Starting and managing a long-term research project requires strategies to stay on track, keep motivated and monitor your progress. Aimed at new PhD students, this workshop introduces various project-planning tools and approaches that you can apply to help you manage yourself, your research, and your time effectively during your doctorate. University of Bristol students only. […]
Shut up and write session for postgraduate students, including free coffee and cake! Each session will include 3 x 25 minute sessions of writing, with short gaps in between, and after the last session we will have refreshments so that we can also socialise and get to know other students, discuss our work, and feel […]
Do you struggle to find the time, space or motivation to focus on your writing? Need help with a thesis chapter, confirmation report, journal paper or funding application? If so, come along to a ‘Writing Wednesdays’ session. ‘Writing Wednesdays’ run every fortnight from 13:30 – 16:30 and are held in 10W Room 4.48. There are […]
The British Library has scheduled another season of Doctoral Open Days in January and February 2020. The Open Days are designed for first year PhD students who are new to the Library, offering the opportunity to hear from their expert and friendly staff students and network with their peers, in all disciplines and from across the […]
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, which can be easily downloaded from the web. It is now widely used for all types of statistical applications, from official and social statistics to modern methods for computationally based inference. Intended learning outcomes: After this short course the participant will have a basic […]
The aim of the workshop is to familiarise students with the purpose and the format of the oral examination of their thesis. The workshop will familiarise participants with the role of the internal and external examiner and the judgements they will be making in the course of the viva. There will be an opportunity to […]
Shut up and write session for postgraduate students, including free coffee and cake! Each session will include 3 x 25 minute sessions of writing, with short gaps in between, and after the last session we will have refreshments so that we can also socialise and get to know other students, discuss our work, and feel […]
Building upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Prerequisites:Familiarity with R or have attended Workshop […]
Fri, 6 March 2020 18:00 – 20:00 Priory Road Complex 12 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU An event organised with the support of the Standing Seminar in Critical Theory (https://www.seminarct.com), SWDTP, the University of Bristol and the University of Bath. Main speaker: Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine) Discussant: Katie Cruz (University of Bristol) […]
This course will outline creative research methods and show you how to use them appropriately at every stage of the research process. The course assumes that you have a good working knowledge of conventional research methods, and builds on that knowledge by introducing arts-based methods, research using technology, mixed methods, and transformative research frameworks such […]