• Precarity, prosperity, and everything in between: PGR identity, community, and wellbeing

    Link to the event here   Join us as we bring together PGRs and supervisors across institutions and disciplines, to explore the identities of a doctoral student. How 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 […]

  • SPIN – Twenty Years of the Global War on Terror: Looking back, looking forward

    Link to the event here September 2021 marks the first in a series of twentieth anniversaries associated with what became known as the Global War on Terror. Though the UK and US have only just withdrawn military forces from Afghanistan, bringing to a close, for some, this ‘longest war’, conflicts in new regions are ongoing, […]

  • SWDTP Co-Funded Webinar with ADvaNCE: Reducing depression in young people

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    Link to register.“What are the best ways to tell young people with depression about treatment options and their effectiveness to help them feel more in control and to manage their difficulties?”   The SWDTP is delighted to be co-funding a series of three workshops including talks by clinicians and researchers in the field, focus group […]

  • NCRM – Introducing Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research

    This workshop will introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives. IE is not just a methodology, but a comprehensive feminist ontology of how the social world works which advocates using a form of standpoint to explore from specific perspectives. IE […]

  • Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research

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    Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research on individuals and households in the UK About this event Alexey Bessudnov (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter) will share top tips on getting started with Understanding Society in your PhD/MReS research. Funded by ESRC, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial […]

  • Adam Sisman on John Le Carre: Writing and Researching Elusive Subjects

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    Adam Sisman, author of John Le Carre: The Biography talks about the book and writing and researching elusive subjects About this event This 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 […]

  • Feminist Theories for Contemporary Times

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    The first online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022. About this event Gendered 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. Sian Norris will talk the insights that socialist feminism brings […]

  • Democracy Lives in Darkness: Discussion with Prof Emily Van Duyn

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    How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret: A Discussion with Professor Emily Van Duyn Why Democracy Lives in Darkness About this event Emily 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, […]

  • NCRM – A Friendly Introduction to Quantitative Methods

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    About the event The aim of this course is to introduce students and researchers who have little to no quantitative training to the key concepts in quantitative methods in an accessible way. It is targeted at those who are writing theses/papers based on qualitative or review methods but who want to include some quantitative analysis […]

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