

Events Calendar
Friday 1st December 2023
Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research Group Launch: Federating Research (10:00)
This inaugural event marks the launch of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics Research (CIIP) research group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and is the first event in the collaboration with Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI, London South Bank University) and Digital Aesthetics Research Group (DARC, Aarhus University).
The launch will host a panel discussion with Dr Stephen Cornford, Professor Jussi Parikka, Dr Alexandra Anikina and Professor Geoff Cox, to introduce the interests of the first year of the collaboration: federated research, critical infrastructures and practice-led approaches.
The event is hybrid and is open to all: please register to receive online link.
You are also welcome to join in person in Lecture Theatre B, East Side, Winchester School of Art, Park Ave, Winchester SO23 8DL. The venue is accessible.
Critical Infrastructure and Image Politics is a research group dedicated to investigating the politics of contemporary digital and visual cultures at the intersection of media art and critical theory.
We foreground transdisciplinary and practice-based methodologies of artistic and activist-led research in media and technocultures with specific interests in material infrastructures, critical posthumanities, algorithmic visual cultures, feminist and decolonial technocultures, and media ecologies.
We are based in Art and Media Technology Department, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.
Festive Family Event (16:00)
A free event open to students, staff and local alumni with children. Event includes festive crafts and activities, magician, free refreshments, a vit to Santa (bookable sessions) and much much more.
Postponed: Romarna Campbell Trio (20:00)
Saturday 2nd December 2023
Understanding Blank Gold (11:00)
Join Dr Mohamed Hassan-Sayed, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Southampton as he discusses the history, legacy and vilification of natural substances found within oil wells in the Middle East.
The talk will be followed by a guided tour of Jala Wahid’s exhibition Conflagration, by JHG Engagement team.
About the speaker:
As well as extensive experience in industry, Dr Mohamed Hassan Sayed is the Founder and Director of Chemical Engineering at the University of Southampton. Some of his previous roles include teaching Energy and Chemical Engineering courses in Kuwait, Saudi, Egypt and the UK. Mohamed also developed the Energy and Petroleum courses at the Australian College in Kuwait and University of Portsmouth, as well as holding a role as Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo.
Mohamed worked as a project manager and a senior research fellow at the University of Surrey, centre for environmental strategy. Researching transitional pathways to low carbon technologies resulting in white papers feeding into smart metering policies, among others.
About the exhibition:
Conflagration is a new body of work by artist Jala Wahid. The work explores the relationship between Britain and Kurdistan, through the lens of oil. It explores the discovery of the Baba Gurgur oil well, following a time when Britain and France politically occupied Mesopotamia, ending in the formation of new nation states in the region’s oil resources.
Monday 4th December 2023
Southampton Research Software Community: Networking Lunch (11:00)
Southampton Research Software Community: an invitation to our networking lunch
95% of researchers at the University of Southampton use software in their research and 73% report that their software is vital to their research [1].
Do you use software to do your research? Do you develop software to do your research? Are you interested in meeting your colleagues that do too?
If so, we invite you to register for our free and informal networking lunch to meet your fellow researchers at The University of Southampton. Join us to learn about:
- Scaling up your research with (free) help from our newly appointed High Performance Computing Research Software Engineers.
- Plans for trusted research environments at the University
- How you can follow a career as a Research Software Engineer not just here in Southampton but also at universities around the world.
- A route to commercialising your web application with Southampton Research Software Group and Enterprise Software Services.
There will also be an opportunity to present your own research, share ideas, ask for help and find collaborators.
This event is run by the Southampton Research Software Group in collaboration with the HPC team in iSolutions. Space is limited so register your interest to attend now! Register with this form.
And we’ll look forward to seeing you there!
The Southampton Research Software Group
UoS Music Presents: Manuel Cini - Music From Dachau (13:00)
Lunchtime concert presented by the University of Southampton Music Department.
Manuel Cini is an accomplished pianist who has performed as a soloist in Italy, Germany, Lithuania and England. He is currently studying a PhD in Music at the University of Surrey, with a thesis called Music from Dachau, concerning unedited and unknown music written by prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. This concert presents what is believed to be the first public performance since 1945 of songs composed by Polish composer Leon Kaczmarek (1903-1973) during his imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp in the Second World War. Kaczmarek was born in Poland. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he was arrested by the Gestapo in early 1940 and sent to Dachau concentration camp, just outside Munich. Kaczmarek remained in the concentration camp for five years. He worked there as the conductor of the official German men’s choir. During this time, he composed numerous songs, Lieder, works for choir and solo piano, instrumental pieces, as well as several arrangements and transcriptions.
This concert is co-sponsored by the Parkes Institute for Jewish Non-Jewish relations, and is part of a larger programme of discussions and lectures across the day.
12.15pm – 12.45pm: Pre-Concert Talk: Neil Gregor (Southampton) ‘Music and the Holocaust’
1pm – 2pm: Concert: Manuel Cini ‘Music From Dachau’
2pm – 2.45pm: Post-Concert Panel: Various Speakers (Building 2, Room 2061)
Entrance is FREE and all are welcome. All audience members must book a ticket.
Tuesday 5th December 2023
START... Visualising Data with Python (14:00)
In this Digital Humanities START workshop, learn about the fundamental principles of data visualisation and how to create your own graphs using Python.
Data visualisation is a key practice for representing data, allowing you to easily share information within presentations, posters, articles, and more. In this START session, you will learn about the fundamental principles of data visualisation and how to create your own graphs using the Python programming language. Data visualisations which may be covered include: bar graphs, scatter plots, line graphs, histograms, pie charts, subplots, and basic 3D graphs.
Please register your space through our Eventbrite.
If you have any questions, please email digitalhumanities@soton.ac.uk
The Howard Rein Lecture | The Great War and the Inception of Jewish Medical Humanitarianism (18:00)
Join us for the annual Howard Rein Lecture, this year given by Jaclyn Granick on ‘The Great War and the Inception of Jewish Medical Humanitarianism.’
This event is a hybrid event, meaning you can attend in-person or online via Zoom.
Wednesday 6th December 2023
Workplace Stress Risk Assessment Training for Line Managers (10:00)
This course is aimed at line managers who manage employees and has been designed to provide an understanding of what to consider in respect of their wellbeing.
By the end of the session, attendees should be able to:
- Understand what activities can trigger adverse wellbeing
- Identify the early signs of adverse wellbeing
- Identify when adverse wellbeing is significant
- Carry out a risk assessment
- Understand the potential implications of not controlling the risk
- Understand what controls can be implemented
- Carry out monitoring to check the controls are working
- Take action if controls are not working or an employee's health deteriorates
Menopause Awareness Training (14:00)
The focus of this training is to raise awareness of Menopause in the workplace. Menopause is a phase of life. While some sail through it with barely a symptom, it isn't an easy transition for all. With the right support we can improve colleagues experience at work and in their personal lives. We want to help everyone feel comfortable to have open and honest conversations about menopause, never feeling that the subject is taboo or off limits.
The changing demographics of the UK’s workforce means that between 8 in 10 menopausal women are in work and research shows that the majority of women are unwilling to discuss menopause-related health problems with their line manager, or ask for the support or adjustments they may need. Line managers also need to be supported to enable them to give appropriate assistance to those they manage.
It's time to make a change.
Visit our Wellbeing Events SharePoint site to register.
Notes:
- Previous versions of this training include Menopause Awareness Training for Line Managers and Menopause Awareness for All Colleagues.
Thursday 7th December 2023
Display Screen Equipment (DSE) / Hybrid Working Bitesize Workshop (12:00)
Doctoral Research Poster Showcase 2023 (13:00)
The Doctoral College is pleased to announce that the Research Poster Showcase will take place on Thursday 7 December between 13:00 and 15:30 in Garden Court (B40), Highfield Campus. The Research Poster Showcase offers postgraduate researchers a valuable opportunity to talk about their research project in the form of a poster presentation.
Live Music: Paul Lewis - Schubert III (20:00)
Schubert Piano sonata No 4 in A minor, D537
Schubert Piano sonata No 9 in B, D575
Schubert Piano sonata No 18 in G, D894
Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide. Tonight, he continues his survey of Schubert’s piano sonatas.
Both D537 and D575 are entirely characteristic works, dating from 1817. Written in October 1826, D894 was the last work in the form to appear during the composer’s lifetime: Robert Schumann called it ‘the most perfect in form and conception’ of all Schubert’s sonatas.
The final recital in the Schubert Series will take place on Tuesday 19 March 2024
Friday 8th December 2023
Live Music: USV - Revolver & Sergeant Pepper (19:30)
New arrangements of iconic music from the Beatles, marking 60 years since they first performed in Southampton.
Harvey Brough returns with the University of Southampton Voices. Tonight they feature music from Revolver, and the classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Hits include Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, She’s Leaving Home, With a Little Help From My Friends and A Day in the Life.
Sergeant Pepper was never performed in concert by the Beatles as it was released after their touring days. This is a thrilling opportunity to hear this iconic music live, in a special new arrangement by Harvey and David Le Page.
Audience rehearsal 6.45pm – 7.15pm
Saturday 9th December 2023
Family Fun Day at John Hansard Gallery! (10:30)
Join us for a free morning of creativity! Explore our current exhibitions by Jala Wahid, Koestler Arts and Mykola Ridnyi.
Throughout a morning of trail finding, artwork making and sticker-collecting, explore the Gallery and get creative!
Follow our trail map to find new activities, or ask our friendly Gallery Assistants some questions to earn stickers!
Join us from 10.30am for the whole morning, or come and go as you please!
For any questions, please email florence@jhg.art.
Sunday 10th December 2023
Hanukkah Party 2023 (10:00)
Dr. Gil Dekel will share the story of Hanukkah – the Jewish festival celebrating light over darkness.
We will also have some art activities, in this festive welcoming celebration. Suitable for the young and the old. Family-friendly, student-friendly, and free… Places are limited. Sunday, 10th December. Full details: contact Dr. Gil Dekel g.dekel@soton.ac.uk
Monday 11th December 2023
UoS Music Presents: Christmas Concert 2023 (13:00)
Lunchtime concert presented by the University of Southampton Music Department.
Organised by our final year undergraduates, this event will include an array of Christmas carols and festive music performed by students and staff from the Department of Music.
Entrance is FREE and all are welcome. All audience members must book a ticket.
Tuesday 12th December 2023
PREP Reflective Writing workshop (Online) (12:00)
Pre-requisites:
- Participants should have attended a PREP Framework Briefing session or equivalent
- Started the first stage mapping of your activities
Wednesday 13th December 2023
Menopause Safe Listening Space (10:00)
Join Libby Barton, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist and Claire Buchan, Wellbeing Officer and Menopause Working Group member for the Menopause Safe Listening Space on 13 December from 10:00 - 11:00.
To register, please email diverse@soton.ac.uk.
CHEP online workshop: Opening academic 'skills' windows in your teaching: 3 short activities on essays (12:00)
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 3-4 (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.
To get the most from the session, participants should think of a few essay questions from their subject area. If possible, they could also bring a journal article which might be relevant to the essay question, and an example of a ‘good’ student essay in this topic area.
Participants are welcome to share short
extracts (e.g. an essay question and a paragraph) with the facilitator
in advance of the session to help make the session more relevant.
CHEP online workshop: Advancing your education portfolio (12:00)
A strong educational portfolio is increasingly important in supporting career progression for all staff involved in education, and particularly for those in teaching focussed roles. However, it can be a challenge to engage in the kinds of activity that contribute to such a portfolio given the pressures associated with the multi-faceted role of the modern academic.
This workshop will give practical examples of how colleagues can develop their educational portfolio in a way that complements the ‘day job’, supporting enhanced effectiveness as well as enhancing the CV. Pathways to Senior/Principal Fellowship of the HEA will be discussed, along with the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship administered by AdvanceHE.
The workshop will be
facilitated by Prof Shelley Parr and colleagues who have achieved
promotion on the education pathway here at Southampton.
Thursday 14th December 2023
Live Music: A Christmas Carol (19:30)
A musical retelling of the best-loved Yuletide adventure of them all – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
First published in 1843, the classic story has been loved and retold by every generation since. It is credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the British Christmas. GreenMatthews blend voices and instruments to create a bewitching musical version of this seasonal favourite.
The first half of the show presents a blend of Victorian carols and midwinter folk songs. They paint a vivid and colourful picture of the festive season in Dickens’ time. The second half is an hour-long retelling of his most iconic novella.
Flinty-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge endures four ghostly visitations on a cold and bitter Christmas Eve. He awakes the following morning a changed man – generous, loving and full of the Christmas spirit. This heart-warming tale is presented entirely in narrative song, using brand-new lyrics set to traditional English folk and carol melodies.
Composer Chris Green says ‘A Christmas Carol is one of those rare works of literature that has been completely assimilated into the popular consciousness. It’s a tale that has been retold and reinvented by each new generation for the last 170 years, much like a classic folk song – so it seemed a natural progression to retell it using traditional melodies with new words.‘
Saturday 16th December 2023
IT Infrastructure Maintenance
Sunday 17th December 2023
IT Infrastructure Maintenance
Live Music: Melrose Quartet - A Bright New Year (19:30)
A Christmas concert like no other! Sheffield’s celebrated Melrose Quartet invite you to join them for an evening of festive songs and good cheer.
Melrose Quartet are known for exquisite close harmony and high energy instrumentals. They will treat you to the finest rousing Sheffield Village Carols, alongside new seasonal songs and some hilarious games.
Summer 2023 sees the release of their fourth studio album Make the World Anew. This follows the critical success of Dominion and their Christmas album The Rudolph Variations. Their debut album Fifty Verses was nominated for Best Album at the 2014 BBC Folk Awards.
Melrose Quartet have forged a reputation for making music that truly connects with people. With deep roots in their hometown’s vibrant music, song and dance scene, they have smashed concert appearances all over the UK. They are internationally renowned singers, instrumentalists and writer/composers. In 2017 they were proud to be named the patrons of Whitby Folk week.
Join us for an evening that will put a smile on the face of even the most hardened Scrooge!
Nancy Kerr voice, fiddle
James Fagan voice, bouzouki, guitar
Jess Arrowsmith voice, fiddle
Richard Arrowsmith voice, melodeons
Presented by Turner Sims in association with SHOCC Dances: English Ceilidh in the South
Friday 5th January 2024
WPSM / CHEP online workshop: Student Money Questionnaire 23/24 results (12:00)
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 Questionnaire, from last year and this year, 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.
Friday 12th January 2024
Live Music: Seb Rochford & Kit Downes 'In the Round' (20:00)
Join Seb and Kit on the Turner Sims stage, as they play A Short Diary acoustically ‘in the round’.
A Short Diary was released on the ECM Records label this year. It was Sebastian Rochford’s (Polar Bear) exquisitely poignant musical response to his father’s death in 2019. All the tunes, except one, were composed by Seb on his grandfather’s piano in his childhood home in Aberdeen. He then recorded them with his friend, BBC Jazz Award winner and Mercury Music Award nominee Kit Downes on piano, adding his own drums as a kind of discreet conversational partner.
This is music as a lament but also as an act of remembrance, ‘a sonic memory, created with love, out of need for comfort.’ It is deeply beautiful, full of hymn-like simplicity and space, yet also human warmth.
The final track Even Now I Think Of Her was composed by Seb’s Dad, poet and psychotherapist Gerard Rochford. In Seb’s words: ‘It’s a tune my dad had sung into his phone and sent me. I forwarded this to Kit’s phone. He listened, and then we started.’
Experience the poignancy and beauty of A Short Diary up close on stage with the musicians.
…sorrow is replaced with consolation, and, in responding to death, the duo also creates a parable of grief. Pitchfork
Pure music of luminous quality [which is] bound to be in quite a few year-end lists. The Arts Desk
This concert is approximately 75 minutes straight through, without an interval
Saturday 13th January 2024
Live Music: Welsh National Opera Orchestra - New Year Concert (19:30)
Weber Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op 65
Johann Strauss II Wo die Zitronen blüh’n (Where the Lemons Bloom) Waltz, Op 364
Josef Strauss Ohne Sorgen (Without Worries), Polka schnell, Op 271
Schubert Ave Maria, D839
Brahms Hungarian Dance No 5
Delibes Sous le dôme épais (The Flower Duet) from Lakmé
Josef Strauss Dynamiden Waltz, Op 173
Suppé Dichter und Bauer Overture
Dvořák Slavonic Dance No 2 Dumka Allegretto grazioso Op 72
Delibes Pizzicati from Sylvia
Richard Strauss Bein Schlafengehn from Four Last Songs
Lanner Der Romantiker Waltz Op 167
Johann Strauss II Furioso Polka Op 260
Stolz Du Solsst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein from Der Favorit
Kick-start the New Year the right way, with WNO Orchestra.
This is an unmissable New Year concert from WNO Orchestra. Experience the musical pulse of Austria’s capital city, where the air is full of music and its soul rooted in Viennese.
Full of fun, attractive and zesty rhythmic masterpieces, enjoy some of the most brilliant examples of Viennese music. Hear Weber’s romantic concert waltz, Strauss II’s riveting polka, Josef Strauss’s Dynamiden waltz and Lanner’s Der Romantiker waltz, complete with a few rousing, and familiar, surprises.
WNO are directed by Leader and Concertmaster David Adams and joined by WNO’s latest Associate Artists. Sit back and delight in this vibrant showcase of favourites from Vienna.
Concert presented by Welsh National Opera in association with Turner Sims
Monday 15th January 2024
Introducing Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research
This 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.
It is being organised by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13101
Wednesday 24th January 2024
CHEP online workshop: Opening academic skills ‘windows’ in your teaching: 3 short activities to develop students’ critical thinking (12:00)
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 demonstrate 3-5 (depending on time) fairly short critical thinking activities to integrate into your regular subject teaching. The activities draw on theory-focused reading texts (e.g. extracts from journal articles/student essay writing), rather than technical data or processes. Once students are familiar with them, these short tasks can be adapted, used as ‘warmer’ activities, introduced at relevant points in a session, or set as challenges for students to create themselves.
To
get the most from the session, participants should bring along 2 or
more text extracts which illustrate the kind of critical thinking which
participants look for in their teaching and assessment. Essentially –
they should bring something which shows what good critical thinking
looks like in their subject in (a) expert work and (b) student work.
Participants are welcome to share short extracts (e.g. a paragraph)
with the facilitator in advance of the session to help make the session
more relevant.
Tuesday 30th January 2024
CHEP online workshop: An Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (09:30)
This workshop is an opportunity for all staff teaching University of Southampton students. Whether you are new to teaching in the UK or at this university, are returning to teaching after a research break or interact with students in your daily job this workshop is for you.
This
brief Introduction to Learning and Teaching in HE will help you to make
a start on developing your education practice and will support you in
managing your education role/s (however big or small). This is a
preliminary workshop to building your education portfolio and teaching
expertise and will support your professional and academic development in
the areas of learning and teaching.
Wednesday 31st January 2024
Reproducibili-Tea and UKRN Open Research Network (12:30)
Joint Reproducibili-Tea and UKRN Open Research Networt meeting with Lunch provided
Friday 2nd February 2024
Introduction to QGIS: Spatial Data and Spatial Analysis
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, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13105
Wednesday 7th February 2024
Four Qualitative Methods for Understanding Diverse Lives (for professionals)
In this one-day online training workshop, you will be introduced to four qualitative methods to better understand diverse lives: photo go-alongs, collage, life history interviews and participant packs.
When researching social groups, it can be tempting to focus on categories such as age, gender, sexuality and so on. However, 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 working or researching with any group.
The course is being 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=13109
Four Qualitative Methods for Understanding Diverse Lives (for professionals)
In this one-day online training workshop, you will be introduced to four qualitative methods to better understand diverse lives.
The methods are photo go-alongs, collage, life history interviews and participant packs. The session is aimed at professionals working in the community sector (and those organisations who support such activity) across the UK
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
The 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=13109
Wednesday 14th February 2024
CHEP online workshop: An overview of academic integrity and the use of turnitin (12:30)
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.
Wednesday 21st February 2024
Introduction to Hospital Episode Statistics
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.
This course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13118
Tuesday 27th February 2024
Introduction to QGIS: Spatial Data and Spatial Analysis
In this online two day course, you will learn what GIS is, how it works and how you can use it to create maps and perform spatial analysis.
It will be taught over four mornings.
The course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13105
Wednesday 6th March 2024
CHEP online workshop: Intercultural Communication - working with international students (12:00)
This session will focus on different aspects of ‘international student’ experience, considering how aspects of communication, delivery, and task management can facilitate students’ academic development in an inclusive and proactive way.
The session will draw on the contexts, experiences, and practices of those attending, while also considering practical insights on developing more effective practices for multlingual and multicultural cohorts.
Thursday 7th March 2024
Introduction to Podcasting as Research
This training explores the potential of podcasting as a creative, qualitative research method.
While academics have already started to discover podcasting as an effective digital medium for research communication, podcasting can also be used as part of a creative research practice and methodology.
Participants will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with podcasting by creating their own ‘mini-podcast’ (one short episode).
The topic of this exercise can be related to the participant’s own current research practice, where desired and appropriate. For this introductory-level training, you do not require any prior experience with podcasting or other forms of audio production.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13115
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Radical Research Ethics
This one day online course is designed to raise your awareness of why and how you need to think and act ethically in practice throughout your research work.
It will be taught over two mornings.
The course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13120
CHEP workshop: Maximising your delivery (12:00)
This is a practical and interactive workshop designed to help you improve your delivery and maximise your voice in lectures.
The workshop will provide you with the opportunity to explore techniques and exercises in order to improve your vocal range, variety and clarity and reduce vocal strain and nerves.
The workshop will be mostly practical, but there will be an opportunity to exchange and share ideas of strategies that help you during lectures.
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Menopause Awareness Training (11:00)
The focus of this training is to raise awareness of Menopause in the workplace. Menopause is a phase of life. While some sail through it with barely a symptom, it isn't an easy transition for all. With the right support we can improve colleagues experience at work and in their personal lives. We want to help everyone feel comfortable to have open and honest conversations about menopause, never feeling that the subject is taboo or off limits.
The changing demographics of the UK’s workforce means that between 8 in 10 menopausal women are in work and research shows that the majority of women are unwilling to discuss menopause-related health problems with their line manager, or ask for the support or adjustments they may need. Line managers also need to be supported to enable them to give appropriate assistance to those they manage.
It's time to make a change.
Visit our Wellbeing Events SharePoint site to register.
Notes:
- Previous versions of this training include Menopause Awareness Training for Line Managers and Menopause Awareness for All Colleagues.
Thursday 14th March 2024
CHEP online workshop: Supporting Disabled Students at the University (12:00)
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 academics may encounter when dealing with their students.
Finally, the session will provide tips on inclusive/accessible practice that benefits all learners.
Monday 18th March 2024
Conducting Ethnographic Research
The aim of this two-day online training course is to introduce participants to the practice and ethics of ethnographic research.
Through a mix of plenary sessions, group and independent work, participants will learn the basic principles of participant observation and research design, as well as the foundations of ethical ethnographic research.
The course will also examine the ways in which other qualitative and creative methods of data collection may be productively integrated in ethnographic research.
The course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13127
Tuesday 16th April 2024
Questionnaire Design for Mixed-Mode, Web and Mobile Web Surveys
In this live online course, participants will learn about questionnaire design in the context of different modes of data collection.
You will 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 workshops throughout.
The course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13136
Wednesday 17th April 2024
Festival of Open Research (10:00)
Agenda TBA
Tuesday 14th May 2024
WPSM / CHEP in-person workshop: Promoting Student Inclusion (12:00)
The Widening Participation & Social Mobility (WPSM) Team are running this in-person workshop that will provide an introduction to the student groups that are supported by the Student Inclusion team, namely: free-school meal eligible, IMDQ1 (low participation neighbourhoods), care experienced and estranged, Black, and mature.
They will explore what it means to be from these student groups, focusing on an intersectional approach, and how this may present barriers to their success whilst at university. Using myth busting and case study exercises, attendees will be able to challenge assumptions and consider how they can support and foster a more inclusive environment for the students they work with.
Thursday 30th May 2024
How to write your Methodology Chapter
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=13141
Thursday 20th June 2024
Menopause Awareness Training (14:00)
The focus of this training is to raise awareness of Menopause in the workplace. Menopause is a phase of life. While some sail through it with barely a symptom, it isn't an easy transition for all. With the right support we can improve colleagues experience at work and in their personal lives. We want to help everyone feel comfortable to have open and honest conversations about menopause, never feeling that the subject is taboo or off limits.
The changing demographics of the UK’s workforce means that between 8 in 10 menopausal women are in work and research shows that the majority of women are unwilling to discuss menopause-related health problems with their line manager, or ask for the support or adjustments they may need. Line managers also need to be supported to enable them to give appropriate assistance to those they manage.
It's time to make a change.
Visit our Wellbeing Events SharePoint site to register.
Notes:
- Previous versions of this training include Menopause Awareness Training for Line Managers and Menopause Awareness for All Colleagues.
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Introduction to Spatial Data and Using R as a GIS
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.
Bursaries are available to cover course fees for research staff.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13142