• UK Data Service Webinar: Guided walk through ReShare

    12 December 2019 Online, 15.00 – 16.00 GMT Are you an ESRC grant holder whose grant has ended and is required to submit your research data into the ReShare repository? Are you a researcher interested in depositing data into ReShare to make them available for reuse, or as evidence for a published paper? Are you […]

  • Qualitative Research Symposium 2020. Tick tock: Unpacking temporal aspects of qualitative inquiry.

    The University of Bath is hosting the sixth annual Qualitative Research Symposium on 28th and 29th January 2020. This symposium is a forum for researchers to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion of common features, challenges, and changes in qualitative research. Call for papers It is encouraged that you consider your past, current, or future work in relation to the theme of […]

  • University of Bath: Qualitative Research Symposium 2020

    University of Bath Bath, United Kingdom

    Tick tock: Unpacking temporal aspects of qualitative inquiry.     Symposium overview This symposium is a forum for researchers to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion of common features, challenges, and changes in qualitative research. The title of this years’ symposium is Tick tock: Unpacking temporal aspects of qualitative inquiry. We invite you to share with us how time […]

  • Logistics and Methods During Fieldwork: Unpacking Fieldwork in Challenging Settings

    University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom

    This seminar (the first in a three-part series) will address common logistical and methodological challenges encountered by researchers prior to and during fieldwork. It will also examine how methods can change during fieldwork and how to respond to the same. The second seminar entitled “Power Relations & Gender; Yep, Issues Still There…”: will be held […]

  • DEADLINE: GW4 Early Career Symposia Scheme

    The GW4 Alliance is piloting an exciting initiative to bring together Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to deliver a series of flagship PGR- and ECR-led symposia. Based on the highly successful GW4 Early Career Neuroscience Day, we aim to create a space where PGRs and ECRs can showcase their research, gain experience in […]

  • Ethics, Well-being & Security; Fasten your seatbelts: Unpacking Fieldwork in Challenging Settings

    University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom

    Held at the University of Bristol, this is the third seminar in the unpacking fieldwork in challenging settings seminar series. We will be giving more information about the seminar dynamics later on, but it will be developed in part according to the needs of the group. For more information see @UnpackFieldwork on Twitter or email […]

  • REFORMULATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS. Critical Theory Symposium

    One-Day Symposium Standing Seminar in Critical Theory funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership 15th of June – The Edge – University of Bath Campus This first SSCT Symposium is an invitation to interrogate and critique the present formulation and reality of ‘environmental’ crisis to propose alternative ideas, views and paradigms that contest the […]

  • Decolonising Social Research Seminar Series: Decolonising Theory

    Online

    Speakers: Foluke Adebisi, Mark Jackson and Arathi Sriprakash (all University of Bristol) When it comes to conceptualising a research problem, we often turn to literature and pre-existing theoretical frameworks. The social sciences grew up alongside the European project of world domination and competition through colonisation. Hence, much of the established canon of disciplinary knowledge has […]

  • Decolonising Social Research Series: Decolonising Epistemologies

    Online

    Sign Up Here This roundtable will engage with the active process of decolonising knowledges, by presenting alternative epistemologies and praxis emanating from the global South. We will commence by offering a critique of established Western epistemologies, showing how they contribute to forms of colonisation, past and present, and limit possibilities for research. The discussion will […]