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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:20260430T222347
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:20260430T222347
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220604T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220604T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220519T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220519T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220519T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220427T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220429T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T110930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T110930Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220427T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220427T173000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20240507T122106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T131909Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220408T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220408T153000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T092205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T132914Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20240501T151744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T132853Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T091314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T130734Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220307T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T100256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T132110Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220209T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T100826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T132819Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220128T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T095735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T134407Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211124T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T102148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T134423Z
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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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211123T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211123T120000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20220331T102659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T134441Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210922T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
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:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210805T123953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123707Z
UID:10000339-1631124000-1631131200@www.swdtp.ac.uk
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:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210707T104819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123400Z
UID:10000140-1631097000-1631113200@www.swdtp.ac.uk
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:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210707T094509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T121433Z
UID:10000137-1626688800-1626692400@www.swdtp.ac.uk
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210707T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210707T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210707T100738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T090638Z
UID:10000138-1625666400-1625673600@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Secondary analysis of cross-national\, comparative survey data webinar
DESCRIPTION:Link to register\nThose completing PhD research over the past 16 months may have had to develop new strategies for conducting comparative research because travel to other countries has not been possible. \nLed by: Professor Susan Banducci\, University of Exeter \nIn this workshop we will cover one such strategy — secondary analysis of cross-national\, comparative survey data. You can write an original\, successful PhD thesis using existing cross-national survey data such as the European Social Survey or the World Values Survey. In addition to introducing the wealth of data available across the globe\, Professor Susan Banducci will introduce some examples of published research and discuss strategies on how to add value to and gain new insight from these rich data sources. \nFormat: Webinar followed by a chance to ask questions \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. \nPlease also note that workshop materials will be distributed one week in advance.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/secondary-analysis-of-cross-national-comparative-survey-data-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210615T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210615T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210707T093039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123359Z
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SUMMARY:Standing Seminar in Critical Theory: Drop the debt\, before we drop dead
DESCRIPTION:Drop the debt\, before we drop dead:\nDiscussing the politics of sovereign debt\, ‘austerity’\, and the crisis of the nation state. Resonances from Greece\, Argentina and beyond\n  \nThe expansion and multiplication of public debt by nation-states have become a key factor of global capitalism in recent decades. Public debt functions as a pressure mechanism on national governments which in turn force their people to live in a permanent state of austerity. \nIn this event\, speakers will discuss the significant topic of sovereign debt\, capital and the nation-state. Together they will reflect on the ways in which indebtness is saving global capitalism and problematising social reproduction within the boundaries of the nation state by using Argentina and Greece as examples. \nPublic debt is functioning as a mechanism of pressure on states and peoples who are forced to live in permanent austerity. In this event\, we will discuss how massive indebtedness and the capitalist crisis threatens the reproduction of life and questions the institutions of bourgeois democracy. \nParticipants: \n\nWerner Bonefeld – Prof. Bonefeld is a Professor of politics at the University of York (UK). He is founder and co-editor of Open Marxism (3 Volumes) (Pluto Press published in the 1990s). Recent publications include Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy and The Strong State and the Free Economy.\nAna Cecilia Dinerstein – Dr Dinerstein is a critical theorist. She teaches and does research on the global politics of hope at the University of Bath. She is the author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (2015) and editor of Social Sciences for An Other Politics: Women Theorising without Parachutes (2017).\nMariano Féliz (La Plata – Argentina) –  Dr Féliz is a researcher at the Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (IdIHCS) and the Geographical Research Center (FAHCE / UNLP) // CONICET. He is a professor at UNLP. Member of the Center for Studies for Social Change and of the Popular Front Darío Santillán.\nAlexandros Kouris (Bath) –  is a ESRC funded PhD candidate In the global political economy pathway\, dep of SPS His research offers a global-critical re-examination of the “Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis” from a critical Marxist perspective.\nTheodoros Papadopoulos (Bath) –  Dr Papadopoulos is a comparative political sociologist based at the University of Bath’s Department of Social and Policy Sciences. His recent research includes publications on the neoliberal character of EU’s economic governance as well as the politics and socio-economic impact of austerity in Greece and other southern EU countries.\nMaría José Ventura Alfaro (Bath) – María José is an ESRC funded PhD student in the field of Development Studies\, Department of Social and Policy Sciences\, University of Bath. Her doctorate offers a feminist analysis of the widespread violence against women and Feminicide in Mexico and the women action movements in Mexico City and the peripheries of the capital.\n\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/standing-seminar-in-critical-theory-drop-the-debt-before-we-drop-dead/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210615T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210615T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210707T104149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T123400Z
UID:10000139-1623765600-1623774600@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Communicating with non-academic audiences using Zines\, Blog-posts\, Podcasts and other creative methods
DESCRIPTION:Link to the event here\nIn this workshop MJ Barker explored the use of zines\, blog-posts\, podcasts\, and other creative methods to get research and academic ideas out to wider audiences\, and potentially as a form of ongoing self-care and/or reflexive practice through our work. MJ Barker talked about their own experiences working on Queer: A Graphic History and the follow up Graphic Guides to Gender and Sexuality\, as well as developing the self-care zines available on their website rewriting-the-rules.com\, and creating blog posts and podcasts for that website and for megjohnandjustin.com. During the workshop participants were invited to consider the ways in which they might use zines\, blog-posts\, podcasts\, and other methods themselves\, and given the opportunity to try out planning and creating content which might work for communicating their ideas to a wider audience. \n  \nWorkshop attendees were asked to reflect on a number of questions/provocations including: \n\nWhy communicate with non-academic audiences?\nWhat are your fears and concerns around communicating/working with non-academic audiences\, whether self-care and/or practical?\nWhat draws you in or makes you hold back?\n\nResponses included: \n\nconcerns around criticism\, misrepresentation; low self-esteem/confidence; worries about participants being identified\n\nStrategies suggested to counter some of the above included: \n\nInsist on a recording which you can review/approve prior to publication; [where appropriate] do the work with a contract- this doesn’t have to be onerous; take the control back and do things on your terms; seek help from the experts e.g. your Universities press office if you’re working with the press; seek training\, e.g. media training in advance; you might want to seek help/support for emotional challenges through informal networks\, or even formal networks if available; consider working with others/collaboratively to share the load/and ease anxieties\n\nDownload further reading and more in depth notes here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/communicating-with-non-academic-audiences-using-zines-blog-posts-podcasts-and-other-creative-methods/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T193000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210308T104433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T090638Z
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SUMMARY:Make Space: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Mental Health and Self Harm: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:People who identify as LGBTQ+ are often at the sharp edge of social inequalities\, often facing disadvantage throughout a range of social systems. While there are conversations happening about LGBTQ+ mental health\, we do not believe they adequately explore (a) the systemic issues faced by the LGBTQ+ communities (b) the intersection of being both LGBTQ+ and someone with experience of self-harm. In this panel discussion\, we seek to give space and time to the ways in which we might think about and experience self-harm and mental health in relation to queerness.\nFacilitated by Make Space (makespaceco.org)\, an organisation co-founded by SWDTP student Courtney Sommer\, panellists will present their own perspectives on the topic\, and will also engage in broader discussion\, responding to questions from attendees. The panel brings together a number of exciting speakers\, who will provide vital\, nuanced perspectives. \nSpeakers include: \n  \n\nNim Ralph (they/them) – trans rights activist and freelance writer\, trainer\, and facilitator\nGinny Russel (she/her) – interdisciplinary Senior Lecturer in mental health at the University of Exeter\nTamara-Jade Kaz (she/her) – queer black creative facilitator and trainer based in London.\nBeth Ingram (she/they) – founder of youth peer support charity Hearts & Minds\nMax Cohen (he/him) – counsellor\, trainer and group facilitator based in Exeter.\n\nTo learn more about the speakers and to sign up visit: https://www.makespaceco.org/community-care-and-creativity/lgbtq-mental-health \nThis event is part of a wider program of events focussed exploring LGBTQ+ self-harm. To see the full program visit: https://www.makespaceco.org/community-care-and-creativity
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/make-space-lgbtq-experiences-of-mental-health-and-self-harm-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210316T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210316T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210223T165352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T122907Z
UID:10000124-1615892400-1615897800@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Accessing Administrative and Sensitive Datasets through SafePods Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The SafePod Network (SPN) is a new service that will provide a network of standardised safe settings (known as SafePods) across the UK to enable approved researchers to access and use sensitive datasets to better understand our society and economy.  \nA wealth of government datasets\, as well as study and survey datasets will be available for secure access from SafePods. This will include new linked datasets created by Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) projects\, such as the groundbreaking Data First programme at the Ministry of Justice\, and most datasets held by the Office for National Statistics’ Secure Research Service\, the UK Data Service and SAIL Databank.  \nSafePods will be primarily based at universities\, removing the travel and cost barriers for researchers to attend the handful of existing dedicated safe settings in the UK.  \nMany researchers across South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) Universities are already working with the types of administrative and/or sensitive datasets that will be made available through SafePods\, and interest in these is now further increasing due to the pandemic.  \nThe installation of SafePods have now been completed at the Universities of Bath\, Bristol and Exeter and this webinar will provide information about the opportunities SafePods will bring\, and the practical steps you will need to follow to use them.  \nThis webinar is being co-ordinated by the SWDTP\, with contributions from SafePod technical leads and academics across the partnership. Researchers across all stages are welcome to attend this webinar\, including undergraduates\, postgraduates and academics\, but advanced registration is essential via Eventbrite. Click here to access the Eventbrite and book your tickets! \nWebinar agenda \nBrief Welcome SWDTP Deputy Director\, Angeline Barrett  \nShort introduction to SafePods and the SafePod Network: what they enable\, and which datasets can be accessed\, Chris Playford\, University of Exeter  \nExample research projects enabled by the SafePods  \n – Helen Simpson\, Economics\, University of Bristol  \n – Alexey Bessudnov\, Sociology\, University of Exeter  \nPractical guidance on:  \n – Applying to access datasets\, Chris Playford  \n – Practicalities of using a SafePod\, Zosia Beckles/Debra Hiom  \nQ&A
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/accessing-administrative-and-sensitive-datasets-through-safepods-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210209T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210209T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210114T154048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T130111Z
UID:10000121-1612875600-1612882800@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:SWDTP Funded Bespoke Qualitative Research Training: Where Does Qualitative Research Come From?
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Qualitative Research is running a series of South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP)-Funded Bespoke Qualitative Training Workshops. View an overview of all workshops in this series.\nThis workshop is part of the main training package. The main training package focuses on from planning to product: the process of conducting qualitative research. This will consist of a series of 7 bespoke online seminars delivered monthly to up to 50 students by collaborators across the SWDTP universities.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/swdtp-funded-bespoke-qualitative-research-training-where-does-qualitative-research-come-from/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210204T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210204T163000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20210114T151032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T121512Z
UID:10000323-1612431000-1612456200@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Engaging with Policy Makers (in Collaboration with the AHRC funded SWWDTP)
DESCRIPTION:The overall objective of this workshop\, being led by the Institute for Government\, is to demystify government and explain how to engage successfully with policy makers. We aim to make the day engaging\, informative and practical\, with lots of opportunities to apply lessons to your own areas of research.\nYou will: \n• Gain an improved understanding of the governmental landscape \n• Learn how policy making works in practice \n• Learn practical tips for engaging with Parliament\, particularly select committees \n• Explore policy making from the perspective of the Civil Service \n• Practise communicating effectively with policy makers \nWORKSHOP PLATFORM \nThe workshop will be run using the virtual classroom platform Jigsaw Interactive. This is designed to provide a truly interactive learning experience with the use of breakout rooms\, chat and collaboration tools. \nWe always allow plenty of time for breaks and will try to help you connect with other participants throughout the programme.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/engaging-with-policy-makers-in-collaboration-with-the-ahrc-funded-swwdtp/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210119T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210119T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20201208T093625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T121511Z
UID:10000320-1611064800-1611072000@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Co-produced Approaches in Research Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Brigstow\, SWDTP and SWWDTP for a workshop to hear about and explore co-produced approaches to research. During the workshop you’ll hear from leaders in the field\, have a chance to hear about specific projects using this approach and explore how you might use these approaches in your research.\nFor more information and to sign up\, click here.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/co-produced-approaches-in-research-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201217T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201217T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20201123T112442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T121510Z
UID:10000318-1608213600-1608220800@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Decolonising Social Research Series: Decolonising Research Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Details TBC
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/decolonising-social-research-series-decolonising-research-ethics/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201215T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201215T123000
DTSTAMP:20260430T222347
CREATED:20201123T100924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T121432Z
UID:10000119-1608030000-1608035400@www.swdtp.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Perspectives on Research and Work in Developing and Transitional Countries
DESCRIPTION:Sign Up Here\nThis webinar\, developed in collaboration with the AHRC SWWDTP\, will cover multiple facets of doing research and working in developing and transitional countries in the field of Defence and Security\, but of wider relevance to colleagues from many different humanities and social science disciplines. \nPanellists will bring decades of experience to illustrate and discuss the challenges and opportunities of academic research and of those brought about by capacity building or consultancy work delivered in some testing environments. \nA variety of fieldwork will be examined \, from SSR research in Bosnia and the Western Balkans\, research in terrorist organisations\, research on armed conflict\, human rights and genocide in Guatemala and Colombia\, to capacity building work in Afghanistan\, Albania\, Bangladesh\, Kosovo\, Sri Lanka\, Trinidad & Tobago\, among others. The panellists will share their experiences relating them to the following non-exhaustive list of topics: \n– Logistical issues in the preparation of fieldwork – visas\, research permits\, identification of interviewees/in-country partners \n– The relationship between researchers and interviewees \n– Access\, trust building and remote relationships: access to relevant stakeholders/actors in-country\, issues of trust\, challenging communication medium\, understanding context from a distance \n– Time management: local conditions (opening/working hours\, distances)\, culture (sense of hard deadlines)\, need for translations \n– Dependable data and M&E requirements: Ensuring the reliability and validity of data collected from in-country sources\, reporting back to funder (go-between)\, when data is missing or is not what was expected\, report writing style \n– Risk and Ethics: to us and to people we work with; difficulty in assessment. \n– Cultural factors and the advantages of linguistic skills \n– Personal benefit/growth \n– Selecting appropriately a research approach: case study of the rationale for adopting an ethnographic research method in terrorism studies (presenting strengths and challenges of the ethnographic approach) \nThe webinar will include three short talks followed by a Q&A session. Our expert panel will include colleagues from both DTPs including \n– Anastasia Filippidou\, Lecturer in Terrorism\, Intelligence and Conflict Resolution\, Cranfield Forensic Institute\, Cranfield University \n– Edith Wilkinson\, Lecturer\, Cranfield Forensic Institute (CFI)\, Cranfield University \n– Gemma Collantes Celador\, Academic Director\, “Managing Defence in the Wider Security Context” programme (UK MoD)\, Senior Lecturer in International Security\, International Security and Law Group\, Cranfield Forensic Institute (CFI)\, Cranfield University \n– Roddy Brett\, Associate Professor\, School of Sociology\, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS)\, University of Bristol; Pathway Lead\, Global Political Economy Programme (ESRC SWDTP). Publications include The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork\, published by Palgrave
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/perspectives-on-research-and-work-in-developing-and-transitional-countries/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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