This session for researchers follows a ‘scenario’ format, encouraging audience interaction, interventions and contributions. We focus specifically on relationships between researchers and their PIs/supervisors. It’s an engaging exploration of conflict in communication, assertiveness, securing collaboration and ‘managing your manager’. Participants gain one year’s free access to the VOX Academy, a sophisticated online resource that enables […]
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 […]
We at the SWDTP love connecting with our community and what better way than to come straight to you! The purpose of this meet-up is for students to have the chance to come and speak directly with the SWDTP team, it need not be a PhD or academic-related discussion either, we always love to simply […]
We at the SWDTP love connecting with our community and what better way than to come straight to you! The purpose of this meet-up is for students to have the chance to come and speak directly with the SWDTP team, it need not be a PhD or academic-related discussion either, we always love to simply […]
Researchers at Bournemouth University would like to invite our SWDTP partners to the first Sexual Violence Research Group conference. Started in 2022, the SVRG is an inter-faculty network which aims to conduct, share, and promote research into the causes and context, and prevention of, sexual violence in a range of different settings. This debut conference brings together […]
We at the SWDTP love connecting with our community and what better way than to come straight to you! The purpose of this meet-up is for students to have the chance to come and speak directly with the SWDTP team, it need not be a PhD or academic-related discussion either, we always love to simply […]
The 2024 intake of SWDTP students is the first cohort to follow the most recently revised ESRC training guidelines. With contribution from academic and professional services colleagues across our partner institutions, we have now introduced new processes and components that students must engage with. We must also continue to have conversations across the Partnership in […]
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.
The SWDTP Annual Student Conference is an event created for students, by students. It presents a fantastic opportunity to engage in a dynamic and inclusive platform that promotes innovative ideas and critical reflections on the future of social sciences. This year’s conference theme is: Transforming social science futures: Rethink, Reflect, Research. Hear from your fellow social science students, […]
The sandboxing method was developed from the tradition of play therapy, specifically the World Technique, where children create three dimensional scenes, pictures, or abstract designs with a range of miniature, realistic and fantasy, figures and everyday objects in a tray filled with sand. Sandboxing adapts this therapeutic practice as a distinctive tool of qualitative data […]