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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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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Feel the Fear (and do it anyway): intellectual risk taking

Feel the Fear (and do it anyway): intellectual risk taking

Facilitator: Associate Professor Sarah Lawson-Welsh Session Overview: This session provides the chance to think about the nature of researcher fear and the benefits of intellectual risk-taking, using Sarah's own research in global food studies as a case study and drawing upon the theoretical writing on dis/comfort of feminist thinkers such as Sara Ahmed, Rachelle Chadwick (and others). There will be opportunities to review your individual and collective ‘comfort zones’ as a researcher and you will be encouraged to think further – and reflexively – about the politics of dis/comfort in your own individual research praxis and the ways in which you can harness this to develop research strategies which challenge privileged positions of ignorance or ‘comfortable truths’ (Chadwick 2021). Learning Outcomes: By the end of the session, you will have a clearer sense of your individual and collective comfort zones as a researcher and better awareness of a range of strategies that you can put in place to harness intellectual risk-taking in your research...
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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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Reviewing Academic Literature

Reviewing Academic Literature

Facilitator: Study Development Session Overview:  Are you stuck wading through a never-ending stack of articles? Or wondering how to transform your notes into a clear literature review? This session will focus on how to review academic literature effectively, and communicate this in your writing. We will explore how to identify relevant materials, and discuss how to write up this research in a critical way. We will discuss how to include a variety of important elements in your literature review, including: key arguments in the literature, why the scholarship matters, linking ideas/texts together, and how different sources support, disagree and/or develop each other. Learning Outcomes: • Understanding the structure of a literature review and how to summarise and analyse the material. • Learn how to review literature and critically evaluate the content. Book your place via Eventbrite: Reviewing Academic Literature Tickets This session will take place is QS 111...
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Feel the fear and do it anyway: Intellectual risk taking and harnessing the politics of dis/comfort

Feel the fear and do it anyway: Intellectual risk taking and harnessing the politics of dis/comfort

Facilitator: Associate Professor Sarah Lawson-Welsh RDF Indicator: A3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Research Methods Session Overview: This session provides a chance to think about the nature of researcher fear and the benefits of intellectual risk-taking, using Sarah's own research in global food studies as a case study and drawing upon the theoretical writing on dis/comfort of feminist thinkers such as Sara Ahmed, Rachelle Chadwick (and others). There will be opportunities to review your individual and collective ‘comfort zones’ as a researcher and you will be encouraged to think further – and reflexively – about the politics of dis/comfort in your own individual research praxis and the ways in which you can harness this to develop research strategies which challenge privileged positions of ignorance or ‘comfortable truths’ (Chadwick 2021). Learning Outcomes: By the end of the session, you will have a clearer sense of your individual and collective comfort zones as a researcher and better awareness of a range of strategies that you can put...
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Practice Led Research: Critical Reflection with Anecdotal Evidence

Practice Led Research: Critical Reflection with Anecdotal Evidence

Session facilitator: Associate Professor Claire Hind, Professor of Contemporary Theatre How to critically address practice led research when writing up the memory of making and producing artistic works for audiences. Learning Outcomes: Understand the relationship between creative experience, documentation and critical thinking. Grasp the concept of anecdotal evidence within art forms Book now This session will be taking place in DG/123...
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Writing external research grant applications for YSJ staff only

Writing external research grant applications for YSJ staff only

Facilitator: Professor Robert Mortimer, Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange RDF Indicator: A3, B3, C2 Programme: CPD Programme 2021-22 Theme: Core Research Skills for YSJ Staff Taking place via Teams Session Overview: This session will cover the basic approach to writing external research grant applications, and how to maximise your changes of being within the funding frame. It will cover the process from forming an initial idea to submitting the final proposal. Particular focus will be given to what grant reviewers look for in applications. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the session, attendees will be able to: - articulate key steps in the preparation of a good grant proposal - understand how writing style enhances a grant proposal - appreciate what grant reviewers are looking for in an application This session is for YSJ staff only.   You can book your place on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/293084542757...
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Academic skills of editing and proof reading

Academic skills of editing and proof reading

Facilitator: Rosie Bawn, Study Development RDF Indicator: A1, 2 & 3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22   Theme: Core Programme for Stage 3    Delivery: Online via Teams    Session Overview:   During this two-hour 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.     You can book your place on Eventbrite here:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/academic-skills-of-editing-and-proof-reading-tickets-191018480417 MS Teams link: Join Teams Meeting ...
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