Events Calendar

Facilitation Techniques: How to get students engaging in seminars and classes

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

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

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

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

• Identify some of the most common barriers to student participation in seminars.
• Plan and structure classroom activities to encourage active participation from all students whilst covering the content.
• Apply communication techniques such as positive affirmation, listening and questioning, and re-directing questions to create a positive and inclusive learning environment.

Session led by:

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

Join us on Highfield Campus across 2 days for the opportunity to meet a range of employers from a diverse range of sectors. Regardless of your discipline, many companies will be offering opportunities suited for all backgrounds. 

Whether you’re looking for opportunities with global or national recruiters, SMEs, third sector or charity organisations, the All-Sector Autumn Careers Fair will offer you a vibrant mix of employers to discover. Make sure you book to attend BOTH days so you don’t miss out.

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer. To make the most of your time at the fairs, ensure you also book onto one of our hybrid "Prepare for the Fair” workshops to gain top tips for networking and questions to ask employers.

We are pleased to confirm there will be a dedicated quiet time between 10:30 - 11:30 for students with accessibility requirements along with a dedicated quiet zone within the fairs. If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs, please email careers@soton.ac.uk ahead of the events and we will be happy to discuss any individual requirements.

Join us on Highfield Campus across 2 days for the opportunity to meet a range of employers from a diverse range of sectors. Regardless of your discipline, many companies will be offering opportunities suited for all backgrounds. 

Whether you’re looking for opportunities with global or national recruiters, SMEs, third sector or charity organisations, the All-Sector Autumn Careers Fair will offer you a vibrant mix of employers to discover. Make sure you book to attend BOTH days so you don’t miss out.

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer. To make the most of your time at the fairs, ensure you also book onto one of our hybrid "Prepare for the Fair” workshops to gain top tips for networking and questions to ask employers.

We are pleased to confirm there will be a dedicated quiet time between 10:30 - 11:30 for students with accessibility requirements along with a dedicated quiet zone within the fairs. If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs, please email careers@soton.ac.uk ahead of the events and we will be happy to discuss any individual requirements

In this one-day online training workshop, you will be introduced to a knowledge equity method.

This is a qualitative method designed to better redress the power imbalances that are inherent in the majority of traditional and even some participatory academic research-knowledge production.

Researchers may often be entirely unaware of the power imbalances in which they are complicit in reproducing through their well-meaning, carefully and well considered research design plans.

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

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13644

For more information and to register, visit Wellbeing Events (sharepoint.com)

Workplace Stress Assessment Training for Line Managers

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

This course will help you to:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

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

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

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

We look forward to having you attend the event!

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

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer.

How to Prepare:

• Research Participating Employers: Review the list of employers attending the fair as it grows, research their profiles and take a look at their vacant opportunities. Prepare questions to ask the representatives working at these organisations.
• Dress Professionally: First impressions matter. Present yourself as a professional candidate.
• Practise Your Pitch: Be ready to introduce yourself, discuss your background, and explain your career goals concisely and confidently. Ensure you can highlight your skills, experience, and achievements relevant to the fields of engineering and physical sciences.
• Prepare for the Fair Workshop: Ensure you also book onto one of our hybrid "Prepare for the Fair” workshops via MyCareer to gain top tips for networking and questions to ask employers.

We are pleased to confirm there will be a dedicated quiet time between 10:30 - 11:30 for students with accessibility requirements. If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs, please email careers@soton.ac.uk ahead of the events and we will be happy to discuss any individual requirements.

Join us on Highfield Campus for the opportunity to meet a range of employers and industry professionals in the fields of Economics, Social and Political Sciences.

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer.

How to Prepare:

• Research Participating Employers: Review the list of employers attending the fair as it grows, research their profiles and take a look at their vacant opportunities. Prepare questions to ask the representatives working at these organisations.
• Dress Professionally: First impressions matter. Present yourself as a professional candidate.
• Practise Your Pitch: Be ready to introduce yourself, discuss your background, and explain your career goals concisely and confidently. Ensure you can highlight your skills, experience, and achievements relevant to the fields of engineering and physical sciences.
• Prepare for the Fair Workshop: Ensure you also book onto one of our hybrid "Prepare for the Fair” workshops via MyCareer to gain top tips for networking and questions to ask employers.

We are pleased to confirm there will be a dedicated quiet time between 10:30 - 11:30 for students with accessibility requirements. If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs, please email careers@soton.ac.uk ahead of the events and we will be happy to discuss any individual requirements.

Winchester School of Art Open Day - 30 October 2024

For more information and to register, visit Wellbeing Events (sharepoint.com)

Course details

Date: 5 and 12 November 2024
Time: 9am to 1pm
Duration: 8 learning hours
Location: Online course via Zoom

Fees:

£150 - full-time students
£225 - academic and public sector
£325 - private sector

About this course
This Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC) course provides a stage-by-stage introduction to the methods and processes commonly used to conduct systematic reviews of the effects of health and health care interventions.

This course:

guides you through the stematic review process
has structured presentations with interactive practical exercises 
covers initial scoping of the review topic through to communicating the completed review’s findings
 

Many participants complete the course in readiness for conducting their own review. You can continue your learning with information and further resources contained in the free comprehensive electronic course manual.

Who is this course for
This course is ideal for people who have an awareness of evidence-based health. It’s also useful for people who are in the process of or about to undertake a systematic review. Previous delegates have been:

researchers
healthcare professionals
academic clinicians
education and policy commissioners
medical students
PhD or MSc students

Learning objectives
After completing this course, you will understand:

what a systematic review in health care is
scoping the research question and writing a research protocol
literature searching
inclusion and exclusion screening
data extraction and critical appraisal
data synthesis

This course will not cover realist synthesis or qualitative analysis

Course lead
The course leaders are:

Dr Jo Picot
Dr Jonathan Shepherd

The course tutors are:

Dr Geoff Frampton
Dr Emma Maund
Dr Karen Pickett
Dr Jo Picot
Dr Jonathan Shepherd
Miss Lois Woods

Register for this course

Visit our online store to secure your place on the course: https://store.southampton.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine/shtac/introduction-to-systematic-reviews-in-health 

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.

Salvaging the Future: Speculative Exercises in World(un)building - with Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé

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

How do we save the world? Can we salvage it instead? This talk considers the concept of ‘salvage’ as utopian and explores how this practice has been implemented in moments of crisis and conflict across contemporary architecture, conservation, and speculative fiction and practice.  

(Un)building on previous work linking salvage-Marxism and the fictions of Rivers Solomon (de Bruin-Molé 2021), and engaging closely with critical perspectives on salvage and unbuilding (cf Tsing 2015; DeSilvey 2017; Halberstam 2018; Claus 2020; Phillips 2021), this talk considers the concept of ‘salvage’ as utopian and explores how this practice has been implemented in moments of crisis and conflict across contemporary architecture, conservation, and speculative fiction and practice. 

Salvage offers up alternative frameworks for imagining utopias – and utopian practice – that are not defined by hope, futurity, or universalism.

This talk presents the work conducted during Megen de Bruin-Molé's sabbatical period in Spring 2024.

Register HERE to attend

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

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

NCRM is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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

Brought to you by the Public and Community Engagement Festivals Team, Arts and Humanities Day is our free family-friendly event packed with hands-on activities, workshops, talks and exhibits. 

This year we’ll be at the Southampton Cultural Quarter on Saturday 9th November 2024, in collaboration with the University of Southampton ESRC Festival of Social Science.

Programme, timetable of live events and tickets will be available by the middle of October.
Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival 2023 - Home (southamptonartshumfest.co.uk) 

This is the second part of a two part course.

Course details

Date: 5 and 12 November 2024
Time: 9am to 1pm
Duration: 8 learning hours
Location: Online course via Zoom

Fees:

£150 - full-time students
£225 - academic and public sector
£325 - private sector

About this course
This Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC) course provides a stage-by-stage introduction to the methods and processes commonly used to conduct systematic reviews of the effects of health and health care interventions.

This course:

guides you through the stematic review process
has structured presentations with interactive practical exercises 
covers initial scoping of the review topic through to communicating the completed review’s findings
 

Many participants complete the course in readiness for conducting their own review. You can continue your learning with information and further resources contained in the free comprehensive electronic course manual.

Who is this course for
This course is ideal for people who have an awareness of evidence-based health. It’s also useful for people who are in the process of or about to undertake a systematic review. Previous delegates have been:

researchers
healthcare professionals
academic clinicians
education and policy commissioners
medical students
PhD or MSc students

Learning objectives
After completing this course, you will understand:

what a systematic review in health care is
scoping the research question and writing a research protocol
literature searching
inclusion and exclusion screening
data extraction and critical appraisal
data synthesis

This course will not cover realist synthesis or qualitative analysis

Course lead
The course leaders are:

Dr Jo Picot
Dr Jonathan Shepherd

The course tutors are:

Dr Geoff Frampton
Dr Emma Maund
Dr Karen Pickett
Dr Jo Picot
Dr Jonathan Shepherd
Miss Lois Woods

Register for this course

Visit our online store to secure your place on the course: https://store.southampton.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine/shtac/introduction-to-systematic-reviews-in-health 

This course provides an introduction to the National Pupil Database (NPD), an administrative data resource covering the education system in England.

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

NCRM is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13507

​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. 

Winchester School of Art Open Day - 16 November 2024

This short online course provides an introduction to an existing data linkage between the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education, with a particular focus on the Police National Computer (PNC) and National Pupil Database (NPD).

The course will include a mixture of lectures, interactive sessions, and practical exercises to put learning into practice.

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

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13614

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Join us at Highfield Campus for the chance to meet and network with a range of employers such as Trusts, Charities and private providers within Nursing & Midwifery, with available work experience and job opportunities.

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer.

How to Prepare:

• Research Participating Employers: Review the list of employers attending the fair as it grows, research their profiles and take a look at their vacant opportunities. Prepare questions to ask the representatives working at these organisations.
• Dress Professionally: First impressions matter. Present yourself as a professional candidate.
• Practise Your Pitch: Be ready to introduce yourself, discuss your background, and explain your career goals concisely and confidently. Ensure you can highlight your skills, experience, and achievements relevant to the fields of engineering and physical sciences.
• Prepare for the Fair Workshop: Ensure you also book onto one of our hybrid "Prepare for the Fair” workshops via MyCareer to gain top tips for networking and questions to ask employers.

We are pleased to confirm there will be a dedicated quiet time between 10:00 - 10:30 for students with accessibility requirements. If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs, please email careers@soton.ac.uk ahead of the events and we will be happy to discuss any individual requirements.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Outline the support provided by the Student Disability and Inclusion  

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

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

• Identify few ways of making teaching more inclusive and accessible

Session led by:

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

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

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

Workplace Stress Assessment Training for Line Managers

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

This course will help you to:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

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

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

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

We look forward to having you attend the event!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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This workshop is aimed at those involved in teaching and assessing student assignments. It is essential that students and staff conduct their educational and research activities with academic integrity (AI). Annually the University's AI regulations and guidance are revised to keep abreast of new developments, such as the availability of software utilising generative artificial intelligence. 

We will discuss the University’s AI regulations and explore Turnitin. We will consider the interpretation of Turnitin reports to detect plagiarism, the student academic integrity breach most commonly detected.

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

• Describe the importance of maintaining high standards of academic integrity.
• Differentiate the different breaches in the University of Southampton academic integrity regulations.
• Evaluate sample Turnitin reports.

Session led by:

Dr Elizabeth Miles, Principal Teaching Fellow, School of Human Development and Health

Dr Bernadette Fernandez, Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Clinical and Experimental Science

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

This session includes tips on:

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

This session includes tips on:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

​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. 

​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. 

​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.