Events Calendar

Join us for a free morning of creativity! Explore our current exhibitions by Jala Wahid, Koestler Arts and Mykola Ridnyi.

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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.

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.

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.

​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.

​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.

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

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

​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.

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

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

​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.

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

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

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. 

​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.

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

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

​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.

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

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. 

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