Events Calendar

The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the 13th annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture, which will take place on Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 6pm on the University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus. We are delighted to welcome Mary Jean Chan to speak at this year’s event, presenting their lecture: 'Forms of Grief: Elegiac Writing and Strict(er) Poetic Forms'.

In this 2025 F.T. Prince Memorial lecture, Dr Mary Jean Chan will explore the ways in which strict(er) poetic forms such as the sestina, the villanelle, the sonnet, the tanka and the specular poem enable one's articulation of grief and loss. Through close reading a range of work by modern and contemporary poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Natalie Diaz, Terrance Hayes, Victoria Chang and Julia Copus, Chan will explore their ongoing attempts at writing in the aftermath of collective and personal grief through sharing poems from Flèche (Faber, 2019), Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), as well as newer work.

Books by Mary Jean Chan will be available for purchase on the night.

About the speaker

Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche (Faber, 2019), which won the Costa Book Award for Poetry. Bright Fear (Faber, 2023), Chan's second book, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Writer’s Prize. Chan edited the anthology 100 Queer Poems (Vintage, 2022) with Andrew McMillan and served as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize. A 2023-24 Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, Chan is currently Departmental Lecturer in Poetry on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

About the F. T. Prince Lecture

This annual lecture series takes place in honour of the poet and scholar F. T. Prince, who was one of Southampton's first English professors. Invited speakers explore new directions in literary studies, drawing on the English department's wide range of intellectual interests.

This event is co-organised with the Winchester Poetry Festival .

Event Information

Guests can join this event in person at Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.

We encourage guests who wish to join in person to register at your earliest opportunity as spaces are strictly limited.

If you have any questions about this event please email us at fahevent@soton.ac.uk .

From engaging modern works from some of the most exciting new generation UK composers, to Looney Tunes!

Join us for a concert of two contrasting halves from the always-innovative Apollo Saxophone Quartet.

The first half features a specially selected mix of new compositions. They are cherry-picked from the Quartet’s library of over 120 premieres and commissions dedicated to the group over its history. Each of the five pieces showcases different aspects of the quartet’s highly distinctive sound world. They create moods, colours and textures, ranging from sublime and ethereal to driving, energetic and rhythmically compelling.

The second set showcases a handpicked selection of vintage cartoons, with live music brilliantly re-orchestrated from the original scores by the quartet. They will be played on the big screen alongside the Apollo’s live performance of the scores. These incredible animations are brought back to life just as they were perceived, with live music, live sound effects and with the original voices recorded in the studio in the first half of the twentieth century.

The dazzling imagination, skill, time and sheer effort involved in producing these seven minute cinematic wonders, well before the digital age, is astounding to see. Whether you are a child or an adult. expect a spellbinding and unforgettable performance.

Join us on Highfield Campus for the opportunity to meet a range of employers and industry professionals in the fields of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Geography and Environmental Sciences, Psychology, Biological Sciences and Health Sciences. 

Why Attend?

• Explore opportunities: Discover a variety of work experience vacancies and graduate roles.
• Network: An invaluable opportunity to connect with employers and find out more about company culture, learning and development opportunities and gain an insight into available roles

To receive reminder emails, updates, exhibitor information and more, book onto the event via MyCareer.

Fortnightly Sponsor Drop-in Sessions to be held at Southampton General Hospital

Planning a research study and not sure what Sponsorship involves or how to apply? Struggling to complete an ERGO application or IRAS form?

The University of Southampton’s Research Ethics and Governance Office and University Hospital Southampton’s Sponsor team are coming together to offer regular drop in sessions for staff and students over the autumn term. Come along to one of our drop-ins where representatives from both REGO and UHS Sponsor team will be available to chat through your questions—no need to book.

Our next session will take place on the 3rd November 13:00-16:00 at University Hospital Southampton (South Academic Block - LC51) with additional sessions taking place every 2 weeks. For more details please contact rgoinfo@soton.ac.uk.

3rd November 2.00pm to 3.00pm - via Teams

Staff and PGRs who are effected by menopause are invited to join a Safe Listening Space. 

This is a confidential Teams session for attendees to share their lived experiences with others. 

This session will be facilitated by Libby Barton, EDI Specialist and Menopause Working Group member and Claire Buchan, Health and Safety Officer for Wellbeing, and Menopause Working Group member. 

To register for the Safe Space please use this link: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams 

If you have any questions about this event please email Libby Barton via E.F.Barton@soton.ac.uk.

This short insight session is designed to provide a quick checklist for anyone setting up or reviewing any form of oral assessment. Topics will include various options for oral assessment; assessment purpose; organization and preparation; preparing students for oral assessment; student anxieties; inclusivity and anticipatory duties.

By the end of the event, participants should: 

-          Know the central issues for setting up effective oral assessment

-          Identify options for further support with oral assessment  

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton is designed to give you the information and knowledge needed to plan and develop your next application to take your research career to the next level. 

The Funder Focus sessions are a great way to learn more about the specific schemes on offer across the research landscape, ranging from post-doc fellowships through to prestigious early career researcher opportunities.   
 
Hear from our Research Funding Development team about the fellowship and first grant opportunities from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society, an outline of the support available to you from central services and schools, and time to ask your questions.  
 
This session is suitable for final-year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers.  

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) is an international infrastructure securing Holocaust research, commemoration and education on a trans-national level. EHRI-UK is the national node representing the United Kingdom within this international research consortium.

Each year the EHRI-UK Annual Lecture is hosted by a different institution in the UK, and this year the honour falls to the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton. This year's lecture will be in the form of a roundtable discussion between senior members of EHRI covering topics including the significance and changing character of Holocaust research in a digital age and how EHRI works to bring people, sources and resources together through a state-of-the-art digital infrastructure. It is a wonderful opportunity to hear from some of the leading researchers, archivists and cultural heritage specialists from the 11 EHRI member countries on their first joint visit to Southampton and we hope you will join us for an intellectually stimulating discussion.

Speakers

Michal Frankl is the head of the department “Knowledge and Participation” of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe. He is the author of "Prag ist nunmehr antisemitisch" (2011), a history of Czech antisemitism at the end of the 19th century and together with Miloslav Szabó of Budování státu bez antisemitismu? (Building of a State With No Antisemitism?, 2015), an analysis of antisemitism in the transition from the Habsburg Empire to the Czechoslovak nation state. With Kateřina Čapková, he wrote Unsichere Zuflucht (2012), a critical history of Czechoslovak refugee policy in the 1930s. His last book (Občané země nikoho, Citizens of the No Man’s Land, 2023) examines the rapid appearance of no man’s lands for refugees at the end of the 1930s and the ethnonational reorientation of citizenship in Eastern and Central Europe. He was the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator project “Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century” hosted the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Starting with 2025, he is the principal investigator of the project “Migration and us: Mobility, Refugees and Borders in a Humanities Perspective” (MyGRACE) funded through the Johannes Amos Comenius Programme. He served as work package leader in the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure projects and helped to develop the EHRI Document Blog, online editions as well as the Geospatial Repository.

Veerle Vanden Daelen is Curator and Director Collections & Research at Kazerne Dossin: Memorial, Museum and Research Centre on the Holocaust and Human Rights (Mechelen, Belgium). She holds a PhD in History from the University of Antwerp. Her dissertation examined the return and reconstruction of Jewish life in Antwerp after the Second World War (1944-1960). She has held fellowships at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Michigan) and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (University of Pennsylvania). Besides numerous articles, she has authored two books, Vrouwbeelden in het Vlaams Blok (Ghent, 2002) and Laten we hun lied verder zingen. De heropbouw van de joodse gemeenschap in Antwerpen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog (1944-1960) (Amsterdam, 2008). Veerle is actively involved in the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and is member of the Belgian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). She is also affiliated to the University of Antwerp, where she has taught courses on Migration History, Jewish history, and other topics, and where, together with Karin Hofmeester, she organises the annual “Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries” at the Institute of Jewish Studies.

Michal Brandl is an Associate Professor at the at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chair of Jewish and Holocaust Studies. Her research interests include Jewish history in Croatia in the 20th century, especially in the immediate postwar period, and Jewish heritage. She has held JDC Archives Fellowship in 2017. She is currently the chief research consultant to the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and to the Claims Conference on the restitution of the Jewish property in Croatia, as well as the national coordinator for the Croatian National Node in European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-HR) and a member of the Croatian delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Her recent publications include two books: Appropriation of Jewish property in Croatia: Zagreb as a case study (Zagreb: Leykam international, 2022) for which she received the Annual national award for science in the field of and Židovi u Hrvatskoj nakon Holokausta [Jews in Croatia after the Holocaust] (Zagreb: Leykam international, 2023) and numerous articles.

Rachel Pistol is Director of the UK Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI-UK) and Chair of the EHRI-ERIC National Coordinators' Committee, one of the two governing bodies of EHRI. Rachel completed her BA, MA, and PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London under the supervision of the late Professor David Cesarani OBE, writing the first comparative study of Second World War internment in the UK and the USA. Her research interests continue to develop the field of internment studies and she is also a scholar of refugees from Nazi oppression who sought refuge in the UK during the 1930s and 1940s. In 2024, Rachel joined the department of History and the Parkes Institute at the University of Southampton having previously worked at King’s College London as a digital historian on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the University of Exeter, and at Royal Holloway. In 2022 she became the Historical Advisor for World Jewish Relief, formerly the Central British Fund and is working on new ways to make their extensive archive on refugees to Britain during the 1930s and 1940s more accessible. Rachel is also a Committee Member of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies (EXILE).

nC2 Engineering Consultancy's 10th Anniversary Celebration!

Join us for a sparkling celebration as nC2 Engineering Consultancy marks 10 years of innovation, impact, and engineering excellence at the University of Southampton!

Ὂ5 Drop in anytime between 2–4pm for an afternoon of conversation, connection, and looking ahead to the next decade.
✨ Enjoy drinks and snacks while mingling with colleagues, collaborators, and friends of nC2.
Ἰ7 Let’s toast to the past, present, and future.

Whether you’ve worked with us, supported us, or are just curious about what the next 10 years might hold, we’d love to see you there.

Please book free tickets on Eventbrite:

nC2 Engineering Consultancy: 10th Anniversary Celebration! Tickets, Wed 5 Nov 2025 at 14:00 | Eventbrite

5th November 2.00pm - 3.15pm on Teams

The focus of this training is to raise awareness of Menopause in the workplace for all staff. Menopause is a phase of life. While some sail through it with barely a symptom, it isn't an easy transition for all. With the right support we can improve colleagues experience at work and in their personal lives. We want to help everyone feel comfortable to have open and honest conversations about menopause, never feeling that the subject is taboo or off limits.

The changing demographics of the UK’s workforce means that between 8 in 10 menopausal women are in work and research shows that the majority of women are unwilling to discuss menopause-related health problems with their line manager, or ask for the support or adjustments they may need. Line managers also need to be supported to enable them to give appropriate assistance to those they manage.

It's time to make a change.

Click here to register for the Menopause Awareness in the Workplace training: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7ebdb098-1714-4ba9-9d13-97b9809ad72e@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8 

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton is designed to give you the information and knowledge needed to plan and develop your next application to take your research career to the next level. 

The Funder Focus sessions are a great way to learn more about the specific schemes on offer across the research landscape, ranging from post-doc fellowships through to prestigious early career researcher opportunities.  

Hear from our Research Funding Development team about the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant and Advanced Grant, alongside the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Opportunities, as well as an outline of the support available to you from central services and schools, and time to ask your questions. 

This session is suitable for final-year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers. 

This session will provide researchers with key information on how they can use their research expertise to connect with Parliamentary processes to make evidence-informed policy. 

Join two of the most revered female singer-songwriters for an evening of unparalleled music.

Appearing together on stage for the first time, Beth and Judie perform songs such as ‘Stay With Me Till Dawn’, ‘Sand and Water’, ‘Bring The Rain’, ‘This Kiss’ and their stunning collaboration, ‘Safe’. Alongside their musicians, this is set to be a beautiful night of lyric, song and harmony.

Beth Nielsen Chapman is an American singer and songwriter who has written hits for country and pop music performers. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016. She is a two-time Grammy Award and an ACM Award nominee. She won the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year in 1999 for writing Faith Hill’s ‘This Kiss’. Judie Tzuke is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1979 hit ‘Stay with Me till Dawn’, which reached number 16 on the UK singles chart.

Run by Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre - A stage by stage introduction to the methods and processes commonly used to conduct systematic reviews of the effects of health and health care interventions.

About this course

This course is for anyone planning or currently doing a systematic review, or anyone curious about how reviews are done and what makes them systematic. It provides a stage by stage introduction to the methods and processes commonly used to conduct systematic reviews of the effects of health and health care interventions. Structured presentations with interactive practical exercises guide participants through the systematic review process, from initial scoping of the review topic to communicating the completed review’s findings. Many participants complete the course in readiness for conducting their own review, and all participants can continue their learning with information and further resources contained in their free comprehensive electronic course manual.

Who is this course for?

People with an awareness of evidence-based health. It’s also useful for people who are in the process of or about to undertake a systematic review. Previous delegates have been:

• researchers

• healthcare professionals

• academic clinicians

• education and policy commissioners

• medical students

• PhD or MSc students
   

Learning outcomes

This course will not cover realist synthesis or qualitative analysis.

After completing this course, you will understand:

• what a systematic review is

• scoping the research question and writing a protocol

• literature searching

• inclusion/exclusion screening

• data extraction and critical appraisal

• data synthesis
   

Course details

• 10 and 17 November 2025

• 09:00 – 13:00

• 8 learning hours

• this is an online course conducted via Zoom
   

Fees

• full time students: £150

• academic/public sector: £225

• private sector: £325

For more information and to book a place please visit our website.

Please note this course is spread over two days. The second part of the course takes place on Monday 17 November, 09:00 - 13:00.

This course is for anyone planning or currently doing a systematic review, or anyone curious about how reviews are done and what makes them systematic. It provides a stage by stage introduction to the methods and processes commonly used to conduct systematic reviews of the effects of health and health care interventions. Structured presentations with interactive practical exercises guide participants through the systematic review process, from initial scoping of the review topic to communicating the completed review’s findings. Many participants complete the course in readiness for conducting their own review, and all participants can continue their learning with information and further resources contained in their free comprehensive electronic course manual. 

Learning outcomes

This course will not cover realist synthesis or qualitative analysis.

After completing this course, you will understand:

• what a systematic review is

• scoping the research question and writing a protocol

• literature searching

• inclusion/exclusion screening

• data extraction and critical appraisal

• data synthesis
   

For more information, or to book your place, visit: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/southampton-health-technology-assessments-centre-shtac/introduction-to

This session will include a short introduction to open access journal publishing followed by a Q&A session so that we can cover the areas that interest you. 

We can discuss types of open access, funder policies, uploading your journal articles to our institutional repository, publisher deals, finding open access material and anything else you would like to ask.

This workshop presents an opportunity for you to interact with me on key issues and challenges facing Chinese students as they embark on their U.K university studies.

We will delve deep into the mindset of a typical Chinese university students and develop clear strategies for enabling them to settle into a very different U.K university experience quickly and smoothly.

I will impart my encyclopaedic knowledge of the Chinese university experience, based on ongoing experience teaching and researching inside Chinese universities which began almost 30 years ago.

This session aligns with the following PSF 2023 Dimensions in that its content links to: (V1) Respect individual learners and diverse groups of learners; (V2) Promote engagement in learning and equity of opportunity for all; (V4) Respond to the wider context in which higher education operates; and (K1) How learners learn, generally and within specific subjects.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

·       Aware of the key features of a typical Chinese university experience

·       Understand and appreciate the mindset of a typical Chinese university student

·       Elaborate on the key issues and challenges facing a typical Chinese student when they start their U.K university experience

·       Articulate strategies for effecting a smooth settling in period to U.K university life for a typical Chinese student

The aim of this session is to provide information on networking both online and in-person. This workshop will provide you with an overview of LinkedIn and how you can use it to connect with prospective employers, colleagues and companies you would like to work with. There will also be information around networking in person and how you can prepare for those initial interactions.

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

• Set up a LinkedIn profile and make connections

• Use LinkedIn and email to network with employers

• Talk about your PhD in different networking contexts in a way that makes your experience highly relevant to your audience

• Find events and conferences where you can start building your network

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501)

The correct pronunciation of a Chinese student’s name and an understanding of its meaning is great way to establish an instant dialogue and effective rapport which paves the way for a far more productive learning experience.

In my experience, even those completely new to the Chinese language can learn to pronounce Chinese names within a very short space of time and this seminar will assume no prior knowledge of the Chinese language at all.

Chinese students studying outside China often assume that those around them not only lack knowledge of their culture but also lack interest too. By improving our ability to pronounce Chinese names and develop some understanding of their meaning we will break down these barriers very quickly and permanently.

By the end of this event, participants should gain:

• An ability to pronounce Chinese (Pinyin) names much better where the sound is much closer to the sound produced by a native Chinese speaker

• An understanding of the most common male and female Chinese names, forenames and family names

• An understanding of the prepresentation of Chinese names

• An understanding of the meaning of common Chinese name

The University's Palestine Solidarity Network and Palestine Solidarity Society invite all students and staff to join weekly Tuesday vigils in solidarity with Palestine. The vigils provide a welcoming space to discuss current events, engage in open and truthful discourse around Palestine, and empower those who feel helpless to stand together for justice and peace.

Target audience: ERE, TAE, MSA who need to use Worktribe to cost and seek approval for research grant applications

This session is an introduction to the research application process and the research support available at the University.  It is intended for colleagues who are planning to apply for external funding for their research and will provide key costing principles and Worktribe knowledge necessary when preparing a grant application.  It is highly recommended colleagues attend the session at least 3 months prior to submission of their proposal.

Learning outcomes

• Understand the research application process at Southampton

• General costing principles

• Overview of approval process

• How to set up a research project in Worktribe

• Introduction to professional services teams providing research support

Please note this course takes place over two days. The second part of this course is on Wednesday 19 November, 09:00 - 13:00. 

This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of health economics evaluation. It is for anyone who needs to understand the principles of health economics and how or when they are used in evaluating the costs and benefits of healthcare interventions and particularly for those used in the UK health service. The course is interactive and includes practical exercises. On completion of the course participants will be able to understand health economic evaluation terminology,  basic concepts and interpret aspects of a health economic evaluation. All participants receive a PDF course pack including useful tools and resources to use in health economic evaluations.

Learning outcomes

After completing this course, you will understand:

•    the basic concepts of health economics
•    how to measure health outcomes
•    how to measure costs
•    cost effectiveness analyses in decision making
•    reviewing economic evaluation

For more information, or to book your place on the course, visit: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/institutes-centres/southampton-health-technology-assessments-centre-shtac/introduction-0 

This is an introductory workshop, suitable for those who will be using GenAI for the first time. However, all are welcome.

In this introductory level workshop, colleagues will be given an overview of GenAI tools at a basic level. The workshop will include an overview of GenAI tools and explain some common terminology in this area. It will also introduce some recent case studies, of assessment design, with GenAI, across disciplines. There will be a short activity in which colleagues can explore how to use and write prompts for GenAI, at a basic level, in the context of their assessment tasks. There will be time for discussion and sharing of ideas.

Developing your practice on this topic aligns to Advance HE Professional Standards Framework V4 & K4.

By the end of the event, participants should be able to:

- Define key terminology related to Generative AI (GenAI) and its application in educational contexts

- Explain how to access GenAI tools, craft effective prompts, and develop written outputs in relation to assessment tasks

- Examine the potential impact of GenAI use on specific assessment tasks within participants’ own disciplines and the implications on academic integrity

- Explore the effectiveness and appropriateness of using GenAI in assessment design in their discipline

This workshop is for new and recently appointed Academic Conduct Officers (ACOs) across the University. It is designed to introduce you to the role, the rules and regulations that you need to operate within, and to develop knowledge of the process.  

You’ll work on real cases and scenarios to think about evidence, next steps, and outcomes. 

The workshop will also touch on the duality of being both educator and punisher, and how to pro-actively avoid breaches through education and practice.

By the end of this event, participants will be able to:

• Understand the need for academic conduct and where this fits in the University’s education process. (aligned with dimensions V4, K5 of the PSF2023)

• Apply the University Regulations on Academic Conduct and Academic Conduct Guidance to suspected breaches. (aligns with dimension K5 of the PSF2023)

• Distinguish between poor academic practice, and breaches. (aligns with dimension K5 of the PSF2023)

• Describe the process for reporting and investigating suspected academic conduct breaches. (aligns with dimension K4 of the PSF2023).

• Identify and apply the relevant outcomes, including penalties, for each of these. (aligns with dimension K5 of the PSF2023)

• Plan and execute meetings in a professional and ethical way. (aligned with dimensions V2, A3, A4 of the PSF2023)

• Identify opportunities to educate staff and students on academic conduct. (aligned with dimensions V1, V4, K1, A4 of the PSF2023)

This practically focused session provides an opportunity for PGR supervisors to hear about the criteria, process and requirements associated with progression reviews and associated functions in PGR Manager, with an opportunity to ask questions.

The session is also an opportunity to ask questions more generally about PGR Manager and troubleshoot any issues.

Session objectives:

To provide an overview of the relevant review milestone requirements and answer general questions around progression reviews (Specific questions relating to disciplinary variations should be directed to and picked up in faculty supervisor forums)

To provide an opportunity for supervisors to ask specific questions about PGR Manager and troubleshoot any issues they are experiencing.

To explore specific functionalities and ways of working to get the best out of PGR Manager at relevant times during the year, particularly relating to progression review.


Please note: This is not induction training on PGR Manager. For guidance on how to use PGR Manager in the first instance, please refer to the PGR Manager SharePoint site - https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/PGRManagerGuide 

Join us for the annual Wade Lecture, "Re-imagining Health in the 21st Century," as we welcome Professor Ian Abbs, Chief Executive Officer of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and a national leader in digital healthcare innovation.

Despite the incredible advances in the 21st century we are now at an inflection point - current challenges facing health could lead to a deterioration in healthcare access and outcomes for the people that we serve. There is an opportunity now to embrace the moment of technological evolution to continue to deliver better, fairer, and faster healthcare for all. 

This year’s lecture will explore how innovation and transformation, beyond traditional staffing and funding, are vital to creating sustainable healthcare systems. It will focus on tackling key challenges in funding, technology, and performance, paving the way for effective 21st-century solutions. 

The evening will be hosted by Professor Diana Eccles, Dean of Medicine at the University of Southampton, and will include an audience Q&A session hosted by Professor Gopal Ramchurn, a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton. 

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, academic, student, or simply interested in the future of medicine, we invite you to join us for this thought-provoking and timely event.

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 (GMT) with in-person arrivals 17:30 - 18:00
Format: Hybrid - In-person and online
In-person Location: Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Tickets: Free, but registration required - click here to register 

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton includes several in-person, hands-on sessions to help support you in your fellowship journey, while providing you the opportunity to meet and network with colleagues with a similar interest in moving to the next stage of their career. 

This session will be led by CHEP (Centre for Higher Education Practice) with members of the Research Funding Development team and will focus on opportunities for personal and professional development for the preparation of your fellowship proposal as well as in the project itself. 

This session is suitable for final-year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers. 

This session is for academic staff. The training is based on case studies which are built around the audience, so this session will be based around the student to academic teaching relationship. 

Staff wellbeing run this same session for non-academic staff where the case studies will be much more relevant to non-academic roles and the relationships they have with students. If you are student facing but non-academic staff, please can I ask you to visit the staff wellbeing events SharePoint to book onto one of the non-academic sessions coming up soon. 

An in-person workshop that covers keeping yourself well while dealing with difficult conversations and maintaining boundaries.  You will learn practical tips that can be incorporated into practice and be given the opportunity to explore scenarios and identify unhelpful thinking.

By the end of this event, you should be able to:

• Know the boundaries and what actions to take when they are blurred.

• Recognise how different interactions impact on our thoughts, feelings and actions.

• Apply different strategies to reduce the impact.

• Know what support is available to you and students when needed.

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, East Side, Winchester School of Art / Online via Teams

Speaker: Dr Boyd Branch, Associate Professor of Creative Technologies, Department of Art and Media Technology 

Digital theatre of the oppressed: AI literacy through applied science theatre for young audiences

Digital Theatre of the Oppressed (DTO) presents a practice for engaging youth with the emergent disruption and immediate affordances of artificial intelligence.

Improbotics Kids! is a science theatre production following DTO, inviting youth to actively shape a narrative alongside improvising actors and robots.  

The premise involves performer-scientists (engaged in prompting and fine-tuning generative models) and real-time AI (impersonated by robot A.L.Ex) deployed in front of spect-actors (invited on stage).  

The show begins with the performers declaring their aim to educate and entertain, but from their attempts emerge ethical, social, and cultural implications that demand audience intervention. 

The DTO methodology for staging scripted and improvisational performances allows the show to adapt to the collective experience of the audience and avoids presenting an overly deterministic speculative conclusion about what young people should think about AI. 

About Material Interests

Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by the Department of Art and Media Technology and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.

Artist Aaron Williamson presents a new performance work, followed by a discussion with Professor Larry Lynch, Professor of Performance Writing at Winchester School of Art.

BOOK HERE

The performance and the conversation both draw extensively on Williamson’s current John Hansard Gallery exhibition, Outlandish, whilst referring out to his wider practice and thinking as a socio-political critique of contemporary framings of disability.

Please note, there will be an hour’s break between the Performance and the In Conversation event.

Event timings:
Performance: 1–1.30pm
In Conversation: 2.30–3.30pm

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton is designed to give you the information and knowledge needed to plan and develop your next application to take your research career to the next level. 

The Funder Focus sessions are a great way to learn more about the specific schemes on offer across the research landscape, ranging from post-doc fellowships through to prestigious early career researcher opportunities.   

Hear from our Research Funding Development team about the fellowship and first grant opportunities from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economics and Social Research Council, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust, an outline of the support available to you from central services and schools, and time to ask your questions. 

 This session is suitable for final-year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers. 

This practical workshop is aimed at educators who are interested in understanding more about incorporating student peer review into their provision and/or assessment. We will explore the benefits that peer review can provide, and what you need to consider when implementing it. In the second part of the workshop, you will draft an action plan for implementing peer review into a module or other learning activity of your choice.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

·       Consolidate your understanding of the benefits of peer review

·       Understand relevant considerations when embedding peer review into your provision, and apply these to an example from your own context

In this session we will compare traditional, creative and academic CVs so that you can be prepared for all areas of the job market. There will be a chance to practice writing about your experience as a researcher in the style that is suited to your chosen CV.

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

• Identify the differences between an academic, creative and a traditional CV and when to use each option

• Write about your researcher experience in the style that is suited to your chosen CV
   

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501).

This Workshop will be run by Public Policy Southampton. 


In this session you will learn:

- about the key announcements in the 10 Year NHS Plan
- openly discuss opportunities or barriers posed by the plan
- work to identify which parts are most relevant to your current work (or identifying areas to focus future research funding)
- Identify actions you can personally take to further your policy directions in this space

If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact the facilitator listed below. 
If you have any issues with booking on to the workshop, please contact CHEP@Soton.ac.uk 

This in-person workshop introduces participants to the TILTEd@Southampton (Transparency in Learning and Teaching TILT) framework developed by Professor Mary-Ann Wilkhelmes.

Facilitated by the Assessment Consultancy team, the session offers a practical, evidence-based approach to improving student understanding of assessment. 

Participants will explore how transparent communication in assessment design can enhance student success and reduce inequities and will apply the methodology to their own assessment briefs.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

·       Understand the principles of the TILT framework

·       Practically apply the TILT methodology to enhance clarity and transparency across their assessment briefs.

·       Reflect on the impact of transparent teaching practices on student equity and success.

·       Identify opportunities to embed TILT practices within their own and wider discipline area

We are delighted to announce that this year’s SEGEG Meeting will take place in Southampton on 20 November 2025, hosted at the University of Southampton’s City Centre Campus. Please see event details and registration link below. 

This half-day meeting will bring together leading researchers to discuss advances in statistical and genetic epidemiology, covering topics from AI-driven integration of rare variants in disease diagnostics to somatic mitochondrial mutations, gene–environment interactions and life course epidemiology.

ὌC Event Details

• Registration: [Eventbrite link]  https://tinyurl.com/segegfmed

• Date: Thursday, 20 November 2025
• Time: 13:00–17:30 (registration from 12:30)
• Venue: Sir James Matthews Building, 169 Above Bar Street, Southampton SO14 7NN

(~10 minutes’ walk from Southampton Central station)

• Campus: City Centre Campus, University of Southampton

• Map: [Google Maps link] 

   

Programme

12:30 – 13:20 Registration

13:20 Dr Alex Couto Alves (University of Southampton)

Welcome and Opening Remarks

13:30 Prof. Sarah Ennis (University of Southampton)

Using algorithms and AI to identify rare disease diagnoses within a common disease cohort

14:00 Dr Gareth Hawkes (University of Exeter)

Discovery and architecture of rare non-coding regulatory effects using population-scale whole-genome sequencing

14:30 Dr Moneeza Siddiqui (Queen Mary University of London)
The value of diverse ancestries in understanding causes of diseases: insights from GWAS & exome sequencing in South Asians with T2D

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 Prof. Jordana Bell (King’s College London)
Exploring variance QTLs in monozygotic twins and population samples as an approach to reveal gene–environment interaction effects on human traits

16:00 Prof. Nick Jones (Imperial College London)
Cryptic somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in single cells: accumulation in mid–late life, links to ageing hallmarks, and cross-species insights

16:30 Prof. Marjo-Riitta Järvelin (Imperial College London)
Life course genetic epidemiology of early growth and development

We look forward to welcoming you in Southampton for an engaging afternoon of science and discussion.

Kind regards,
Alex

Dr Alex Couto Alves

Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genomics

School of Human Development, Faculty of Medicine

University of Southampton

ὍE +44 (0)23 8059 1083

὎7a.couto-alves@soton.ac.uk

The aim of this session is to provide information on research fellowships and to offer tips on how to apply for funding. Content will include an introduction to the UoS Research funding Development team and an overview of Fellowships and New Investigator Awards.  

 Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

·       Find information on the Research Funding Development team and access the support they provide

·       Access information on Fellowships and New Investigator Awards

·       Begin drafting applications for fellowship funding

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501).

The third in an exclusive series of concerts celebrating the creative genius of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Max Reger described Johann Sebastian Bach as ‘the beginning and end of all music’, while Brahms once declared ‘Study Bach, there you will find everything’. Both composers feature in this final concert in Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver’s series.  Reger’s Suite in the Old Style reflects the composer’s love of Bach and the baroque period.  Brahms’ last violin sonata has in terms of compositional craft and instrumental writing many echoes of baroque and renaissance contrapuntal approaches.

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This session will be repeated on the 27 November from 14:00 - 15:30

In this session, the Student Disability and Inclusion team will discuss a variety of support, mechanisms and services aimed at supporting disabled students.  

Alongside a presentation, this interactive session allows to explore a range of case scenarios that PATs or other academics may encounter when dealing with their students. 

Finally, the session will provide tips on inclusive/accessible practice that benefits all learners.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Outline the support provided by the Student Disability and Inclusion  

• Understand what Student Support Recommendations are and their significance in providing students with equal access to education 

• Take part in a set of case studies and identify support that could be provided to disabled students  

• Identify few ways of making teaching more inclusive and accessible

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton is designed to give you the information and knowledge needed to plan and develop your next application to take your research career to the next level. 

The Funder Focus sessions are a great way to learn more about the specific schemes on offer across the research landscape, ranging from post-doc fellowships through to prestigious early career researcher opportunities.   

Hear from our Research Funding Development team about the fellowship and first grant opportunities from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and Wellcome Trust, an outline of the support available to you from central services and schools, and time to ask your questions.   

This session is suitable for final-year PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers. 

This session introduces advance literature searching skills for colleagues under taking a systematic or scoping review

Please Note: This session is only bookable on staffbook by those members of staff in Faculty of Medicine, School of Psychology, School of Health Sciences. 

If you have any questions about the session itself, please contact the facilitators listed below. 
If you have any issues with booking onto the event please contact CHEP@soton.ac.uk and the team will be able to assist you further. 

Are you looking to design exam questions that truly reflect your students’ learning? Join our hands-on workshop where you'll learn how to create effective, fair, and outcome-aligned exam questions. 

We’ll guide you through aligning questions with learning outcomes (LOs), using mini-introductions to focus student attention, and structuring questions progressively using Bloom’s taxonomy. Discover how to increase complexity through sub-parts and develop rubrics that standardise grading and support consistent feedback. By the end of the session, you'll be equipped with practical strategies to create assessments that promote deeper understanding and improve grading consistency.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Understand the role of learning outcomes (LOs) in assessment design.​

• Identify characteristics of well- and poorly-aligned exam questions.​

• How to use Bloom’s taxonomy to guide question development.​

• Closing the loop – remembering the importance of feedback.

In this workshop we will cover the basics of copyright and open licencing. 

We will go over how to legally reuse third party copyright in your teaching with copyright exceptions and licences. We will help you find open content that you can reuse in your teaching. 

There will be time at the end of the workshop to ask questions. 

Fellowship Month at the University of Southampton includes several in-person, hands-on sessions to help support you in your fellowship journey, while providing you the opportunity to meet and network with colleagues with a similar interest in moving to the next stage of their career.   

Convincing a fellowship panel that you are the right candidate requires an ambitious and exciting idea. This session, led by Ying Chen (Head of Research Funding Development), is focused on giving you the tools to help shape your research into an application that demands to be funded.   

This session is suitable for postdoctoral researchers, research technicians and early-career researchers who are planning on submitting a fellowship application in the next 12 months and who have a project in mind to discuss. 

This workshop will provide information on what to expect from the job application process and how to get your application form to attract attention from academic employers. 

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

• Look for academic jobs using a variety of resources

• Analyse job adverts to identify what skills the employer is looking for

• Confidently complete application forms providing evidence of your skills
   

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501).

This is an intermediate workshop suitable for those who have used and produced outputs using GenAI and may be already engaged with GenAI use with their students.

This interactive workshop invites participants to collaboratively explore innovative approaches to assessment design by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their modules. Grounded in contemporary curriculum theory and the Advancing Assessment Principles, the session will examine how AI-enhanced assessments can foster critical digital literacies and prepare students for an evolving technological landscape.

Participants will examine how to scaffold formative and summative assessments which provide academic integrity and an opportunity to critique the role of AI use within their specific disciplinary context.

As part of the session, we will model how to use GenAI advanced prompt techniques to gain better quality outputs.

By the end of the session, attendees will leave with actionable ideas for their modules, a deeper understanding of AI’s pedagogical potential, and a theoretical grounding for embedding AI meaningfully into assessment design.

Developing your practice on this topic aligns to Advance HE Professional Standards Framework V4 & K4.

By the end of the event, participants should be able to:

·       Critically evaluate the pedagogical implications of integrating generative AI into assessment design, with reference to contemporary curriculum theory and the Advancing Assessment Principles.

·       Re-design assessment to include formative and summative assessment tasks that promote academic integrity and student engagement with AI tools.

·       Apply advanced GenAI prompt engineering techniques to generate high-quality outputs in assessment contexts.

·       Develop a theoretically informed base for embedding AI literacy into module design, enabling students to ethically and effectively engage with AI in their academic and professional futures.

In this session, the Student Disability and Inclusion team will discuss a variety of support, mechanisms and services aimed at supporting disabled students.  

Alongside a presentation, this interactive session allows to explore a range of case scenarios that PATs or other academics may encounter when dealing with their students. 

Finally, the session will provide tips on inclusive/accessible practice that benefits all learners.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

• Outline the support provided by the Student Disability and Inclusion  

• Understand what Student Support Recommendations are and their significance in providing students with equal access to education 

• Take part in a set of case studies and identify support that could be provided to disabled students  

• Identify few ways of making teaching more inclusive and accessible

This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to analyse your current skill set and consider how you can use it in a job role beyond academia. Ideas and inspiration will be provided around the types of jobs that you could do and how to tap into visible as well as hidden job markets. There will be guidance on how to create a job-hunting plan. This session will focus on jobs in the Arts and Humanities sector.

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

• Analyse your skills and suggest areas to develop using the researcher development framework

• Use the 4 different researcher pathways to explore the current labour market

• Generate a job-hunting plan with achievable goals to keep your job search moving
   

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501).

Turner Sims favourites, the London Mozart Players Chamber Ensemble are joined by special guests. They present two defining 20th century works.

Vaughan Williams’s early masterpiece sets the words of A E Housman. Composed in 1909, ‘On Wenlock Edge’ provides an eerie foreshadowing to the many men lost in the Great War. Tenor Mark Le Brocq, who appeared with Welsh National Opera in its highly successful production of Britten’s ‘Death in Venice’, brings his unique perspective.

Pianist Anna Tilbrook joins the LMP for a work which writer Gerard McBurney described as ‘a chamber-music classic of the 20th century’.  Shostakovich’s work proved immediately popular with the public when it was first performed in September 1940.  It also won Shostakovich his first Stalin Prize, the highest decoration given at the time to the country’s most elite artists.

This workshop will provide information on what to expect at academic and industry interviews. There will be insights into what interview panels are looking for and how to answer questions effectively.

Upon completing this workshop, you should be able to:

• Prepare for an interview by researching your interviewer and completing pre-interview tasks.

• Answer initial interview questions such as ‘tell me about yourself’ and ‘can you tell us about your experience’ using an elevator pitch.

• Answer behavioural-based interview questions using the STAR technique.
   

This session is part of the ‘Beyond the Doctorate’ programme for postgraduate and early career researchers. The Beyond the Doctorate programme is a series of careers activities which aim to empower Postgraduate Researchers (PGRS) and Early Career Researchers (ECRS) to proactively shape their career pathways by developing their skills, confidence and networks necessary to succeed within and beyond academia.

If you wish to attend this session and you have any additional support needs please contact Careers, Employability and Student Enterprise to let us know (email careers@soton.ac.uk or phone 023 8059 3501).

Ensuring students engage with and apply the feedback they receive is a commonly cited challenge, which can feel frustrating given the amount of time we spend composing said feedback. In this interactive workshop, we will firstly explore some possible reasons that students are struggling to engage with feedback and consolidate our understanding of what effective feedback looks like. We will then practice applying this knowledge to evaluating and improving real examples of feedback.

Developing your practice on this topic aligns to Advance HE Professional Standards Framework A4.

By the end of the event, participants should be able to:

·       Understand the main reasons why students may not engage with feedback

·       Identify features of effective and less effective feedback, and apply this knowledge to practical examples 

This session will provide an introduction for staff who haven’t had to deal with sensitive data before, so aimed at early career researchers, PhD supervisors and inter-disciplinary researchers.

The Learning Objectives are:  

- What sensitive data is​
- Processing sensitive data​
- Keeping sensitive data safe​
- De-identifying your data (Anonymisation/pseudonymisation)​
- Sharing sensitive data & ethics around consent​
- Planning for sensitive data
 

Workshop outline 

In this workshop aimed at those new to examining research degree students, we will consider best practice for examining the doctoral thesis. Participants will learn from experienced examiners about how to prepare for and conduct the viva voce examination, the regulations at the University of Southampton, and the potential outcomes of a viva. We will also consider the roles and responsibilities of doctoral examiners from receipt of the submitted thesis through to final submission. 

Workshop learning outcomes:

• Prepare effectively for examining a doctoral thesis 

• Understand the roles and responsibilities of the doctoral examiners, and how to work effectively as an internal or external examiner 

• Demonstrate awareness of the University of Southampton regulations for the doctoral examination (including recent changes allowing for vivas by video-conference)

• Identify the potential outcomes of a viva, and understand how to apply these in practice

Intrigued by using objects to enhance your teaching, but don’t know where to start? Want to explore simple yet effective ways of using object-based learning to bring concepts and ideas alive, as well as spark discussion and engagement? 

This lunchtime workshop introduces you to teaching with objects: it will cover the rationale for using objects in education settings, provide a hands-on experience with real artefacts to give a sense of what this approach looks and feels like, and highlight digital resources from galleries and museums around the world that can fit into your teaching practice. This introductory session will provide examples and tools that you can use immediately, as well as the foundation for deeper engagement via future workshops through CHEP if desired. No prior experience with object handling is expected or required.

By the end of this event, participants should be able to:

- Understand how objects can represent, convey, and express ideas or concepts in your field, as the basis of designing and modifying teaching activities (aligned with dimension A1 in the Professional Standards Framework 2023)

- Identify which kinds of objects might be more relevant for different topics and teaching modes as you choose approaches that are appropriate for your field (aligned with dimensions A2 and K1 of the PSF 2023)

- Know where to turn for free virtual (i.e. digitised) objects from existing galleries and museums that are relevant for your field (aligned with dimensions A5 and K4 of the PSF 2023)

- Become aware of available apps and tools for digitising your own objects, and incorporating them into your teaching practice (alighted with dimensions A5 and K4 of the PSF 2023)

This introductory workshop will support colleagues in thinking about designing learning activities throughout a module to help scaffold the skills and knowledge that students need to complete the assessment. We will work through examples to identify the key skills and knowledge needed, and how to build in developmental learning activities to prepare students for summative assessment. We will also discuss ways of communicating this effectively to students, to help enhance engagement in teaching throughout a module.

Developing your practice on this topic aligns to Advance HE Professional Standards Framework K2, A1 & A4.

By the end of the event, participants should:

- Identify up to five skills and concepts/knowledge that are needed for the summative assessment.

- Have mapped out their teaching activities for the module and aligned these to the skills and concept/knowledge.

- Developed strategies to communicate this with students, to encourage engagement. 

This practically focused session provides an opportunity for PGR supervisors to hear about the criteria, process and requirements associated with progression reviews and associated functions in PGR Manager, with an opportunity to ask questions.

The session is also an opportunity to ask questions more generally about PGR Manager and troubleshoot any issues.

Session objectives:

To provide an overview of the relevant review milestone requirements and answer general questions around progression reviews (Specific questions relating to disciplinary variations should be directed to and picked up in faculty supervisor forums)

To provide an opportunity for supervisors to ask specific questions about PGR Manager and troubleshoot any issues they are experiencing.

To explore specific functionalities and ways of working to get the best out of PGR Manager at relevant times during the year, particularly relating to progression review.


Please note: This is not induction training on PGR Manager. For guidance on how to use PGR Manager in the first instance, please refer to the PGR Manager SharePoint site - https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/PGRManagerGuide 

Join Concerteenies for the musical story of ‘Blown Away’, for children aged 3+ and their families.

‘Penguin Blue and his friends are in for a surprise! It all starts with a windy day and a brand new kite… Come fly away with Penguin Blue as he gets caught in a gust of wind and the adventure begins.’

Travel through the wintry antarctic to the Jungle tropics with Meera Maharaj (flutes), Annabelle Lawson (piano) and Polly Ives (narrator). This new musical story is composed by award-winning Paul Rissmann based on the book by Rob Biddulph and digital animation by Victor Craven.

The concert also features Saint Saens’s ‘Aviary’ from ‘Carnival of the Animals’, Kaija Sarriaho’s ‘Couleurs du Vent’, Florence Price’s ‘Adoration’ and Lord Kitchener’s calypso ‘London is the Place for Me’ (featured in the film ‘Paddington’).

Join in with songs and actions in a relaxed and friendly environment. This is a perfect introduction to music, storytelling and animation.

Suitable for ages 3 - 8 and their adults

As part of the Advancing Assessment SMP, the Assessment Consultancy have been leading on Southampton Transformative Assessment Redesign with Students (STARS), working with students across all five faculties to better understand their experiences with assessment and feedback. In this insight session, we will share key findings from our STARS work to date, along with some suggestions for best practices to mediate some commonly found challenges in assessment and feedback across the institution.

By the end of the event, participants should: 

·       Understand the main themes underlying students’ experiences of assessment and feedback at institutional level

·       Identify and begin to develop potential strategies to address common challenges in assessment and feedback in your own contexts

A warm evening of stunning festive music from the multi-prize-winning Connaught Brass.

Christmas is a time for tradition. This cracker of a programme romps through the exuberant final chorus of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and seasonal Tchaikovsky. Traditional tunes and baroque classics are rounded off with the seasonal favourite ‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas’.

Connaught Brass are quickly making a name for themselves as a fresh talent in the chamber music world. They have already made their debut at the Lucerne Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall. Their ability to manipulate and unify sound earned them 1st Prize in the Inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition (2019) and the Royal Overseas League Mixed Ensemble Competition (2022). Vibrant, spirited and bold, Connaught Brass place emphasis on their friendship with one another to showcase their individual musical personalities within a unique collective sound.

Join us for music that gift wraps festive joy with interludes of serene reflection.