Events Calendar

​This workshop will provide a brief outline of the work of the Financial Support Team and their role in assisting students struggling financially to remain in education. It will also explore the findings of the Student Money Survey, the aim of which is to identify how money confident students are, and the impact financial uncertainty has on the student experience.  Participants will asked to share any student interactions relevant to the topic.

This two-day online course is aimed at postgraduate researchers and analysts interested in quantitative analysis of energy poverty and its effect on people’s wellbeing.

The course consists of lectures and practical sessions on measurement of energy poverty and on (causal) analysis on its effect of people’s health and wellbeing outcomes.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12453

​Join us to enhance your teaching practice and promote student engagement and success. 

Register now to start building a more equitable learning environment.

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

• Identify who your learners are and how best to support them
• Discuss the importance of inclusive education practices
• Relate and articulate the benefits of designing an inclusive learning and teaching experience and how this aligns with University strategies and our legal obligations
• Identify and reflect on threshold concepts and barriers
• Design and plan an inclusive change in your practice
• Formulate a positive action outcome by applying the “plus one” mindset to your area of education (GROW)
• Make connections with other people across the University & build your network

​These friendly informal webinars are hosted by the Events channel within the 365 community team. If you wish to join the meeting, look for the meeting invite within the Events channel posts. This team is open for any member of the University to join. Visit the associated web link to view a list of our past and upcoming sessions with links to the recordings and slide packs.

​Autism is a condition that affects the way individuals communicate and relate to the world around them and affects an estimated 700,000 people in the UK.

This interactive webinar aims to spread awareness of autism and develop a better understanding of how we can all enable staff and students with autism to thrive at the University of Southampton. This 1-hour interactive webinar is led by Daniel Barnes, who is an Autism Ambassador and shares his own experiences of supporting a sibling with autism.

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.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12372

​Gaining professional recognition for academic tutors and advisors At this briefing we will explore the 3 levels of professional recognition, discuss the framework and how to apply:  Levels:  Recognised Practitioner in Advising (RPA)  Recognised Senior Advisor(RSA) and Recognised Leader in Advising (RLA).

Our students have diverse backgrounds and educational experiences. As a result, providing opportunities or “windows” for students to practice degree-level academic skills before assignments is useful (Wingate, 2016).

This session will provide 3-5 (depending on time) fairly short activities to develop your students’ argumentation and structuring skills for essay writing. The aim is provide you with frameworks for activities which you can repeatedly adapt and use, with minimal preparation, during your lectures/seminars.

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

• Set up 3-4 different activities which give students practice in argument and structure for essays
• Adapt the activities to focus on different subject matter, text types, or tasks
• Identify the value of opening “academic skills windows” for inclusive student learning

All staff are welcome to this session, however we will use theoretical texts and essay-type questions as a focus for the activities, rather than more technical reports or questions.

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 of the course 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.

There will be a mixture of lectures and practicals for which participants will use Stata software to clean and analyse HES data. The course is delivered by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based at the University of Southampton.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12237

​Gaining professional recognition for academic tutors and advisors At this briefing we will explore the 3 levels of professional recognition, discuss the framework and how to apply:  Levels:  Recognised Practitioner in Advising (RPA)  Recognised Senior Advisor(RSA) and Recognised Leader in Advising (RLA).

This two-day course will outline creative research methods and show you how to use them appropriately throughout the research process.

The course assumes that you have a good working knowledge of conventional research methods, and builds on that knowledge by introducing arts-based methods, embodied methods, research using technology, multi-modal research, and transformative research frameworks such as participatory and activist research.

Any or all of these techniques can be used alongside conventional research methods and are often particularly useful when addressing more complex research questions. You will have several opportunities to try applying these methods in practice. Attention will be paid to ethical issues throughout.

The course will include plenty of practical advice and tips on using creative methods in research.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12373

In this MAKE session, we will work together to understand the Twine Interface and the basic building blocks of creating an interactive story

Twine is an open-source tool used for telling nonlinear interactive stories. Widely considered the industry standard for accessible interactive storytelling, whether it's used as a scriptwriting tool in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch or its ubiquitous presence in video game design, Twine’s simplicity and ease of use make it readily available to all levels of storytellers.

The great thing about Twine?

There’s no requirement to understand or write code for you to create these stories.

This MAKE session organised by Digital Humanities will take you through the basic building blocks of creating an interactive story. The first half of this session will walk you through the Twine interface, explaining what you need to know to get started on your first interactive story (as well as time to play around creating these stories). The second half of the session will begin to look at ways in which we can complexify our stories, bringing in beginner-friendly coding that can help us tell the stories we want to write.

The most important thing to remember about this MAKE class – it’s beginner friendly, working at a pace that suits its participants.

Please contact digitalhumanities@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions.

In this themed session, learn how to clean, analyse and visualise environmental data.

Held annually on 5th June, World Environment Day (WED) is the official UN day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect the environment.

This themed workshop organised by Southampton Digital Humanities will further your understanding of climate change whilst developing digital literacy. Using Python, you will learn how to clean, manipulate and analyse environmental data in addition to creating data visualisations. These climate change data will be open-source and may cover issues such as deforestation, land use, Co2 emissions and/or energy use.

What you’ll need:

We will be using Python during this session, a popular programming language in the field of data analytics. Knowledge of Python would be highly beneficial, but is not strictly required. You will need either: a) to have Jupyter Notebook installed; or b) a Google account (for using Google Colab).

This session will run on MS Teams, therefore you will need a computer and internet connection.

Please contact digitalhumanities@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions.

In this one-day online course (taught over two 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.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12234

Session for: All PGRs and Staff

Session Description: The session will introduce ways of assessing research using bibliometrics. We will provide an introduction to bibliometrics, the University's Responsible Metrics Policy, provide guidance on how to use the digital tools available to you and have time for questions.

Dates/Times: 29/11/2022 10-11am, 03/02/2023 10-11am, 24/04/2023 2-3pm, 13/06/2023 12noon-1pm

Location: Online, MS Teams

How to book:

Staff, please use: Staffbook at https://www.staffbook.soton.ac.uk/login/

PGRs, please use: PGR Manager at https://pgrmanager.soton.ac.uk/do/southampton-login/login

Undergraduate Open Days 24-25 June 2023

Undergraduate Open Days 24-25 June 2023

​The PREP programme is accredited by Advance HE against the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF).   

 Before attending a workshop you are required to: 

• Complete the Advance HE tool to assist you in selecting the category of Fellowship that is the closest match to your current practice: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/form/fellowship-decision-tool 
• Watch the 2 short videos (Briefing 1 and Briefing 2) available from the PREP webpage: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/chep/SitePages/PREP.aspx  

 The workshop is designed to: 

• guide you into deciding which of the UKPSF Descriptors it would be appropriate for you to apply for (each of the four Descriptors represent different experience and influence in an educational role)
• prepare you to begin selecting materials for your portfolio and to write the mapping elements

Attendance at this workshop (or equivalent) is a pre-requisite for attending a Writing Workshop.  

 Target Audience:  
Technicians considering submitting a PREP application / Advance HE recognition as a fellow of Advance HE (D1-D2) 

Pre-requisites:  
Participants should have a keen interest in achieving an HEA fellowship (D1-D2) via a PREP application and completed the tasks detailed above.

To mark the fortieth anniversary of the archives of the first Duke of Wellington at Southampton, we are hosting a behind the scenes day on Friday 7 July 2023, 1000-1200 & 1400-1600 in Hartley Library, Special Collections on level 4.

There will be a chance to meet the curators, see a selection of gems from the collection, find out about aspects of curation, including conservation work. An exhibition outlining work on the collection over the forty years will be on show in the Level 4 Gallery and there will be a talk by Dr Zack White and tea in the Library Conference Room.

To reserve a space please click on this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellington-papers-40-behind-the-scenes-at-the-archives-tickets-528206288227?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

​Summer Graduation 19-28 July 2023

Undergraduate Open Day 10 September

Undergraduate Open Days 7-8 October 2023

Undergraduate Open Days 7-8 October 2023

​Winchester School of Art Open Day 25 October 2023

​Winchester School of Art Open Day 18 November 2023