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Events Calendar

Upcoming Events

Friday 1st December 2023

Saturday 2nd December 2023

Monday 4th December 2023

Tuesday 5th December 2023

Wednesday 6th December 2023

Thursday 7th December 2023

Display Screen Equipment (DSE) / Hybrid Working Bitesize Workshop (12:00)

12:00 - 12:30
2023-12-07T12:00:00Z2023-12-07T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online

Doctoral Research Poster Showcase 2023 (13:00)

13:00 - 15:30
2023-12-07T13:00:00Z2023-12-07T15:30:00Z

​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.


The central aim of the Research Poster Showcase is to challenge PGRs to communicate and disseminate their research to a public or non-specialist audience. It also provides an opportunity for PGRs to develop key skills in presenting, writing, research communication and creativity.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Categories:

The posters will be judged in the following categories. The prize presentation will begin at 15:00:

* Best poster - Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS)
* Best poster - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & * Medicine (STEMM)
* Most Innovative poster (AHSS and STEMM)
* Runner Up (AHSS and STEMM)
* Highly Commended (AHSS and STEMM)
* People's Choice Award

Please attend the Research Poster Showcase to support our PGRs and to take the opportunity to immerse yourself in the excellent research being conducted at the University of Southampton. You can also contribute to the event by voting for your favourite poster as part of the People’s Choice award. All staff, students and PGRs are welcome. There will be light refreshments available throughout the afternoon. 



Live Music: Paul Lewis - Schubert III (20:00)

20:00 - 22:30
2023-12-07T20:00:00Z2023-12-07T22:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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)

19:30 - 21:30
2023-12-08T19:30:00Z2023-12-08T21:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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 DiamondsShe’s Leaving HomeWith 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)

10:30 - 12:30
2023-12-09T10:30:00Z2023-12-09T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, SO14 7DU, England

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

BOOK HERE

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)

10:00 - 12:30
2023-12-10T10:00:00Z2023-12-10T12:30:00Z

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

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Monday 11th December 2023

UoS Music Presents: Christmas Concert 2023 (13:00)

13:00 - 14:00
2023-12-11T13:00:00Z2023-12-11T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England

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

Winter Graduation

PREP Reflective Writing workshop (Online) (12:00)

12:00 - 13:30
2023-12-12T12:00:00Z2023-12-12T13:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online

​Pre-requisites:  

  • Participants should have attended a PREP Framework Briefing session or equivalent  
  • Started the first stage mapping of your activities
About this session:
This online workshop offers space to further the writing of your portfolio with an emphasis on writing reflectively.  Before attending we expect you to have attended a briefing session and to have begun the first stage mapping of your activities against the appropriate fellowship requirements of the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF).

Wednesday 13th December 2023

Winter Graduation

Menopause Safe Listening Space (10:00)

10:00 - 11:00
2023-12-13T10:00:00Z2023-12-13T11:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online

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)

12:00 - 13:00
2023-12-13T12:00:00Z2023-12-13T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus (in-person)

​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)

12:00 - 14:00
2023-12-13T12:00:00Z2023-12-13T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS teams event

​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)

19:30 - 21:30
2023-12-14T19:30:00Z2023-12-14T21:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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

Additional Place Info: University Wide
Organised by: iSolutions
Planned IT Infrastructure Maintenance. Disruption to the University's IT may be experienced during this period. Therefore it is advisable not to plan events requiring IT Services during this period. Services affected could include:- University Network, both wired and wireless Printing Telephony Email Banner including Self Service Finance or HR Systems

Autumn Term ends

Sunday 17th December 2023

IT Infrastructure Maintenance

Additional Place Info: University Wide
Organised by: iSolutions
Planned IT Infrastructure Maintenance. Disruption to the University's IT may be experienced during this period. Therefore it is advisable not to plan events requiring IT Services during this period. Services affected could include:- University Network, both wired and wireless Printing Telephony Email Banner including Self Service Finance or HR Systems

Live Music: Melrose Quartet - A Bright New Year (19:30)

19:30 - 21:30
2023-12-17T19:30:00Z2023-12-17T21:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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)

12:00 - 13:00
2024-01-05T12:00:00Z2024-01-05T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online

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)

20:00 - 21:15
2024-01-12T20:00:00Z2024-01-12T21:15:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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)

19:30 - 21:30
2024-01-13T19:30:00Z2024-01-13T21:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

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

Semester 1 exams

Introducing Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

12:00 - 13:00
2024-01-24T12:00:00Z2024-01-24T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus (in-person)

​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.

Monday 29th January 2024

Start of Semester 2 teaching

Tuesday 30th January 2024

CHEP online workshop: An Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (09:30)

09:30 - 13:30
2024-01-30T09:30:00Z2024-01-30T13:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS teams event

​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)

12:30 - 14:00
2024-01-31T12:30:00Z2024-01-31T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Building 32, Room 2097

​Joint Reproducibili-Tea and UKRN Open Research Networt meeting with Lunch provided 

Friday 2nd February 2024

Introduction to QGIS: Spatial Data and Spatial Analysis

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

12:30 - 14:30
2024-02-14T12:30:00Z2024-02-14T14:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS teams event

​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

Additional Place Info: Online

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

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

12:00 - 14:00
2024-03-06T12:00:00Z2024-03-06T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS teams event

​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

Additional Place Info: Online

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

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

12:00 - 13:00
2024-03-12T12:00:00Z2024-03-12T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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)

11:00 - 12:15
2024-03-13T11:00:00Z2024-03-13T12:15:00Z
Additional Place Info: Microsoft Teams

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)

12:00 - 14:00
2024-03-14T12:00:00Z2024-03-14T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS teams event

​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

Additional Place Info: Online

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

Additional Place Info: Online

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)

10:00 - 15:00
2024-04-17T09:00:00Z2024-04-17T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Centenary Building 100, 4th floor rooms

​Agenda TBA

Monday 22nd April 2024

Summer Term starts

Tuesday 14th May 2024

WPSM / CHEP in-person workshop: Promoting Student Inclusion (12:00)

12:00 - 14:00
2024-05-14T11:00:00Z2024-05-14T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

​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

Additional Place Info: Online

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

Saturday 15th June 2024

Summer Term and Semester 2 ends

Thursday 20th June 2024

Menopause Awareness Training (14:00)

14:00 - 15:15
2024-06-20T13:00:00Z2024-06-20T14:15:00Z
Additional Place Info: Microsoft Teams

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

Additional Place Info: Online

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

Saturday 14th September 2024

International arrivals and inductions start

Saturday 21st September 2024

New intake arrivals from

Monday 23rd September 2024

Induction and start of Semester 1

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