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Events Calendar

Upcoming Events

Sunday 15th December 2024

Wednesday 18th December 2024

Sunday 22nd December 2024

Saturday 4th January 2025

Wednesday 8th January 2025

Thursday 9th January 2025

Tuesday 14th January 2025

Facilitation techniques: How to get students engaging in seminars and classes (in-person) (10:00)

10:00 - 12:30
2025-01-14T10:00:00Z2025-01-14T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus, book using the link below

This in-person 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) 

A new resource guide

There is a new resource guide to complement this workshop: Facilitation skills: A resource guide for small group learning and teaching

Ask us Anything coffee drop-in: TNE Growth Programme (City Centre) (14:00)

14:00 - 15:00
2025-01-14T14:00:00Z2025-01-14T15:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Sir James Matthews Building 157-187 Above Bar Street Southampton Hampshire SO147QF

As the first university to set up a full international campus in India under the University Grants Commission, we are immensely proud of the hard work of all colleagues involved.

To enable staff to find out more and ask questions about TNE in general, as well as our new and exciting campus, sessions with tea and coffee will be hosted by Professor Andrew Atherton, Vice-President (International and Engagement) and Zoë Marlow, Associate Director (TNE), across our campuses.

Free and bookable by all staff, the sessions will include a 20-minute presentation, with 30 minutes for Q&A.

Location

This event will take place at the City Centre campus, B135, R6031

Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tne-growth-programme-ask-us-anything-city-centre-tickets-995203870567

Wednesday 15th January 2025

CHEP Online CPD Workshop: How to create an online reading list (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-01-15T12:00:00Z2025-01-15T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online

Learn how to create manage and find your online reading lists, including: ordering resources, requesting digitisations and accessing student engagement data.

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

·         Create a Talis online reading list.

·         Add a list structure.

·         Order library resources via their reading list.

·         Request a digitisation via their reading list.

·         Access and understand the list analytics (student engagement data).

·         Locate your list: on Blackboard and from the Talis home page.

·         Know where to find additional support and online guidance – including information on best practice.

Session led by

Nick Gates, Reading List Manager, Library

Liesbeth Meilink, Reading List Principal Library Assistant
 

 

Ask us Anything coffee drop-in: TNE Growth Programme (MS Teams) (12:30)

12:30 - 13:30
2025-01-15T12:30:00Z2025-01-15T13:30:00Z

As the first university to set up a full international campus in India under the University Grants Commission, we are immensely proud of the hard work of all colleagues involved.

To enable staff to find out more and ask questions about TNE in general, as well as our new and exciting campus, sessions will be hosted by Professor Andrew Atherton, Vice-President (International and Engagement) and Zoë Marlow, Associate Director (TNE), across our campuses as well as online.

Free and bookable by all staff, the sessions will include a short presentation, with the majority of the session dedicated to Q&A.

Location

This is a Microsoft Teams event. 

Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tne-growth-programme-ask-us-anything-ms-teams-tickets-1098782019599

Mini Hartley - Music Making and the Civic Imagination (16:00)

16:00 - 17:30
2025-01-15T16:00:00Z2025-01-15T17:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: University of Southampton, Southampton, England

Featuring Dave Camlin

Location: Building 28 Room 2049, Highfield Campus

Thursday 16th January 2025

Material Interests - Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination (17:00)

17:00 - 18:00
2025-01-16T17:00:00Z2025-01-16T18:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England

Material Interests Lecture Series

Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by Winchester School of Art's Department of Art and Media Technology and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.

Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination

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

Speaker: Prof Kathleen E. Kennedy, British Academy Global Professor, University of Bristol | Hosted by Prof Louise Siddons

Come, learn to appreciate early Tudor art using Scott McCloud’s classic Understanding Comics, and why late medieval English illumination lies at the foundation of design theory. 

When comics theorist Scott McCloud launched Understanding Comics in 1993 he did not know that he was fueling a new field of scholarly inquiry. He was trying to introduce audiences, viewers who might otherwise have dismissed comics as unserious, or who might not looked at comics at all, to “the invisible art” of comics. 

Surprisingly, late medieval English illumination suffers from a similar invisibility, and even more surprisingly yet, McCloud’s theories about twentieth-century comics can help us see early Tudor illumination, and understand how it functioned on the page. 

Register HERE to attend

Friday 17th January 2025

Live Music: Natalie Clein & Marianna Shirinyan (19:30)

19:30 - 21:30
2025-01-17T19:30:00Z2025-01-17T21:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Turner Sims

Sunday 19th January 2025

Bach's Christmas Oratorio, St Paul's Church, Winchester (16:00)

16:00 - 18:30
2025-01-19T16:00:00Z2025-01-19T18:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: St Paul's Church, Winchester, SO22 5AB, England

Join Gift of Sight at St Paul’s Church, Winchester for a performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio by Bach Winchester Voices and Orchestra.

The talented musicians, led by Andrew Hayman, will perform the last four cantatas of the Oratorio, in a vivid musical depiction of the Christmas Story, featuring Sebastian Hill as Evangelist.

Traditionally played from the Third Day of Christmas, leading to Epiphany, the Oratorio’s wonderful choruses and intimate solo arias are sure to inspire and delight, whatever your personal beliefs.

Professor of Ophthalmology, Andrew Lotery, will give a warm welcome and a short talk about recent vision research projects taking place at the University of Southampton.

Entry is free, donations are welcome at the event, with all funds raised going towards sight saving eye research at the University of Southampton.

Places are limited so please ensure you reserve your space prior to the event.

Thursday 23rd January 2025

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers) (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-01-23T09:30:00Z2025-01-23T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online (MS Teams)

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers)

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

  • Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
  • Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
  • Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
  • Know what support is available to all staff.

Notes:

  • Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.
  • Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.
  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

Tuesday 28th January 2025

Radical Research Ethics

Additional Place Info: Online

This one day online course (taught over two mornings) is designed to raise your awareness of why and how you need to think and act ethically in practice throughout your research work.

The current system of ethical review by committee can lead to the misleading sense of having 'done ethics'.

This course shows you how to conduct research which is truly ethical. It also provides the opportunity for discussion of your own ethical dilemmas, if you wish.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13698

The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda (17:00)

17:00 - 18:00
2025-01-28T17:00:00Z2025-01-28T18:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, B85, Room 2207

Join us for a free event to hear Dr Ashton Kingdon, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Southampton and Web Science CDT Alumna, talk about her recently published book 'The World White Web'.

The World White Web provides an interdisciplinary analysis of far-right radicalisation in the digital age, drawing from criminology, history, and computer science to explore how technology and imagery accelerate extremist recruitment. The book examines 20,000 internet memes to reveal white supremacy’s deep historical roots. It demonstrates how far-right propagandists leverage historical narratives and symbols to influence modern-day recruitment, bridging fringe and mainstream ideas across diverse time periods, countries and contexts, amid technological and social changes. Topics include racism and xenophobia in Greek and Roman antiquity, antisemitism in the Middle Ages, anti-Black racism rooted in the Antebellum South, the weaponisation of the Reconquista in Spain, the memeification of the Rurik Dynasty in Russia, Crusader iconography in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, eco-fascist propaganda in the Balkans, neo-Nazi mythology in India, and Völkisch ideology in Germany and Austria. The book emphasises the importance of interdisciplinary, socio-technical and multi-stakeholder approaches to truly comprehend and address the contemporary manifestations and threats posed by the global interconnectedness of the far right online.

Further information

If you have any questions about this event, please email wsi@soton.ac.uk.

Thursday 30th January 2025

Nonsuch Memory of My Birth Artists' Books by Joshua Raffell

Additional Place Info: WSA Library Foyer

Twenty artist's books made from crochet and clay. Each book contains one tile of twenty and are referenced in Nonsuch Memory Of My Birth. This piece, and the artist's books and performance accompanying the installation, document the experiences of the artist working through the book, and performance accompanying the installation, document the experiences of the artist working through the book, 'Surviving A Borderline Parent'. The books are contained within a specially designed and built suitcase. 

Wednesday 5th February 2025

Conducting Advanced Ethnographic Research

Additional Place Info: Online

This course moves beyond standard understandings of ethnography that depict it as a generic qualitative method founded on ‘participant observation’ to provide learners with a sophisticated, state-of-the-art approach based on cutting-edge academic research.

The course will blend theorical and practical considerations.

On the one hand, the course examines the theoretical scaffolding of ethnography, recognising that a thorough understanding of the epistemological foundations of the methods we use is essential to conducting rigorous and ethical research.

On the other, the spirit of the course is inherently practical and pragmatic, as it aims at preparing researchers to design and conduct ethnographic fieldwork, as well as writing it up for academic and non-academic audiences.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13861

 

Material Interests: Decoding Hidden Stories: Finding new narratives within a game's rules and systems (11:30)

11:30 - 12:30
2025-02-05T11:30:00Z2025-02-05T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England

Material Interests Lecture Series

Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by Winchester School of Art's Department of Art and Media Technology and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.

Material Interests: Decoding Hidden Stories: Finding new narratives within a game's rules and systems

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

Speakers: Marie Jarrell and Vanissa Wanick

Many video games come with a pre-made main narrative/story that most players find completely satisfying for the whole of their gaming experience.

However, some look beyond the surface and find ways to tell new stories using the existing rules of the world in unorthodox ways.

This talk explores these experimental narratives and discusses ways of creating your own new story within the limits of an existing experience.

Register HERE to attend


 

CHEP Online Workshop: Increasing interactivity and engagement with Teams, ‘Polls’ and ‘Forms’ (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-02-05T12:00:00Z2025-02-05T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online, book using staffbook

Come along to this practical session which will focus on increasing interactivity and engagement in both online and in-person sessions. We’ll review some of the features of Polls and Forms and how they integrate with Teams and PowerPoint. We will show how you can use these tools to:

·       Design online quizzes

·       Carry out an online survey

·       Pose a question online and collate ideas from others

In addition, we’ll share resources and information on where you can get support.

Session led by:

Alison Ormesher, Learning Designer, iSolutions

Student Virtual Active Bystander Training (16:00)

16:00 - 17:00
2025-02-05T16:00:00Z2025-02-05T17:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS Teams

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 

Thursday 6th February 2025

Theories of Change and Pathways to Impact: Change Busters workshop (In-Person) (11:00)

11:00 - 12:30
2025-02-06T11:00:00Z2025-02-06T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

This session will provide practical approaches to creating Theories of Change and Pathways to Impact, for your education, student experience, research or knowledge exchange projects and activities. Change Busters aims to reconceptualize evaluation as a dynamic and interactive learning experience. This session is suitable for any level of evaluation experience and we welcome staff from all career pathways, and PGR students.

Change Busters poses fundamental evaluation questions within a playful environment. During this session, players will engage in creating a Theory of Change. Players will participate in discussions focusing on how change happens, how we evidence change, and how we can rethink traditional evaluation methods.   

The session will be particularly useful for staff and PGRs grappling with how to evidence the impact of their work.

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

  • Understand the stages of a Theory of Change. 

  • Confidence with theorising change by using pre-determined scenarios. 

  • Extend learning through application to your own context.

Session led by:

Naomi Clements, Senior Teaching Fellow in Academic Practice (Evaluation), Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Tahrima Hossain, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Jess Macpherson, Teaching Fellow, Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP)

Tuesday 11th February 2025

Introduction to Impact Evaluation

Additional Place Info: Online

This online course will introduce you to various empirical, quantitative methods that can be used to estimate the impact of a specific policy intervention.

These methods can be referred to as “programme evaluation”, “impact assessment”, “causal estimation” or “impact evaluation”.

The course assumes knowledge of basic algebra and statistical concepts (mean, median, correlation, expected value, statistical significance and confidence intervals).

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13785

Wednesday 12th February 2025

Online Hartley - First Editions: Art and Entertainment (16:00)

16:00 - 17:00
2025-02-12T16:00:00Z2025-02-12T17:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: University of Southampton, Southampton, England

Featuring Andy Hamilton

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

Thursday 13th February 2025

Introduction to ArcGIS Online

Additional Place Info: Online

This practical, one-day course provides a guided introduction to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a cloud-based GIS platform that allows users to create maps and other web applications for data sharing, collaboration and analysis.

You will learn how to publish existing vector data to AGOL, set sharing and group privileges and create a web map that drives field-based data collection.

You will use Experience Builder to create a web application that is used for sharing and visualising spatial data. The course comprises hands-on exercises each introduced with a short presentation and a live demonstration.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13863

[ACADEMIC] Coping with stressful situations: for student facing academic staff (10:00)

10:00 - 12:30
2025-02-13T10:00:00Z2025-02-13T12:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Building 34, Room 1020, Highfield Campus

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

  • Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
  • Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
  • Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
  • Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-02-13T12:00:00Z2025-02-13T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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

Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


Tuesday 18th February 2025

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers) (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-02-18T09:30:00Z2025-02-18T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online (MS Teams)

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers)

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

  • Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
  • Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
  • Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
  • Know what support is available to all staff.

Notes:

  • Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.
  • Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.
  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

Thursday 20th February 2025

Using the English for Academic Purposes Toolkit to support your students' study & writing skills (In-Person) (12:00)

12:00 - 14:00
2025-02-20T12:00:00Z2025-02-20T14:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus, book using link below

In this hands-on workshop, you will explore the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Toolkit and find out how you can use it to support students, in a blended context or by using resources as additional support materials for self-study. 

You will learn how to add the resources to your courses, and find out about the improvements we've made to broaden the range of resources to allow them to be used with both home students and those for whom English is not a first language.

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

  • Find the EAP Toolkit on Blackboard

  • Understand the basis of the pedagogy behind the resources

  • Understand the type and range of resources available in the Toolkit

  • Know how to select resources to use in their teaching

  • Know how to encourage use of the Toolkit by their own students

  • Insert resources from the Toolkit into their own Blackboard modules

Session led by:

Andrew Davey, Specialist Technician, eLanguages, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Tuesday 25th February 2025

Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence in teaching, learning and assessment (In-person) (13:00)

13:00 - 15:00
2025-02-25T13:00:00Z2025-02-25T15:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus, book using the link below

This practical, interactive workshop offers an introduction to using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in teaching, learning and assessment. 

It will give a basic overview of what GenAI is alongside an explanation of the University’s current position on use of GenAI. 

Practical activities will offer the opportunity to explore a GenAI tool in your context and to reflect on how assessment tasks might be adjusted to reduce vulnerability to misuse of AI. 

The workshop is aimed at GenAI novices!

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

·       Understand the University’s current position on the use of generative artificial intelligence in education

·       Explore how to use CoPilot to support education related tasks

·       Identify opportunities and challenges in education presented by GenAI

·       Reflect upon how GenAI impacts different kinds of assessment

·       Consider how assessment approaches might be adjusted to reduce vulnerability to misuse of GenAI

·       Identify where to find suitable resources and support within UoS

Session led by:

Prof. Kate Borthwick, Professorial Fellow of Enterprise, Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Steven White, Senior Teaching Fellow (Education Development), Business School

Thursday 27th February 2025

Southampton Stonewall Lecture 2025 (18:00)

18:00 - 20:00
2025-02-27T18:00:00Z2025-02-27T20:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Avenue Campus, Lecture Theatre B

Annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture, organised by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities (hybrid).

Further details will be added in due course.

Please contact fahevent@soton.ac.uk for more information.

Friday 28th February 2025

Into the Fold - Artist Book & Zine Fair 2025

Additional Place Info: Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England

Following the success of Winchester's first artist book and 'zine fair, Into the Fold will return on the weekend of 28 February and 1 March.

More details will be available in due course. In the meantime, please see the Into The Fold 2024 event webpage for more information about last year's event.

For more information, please contact fahevent@soton.ac.uk and wsaabf@soton.ac.uk

Monday 3rd March 2025

Day Skipper Package

Additional Place Info: Town Quay, Southampton, England

Our Day Skipper package is ideal for anyone looking to get their Day Skipper qualification or International Certificate of Competence. 

The following courses will take you through the basics of undertaking a short passage from harbour to harbour in a safe manor. Please access each course and arrange the dates in the following sequence:

  You can schedule the following 2 courses at at a time suitable for you.

These qualifications are the base level required for students or staff to charter the University yacht.

You will need these qualifications to apply for an International Certificate of Competence (ICC) for a sailing vessel.

Prices

If you book all of these courses at the same time through our Day Skipper Package, you will save money. 

A Southampton sports member will pay £896.50 booking our Day Skipper Package compared with a non-member paying £1,790.00 to book the courses seperately. This is a potential saving of £893.50! 

Course

Southampton Sports Membership

Mayflower Member, Sports Pass or Non-Member

RYA Competent Crew

£346.50

£630.00

RYA Day Skipper Theory

£203.50

£370.00

RYA Day Skipper Practical

£346.50

£630.00

RYA First Aid    

£52.25

£95.00

RYA Marine Radio SRC (VHF)

£35.75

£65.00

Total booking seperately

£984.50

£1,790.00

Day Skipper Package

£896.50

£1,630.00

Booking the Day Skipper Package

To book the Day Skipper Package, please contact the booking team directly. 

The booking team work 9am to 5pm on Monday to Friday. 

Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 2199

Email: southamptonsport@soton.ac.uk 

Discounts will not be applied directly if you book online.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss if this is the right course for you, please contact the watersports team:

Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 0110

Email: watersports@soton.ac.uk 

Wednesday 5th March 2025

Online Hartley - Sara Glojnaric (16:00)

16:00 - 17:00
2025-03-05T16:00:00Z2025-03-05T17:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: University of Southampton, Southampton, England

Featuring Sara Glojnarić

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

Thursday 6th March 2025

Growing up in England

Additional Place Info: Online

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

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 being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

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

Friday 7th March 2025

Southampton Science and Engineering Festival (SOTSEF)

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

 

Wednesday 12th March 2025

Supporting disabled students at the University (online workshop) (12:00)

12:00 - 13:30
2025-03-12T12:00:00Z2025-03-12T13:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS Teams, book using the link below

In this session, Anna and Beth from the Student Disability and Inclusion team will discuss a variety of support available to support disabled students during their time at University.  

The session also aims to provide an opportunity for colleagues to interact with some fictional case studies and discuss how best to support disabled students in the scenarios. 

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

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

  • Outline the support provided by the Student Disability and Inclusion.  

  • Understand what Student Support Recommendations (SSR's) are and their significance in providing students with equal access to education. 

  •       Reflect on a set of case studies and identify support that could be provided to disabled students.

  • Identify a few ways of making teaching/communication with students more inclusive and accessible.

Session led by:

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

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

Student Virtual Active Bystander Training (16:00)

16:00 - 17:00
2025-03-12T16:00:00Z2025-03-12T17:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: MS Teams

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 

Thursday 13th March 2025

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-03-13T12:00:00Z2025-03-13T13:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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

Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


Saturday 15th March 2025

Science and Engineering Day (10:30)

10:30 - 16:30
2025-03-15T10:30:00Z2025-03-15T16:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield and Boldrewood Innovation Campus

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.

Thursday 20th March 2025

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers) (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-03-20T09:30:00Z2025-03-20T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online (MS Teams)

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers)

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

  • Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
  • Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
  • Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
  • Know what support is available to all staff.

Notes:

  • Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.
  • Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.
  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

Tuesday 25th March 2025

Questionnaire Design for Mixed-Mode, Web and Mobile Web Surveys

Additional Place Info: Online

In this live online course, learn about questionnaire design in the context of different modes of data collection.

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 breakout rooms sessions throughout.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13699

Tuesday 1st April 2025

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 (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13700

[NON-ACADEMIC] Coping with stressful situations: for student facing non-academic staff (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-04-01T08:30:00Z2025-04-01T11:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Building 34, Room 1020, Highfield Campus

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Non-Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

  • Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
  • Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
  • Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
  • Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

Thursday 10th April 2025

Introducing Institutional Ethnography

Additional Place Info: Online

This online 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.

In IE, the researcher ‘takes sides’ using a specific version of standpoint to explore how institutions work in practice rooted in peoples’ experiences.

This often involves researching as, with, or alongside marginalised groups and making visible how institutions exclude or make invisible certain groups of people and experiences.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13851

 

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-04-10T11:00:00Z2025-04-10T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus
The Successful Futures Pathway supports students to reflect on their career ideas and plan how they are going to develop their skills within and outside of their curriculum while at university. 

Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


Tuesday 29th April 2025

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers) (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-04-29T08:30:00Z2025-04-29T11:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Online (MS Teams)

Workplace stress training for all staff (incl. managers)

Stress has a significant impact on how we feel and what we do. We are all responsible for managing workplace stress and building our personal resilience. Taking actions to reduce workplace stress is in UK H&S legalisation, in our policies and is simply the right thing to do.

This course will help you to:

  • Know what workplace stress is and the consequences it brings.
  • Use a stress assessment to identify the causes of workplace stress and plan actions to reduce it.
  • Identify ways to reduce stress and build up personal resilience.
  • Know what support is available to all staff.

Notes:

  • Please be in a suitable space for cameras to be on and to talk in group discussions.
  • Due to the sensitivity of discussions, this training will not be recorded. This includes the use of AI meeting notes which will be removed from the session. Training materials will be sent to attendees after the session.
  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We have lots of content to get through so we will use all of the time.  

Thursday 1st May 2025

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.

Participants will also learn how to ensure individuals’ anonymity and confidentiality when carrying out analyses and publishing results based on HES.

The course consists of a mixture of lectures and practicals for which participants will use Stata software to clean and analyse HES data.

It is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13731

Thursday 8th May 2025

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-05-08T11:00:00Z2025-05-08T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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


Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


Wednesday 14th May 2025

[ACADEMIC] Coping with stressful situations: for student facing academic staff (10:00)

10:00 - 12:30
2025-05-14T09:00:00Z2025-05-14T11:30:00Z
Additional Place Info: Building 58, Room 1003, Highfield Campus

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

  • Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
  • Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
  • Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
  • Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

Friday 16th May 2025

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.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13732

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Online Hartley - Yvonne Liao (16:00)

16:00 - 17:00
2025-05-21T15:00:00Z2025-05-21T16:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: University of Southampton, Southampton, England

Featuring Yvonne Liao

Location: Online - to access the Teams link, please contact Erin Johnson-Williams (e.johnson-williams@soton.ac.uk)

Thursday 22nd May 2025

Introduction to ArcGIS Online

Additional Place Info: Online

This practical, one-day hands-on course provides a guided introduction to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), a cloud-based GIS platform that allows users to create maps and other web applications for data sharing, collaboration and analysis.

You will learn how to publish existing vector data to AGOL, set sharing and group privileges and create a web map that drives field-based data collection.

You will use Experience Builder to create a web application that is used for sharing and visualising spatial data. The course comprises hands-on exercises each introduced with a short presentation and a live demonstration.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13864

 

Tuesday 27th May 2025

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.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13706

Wednesday 4th June 2025

Four Qualitative Methods for Understanding Diverse Lives

Additional Place Info: Online

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.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13853

 

Tuesday 10th June 2025

The Global Jane Austen: Celebrating and Commemorating 250 years of Jane Austen (00:00)

00:00 - 2025-07-12 00:00
2025-06-10T00:00:00+01:002025-07-12T00:00:00+01:00
Call for papers

Thursday 12th June 2025

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-06-12T11:00:00Z2025-06-12T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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

Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


Thursday 26th June 2025

Advanced R as a GIS: Spatial Analysis and Statistics

Additional Place Info: Online

In this online course, run over two mornings, we will show you how to prepare and conduct spatial analysis on a variety of spatial data in R, including a range of spatial overlays and data processing techniques.

We will also cover how to use GeoDa to perform exploratory spatial data analysis, including making use of linked displays and measures of spatial autocorrelation and clustering.

The course is being run by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), which is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and runs more than 50 research methods training courses a year.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13707

Wednesday 9th July 2025

[NON-ACADEMIC] Coping with stressful situations: for student facing non-academic staff (09:30)

09:30 - 12:00
2025-07-09T08:30:00Z2025-07-09T11:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Building 34, Room 1020, Highfield Campus

Coping with stressful situations for student facing staff (Non-Academic Staff)

This session is IN PERSON and is held on Highfield campus (Building 34 Room 1020). 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries. You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

This course will help you to:

  • Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.
  • Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.
  • Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.
  • Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Notes:

  • Our sessions have a minimum of 8 attendees. If the session does not reach this, we will cancel and provide an alternative to those who have booked.
  • We also run a version for academic staff, please make sure you are booked on the right one. 

Thursday 10th July 2025

The Successful Futures Pathway - An introductory session for Personal Academic Tutors (12:00)

12:00 - 13:00
2025-07-10T11:00:00Z2025-07-10T12:00:00Z
Additional Place Info: Highfield Campus

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


Session Details
This session is specifically for Personal Academic Tutors who are important part of the process. The session will provide PATS with an introduction to the Successful Futures Pathway and provides the information they need to have meaningful conversations with students about the pathway.

PATS are requested to talk to students about the Successful Futures Pathway in an early PAT meeting so that students have as long as possible to take action to develop skills they need for their career idea. 

Learning Outcomes
-The Successful Futures Skills Model and Skills Mapping
-What is the Successful Futures Pathway. (Demo to be provided)
-Benefits for students and the university.
-Successful Futures Launch
-Your role as a PAT
-Conversation starters and tips
-Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise resources and opportunities


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