedieval, and Radical History Review, among other publications. In addition, she is a visual artist whose work is deeply concerned with LGBTQ+ history, as well as archives, collectives, activism, reproduction, technology, and other related topics. Her work or interviews have been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, Huffington Post, People Magazine, LARB, Redbook, Feature Shoot, Slate, Capricious, Art Papers, Gallerist and other publications. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Huntington Library, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Stanford Humanities Center, DeVun has lectured widely at venues in the U.S. and Europe.

Stonewall Lecture
Since 2012 the annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture has explored the rich heritage that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) history. The lecture has been given by a range of prestigious international speakers including Professors George Chauncey, Laura Doan, Dagmar Herzog, Matt Cook, and Howard Chiang. Each lecture has offered an academic approach but one also geared to a broader public audience. A key purpose is to educate contemporary audiences, academic and public, about the past while also promoting the University of Southampton’s commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion. Through a greater understanding of discrimination and tolerance through the centuries, we can help to promote tolerance and inclusivity in contemporary British society.

Event information
Guests can join this event in person at Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.

We encourage guests who wish to join in person to register at your earliest opportunity as spaces are strictly limited.

Book your place via Eventbrite

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. 

Despite the great potential of GenAI in assisting student learning, such potential often remains untapped as students may face various linguistic, technological and attitudinal barriers. This workshop, building on my teaching of a professional skills module at the Master’s level, introduces the innovative practice of “Ask ChatGPT”. 

It shows how the identified barriers can be overcome through a simple yet accessible approach embedded in weekly lectures and seminars, and what kind of prompts, nudges and reflective practices can help enhance student engagement with the approach.

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

·         Understand the barriers of utilising GenAI/ChatGPT faced by (especially international) students;

·         Learn how the simple yet accessible “Ask ChatGPT” approach can help break these barriers, and what plans and activities can be designed to effectively enhance student take-up and engagement with this approach;

·         Think about how the practices learned from this workshop can be tailored into their own teaching.

Session led by:

Dr. Yifei Yan, Lecturer in Public Administration and Public Policy, Social Sciences (Department of Politics and International Relations)

This course is aimed at student facing staff (academic and non-academic). It will be delivered on zoom, you will receive a ink for this nearer the time. 

In a 2022 survey by the mental health charity Student Minds, 57% of respondents self-reported a mental health issue, and 27% said they had a diagnosed mental health condition. Therefore, many of us are interacting with students who are struggling with one of many mental health conditions. 

The University has teamed up with Solent Mind, Hampshire’s leading mental health charity, to provide student-facing staff with online training co-designed to help us support our students struggling with mental health issues. We want to ensure that staff feel confident about how best to support their students and are aware of where to signpost them when needed.

This aim of this course is to provide you with the skills to support someone experiencing a mental health crisis. By the end of the session you will be able to:

• Know the different mental health conditions that are commonly experienced by students

• Know how to spot early warning signs 

• Support students with their mental health and signpost them to external services

• Know the resources available at the University of Southampton for supporting your students

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

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