Events Calendar

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network invites all students and staff to join weekly vigils in solidarity with Gaza, 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.

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

Undergraduate Open Day 8 September 2024

Description: Southampton Geospatial is pleased to announce the upcoming summer school in Advances in Geospatial Data Science. The summer school will be delivered by world leading experts in geospatial data science with an aim to deepen participants’ knowledge and skills in the field of geospatial data science from the state-of-the-art methods, tools and applications used in research. It will provide a broad overview of recent advances in the following areas with an element of practical-based learning.

• Artificial intelligence: This will cover topics like machine learning, deep learning, and AI in geospatial data

• Geospatial big data Analysis: Subject would cover complex spatial analysis, such as modeling spatial relationships, geostatistics, and spatial interpolation and application to Digital twins.

• Remote Sensing: Participants will explore advances in sensing techniques from UAVs to satellites.

• Ethics and Privacy: An essential aspect would be discussing the ethical implications of geospatial data science, including privacy concerns, bias, and responsible data usage.

• Applied Projects: Participants will have opportunity to work on real-world projects, applying their knowledge to solve geospatial challenges. This could involve areas in environmental monitoring, urban planning, disaster management, or precision agriculture.

Interdisciplinary Approach: The summer school will foster collaboration between geospatial experts and professionals from various domains to address complex problems using a multi-disciplinary lens.

Target Participants: We are hoping the summer school will be beneficial to a wide range of audiences including, Geospatial analysists from industry, PhD students working with geospatial data and Doctoral training programs.

Registration: Fees for the Advances in Geospatial Data Science summer school is £1000, which includes participation in all learning activities and organised social activities during the week. Participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation. Total number of places are limited to 20 participants and will be offered on first come first serve basis.

You can  register here. Any queries please contact geospatial@soton.ac.uk.

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network invites all students and staff to join weekly vigils in solidarity with Gaza, 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.

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network invites all students and staff to join weekly vigils in solidarity with Gaza, 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.

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.

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

• Identify key elements of learning and teaching practice in HE
• Design a learning and teaching session (and/or critique the design of a L&T session)
• Share examples of teaching and learning practice
• Familiarise with the UK Professional Standard Framework for Learning and Teaching

Session led by: Dr Erika Corradini, Principal Teaching Fellow in HE practice, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

This is a two-day course on statistical methods for meta-analysis using the package STATA.

The first day gives an overview on traditional techniques used in meta-analysis.

The second day present more recent state-of-the-art modelling including mixed Poisson and binomial regression.

The teaching style of the course is a mix of lectures and practical work.

This 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=13284

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network invites all students and staff to join weekly vigils in solidarity with Gaza, 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.

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.

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

• Identify key elements of learning and teaching practice in HE
• Design a learning and teaching session (and/or critique the design of a L&T session)
• Share examples of teaching and learning practice
• Familiarise with the UK Professional Standard Framework for Learning and Teaching

Session led by: Dr Erika Corradini, Principal Teaching Fellow in HE practice, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Undergraduate Open Days 5-6 October 2024

Undergraduate Open Days 5-6 October 2024

This practical, one-day hands-on course provides a guided introduction to the workflow in ArcGIS Online (AGOL) for uploading and sharing your spatial data.

You will learn how to publish existing vector data to AGOL, create views, set sharing and group privileges, create a web map that drives data collection and forms the foundation to an Experience Builder web application.

The course comprises hands-on exercises each introduced with a short presentation and a live demonstration.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods, which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Geodata.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13581

This course is an excellent step toward gaining your RYA Day Skipper practical qualification and is a requirement of commercially endorsing a day skipper qualification.

The course covers:

• seamanship
• coastal navigation and pilotage
• chartwork, including electronic charts
• position fixing
• plotting a course to steer
• weather forecasting and meteorology
• tides
• collision regulations

Please follow this link for booking.

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/sport/watersports-courses/theory/rya-day-skipper

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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 

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 

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.