This session will use the SPSS software to enhance your knowledge of the applied statistics and of the package. We will consider data structure as well as the differences between samples and populations. Intended learning outcomes: Common statistical distributions will be introduced. Useful methods for graphical, tabular and statistical summaries will be explored, along with […]
This session explores how critical thinking is relevant to the researcher’s career journey today and tomorrow. Intended learning outcomes: engage with own ‘usual’ approach to critical thinking in its daily context to research and job responsibilities broaden awareness of feasible in-house and external activities to further enhance critical thinking skills consider immediate opportunities to further […]
The Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students from all faculties the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured and supportive atmosphere. University of Bristol Students only. Book here.
One-Day Symposium Standing Seminar in Critical Theory funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership 15th of June – The Edge – University of Bath Campus This first SSCT Symposium is an invitation to interrogate and critique the present formulation and reality of ‘environmental’ crisis to propose alternative ideas, views and paradigms that contest the […]
The Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students from all faculties the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured and supportive atmosphere. University of Bristol Students only. Book here.
The Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students from all faculties the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured and supportive atmosphere. University of Bristol Students only. Book here.
Speakers: Foluke Adebisi, Mark Jackson and Arathi Sriprakash (all University of Bristol) When it comes to conceptualising a research problem, we often turn to literature and pre-existing theoretical frameworks. The social sciences grew up alongside the European project of world domination and competition through colonisation. Hence, much of the established canon of disciplinary knowledge has […]
From this Wednesday (25th November) the SWDTP will be running virtual study/writing sessions. This will be an informal work space taking place via Zoom every Wednesday afternoon (2-4:30pm) until the end of term (15th December) and will foster a collaborative and supportive environment where people can work together. Every hour or so we will make […]
Sign Up Here This roundtable will engage with the active process of decolonising knowledges, by presenting alternative epistemologies and praxis emanating from the global South. We will commence by offering a critique of established Western epistemologies, showing how they contribute to forms of colonisation, past and present, and limit possibilities for research. The discussion will […]
The SWDTP will be running virtual study/writing sessions. This will be an informal work space taking place via Zoom every Wednesday afternoon (2-4:30pm) until the end of term (15th December) and will foster a collaborative and supportive environment where people can work together. Every hour or so we will make space for optional breakout rooms […]