
Research and Academic Development
Training Series
One-off events
4M Conference 2024: Menstruation in Society
The inaugural 4M conference took place on the 20th and 21st of June 2024 at the University of Exeter. The conference aimed to provide a platform for researchers and non-researchers to share their work relevant to the 4Ms, and provided an opportunity to form and build connections that will help ensure research on the 4Ms is innovative, high quality, aligned with needs and priorities, and impactful.
Exploring Immersive Technologies in Social Science Research Workshop – 17 November 2021, 10am-4pm
This online workshop focused on how immersive technologies have been used in current research projects across the SWDTP universities. We challenged workshop participants to consider how and if they might engage with these technologies in their own research and showcased studies using different technologies including virtual reality, hot spot technology and body motion capture.

The workshop focused on a number of theoretical, methodological and practical questions. Participants also talked to creatives and academics about how they have used these tools in their research and what the challenges are.
Perspectives on Research and Work in Developing and Transitional Countries
This webinar, developed in collaboration with the AHRC SWWDTP, looked at doing research and working in developing and transitional countries in the field of Defence and Security. Panelists, including the SWDTP’s Dr Roddy Brett, brought decades of experience to discuss the challenges and opportunities of academic research among other topics.
A recording of this webinar is available but public access cannot be provided. If you would like to be sent the video, please email Jude Hill.
Publishing your Social Sciences doctoral research as a monograph – 19 July 2021
Phillippa Grand (Bristol University Press), was joined by colleagues who have recently published their theses as monographs (Bowles; Carver) to talk about the process of publishing your work, producing a book proposal, the process for peer review/production/choosing a publisher and approaching and working with publishers.
Conducting Qualitative Research Online – August – November 2020
The SWDTP ran 6 training events in collaboration with Karen Lumsden. Four of these sessions focused on conducting qualitative interviews online and two on conducting focus groups online.
Institutional Ethnography (IE) Workshop: 26th October 2020
This highly successful hands on workshop on IE provided insights into an approach which is applicable across the social sciences. This includes health and disability studies, education, gender studies, natural resource management & land planning. IE has strong interdisciplinary potential and it is well equipped to pay attention to difference.
Co-Produced Approaches in Research Workshop – 19th January 2021
Brigstow Institute, SWDTP and SWWDTP collaborated to create this workshop to explore co-produced approaches to research. During the workshop students heared from leaders in the field, had a chance to hear about specific projects using this approach and explored how they might use these approaches in their research.
ADvaNCE workshops
The SWDTP co-funded 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 were led by ADvaNCE (the adolescent depression network to consolidate expertise), a special interest research group which is passionate about reducing depression in young people.
The videos below give a great idea about the work they do and you can follow them on Twitter for more updates
Georgia Herring’s presentation on young people’s responses to an ADvaNCE survey which asked young people about the best ways to identify depression
Dr Joanna Anderson discussing the identification of depression in schools
Jerica Radez’s presentation on barriers and facilitators of identification of depression in young people