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SUMMARY:UWE led PGR Summer Residential
DESCRIPTION:Research always involves juggling\, even in normal times; and the last couple of years have been an especially challenging time to be a PGR. Whatever your current stage of PGR studies\, you’re warmly invited to join us at Hawkwood College near Stroud between 28 June-1 July as we ‘bring it all together’ by taking stock\, celebrating your creativity and resilience\, and helping you plan where to take things next.\n  \nThe Residential is the culmination of everything we try to achieve through the wider PGR skills development programme – it’s a space to celebrate progress made and assess your personal transferable skills and attributes\, and to identify your strengths and areas for development. Best of all\, you’ll get to meet other postgraduate researchers from a wide range of subject areas\, to share experiences and look ahead to completing your research degree and beyond. \n  \nAll participants will be allocated to a Tutor Group of between six and eight people.  This group will be your base for the duration of the course\, while you work through a variety of small and larger group activities.  The course begins with a warm-up exercise to help you get to know one another.  There will be some career-oriented sessions\, together with activities enabling you to practice relevant skills. Some of the activities may feel more relevant to you than others\, but you’re encouraged to give things a try. Each group will be assigned a Tutor who’s there to help you make the most of the opportunities available during the course. \n  \nThe course is designed to be intensive and participatory – and of course enjoyable! – with some sessions starting fairly early in the morning (bring an alarm clock!) and continuing into the early evening. There will also be a social programme. You will be asked to accept new challenges and try unfamiliar things in order to learn and develop\, but we won’t force you to participate in anything that makes you feel uncomfortable. \nFind out more information here \n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/uwe-led-pgr-summer-residential/
LOCATION:Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking\, Stroud\, Gloucestershire\, Hawkwood College\, Stroud
CATEGORIES:Summer school
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SUMMARY:Broadcast media interview training workshop
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be able to offer you the opportunity to do some broadcast interview training with award-winning journalist Rachel Shabi!\n\n\n\nA media and communications workshop designed to ensure that\, the next time you address a rolling camera\, an audience or an interview panel\, you’re fully equipped to get your message across. This session covers a range of tips\, techniques and broadcast skills including: engaging your audience and messaging; a quick formula for message prep; taking control of your interview; tackling nervousness; communicating academic research to a wider audience and building confidence and presence.\nThe half-day workshop will be offered as an online course\, on June 22. The full day workshop will take place ‘in real life‘ at 1 Priory Road (SWDTP offices) on 29 June.\nDue to the nature of the training\, places are limited to six per session\, so if you are interested in attending\, email the Collaboration Facilitator by Monday 6 June. Please also send a few lines explaining why you would like to do the training\, and how it relates to possible public/media engagement with your research etc. Please state clearly whether you would like to do the online or in-person course. \n\n\nHALF-DAY workshop:\nA media and communications workshop designed to ensure that\, the next time you address a rolling camera\, an audience or an interview panel\, you’re fully equipped to get your message across. This session covers a range of tips\, techniques and broadcast skills including: engaging your audience and messaging; a quick formula for message prep; taking control of your interview; tackling nervousness; communicating academic research to a wider audience and building confidence and presence.  You will have the opportunity to practice some of the techniques in breakouts. By the end of the session\, you will have the confidence and ability to take media requests – even at short notice. \n\nFULL DAY workshop:\nA media and communications workshop designed to ensure that\, the next time you address a rolling camera\, an audience or an interview panel\, you’re fully equipped to get your message across. This session covers a range of tips\, techniques and broadcast skills including: engaging your audience and messaging; a quick formula for message prep; taking control of your interview; developing and boosting your messages; tackling nervousness; communicating academic research to a wider audience; building confidence and presence\, and dealing with hostile media or curveball questions. We’ll break down some interview examples and look at the media environment\, exploring the different types of interview and how to best prepare for each one. As well as practice in breakouts\, you will have an individual\, recorded mock interview – with feedback sent too you after the session – so you have a chance to put some of those skills to practice. By the end of the session\, you will have the confidence and ability to take media requests – even at short notice.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/broadcast-media-interview-training-workshop/
LOCATION:1 Priory Road\, Bristol\, Bristol\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220709
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SUMMARY:University of Exeter Decolonising Research Festival
DESCRIPTION:In response to the Exeter Decolonising Network\, the Doctoral College is undertaking a Decolonising Research project to identify what decolonisation means in the context of research\, and specifically postgraduate research at the University of Exeter. \n\n \n\nThe Decolonising Research Festival will take place online from 20th June-8th July\, to kick start our thinking about what decolonisation means within a research context at the University of Exeter.\nThe festival will include research talks\, workshops\, question and answer panels and roundtable discussions on a variety of topic including: \n\nDecolonial research\nDecolonial research methods\nPower\, positionality\, and privilege\nDecolonising our research ethics processes\nDecolonising our research culture\nDecolonising postgraduate research\nDecolonising supervision\nDecolonising Researcher Development\nDecolonising the research pipeline\n\nThe programme will be announced shortly. If you are interested in attending or being involved\, please contact decolonisingresearch@exeter.ac.uk
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/university-of-exeter-decolonising-research-festival/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Exeter":MAILTO:penryn-methods@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220622
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SUMMARY:Visually Mediated Research: Using Visual Methods in the Social Sciences
DESCRIPTION:The HaSS Faculty Research Training Programme at Newcastle University are holding a second advanced training two-day workshop for PGR students this summer. This is called ‘Visually Mediated Research: Using Visual Methods in the Social Sciences’ and will take place present in person on campus in Newcastle. It will take place 20-21 June 2022 \n\nAbout the event\nThe main aim of this advanced training is to focus on the use of visual methods to mediate interactions and build understandings within social science research. We will consider different types of visual prompts and the processes associated with them; how they can be used within data collection\, analysis and presentation stages of the research process. We aim to raise the profile of visual methodology and build capacity across the social sciences in the effective use of this advancing field. \nThese aims will be achieved through a two day training event\, which will involve contributions from a variety of researchers who use visual activities and methods\, focusing explicitly on different aspects of data collection\, ethics\, synthesis\, analysis and dissemination. These sessions will draw on diverse examples from presenters’ research\, locating the process of ‘visually mediated encounters’\, and the data generated\, within visual research methodology and social science epistemology. This training will provide jargon free exemplars of sufficient critical insight\, both theoretical and practical\, to engage and inspire participants from across the social sciences to adapt high quality visual methods to their particular research situation. There will be opportunities for participants to undertake practical application of the theory in workshop sessions using a variety of qualitative and quantitative based visual approaches to data generation\, analysis and communication. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe workshop costs £60 for both days\, and includes lunch and tea/coffee\, but does not include transport\, accommodation or evening meals. Overnight accommodation (If applicable) is the responsibility of the participants.\nStudents in the SWDTP can use their RTSG for this two-day workshop\nSpaces are limited\, so it is first come\, first served. The deadline to register is Friday 6 May 2022.\nIf you are unsuccessful in securing a place\, please email hass.pgtraining@newcastle.ac.uk to go on the waiting list. You can also use this email address to contact us with any queries.\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can book a place here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/visually-mediated-research-using-visual-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
LOCATION:Henry Daysh Building – PGR Training Space\, Newcastle University\, Newcastle\, NE1 7RU
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Law PGR Network and Conference
DESCRIPTION:The socio-legal community is extremely broad\, and the relationship between law and society can include connections with sociology\, psychology\, politics\, and art\, as well as many others. \n\nTo support this rich\, interdisciplinary research\, SCuLE’s Maddy Millar and Natalie Olszowy are organising a one-day hybrid conference\, held on 17th June 2022 (University of Exeter). You can attend either virtually or in-person and will be able to watch and engage with different panels of socio-legal PGRs who are presenting their research on a range of topics. There will be lots of opportunities to chat and network with other PGRs and socio-legal academics (as well as eat lots of food!)\, and we will also have a very special guest speaker (TBC)! \n  \nNot only this\, but this Conference aims to support you even after the discussions have finished! In collaboration with The Centre for Science\, Culture\, and the Law (SCuLE)\, there will be opportunities for further involvement with the socio-legal community\, such as by getting involved in blog writing and reading groups! \n\nTo submit an abstract to present on a panel\, please complete the form here\n*****\nTo register to attend the conference\, please click here\n\n  \nWe are looking forward to seeing you there! \n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/beyond-the-law-pgr-network-and-conference/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
ORGANIZER;CN="The Centre for Science%2C Culture%2C and the Law":MAILTO:SCuLE@exeter.ac.uk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220618
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SUMMARY:SWWDTP Summer Research Festival
DESCRIPTION:SWWDTP Summer Research Festival (16th – 17th June 2022) has reached its second edition and this year the theme is Changes: Calibration\, Rethinking and Adjustment. The topic follows on from last year’s theme\, Futures\, in order to allow for conversations on new\, re-calibrated approaches to research and re-thinking themes and issues to unveil within the social\, economic\, cultural and historical background. \n\n \nThis interdisciplinary festival explores the various attitudes towards changes in terms of their adoption\, adaption\, effects and measurement. How do we as individuals and as a broader society navigate and perceive change? How might we learn and adapt\, and how might past change inform our perspectives? How can we create change for a better future? \nTo examine these questions and more\, we invite 15-20 minute conference papers\, collaborative events\, online exhibitions\, panel discussion\, round tables\, workshops\, performances\, film or any other form of activity. Please submit abstracts or proposals (max. 250 words for a paper\, or 350 words for any other type of event) via this Google form here by Monday 25th April. Applications are welcomed from other DTP PGRs not based at SWW DTP. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe first day of the festival (Thursday 16th June) will be entirely online\, while the second day (Friday 17th June) will be hybrid – both online and in person at a venue in Exeter (t.b.c.)\, as well as being open to the public with free admission.\nWe look forward to reading your abstracts! In the meantime\, feel free to drop us an email with any additional questions: dtp.changefestival@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nFind out more about the SWWDTP on their website here\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/swwdtp-summer-research-festival/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220608T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220608T143000
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SUMMARY:Creative Approaches to Ethical Qualitative Research
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Qualitative Research is running weekly online workshops for doctoral researchers funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP). This event is part of the CQRs Qualitative Innovation Series. \nFind out more about the series here\n \n  \n\nDr Shona McIntosh and Dr Rachel Wilder will discuss their recent work experimenting with creative\, inclusive and alternative ways to do ethical qualitative research. Drawing from the example of an online \nseminar series exploring methodologies for epistemic justice\, the speakers reflect on the issues of working collaboratively within hierarchical\, patriarchal and Euro-centred research traditions. They reflect on the potentials and limitations of creative approaches to foster ethical\, inclusive practice. \nThis work is underpinned by a commitment to and interest in epistemic justice theory (Fricker\, 2007) which focuses on whose knowledge is valued and whose voices are heard and listened to (e.g. Masaka\, 2019). \n  \nRegister your place here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/creative-approaches-to-ethical-qualitative-research/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220608T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220608T170000
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SUMMARY:'Shut Up and Write' and PGR social
DESCRIPTION:Shut Up and Write and PGR social – University of Bath campus\n\nAdvance notice that the SWDTP student reps meeting will be in Bath\, on 8 June. As part of our time on campus\, we are planning to run a ‘shut up and write’ session\, open to all PGR students\, regardless of whether you are funded by the SWDTP or not. For those of you who are not familiar with ‘shut up and write’\, it means that we share a room and work together\, with snacks nearby! \nthe Collaboration Facilitator and Mary will be on hand to answer any questions you might have about funding opportunities\, placements\, collaborations etc. and then we end the whole thing together with a cup of tea and some cake! \nSo as well as giving you some focused time to write\, this is also a space for questions\, to connect with other social science PGRs\, and to be ambushed by cake! \n  \n\n\nSession starts at 12:30pm but feel free to join anytime\nExpected finish at 5pm\nLocation: 1W\, 2.03\n\nIf you would like to join us\, please let the Collaboration Facilitator or Mary know (swdtp-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk\, mary.pearsonferns@bristol.ac.uk) so we can organise catering appropriately. \n\n \nIf you would like to organise a similar event yourself\, have a look at our Cohort Building Fund which is dedicated to building a PGR community within the SWDTP and across the South West. ESRC-funded students can apply for anywhere between £50 and £1\,000 to support research events\, cohort development and mixed social activities. \n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/shut-up-and-write-and-pgr-social/
LOCATION:University of Bath\, Claverton Down\, Bath BA2 7AY\, UK\, Bath\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220607T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220607T170000
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SUMMARY:Social media training for mental health research
DESCRIPTION:Are you a PhD candidate researching child and adolescent mental health and interested in improving the dissemination of your research via social media? The SWDTP is providing a half-day training course facilitated by Andre Tomlin of The Mental Elf to improve your social media skills. The course will take place at the University of Bath on the 7th June 2022 (1-5pm).  \nThe training will guide you in: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBecoming familiar with the range of online tools and methods available to disseminate mental health research\, e.g.\, blogs\, social media\, podcasts\, online events.\nWorking through scenarios and reaching consensus about the best ways to build online profiles and networks in mental health.\nExploring different online communication styles and consider what works best when discussing mental health in the public domain.\nLeaving with practical examples of what to do next to take your public engagement to the next level.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are 20 places on the training programme for students across the SWDTP network\, including 3-5 places for non-SWDTP students. Some limited travel funds are available for students who are unable to use their training support fee for travel to Bath. Please indicate on the form whether you would need financial support to attend. \n\nTo apply please complete this short survey.\n\nAs places are limited\, we ask that you only apply if you believe you will be available on the day. Applications will be open until Monday 16th May\, after which time we will get in touch to confirm if your application was successful.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/social-media-training-for-mental-health-research/
LOCATION:University of Bath\, Bath\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220604T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220604T150000
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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
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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:20260420T075941
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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:20220517T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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SUMMARY:Researching in/through and around the pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Researching in/through and around the pandemic: Challenges\, Opportunities and New Understandings of Being a Researcher. This event is part of the School of Education’s Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public – but spaces are limited so register your ticket quickly! \nHosted by Dr. Frances Giampapa\, Language\, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN) \n\nResearch\, in the tradition before the pandemic\, often emphasized and privileged being present in the locations learning happened\, whether it be a classroom\, workplace\, home\, or coffee shop. With the pandemic\, however\, researchers have had to adapt to online interactions\, new protocols for in-person contact\, and respond to and mediate the affective experiences of the students and teachers with whom they work\, as well as their own. It is important to gain a greater understanding of the effects of the pandemic on the nature of research in both in terms of methods\, but just as important in terms of the identity of the researcher. \nWe ask researchers to reflect on the following questions: \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat have been the affective and embodied experiences of doing research during the pandemic? How might these affective and embodied experiences and the memories you are building form your research shaping how you think of yourself as a researcher now and in the future?\nHave changes in methods\, technologies\, and locations of research offered new approaches or insights into the ways we construct our identities as researchers\nHow have the institutional structures of the university – ethics boards\, funding\, mentoring – or of your research site shaped your experiences and conceptions of research during the pandemic?\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers from different stages of their research will respond to these questions and we will discuss and reflect on our journeys as researchers in/through/and around the pandemic. \nSpeakers: \n\nBronwyn T. Williams\, Professor of English\, University of Louisville. United States\nAubrie Cox Warner\, University of Louisville\nOlalekan Adepoju\, Rhetoric and Composition\, University of Louisville\nArtemio Cortez Ochoa\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge\nCarolina Valladares Celis\, School of Education\, University of Bristol\nGonzalo Hidalgo Bazan\, School of Education\, University of Bristol\nVictoria Bowen\, School of Education\, University of Bristol\nHarriet Hand\, School of Education\, University of Bristol\nJennifer Rowsell\, School of Education\, University of Bristol\n\n  \n\nRegister for tickets here\n\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/researching-in-through-and-around-the-pandemic/
LOCATION:School of Education\, 35 Berkeley Square\, Bristol\, BS8 1JA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220512T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220512T173000
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SUMMARY:PGR Workshop - Narrative research: Possibilities and challenges of researching people's stories
DESCRIPTION:Sign up on Eventbrite here\n\nFull-day workshop for PGR students at UoB interested in learning\, discussing and sharing their work on narrative research. \n \n  \nNarrative research has gained popularity and relevance in diverse disciplines and has become a diverse\, complex and contested field. Multiple theoretical approaches\, methods\, strategies of analysis coexist under the term “narrative”. The workshop is designed as a space for dialogue\, integration and exchange on narrative research in order to explore the potential of this field. \nAs doctoral researchers our aim is to bring together PGR students interested or working in narrative research from different disciplines and theoretical/methodological approaches. We want to create a friendly space to share and discuss our work. \nTwo distinguished professors will be participating in the workshop: \n\n\n\nProfessor Corinne Squire\, Chair of Global Inequalities\, School for Policy Studies\, University of Bristol. Co-director Association of Narrative Research and Practice\nProfessor the Collaboration Facilitator Andrews\, Professor of Political Psychology\, University College London. Co-Director Association of Narrative Research and Practice\n\n\n\n  \nFor more information\, please contact: s.espinalmeza@bristol.ac.uk / g.hidalgobazan@bristol.ac.uk
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/pgr-workshop-narrative-research-possibilities-and-challenges-of-researching-peoples-stories/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220503T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220504T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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SUMMARY:NCRM - A Friendly Introduction to Quantitative Methods
DESCRIPTION:About the event\nThe 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 and/or to be confident when reading and incorporating quantitative research. It is particularly aimed at encouraging people who find quantitative methods intimidating or unwelcoming. For those that enjoy the course it may act as a basis for further quantitative training. \nThe course it is two mornings and will equate to one teaching day for payment purposes. \nBy the end of the course participants will: \n\n\n\n\n\nHave greater understanding of and confidence in engaging with quantitative work\nHave knowledge of the key concepts involved in quantitative analysis\nHave been introduced to key sources of data and quantitative software options\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind out more on the NCRM website here\nReady to register?\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/ncrm-a-friendly-introduction-to-quantitative-methods/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220427T173000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220614T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
CREATED:20220331T110155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T100554Z
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SUMMARY:Centre for Qualitative Research Core Training begins
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Qualitative Research from the University of Bath is running weekly online workshops for doctoral researchers funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP). \n\nBringing together academics from across the SWDTP institutions interested in qualitative research\, across disciplinary pathways\, to collaboratively develop and deliver a programme of bespoke training for SWDTP doctoral researchers. These SWDTP-Funded Bespoke Qualitative Training Workshops will provide practical and cross-disciplinary qualitative training to SWDTP-funded doctoral scholars and others who are interested in qualitative training\, through the collaborative resources of the SWDTP network. \n\n\n\nThe core 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 fortnightly to up to 50 students by collaborators across the SWDTP universities. \nRegistration is available here\n  \n1. Where does qualitative research come from? – Tuesday 12th April\, 10am-12pm \n2. Planning and designing qualitative research – Thursday 21st April\, 10am-12pm \n3. Preparing for speaking-based data collection – Tuesday 26th April\, 10am-12pm \n4. Conducting\, improving\, and refining interviews and focus groups – Tuesday 3rd May\, 10am-12pm \n5. Analysing interview and focus group data using thematic analysis – Tuesday 10th May\, 10am-12pm \n6. Exploring the diversity of forms of qualitative analysis – Wednesday 18th May\,10am-12pm \n7. Series conclusion: Publishing qualitative research – Tuesday 14th June 2022
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/centre-for-qualitative-research-core-training/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220408T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220408T153000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220406T150000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075941
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220307T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220305T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220405T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
CREATED:20240502T121825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T104345Z
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SUMMARY:NCRM - A Friendly Introduction to Quantitative Methods
DESCRIPTION:About the event\nThe 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 and/or to be confident when reading and incorporating quantitative research. It is particularly aimed at encouraging people who find quantitative methods intimidating or unwelcoming. For those that enjoy the course it may act as a basis for further quantitative training. \nThe course it is two mornings and will equate to one teaching day for payment purposes. \nBy the end of the course participants will: \n\n\n\n\n\nHave greater understanding of and confidence in engaging with quantitative work\nHave knowledge of the key concepts involved in quantitative analysis\nHave been introduced to key sources of data and quantitative software options\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind out more on the NCRM website here\nReady to register?\n 
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/ncrm-a-friendly-introduction-to-quantitative-methods-2/
LOCATION:Online
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220209T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220209T160000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220128T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211124T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211123T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211123T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211011T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211012T160000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
CREATED:20210716T090955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T093836Z
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SUMMARY:NCRM - Introducing Institutional Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Approach to Social Research
DESCRIPTION: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 research ‘takes sides’\, often researching as\, with\, and/or for\, marginalised groups who are often made invisible by\, or excluded from\, organisations and institutions.\nThe focus on texts – conceptualised as replicable materials objects that carry messages – allows IE researchers to ethnographically explore the organising power of language and institutions\, made material in institutional texts which act as bridges between different people and places. \nPresenter: Dr Orla Murray\, Dr Liz Ablett and Dr Adriana Suarez-Delucchi \nFind out more information and preparatory reading here \nThe overall aim of the workshop is to provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of institutional ethnography as an approach and the opportunity to translate their own research ideas and projects into an IE research proposal or small piece of text-focused analysis. This hands on workshop is suitable for students\, academics\, and anyone else interested in feminist methodologies\, text and discourse analysis\, and institutional or organisational ethnographies. No prior training in\, or knowledge of\, IE is required. \nThe course covers:\n\nAn overview of the work of feminist sociologist\, Dorothy Smith\, who developed Institutional Ethnography\nThree Institutional Ethnography case studies from Sociology and Human Geography\nThree text and discourse analysis methods within the Institutional Ethnography approach\nHow to translate your research ideas or projects into an Institutional Ethnography proposal/plan\n\nBy the end of the course participants will:\n\nunderstand of the origin and development of Institutional Ethnography\nknow how to use Institutional Ethnography to analyse texts\, processes\, and discourses\nhave an outline of how their research ideas could become an Institutional Ethnography project\n\nThe course is aimed at academics\, students\, any other qualitative researchers or policymakers interested in analysing organisational processes.  Participants must have at least some experience in qualitative research methods\, but no experience of Institutional Ethnography is required. \nRegister here
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/ncrm-introducing-institutional-ethnography-an-interdisciplinary-feminist-approach-to-social-research/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210922T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210915T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210915T110000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075942
CREATED:20210414T141503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T120823Z
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SUMMARY:SWDTP Co-Funded Webinar with ADvaNCE: Reducing depression in young people
DESCRIPTION:Link to register. \n“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?”\n  \nThe SWDTP is delighted to be co-funding a series of three workshops including talks by clinicians and researchers in the field\, focus group discussions and young peoples’ perspectives\, to open up new research avenues and opportunities for collaboration. These are being led by ADvaNCE (the adolescent depression network to consolidate expertise)\, a special interest research group which is passionate about reducing depression in young people. \nThe workshops are as follows: \n2nd June “What methods can be used to identify that a young person is experiencing depression?” \n8th July “What are the best early interventions for depression? And how early should they be used in order to result in the best patient outcomes?” \n15th September “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?” \nThe workshops are open to all PhD students and ECRs from SWDTP Universities. \nIf you are interested in attending one or more of the workshops please book your free online ticket via the link below. \nIf you are interested in hearing more about ADvaNCE and our workshops please email codevelop2advance@gmail.co.uk. To be added to the ADvaNCE mailing list\, please pop your details here:\nhttps://bathpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8jPzeG3HMYF95no and also give us a follow on Twitter advance_ntwk.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/swdtp-co-funded-webinar-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-diff/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training
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