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SUMMARY:Creative Research Methods
DESCRIPTION:This is a six-week course covering creative research methods and ethics in theory and in practice. The course runs for 1.5 hours online each week\, from 2-3.30 pm on Wednesdays\, with associated readings\, videos\, exercises and online discussions in between the online sessions. \nSession 1: creative methods and ethics in a pandemic \nSession 2: enhanced and mobile interviews \nSession 3: using comics and animation in research \nSession 4: using video in research \nSession 5: poetic inquiry \nSession 6: metaphor collection and analysis \n  \nThis event is delivered by an external host. To register\, please follow this link: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13905
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/creative-research-methods/2025-01-08/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241212T120000
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SUMMARY:Authority\, Authenticity and Assertiveness Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:Even though you really know your stuff\, it can be difficult to be heard in demanding\, and often highly charged environments. Maybe you sometimes feel that your voice has been drowned out by more senior or strident ones\, and that you don’t have the status to argue your corner? \nThis session will boost your ability to interact with others in a confident\, engaging and authentic manner. \nPlease note that\, although this session will be hosted online\, it will be interactive and so we recommend that\, where possible\, you join from a computer in a quiet space\, and turn your camera on during the session.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/authority-authenticity-and-assertiveness-masterclass/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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SUMMARY:Neurodiversity by the CDT SuMMeR
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to register for this webinar about neurodiversity\, organised by the CDT SuMMeR and delivered by ‘Your D+I’. In this webinar you will learn more about the natural differences in how people’s brains work and process information.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/neurodiversity-by-the-cdt-summer/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240814T131352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T131809Z
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SUMMARY:Viva Survivor
DESCRIPTION:The viva is almost the end of the PhD. A lot of work leads to this point\, but often anxiety can mix with the sense of achievement at completing the thesis. For many candidates the time before the viva is filled with uncertainty about the day\, uncertainty about how to prepare well – and stress for what the viva might be like. \nViva Survivor is for postgraduate researchers who want to know how to be ready for their viva. In this three-hour live webinar\, you will:\n• learn realistic expectations for the PhD viva;\n• identify key practical steps to take before submission;\n• explore practical strategies for preparation and the day of the viva. \nTime will be spent exploring expectations for both in-person and video vivas\, and there will be plenty of time for Q&A over text chat. Viva Survivor will be delivered live by Dr Nathan Ryder over Zoom. Registration is limited to 30 places.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/viva-survivor/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
ORGANIZER;CN="Nathan Ryder":MAILTO:nathan@nathanryder.co.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240524T123246Z
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SUMMARY:Home and Belonging: Summer Research Festival 2024 - AHRC\, South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to the 2024 Summer Research Festival. Taking place on Zoom\, this year’s AHRC-funded festival aims to bring researchers\, students\, artists\, professionals\, and the public together for a series of enriching workshops\, presentations\, and networking opportunities. \n  \nWhat to Expect: \n\nExciting Keynote speakers\, Valda Jackson MBE and Professor Corinne Fowler\, discuss their latest projects\nInnovative workshops in public engagement\, podcasting\, social media\, and creative writing\nInformative sessions and presentations from current PGR students (SWWDTP and beyond) and research clusters\nNetworking opportunities with peers and experts in the field\n\nThis conference is perfect for anyone currently pursuing or interested in a PhD in the Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences\, as well as those with a broader interest in the theme of Home and Belonging\, including: \n\nCurrent PGR students looking to enhance their research and network with peers\n\n\nProspective students considering a PhD in the Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences\nSWWDTP alumni\n\n\nArtists\, practitioners\, and other professionals whose work aligns with the theme of Home and Belonging\nWider members of the public with an interest in the theme of Home and Belonging\n\nFor further information please email: summerresearchfestival.dtp@gmail.com
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/home-and-belonging-summer-research-festival-2024-south-west-and-wales-doctoral-training-partnership/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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SUMMARY:We Encourage Each Other to (Re)fuse:  A Writing Workshop on Queer and Decolonial Practices for Liberating Participatory Inquiry
DESCRIPTION:This interactive half-day workshop is for politically engaged researchers and writers who seek to address the root causes of socio-ecological injustice\, and who work with/in modern/colonial knowledge institutions and systems. Please join if you have an inkling that this might be you!\n\nDuring our time together\, we’ll move through a flow of ‘thinking-feeling’ writing exercises and creative conversations. These will help us explore different ways of relating with institutional conditionings\, queer conditions that limit our approaches to inquiry\, and transmute binary ways of being into more relational ones. The idea is to make space to refuse habits that harm and re-fuse with the wider field of life-bearing realities.\n\nThis workshop is co-organized by ARCIO and SPICE in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Amsler\, who will facilitate online.\n\n\nThe writing workshop open to ARCIO and SPICE members (including doctoral researchers)\, and other members of the University of Bristol and extended networks who are interested in de-institutionalizing and queering knowledge practices and sensibilities.\n\nThis event will be most beneficial for people who are working on writing differently\, and/or who draw on (or wish to increasingly draw on) feminist\, participative\, queer\, and/or decolonial approaches in their work\, and as spaces are limited\, priority will be given to them.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/we-encourage-each-other-to-refuse-a-writing-workshop-on-queer-and-decolonial-practices-for-liberating-participatory-inquiry/
LOCATION:Howard House\, Howard House\, University of Bristol Business School\, Bristol\, BS8 1SD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240529T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240521T113708Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing Secondary Trauma in Emotionally Challenging Research: impacts\, coping and proactive interventions
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will offer guidance on Researcher Wellbeing Plans and Risk Assessments that consider the emotional impact of research. Researchers embark on explorations of diverse topics\, aiming to deepen our understanding of the numerous issues impacting individuals in today’s society\, a journey that often leads them into the more disturbing and distressing aspects of the human experience (e.g. war\, death\, violence\, crime\, poor mental health\, poverty). \n  \nStandard ticket rate: £30 \nStudent ticket rate: £20
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/addressing-secondary-trauma-in-emotionally-challenging-research-impacts-coping-and-proactive-interventions/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240510T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240326T103120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T105757Z
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SUMMARY:Working with Marginalised Communities Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:A growing number of PhD students and Early Career Researchers have shown interest in pursuing research with and for communities who have traditionally been viewed from an abstract distance if\, indeed\, they have been viewed at all. The scope of these projects is wide and includes researchers working with women in domestic violence refuges\, teenagers in socio-economically deprived areas of London and Afghani refugee communities caught in the limbo of the Aegean islands. \nWhat these projects all have in common is that they bring academic scholars into contact with individuals and communities that are likely to have experienced trauma as well as disempowering if not explicitly violent interactions with institutional and state authorities. High levels of professional and personal sensitivity and ethics are essential if the researcher is to avoid replicating the participants’ experiences of marginalisation and creating an abstract rather than rich\, nuanced picture of their live s and experiences. This is a webinar series delivered by Fred Ehresmann\, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of the West of England and Dr Jade Lee\, director of Aurora Learning and former UK Programme Lead of School Bus Project\, an NGO that supported educational programmes for young refugees in Europe. \nBy the end of the webinars\, participants will:\n• Have an introductory understanding of the psychological and physiological impact of chronic trauma on the individual.\n• Have an understanding of ‘Trauma Informed Care’ and why it is an integral part of working respectfully and ethically with traumatized\npopulations.\n• Have considered the importance of informed consent and what this looks like practically in unstable environments.\n• Have practical strategies for conducting research interviews in a sensitive\, ethical\, and trauma-informed manner.\n• Have explored their own position as researchers and individuals within a broader social context and the expectations and\npreconceptions they bring to the interaction.\n• Considered the importance of safeguarding their own mental wellbeing in the research context and practical ways of doing so \n  \nPlease note: you will need to sign up to each day individually through Eventbrite\, each day will be different to the last so sign up to all of them for the full course!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/working-with-marginalised-communities-webinar-series-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240507T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240507T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Working with Marginalised Communities Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:A growing number of PhD students and Early Career Researchers have shown interest in pursuing research with and for communities who have traditionally been viewed from an abstract distance if\, indeed\, they have been viewed at all. The scope of these projects is wide and includes researchers working with women in domestic violence refuges\, teenagers in socio-economically deprived areas of London and Afghani refugee communities caught in the limbo of the Aegean islands. \nWhat these projects all have in common is that they bring academic scholars into contact with individuals and communities that are likely to have experienced trauma as well as disempowering if not explicitly violent interactions with institutional and state authorities. High levels of professional and personal sensitivity and ethics are essential if the researcher is to avoid replicating the participants’ experiences of marginalisation and creating an abstract rather than rich\, nuanced picture of their live s and experiences.\nThis is a webinar series delivered by Fred Ehresmann\, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of the West of England and Dr Jade Lee\, director of Aurora Learning and former UK Programme Lead of School Bus Project\, an NGO that supported educational programmes for young refugees in Europe. \nBy the end of the webinars\, participants will:\n• Have an introductory understanding of the psychological and physiological impact of chronic trauma on the individual.\n• Have an understanding of ‘Trauma Informed Care’ and why it is an integral part of working respectfully and ethically with traumatized\npopulations.\n• Have considered the importance of informed consent and what this looks like practically in unstable environments.\n• Have practical strategies for conducting research interviews in a sensitive\, ethical\, and trauma-informed manner.\n• Have explored their own position as researchers and individuals within a broader social context and the expectations and\npreconceptions they bring to the interaction.\n• Considered the importance of safeguarding their own mental wellbeing in the research context and practical ways of doing so \nPlease note: you will need to sign up to each day individually through Eventbrite\, each day will be different to the last so sign up to all of them for the full course!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/working-with-marginalised-communities-webinar-series/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230419T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230419T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20230417T111323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T131456Z
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SUMMARY:SWDTP Seminar Series: The Many Faces of Activist Research
DESCRIPTION:This seminar series explores theoretical\, methodological\, and practical tools for conducting what can be broadly defined as “activist research”. This is a form of research that challenges the traditional separation between theory/action\, academy/society and is committed to producing knowledge grounded in and generative of social and material changes in particular places. There are many ways in which the intersection between these domains is understood and practiced: from “scholar-activism” and “militant research”\, to “community experiments” and “participatory-action-research” and more. Through a reflective and inquisitive approach toward the concepts of research and activism\, this series seeks to unfold the plurality of ways in which we can understand and engage in research-activism.\nAcross a series of four events\, we hope to foster critical discussions and nurture a supportive and inclusive environment where collaborative networks can be forged. We will engage with the work of both established and early career researchers\, as well as representatives from outside of the university\, to consider the diverse ways in which research and activism intersect and the opportunities\, challenges\, possibilities and impossibilities it raises. \nEach Zoom webinar will feature short presentations from three speakers and will have a chance for audience questions and answers. Please join us for what we hope to be a set of stimulating and generative discussions. \nDates: \nApril 19th 2-4pm Introduction to activist research\, key questions and themes\n\nApril 26th 2-4pm Co-designing research and working with collectives\nMay 3rd 2-4pm Methods\, access and questions of power\n\nMay 10th 2-4pm Regenerative research cultures\n\nFor more details and to see who will be speaking at each session\, please check the Eventbrite page
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/swdtp-seminar-series-the-many-faces-of-activist-research/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Book Launch with Brian Rappert: Performing Deception
DESCRIPTION:SPIN is delighted to co-host the book launch for SPIN-ster Brian Rappert’s new book as part of our events series with the SWDTP\n \n\nJoin us and our fascinating panellists for an evening to discuss the book and its themes\, including a Q & A session. The event will be held online\, through Zoom. All are welcome. Sign up here! \nPanelists: \n\nClare Birchall\nSusan Maret\nTodd Landman\n\nAbout the Book \nIn Performing Deception\, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of secrecy\, deception and learning\, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill\, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world.  \nPerforming Deception covers a wide range of theories in sociology\, philosophy\, psychology and elsewhere in order to offer a striking assessment of the way secrecy and deception are woven into social interactions\, as well as the illusionary and paradoxical status of expertise. \nAbout the Author \nBrian Rappert is a Professor of Science\, Technology and Public Affairs at the University of Exeter. His long-term interest has been the examination of the strategic management of information\, particularly in relation to armed conflict. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics\, Persuasion\, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity; Biotechnology\, Security and the Search for Limits; and Education and Ethics in the Life Science. More recently he has been interested in the social\, ethical\, and political issues associated with researching and writing about secrets\, as in his books Experimental Secrets\, How to Look Good in a War and Dis-eases of Secrecy. \n\nHave a look at our previous SPIN events here\n\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/book-launch-with-brian-rappert-performing-deception/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220804T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220804T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240502T121813Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives and Intersectionality
DESCRIPTION:The second online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022. \n\nAbout the session\nFor many\, intersectionality should not be considered as a separate feminist topic\, but rather as a framework andor concept that infiltrates all areas of feminist thought and analysis. \nThis webinar will: \n\nProvide an introduction to the history of intersectionality\nIllustrate how this concept\, which was generated from within Black feminist thought\, is being developed and put to use today\nAsk you to consider whether it should it be used by white feminists and others in ways that include factors other than gender and race such as disabilities\, sexualities\, social class\nStimulate debate about the validity of expanding the concept and explore why controversies exist in this field\nConsider the future directions of the concept of intersectionality\, given current concerns with decolonising feminist approaches\nProvide a space to reflect on how these ideas around intersectionality might shape our own research\n\n  \nIn addition\, the international perspectives\, experiences\, actions and studies presented in this session will allow us to think about how popular usage has and has not been expanded to other international contexts and to consider its comparative usefulness for conveying the experiences of other ethnic minority and indigenous groups in vastly different global contexts. \n \n  \nSign up on Eventbrite here!\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/feminist-perspectives-and-intersectionality-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220703T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220703T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240502T121813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T131636Z
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SUMMARY:'Poisons and Podcasts'\, with Dr Brett Edwards
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brett Edwards will talk through his work on poisons and pestilence as weapons\, as well as his experiences recording a podcast. \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAfter working on biological and chemical weapon-related issues for several years\, Brett decided to develop a deeper appreciation of the history of this area. This has turned into a podcast called ‘Poisons and Pestilence’ which Brett records in his shed. The series traces the history of these weapons from pre-history all the way up to the present day. \n  \nFind out more about the Poisons and Pestilence podcast or listen here on Apple Podcasts. \nDr Brett Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of Politics\, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath\, researching the interface of technology\, governance and security. \n\n\nSign up on Eventbrite here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/poisons-and-podcasts-with-dr-brett-edwards-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220604T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220604T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240502T121812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T131745Z
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SUMMARY:Book discussion - Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism & Migration Control
DESCRIPTION:Book discussion in association with SPIN\, MMB and SWDTP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us for this online event\, where Hannah Jones will discuss her book Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control with Chloe Peacock from the University of Bristol. \n\nAbout the book\nAn elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups\, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-like conditions without judicial oversight or any time-limit on their sentence . An attempt to re-assert national sovereignty and borders leads thousands of citizens to register for dual citizenship with other countries\, some overcoming family associations with genocide in their second country of nationality to do so. \nThis is life in the UK today. How then are things still continuing as ‘normal’? How can we confront these phenomena and why do we so often refuse to? What are the practices that help us to accommodate the unconscionable? How might we contend with the horrors that meet us each day\, rather than becoming desensitized to them? \nViolent Ignorance sets out to examine these questions through an understanding of how the past persists in the present\, how trauma is silenced or reappears\, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter – rather than ignore – historic violence. In particular Hannah Jones shows how border controls and enforcement\, and its corollary\, racism and violence\, have shifted over time. Drawing on thinkers from John Berger to Ben Okri\, from Audre Lorde to Susan Sontag\, the book questions what it means to belong\, and discusses how hierarchies of belonging are revealed by what we can see\, and what we can ignore. \n\nSign up here!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/book-discussion-violent-ignorance-confronting-racism-migration-control-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220519T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240502T121825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T131818Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives and Methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Sign up on Eventbrite here\n\nAbout the session\nTaking inspiration from the epistemological and theoretical critiques and developments in feminisms\, feminist methods and methodologies are about more than just including women in research or women studying women. \nFeminist methods tend to offer a challenge to knowledge production itself interlinked with feminist political intent\, ethical processes\, egalitarianism\, and the examination of power\, dominance\, inequality\, or discrimination. \nThis webinar will provide an introduction to the history of feminist methods in concert with the growth of feminist thought. We illustrate both specific methodologies developed in and through feminist thought\, and how feminist thought can be brought to bear on other methods and methodologies (e.g.\, interviews\, fieldwork\, ethnography\, media studies)\, as well as on other aspects of the research process (e.g.\, ethics\, representation). \n\nFind out more about the webinar series here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/feminist-perspectives-and-methodologies-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220519T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20220504T121446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T125034Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives and Methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Sign up on Eventbrite here\n\nAbout the session\nTaking inspiration from the epistemological and theoretical critiques and developments in feminisms\, feminist methods and methodologies are about more than just including women in research or women studying women. \nFeminist methods tend to offer a challenge to knowledge production itself interlinked with feminist political intent\, ethical processes\, egalitarianism\, and the examination of power\, dominance\, inequality\, or discrimination. \nThis webinar will provide an introduction to the history of feminist methods in concert with the growth of feminist thought. We illustrate both specific methodologies developed in and through feminist thought\, and how feminist thought can be brought to bear on other methods and methodologies (e.g.\, interviews\, fieldwork\, ethnography\, media studies)\, as well as on other aspects of the research process (e.g.\, ethics\, representation). \n\nFind out more about the webinar series here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/feminist-perspectives-and-methodologies/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220427T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220429T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Working with Marginalised Communities: Ethical Practice for PhD Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Working With Marginalised Communities: Towards an Ethical Practice for PhD Scholars. A three-day webinar course on 27\, 28\, 29 April \n\n\nA growing number of PhD students and Early Career Researchers have shown interest in pursuing research with and for communities who have traditionally been viewed from an abstract distance if\, indeed\, they have been viewed at all. The scope of these projects is wide and includes researchers working with women in domestic violence refuges\, teenagers in socio-economically deprived areas of London and Afghani refugee communities caught in the limbo of the Aegean islands. \nWhat these projects all have in common is that they bring academic scholars into contact with individuals and communities that are likely to have experienced trauma as well as disempowering if not explicitly violent interactions with institutional and state authorities. High levels of professional and personal sensitivity and ethics are essential if the researcher is to avoid replicating the participants’ experiences of marginalisation and creating an abstract rather than rich\, nuanced picture of their lives and experiences. \nThis is a three part webinar series delivered by Fred Ehresmann\, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of the West of England and Dr Jade Lee\, director of Aurora Learning and UK Programme Lead of School Bus Project\, an NGO that supports educational programmes for young refugees in Europe. \n  \nNote: Please only sign up if you are able to attend all three sessions \nRegister your place on Eventbrite here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/working-with-marginalised-communities-ethical-practice-for-phd-scholars/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220427T153000
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DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Working with Marginalised Communities: Ethical Practice for PhD Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Working With Marginalised Communities: Towards an Ethical Practice for PhD Scholars. A three-day webinar course on 27\, 28\, 29 April \n\n\nA growing number of PhD students and Early Career Researchers have shown interest in pursuing research with and for communities who have traditionally been viewed from an abstract distance if\, indeed\, they have been viewed at all. The scope of these projects is wide and includes researchers working with women in domestic violence refuges\, teenagers in socio-economically deprived areas of London and Afghani refugee communities caught in the limbo of the Aegean islands. \nWhat these projects all have in common is that they bring academic scholars into contact with individuals and communities that are likely to have experienced trauma as well as disempowering if not explicitly violent interactions with institutional and state authorities. High levels of professional and personal sensitivity and ethics are essential if the researcher is to avoid replicating the participants’ experiences of marginalisation and creating an abstract rather than rich\, nuanced picture of their lives and experiences. \nThis is a three part webinar series delivered by Fred Ehresmann\, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of the West of England and Dr Jade Lee\, director of Aurora Learning and UK Programme Lead of School Bus Project\, an NGO that supports educational programmes for young refugees in Europe. \n  \nNote: Please only sign up if you are able to attend all three sessions \nRegister your place on Eventbrite here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/working-with-marginalised-communities-ethical-practice-for-phd-scholars-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220408T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220408T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20220331T092205Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives and Intersectionality
DESCRIPTION:The second online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022. \n\nAbout the session\nFor many\, intersectionality should not be considered as a separate feminist topic\, but rather as a framework andor concept that infiltrates all areas of feminist thought and analysis. \nThis webinar will: \n\nProvide an introduction to the history of intersectionality\nIllustrate how this concept\, which was generated from within Black feminist thought\, is being developed and put to use today\nAsk you to consider whether it should it be used by white feminists and others in ways that include factors other than gender and race such as disabilities\, sexualities\, social class\nStimulate debate about the validity of expanding the concept and explore why controversies exist in this field\nConsider the future directions of the concept of intersectionality\, given current concerns with decolonising feminist approaches\nProvide a space to reflect on how these ideas around intersectionality might shape our own research\n\n  \nIn addition\, the international perspectives\, experiences\, actions and studies presented in this session will allow us to think about how popular usage has and has not been expanded to other international contexts and to consider its comparative usefulness for conveying the experiences of other ethnic minority and indigenous groups in vastly different global contexts. \n \n  \nSign up on Eventbrite here!\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/feminist-perspectives-and-intersectionality/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20240501T151744Z
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SUMMARY:Book discussion - Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism & Migration Control
DESCRIPTION:Book discussion in association with SPIN\, MMB and SWDTP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us for this online event\, where Hannah Jones will discuss her book Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control with Chloe Peacock from the University of Bristol. \n\nAbout the book\nAn elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups\, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-like conditions without judicial oversight or any time-limit on their sentence . An attempt to re-assert national sovereignty and borders leads thousands of citizens to register for dual citizenship with other countries\, some overcoming family associations with genocide in their second country of nationality to do so. \nThis is life in the UK today. How then are things still continuing as ‘normal’? How can we confront these phenomena and why do we so often refuse to? What are the practices that help us to accommodate the unconscionable? How might we contend with the horrors that meet us each day\, rather than becoming desensitized to them? \nViolent Ignorance sets out to examine these questions through an understanding of how the past persists in the present\, how trauma is silenced or reappears\, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter – rather than ignore – historic violence. In particular Hannah Jones shows how border controls and enforcement\, and its corollary\, racism and violence\, have shifted over time. Drawing on thinkers from John Berger to Ben Okri\, from Audre Lorde to Susan Sontag\, the book questions what it means to belong\, and discusses how hierarchies of belonging are revealed by what we can see\, and what we can ignore. \n\nSign up here!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/book-discussion-violent-ignorance-confronting-racism-migration-control-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20220331T091314Z
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SUMMARY:Book discussion - Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism & Migration Control
DESCRIPTION:Book discussion in association with SPIN\, MMB and SWDTP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nJoin us for this online event\, where Hannah Jones will discuss her book Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control with Chloe Peacock from the University of Bristol. \n\nAbout the book\nAn elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups\, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-like conditions without judicial oversight or any time-limit on their sentence . An attempt to re-assert national sovereignty and borders leads thousands of citizens to register for dual citizenship with other countries\, some overcoming family associations with genocide in their second country of nationality to do so. \nThis is life in the UK today. How then are things still continuing as ‘normal’? How can we confront these phenomena and why do we so often refuse to? What are the practices that help us to accommodate the unconscionable? How might we contend with the horrors that meet us each day\, rather than becoming desensitized to them? \nViolent Ignorance sets out to examine these questions through an understanding of how the past persists in the present\, how trauma is silenced or reappears\, and how we might reimagine identity and connection in ways that counter – rather than ignore – historic violence. In particular Hannah Jones shows how border controls and enforcement\, and its corollary\, racism and violence\, have shifted over time. Drawing on thinkers from John Berger to Ben Okri\, from Audre Lorde to Susan Sontag\, the book questions what it means to belong\, and discusses how hierarchies of belonging are revealed by what we can see\, and what we can ignore. \n\nSign up here!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/book-discussion-violent-ignorance-confronting-racism-migration-control/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220307T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:'Poisons and Podcasts'\, with Dr Brett Edwards
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Brett Edwards will talk through his work on poisons and pestilence as weapons\, as well as his experiences recording a podcast. \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAfter working on biological and chemical weapon-related issues for several years\, Brett decided to develop a deeper appreciation of the history of this area. This has turned into a podcast called ‘Poisons and Pestilence’ which Brett records in his shed. The series traces the history of these weapons from pre-history all the way up to the present day. \n  \nFind out more about the Poisons and Pestilence podcast or listen here on Apple Podcasts. \nDr Brett Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of Politics\, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath\, researching the interface of technology\, governance and security. \n\n\nSign up on Eventbrite here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/poisons-and-podcasts-with-dr-brett-edwards/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220209T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Democracy Lives in Darkness: Discussion with Prof Emily Van Duyn
DESCRIPTION:How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret: A Discussion with Professor Emily Van Duyn Why Democracy Lives in Darkness \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nEmily Van Duyn\, PhD\, assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, will discuss her newly published book\, Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret\, which argues that political secrecy has become a necessity for mainstream partisans and the result of intensifying political prejudice and segregation within and across communities. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe book draws on an array of qualitative and quantitative studies of political secrecy in contemporary democracy. Specifically\, Dr. Van Duyn relies on four years of ethnographic research of a secret political organization of progressives in rural Texas and novel survey data about political secrecy in the United States. From this investigation\, Dr. Van Duyn considers how the shape of and participants in political secrecy have changed with the rise of digital media and with growing political hostility.\n\n\n\n\nShe asks why mainstream partisans feel the need to hide their political beliefs from others\, why they feel afraid of those from the opposite party\, how they stay politically engaged in secret\, and how this can transform them and their communities.\n\n\n\n\nIn her talk\, Dr. Van Duyn will challenge those who study politics and public life to look beyond public political behavior and those who study big data and machine learning to consider the unique and meaningful qualities of studying the individual in context. She will consider how secrecy can be both destructive to and critical for democracy’s survival\, and how scholars and practitioners alike can use this knowledge to better their own practices.\n\n\n\n  \nRegister here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/democracy-lives-in-darkness-discussion-with-prof-emily-van-duyn/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220128T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Feminist Theories for Contemporary Times
DESCRIPTION:The first online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022. \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nGendered inequality\, exploitation and violence takes both new and old forms in contemporary times. Three researchers and activists talk about the feminist theories that they draw on in their research. \nSian Norris will talk the insights that socialist feminism brings to her research on reproductive labour and exploitation. Egle Cesnulyte will discuss how sex work positive feminism influence her research on women’s agency and political economy. Jennifer Thomson will consider the co-optation of feminism through the critiques that feminist scholars\, such as Nancy Fraser\, have raised against neoliberalism. \nSpeakers:\n\nSian Norris is a writer and journalist focusing on women’s and minority rights. She is the Chief European and Social Affairs reporter at Byline Times. Her book on the far right’s war on reproductive rights will be published by Verso in spring 2023. Her reporting has appeared in the Guardian\, the i\, openDemocracy\, the New Statesman and elsewhere.\nEgle Cesnulyte is a senior lecturer in Politics and International Development at the University of Bristol.\nDr Jennifer Thomson is a senior lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Bath.\n\n  \nSign up here\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/feminist-theories-for-contemporary-times/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211124T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Adam Sisman on John Le Carre: Writing and Researching Elusive Subjects
DESCRIPTION:Adam Sisman\, author of John Le Carre: The Biography talks about the book and writing and researching elusive subjects \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nThis month\, we are delighted to welcome guest author and researcher\, Adam Sisman to discuss researching\, interviewing and writing about the elusive David John Moore Cornwell (aka the globally successful spy fiction author John le Carré). Le Carré\, who passed away last year\, may be best known for his fictionalised spyworlds\, but this fiction was often based on his own life and his experiences of working in MI5 and MI6 at the height of the Cold War. For Sisman\, the challenge of writing and telling the stories of Cornwell’s life therefore meant negotiating these histories\, as well as le Carré’s tendency to continue to produce ambiguity about his life and work. \n \nOn Wednesday the 24th of November\, please join us therefore for a lunchtime conversation with Adam Sisman\, author of John le Carré: The Biography. \n\n\n\n\n\nHow can one research\, write and tell stories about the world of intelligence?\n\n\n\n\nHow does one conduct interviews\, archival work and craft a narrative?\n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to research and write around secrecy?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/adam-sisman-on-john-le-carre-writing-and-researching-elusive-subjects/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211123T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211123T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
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SUMMARY:Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research
DESCRIPTION:Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research on individuals and households in the UK \n\nAbout this event\n\n\nAlexey Bessudnov (Senior Lecturer in Sociology\, University of Exeter) will share top tips on getting started with Understanding Society in your PhD/MReS research. \nFunded by ESRC\, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on the changes and stability of people’s lives in the UK on topics including Biomarkers\, Genetics and Epigenetics; Covid-19; Education; Employment; Ethnicity & immigration; Family & households; Health & wellbeing; Politcs & Social attitudes; Transport & environment; Young people. As with most other longitudinal household surveys\, the structure and documentation of the Understanding Society are quite complex. Sometimes this may seem as an obstacle for researchers who are just starting to use the data. \n  \nIn this 60 minute webinar on Zoom\, Alexey will: \n\n\n\n\n\nProvide top tips on how the Understanding Society files are structured and how they can be linked and reshaped.\n\n\n\n\nDemonstrate how to work with the Understanding Society files in R.\n\n\n\n\nSuggest possible questions that could be posed by researchers using Understanding Society.\n\n\n\n\nAlexey’s presentation will also be followed by a Q&A session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nSign up here!\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/using-the-understanding-society-study-for-longitudinal-research/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210922T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20210805T125033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123707Z
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SUMMARY:SPIN - Book launch: William Walters\, 'State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary'
DESCRIPTION:Link to the event here\nSPIN is delighted to host the book launch for Professor William Walters’ new book State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary. \nIn the book\, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies. \nThrough investigations into such themes as the mobility of cryptographic secrets\, the power of public inquiries\, the connection between secrecy and place-making\, and the aesthetics of secrecy within immigration enforcement\, Walters challenges commonplace understandings of the covert and develops new concepts\, methods and themes for secrecy and security research. Walters identifies the covert imaginary as both a limit on our ability to think politics differently and a ground to develop a richer understanding of power. \nState Secrecy and Security offers readers a set of thinking tools to better understand the strange powers that hiding\, revealing\, lying\, confessing\, professing ignorance and many other operations of secrecy put in motion. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of security\, secrecy and politics more broadly. \nJoin us for an evening to discuss the book and its themes\, where audiences will also be able to ask the panel some questions. The event will be held online\, through Zoom. Sign up available through Eventbrite page which you can find at the top of this page \nThe ebook and hardback copy can be purchased from the publishers Routledge here and from other online retailers too. \n \nWilliam Walters teaches politics at Carleton University\, Ottawa\, Canada\, where he is the Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair (2019–22). He is the author of Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social (CUP\, 2000) and Governmentality: Critical Encounters (Routledge 2012)\, co-author of Governing Europe: Discourse\, Governmentality\, and European Integration (Routledge\, 2005) and co-editor of Global Governmentality (Routledge\, 2004) and Viapolitics: Borders\, Migration\, and the Power of Locomotion (Duke UP\, 2021).
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/spin-book-launch-william-walters-state-secrecy-and-security-refiguring-the-covert-imaginary/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210908T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210908T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20210805T123953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123707Z
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SUMMARY:SPIN - Twenty Years of the Global War on Terror: Looking back\, looking forward
DESCRIPTION:Link to the event here\n\nSeptember 2021 marks the first in a series of twentieth anniversaries associated with what became known as the Global War on Terror. \nThough the UK and US have only just withdrawn military forces from Afghanistan\, bringing to a close\, for some\, this ‘longest war’\, conflicts in new regions are ongoing\, while the impact and legacies of the war will continue to be felt in the decades to come in countries across the globe. \nThis SPIN panel therefore brings together a range of experts on the war to reflect on what we now know (and still don’t) about its causes and its legacies. \nCovering the war on terror through its military occupations; the rise of new domestic and international surveillance and police powers; the development of new industries\, technologies and specialists in terrorism and counter-terrorism (including the rise of special operations’ manhunts and drone warfare); as well as the scandals of extraordinary rendition\, Guantanamo and torture\, and the challenges of accountability in an age of digital archives and misinformation. \n\n\nPlease join us to mark this important historical milestone. The event will be held online\, through Zoom. \nSign up available through Eventbrite page.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/spin-twenty-years-of-the-global-war-on-terror-looking-back-looking-forward/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210908T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210908T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20210707T104819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123400Z
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SUMMARY:Precarity\, prosperity\, and everything in between: PGR identity\, community\, and wellbeing
DESCRIPTION:Link to the event here\n  \nJoin us as we bring together PGRs and supervisors across institutions and disciplines\, to explore the identities of a doctoral student.\nHow is your doctoral journey going? Are you surviving\, are you thriving\, have you got your sight set on the end-point or are you enjoying the wandering? Or do you feel stuck in one place or going round in circles? Are you a lone walker or a member of a tribe – or many tribes? What propels you\, and what stands in your way? \nJoin us for a day of discussing these topics\, as we bring together PGRs and supervisors across institutions and disciplines\, to explore what it means to be a doctoral student. We’ll look at how professional and scholarly identities are forged alongside personal\, social\, emotional\, political connections and identifications. We will engage in creative workshops and small group discussions to explore social identities and communities of belonging\, the obstacles and support mechanisms to your prospering and wellbeing\, and lay the grounds for research agenda and a network of support to PGR wellbeing. \n \nPlease note:\n\nDue to the pandemic\, we will be meeting online but will build in plenty of breaks in our schedule.\nThe meeting is open to social science and humanities doctoral researchers based at one of the SWDTP Universities or SWWDTP Universities but attendees do not need to be ESRC or AHRC funded. Due to the nature of the questions we are exploring\, this event is targeted at those from the 2nd year+ of the PhD.\nWe only have limited places available. By signing up you are making a firm commitment to attend. If you sign up and find that you cannot attend\, we ask that you let us know in sufficient time to find a replacement. If you have to cancel\, please email the organisers on s.djerasimovic@exeter.ac.uk no later than 30 August.\nJoining details for this online workshop will be provided prior to the workshop\, following registration. We look forward to seeing you there!\n\nFind more events like this here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/precarity-prosperity-and-everything-in-between-pgr-identity-community-and-wellbeing/
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210719T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210719T110000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211631
CREATED:20210707T094509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T121433Z
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SUMMARY:Publishing your Social Sciences doctoral research as a monograph
DESCRIPTION:In this SWDTP Webinar\, Phillippa Grand (Bristol University Press)\, will be joined by colleagues who have recently published their theses as monographs (Bowles; Carver) and Weldes (Co-Editor for two Routledge Book Series).\nContent will include: \n\nWhy publish your PhD as a monograph; why choose a monograph vs a journal article; what makes a good monograph\nHow does a doctoral researcher know if their research could be a published monograph?\nTurning a doctoral dissertation into a marketable monograph; how much work is involved?\n\nPractical tips on: \n\nProducing a book proposal\nThe process for peer review/production/choosing a publisher\nApproaching and working with publishers\n\nQ&A with the panel \nWebinar contributors \n\nAngeline Barrett (Webinar Chair)\, SWDTP Deputy Director\nHarry Bowles (Early career researcher and Lecturer in Physical Education and Youth Sport at the University of Bath who recently published his Doctoral thesis as a monograph)\nNatasha Carver\, (Lecturer in International Criminology\, University of Bristol\, who recently published her Doctoral thesis as a monograph which can be found here)\nPhilippa Grand\, BUP; Senior Commissioning Editor / Publisher\, Bristol University Press • Bristol University Press\nJutta Weldes (Professor of International Relations\, University of Bristol; co-editor\, for two Routledge Series book series\, ‘New International Relations’ and ‘Popular Culture and World Politics’\n\nThis event has been organised by the ESRC funded South West Doctoral Training Partnership but is open to all students (studying at any level)\, academics and any other colleagues who may find the content useful. However\, registration is required in advance.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/publishing-your-social-sciences-doctoral-research-as-a-monograph/
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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