Academic skills: writing up and revising

Academic skills: writing up and revising

PLEASE NOTE: This session will now take place from 11am-12pm, NOT 9:30am-10:30am as previously advertised. All other details remain the same. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.  Session facilitator: Tim Lawrence, Study Development team Session Overview: This workshop will cover how to craft your writing as it reaches completion. If you’re struggling to shape your sentences or worrying about the structure of your thesis, this session will help. The workshop will benefit any postgraduate researchers engaged in writing-up their research, whether as a paper or chapter, or getting their thesis ready for submission. Learning Outcomes: Learn advanced proofreading strategies. Understand ways to revise text as a way to hone your argument. Get a plan for how to complete the drafting process. This session will take place on campus in room HG/139 (Hoglate building, first floor). To book your place, please click here. ...
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Academic skills: editing and proof reading

Academic skills: editing and proof reading

Facilitator: Study Development team Session Overview:   During this session, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills for editing and proofreading your own work. You will have the chance to objectively assess your writing to be able to revise and refine your drafts.  Learning Outcomes:   Methodically plan and work through points for editing and proofreading Gain confidence in checking your own work and that of your peers This session will take place online via Microsoft Teams and will be recorded. To book your place via Eventbrite, please click here....
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Introduction to Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Introduction to Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Session facilitator: Dr Daniel Madigan In this session, I aim to provide a summary of meta-analysis for those unfamiliar with this analytical approach. I hope to cover: (1) what meta-analysis is, (2) the types of questions that can be answered with meta-analysis, (3) how to conduct meta-analyses, and (4) what software is available to do so. Learning Outcomes: (1) Understand what meta-analysis is (2) Understand the types of questions that can be answered with meta-analysis (3) Understand the main steps in conducting a meta-analysis Please click here to book your place via Eventbrite.  This session will take place via Microsoft Teams and will be recorded....
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Qualitative research beyond the interview: creative and visual methods

Qualitative research beyond the interview: creative and visual methods

  Session facilitator: Dr Dai O'Brien There are many qualitative data collection tools which can be exciting and creative to use, either as stand-alone methods or in combination with interviews. In this session Dai will reflect on some of the creative, visual data collection tools he has used in his own research and give demonstrations of these methods. Learning Objectives At the end of this session, attendees will be able to: Choose a creative and visual qualitative research tool suited to their needs Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different visual/creative qualitative data collection approaches Perform qualitative research using a range of visual and creative approaches This session will take place in HG/137. Please click here to reserve your place via Eventbrite....
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Practice-Based Research in the Humanities

Practice-Based Research in the Humanities

Session facilitator: Dr Robert Edgar This session is intended to present theories associated with practice-based research (PBR) in the Humanities, with a focus on literature and creative writers. The aim of this session is for Practice Based Researchers to further contextualise their practice. This includes some notes on reflection, autoethnography and reflective practice. This session would be useful for students undertaking PBR, staff supervising PBR and for PBR supervisors who are building resources for UKCGE applications. Learning Outcomes To develop an understanding of theories of practice based research To connect existing modes creative practice to practice-based research methodologies To understand the function of reflection and iteration as a core methodological approach This session will take place in QS/111 (Quad South lecture theatre). To book your place via Eventbrite, please click here....
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Using Questionnaires in Research

Using Questionnaires in Research

Session facilitator: Rev. Professor Andrew Village This is a session for anyone who wondering whether or not to use questionnaires in their research. It looks at the pros and cons of using questionnaires and explores the ways in which questionnaire data can be used to answer the sorts of research questions that interviews cannot. If you think questionnaires lead to over simplification and ‘thin’ data, come along and be prepared to be surprised! This session will take place online via Microsoft Teams and will be recorded. Please reserve your place via Eventbrite....
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A pluralistic approach to research

A pluralistic approach to research

Session facilitator: Professor Lynne Gabriel A pluralistic approach to research: What is a pluralistic approach to research? It's a perspective that appreciates diverse methods and approaches to meaning-making and knowledge production. This seminar introduces pluralistic research concepts and practices and invites participants to consider how they might utilize a pluralistic perspective. This session takes place in TW/105 (Temple Wing). To register for the event, please visit Pluralistic research design Tickets...
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Ethnographic Fieldwork

Ethnographic Fieldwork

Session Facilitator: Professor Lee Higgins In this session, we will discuss an ethnographic approach to research with particular attention to participant observation. We will locate the strategy as a form of qualitative research developing from anthropology. Examples will be predominantly taken from an ethnomusicological perspective and provide an opportunity to critically consider the approach. Learning Outcomes: Contextual understanding of ethnography Examples of implementation This session is taking place in HG137 To book a ticket, please visit Ethnographic Fieldwork Tickets...
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Research ‘with’, not ‘on’ communities: Engaging seldom-heard groups in the research process

Research ‘with’, not ‘on’ communities: Engaging seldom-heard groups in the research process

PLEASE NOTE: This session will now take place from 9:30am-10:30am, NOT 11am-12pm as previously advertised. All other details remain the same. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Session Facilitator: Maria Fernandes-Jesus Session Summary: The engagement of systematically marginalised communities (e.g., based on race, immigrant status, income) in the research process requires conducting research ‘with’ rather than ‘on’ them. In this session, we will critically reflect on the barriers to engaging often excluded groups and explore practical and methodological approaches that promote inclusion, diversity and co-production in the research process. Learning Outcomes: Describe who are seldom groups and why they are excluded from research. Identify strategies to promote inclusion in the research process. Demonstrate practical knowledge in terms of effective approaches and strategies to engage seldom groups in the research process. This session will take place in HG/139 (Holgate building, first floor). To book a ticket, please visit Research 'with', not 'on' communities: Engaging seldom-heard groups Tickets,...
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Creative Methods in Research

Creative Methods in Research

Creative Methods in Research – Discussion and Clinic Divine Charura and Matthew Reason   The use of creative methods in research – including drawing, photography, creative writing, collaging, vlogging and more –  is now established across disciplines ranging from health to education, psychology to the arts. Creative methods involve inviting participants to engage in an active creative task through which they can communicate their lived experiences and draw out insights and meanings. It has particular affordances in exploring experiences that might resist verbal articulation, whether affective, traumatic, emotional, aesthetic, and when working with individuals or groups who might be resistant to traditional research methodologies.  In this session Divine Charura (counselling psychology) and Matthew Reason (arts) will share examples of the use of creative methods in their own research and discuss its potential, its challenges and is practice.  As well as discussion, we also hope the session will act as a ‘clinic’, in which anyone attending can bring along their own experiences or plans for using...
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