

Events Calendar
Wednesday 25th May 2022
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session.
Thursday 26th May 2022
SoGES seminar (12:00)
Speaker: Dr Olivia Sheringham – Lecturer, Department of Geography, Birkbeck University of London
Title: Creative connections in pandemic times: digital spaces of care and solidarity with refugees and people seeking asylum
Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the marginalisation and deprivation of refugees/asylum seekers in the UK, exposing an urgent need to engage with their experiences and develop sustainable practices of welcome and care in an environment that was already hostile. Meanwhile, researchers and practitioners have increasingly embraced arts-based, collaborative methods in research with refugees/asylum seekers, drawing attention to the ways in which it can enhance a sense of belonging and improve the mental wellbeing of refugees/asylum seekers, as well as offering alternative narratives and spaces to the exclusionary logic of state-bound immigration policies. This paper critically reflects on collaborative project carried out with refugee organisations, Stories & Supper and Phosphoros Theatre, during the Covid-19 lockdown in Spring/Summer 2020. The project involved digital storytelling, drama and poetry workshops with refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in Waltham Forest and the co-production of two digitally published and performed pieces. Engaging with wider scholarly and policy debates on welcome, care and the temporalities of uncertainty for refugees/asylum seekers, alongside debates surrounding the benefits and limitations of arts-based methodologies, this paper considers the potential offered by these digital creative activities for providing alternative narratives and spaces for inclusion, welcome and care against a backdrop of hostility and exclusion. It also examines the ethical and practical questions and challenges that such engagements expose.
SIAH: Public Life - Professor Laura Mulvey and Professor Victor Burgin (17:00)
SIAH: Public Life (series abstract)
Arts and Humanities have always been crucial to the idea of the 'public life': the public is valorised as the realm of collective debate and decision-making, of community and solidarity, of art and culture. Such concepts, of course, have always been contested and never more so than right now. The electronic capture of the commons, the removal of boundaries between work and home, the policing of public spaces, the onslaught of the culture wars, the hold of big data and surveillance, the spectacles of populist politics have all changed the meanings, the spaces and the limits of the public sphere.
SIAH: Public Life draws a range of leading intellectuals into conversation about what the ideal of the 'public life' can mean to Arts and Humanities researchers and disciplines in the twenty-first century.
Speaker information
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (Macmillan 1989/2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (British Film Institute 1996/2013), Citizen Kane (BFI Classics series 1992/2012), Death Twenty- four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books 2006) and Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times (Reaktion Books 2019). She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (British Film Institute 1977; dvd 2013) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (Arts Council 1980). With artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis, she has made Disgraced Monuments (Channel 4 1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013).
Victor Burgin is an artist and writer. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London; and Professor of Visual Culture, WSA, University of Southampton.
Friday 27th May 2022
How to write your Methodology Chapter
This online workshop aims to give participants a range of practical approaches they can adopt when writing about methodology in the social sciences, with a particular focus on writing a PhD methodology chapter.
Using a range of exercises throughout, the course focuses on 20 or so writing strategies and thought experiments designed to provide more clarity and power to the often-difficult challenge of writing about methods.
The course also looks at common mistakes and how to avoid them when writing about methods. The focus throughout is on building confidence and increasing our repertoire of writing strategies and skills.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11774
Wednesday 1st June 2022
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session
Tuesday 7th June 2022
Research Strategic Plan: Second stage all staff open meeting (09:00)
The University Strategy has articulated a high level of overall ambition for our research. Our research is the mechanism by which we create new knowledge that in turn allows us to innovate in our educational and knowledge exchange and enterprise missions, consistent with our commitment to the “triple helix” as our overall organisational principle that allows us “to achieve the remarkable”.
Please join one of our open meetings to contribute to this second phase of consultation on our draft Research Strategic Plan.
You can read the current draft plan on the Strategy SharePoint site.
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
Challenges of Working in Undervalued Technical Schools. A Continuum Between Discourses of Deficit and Trust (12:00)
Wednesday 8th June 2022
Staff briefing: proposed changes to Charter and Statutes (09:30)
Unsure what governance is, or how it relates to your role? Have you heard about the proposed changes to our Charter and Statutes, but aren’t sure what this means?
Staff are invited to attend a virtual open meeting hosted by Wendy Appleby, Vice-President (Operations) and Modernising the Governance (MtG) Project Sponsor and Barbara Halliday, General Counsel and University Secretary and MtG Project Lead.
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session.
Thursday 9th June 2022
Socio-economic inequality in health
This one-and-a-half-day course is aimed at postgraduate researchers and analysts interested in the quantitative analysis of inequity and (socio-economic and regional) inequality in health.
This consists of lectures and practical sessions on measurement and interpretation of inequity and inequality in health and health care. Specifically, this course provides a gentle introduction to the concept of inequity, socio-economic inequality, and inequality of opportunity in health.
Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11979
Friday 10th June 2022
Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 1 (13:00)
Intended Audience:
This session is aimed at all staff involved in and supporting research as it is being funded by the UKRI research culture pot.
Session Overview:
The overall aim of the workshop is to contribute to enabling and supporting participants understand and develop ways of working that supports the building of compassionate and inclusive cultures. The workshop is learner centred and will combine practitioner action orientated learning, insight-based activities, and transformative change practice.
By the end of the session participants will:
• Understand the importance of interpersonal relationships in building compassionate and inclusive cultures.
• Have an awareness of ways to develop a personal approach to compassionate conversations.
• Have an understanding of how to enhance individual and collective working across the system, including teamworking, through compassionate leadership and conversations.
• Have an experiential understanding of compassionate inclusive leadership and how to apply this in their work, particularly in working collectively.
• Be familiar with ways to build compassionate conversations into everyday practices.
Dates & Times:
This workshop is running four times on the following dates:
27/04/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 1 |
16/05/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 2 |
03/06/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 2 Parts 1&2 |
10/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 1 |
20/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 2 |
05/07/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 4 Parts 1&2 |
You can book for any workshop group on Staffbook. If booking for groups 1 or 3, please ensure you sign up for both parts 1 and 2.
Research Strategic Plan: Second stage all staff open meeting (13:00)
The University Strategy has articulated a high level of overall ambition for our research. Our research is the mechanism by which we create new knowledge that in turn allows us to innovate in our educational and knowledge exchange and enterprise missions, consistent with our commitment to the “triple helix” as our overall organisational principle that allows us “to achieve the remarkable”.
Please join one of our open meetings to contribute to this second phase of consultation on our draft Research Strategic Plan.
You can read the current draft plan on the Strategy SharePoint site.
Sunday 12th June 2022
MUSIC & ARCHAEOLOGY – AN AFTERNOON OF DISCOVERY (15:00)
David Owen Norris presenter, piano
Duncan Honeybourne piano
Professor Tim Champion speaker
Laura Cox speaker
plus Southampton student musicians
Thomas Hardy
Extracts from A Tryst at an Ancient Earth Work
A tale of archaeological skulduggery at Maiden Castle (which Hardy called Mai Dun, the Celtic version of its name).
John Ireland
Symphonic Rhapsody: Mai-Dun (arranged for 2 Pianos by the composer)
Prelude: The Forgotten Rite (arranged for 2 Pianos by the composer)
Gerald Finzi
Songs: Channel Firing (Hardy) To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
Join host David Owen Norris along with experts and special guests for an afternoon of musical and archaeological discoveries.
Professor Tim Champion will talk about Maiden Castle in Dorset and how our knowledge of it has developed over the years; and also about the changing nature of archaeology in the later nineteenth century. Legal protection for some sites was introduced in 1882, and Dorchester Museum was opened in 1884. Thomas Hardy was very interested in archaeology as a science and very well informed; he came to know personally some of the most important archaeologists of the period, such as Pitt Rivers and Petrie, and was totally in sympathy with such modernisers.
Laura Cox will speak about Women in Dorset Archaeology in the 1880s. Her PhD topic is women landowners in Dorset and Hampshire, as seen through the eyes of Thomas Hardy.
David Owen Norris will speak about music inspired by the prehistoric traces of humankind, from Stonehenge to Ancient Greece. He will also be joined by pianist Duncan Honeybourne to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of composer John Ireland with performances of two works in their rarely heard two-piano versions.
Tuesday 14th June 2022
Conducting Ethnographic Research
The aim of this two-day training course is to introduce participants to the practice and ethics of ethnographic research.
Through a mix of plenary sessions, group and independent work, participants will learn the basic principles of participant observation and research design, as well as the foundations of ethical ethnographic research. The course will also examine the ways in which other qualitative and creative methods of data collection may be productively integrated in ethnographic research.
The course is run by the National Centre for Research Methods.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11970
Conducting Ethnographic Research
The aim of this two-day training course is to introduce participants to the practice and ethics of ethnographic research.
Through a mix of plenary sessions, group and independent work, participants will learn the basic principles of participant observation and research design, as well as the foundations of ethical ethnographic research.
The course will also examine the ways in which other qualitative and creative methods of data collection may be productively integrated in ethnographic research.
Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11970
Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 2 Parts 1&2 (09:30)
Intended Audience:
This session is aimed at research staff and ECRs only as it is being funded by the UKRI research culture pot.
Session Overview:
The overall aim of the workshop is to contribute to enabling and supporting participants understand and develop ways of working that supports the building of compassionate and inclusive cultures. The workshop is learner centred and will combine practitioner action orientated learning, insight-based activities, and transformative change practice.
By the end of the session participants will:
• Understand the importance of interpersonal relationships in building compassionate and inclusive cultures.
• Have an awareness of ways to develop a personal approach to compassionate conversations.
• Have an understanding of how to enhance individual and collective working across the system, including teamworking, through compassionate leadership and conversations.
• Have an experiential understanding of compassionate inclusive leadership and how to apply this in their work, particularly in working collectively.
• Be familiar with ways to build compassionate conversations into everyday practices.
Dates & Times:
This workshop is running four times on the following dates:
27/04/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 1 |
16/05/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 2 |
14/06/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 2 Parts 1&2 |
10/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 1 |
20/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 2 |
05/07/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 4 Parts 1&2 |
You can book for any workshop group on Staffbook. If booking for groups 1 or 3, please ensure you sign up for both parts 1 and 2.
Develop From Within (Group 1, Part 1) (13:00)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Wednesday 15th June 2022
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session.
Thursday 16th June 2022
All staff meeting: Education and student experience strategic plan (09:00)
We will work in partnership with our students to create a University
experience that equips them with the skills and mindset to flourish in
the world of the future and become the leaders of tomorrow. Teaching and
learning practices are flexible and inclusive and are enhanced by
opportunities for engagement with our world-leading research and
enterprise activity. During their time at the University, and afterwards
as graduates, our students will feel supported to thrive, and enjoy a
sense of pride and belonging as engaged members of our community.
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
SoGES seminar (12:00)
Speaker: Dr T.C. Hales – Reader in Earth Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University
Title: The Fate of Sediment after a Large Earthquake
Abstract: Large continental earthquakes can generate 104-105 years of erosion in a geologically instantaneous moment through coseismic landslide generation. Evacuation of this landslide sediment can result in higher sediment fluxes immediately after earthquakes but they typically return to background levels within a decade resulting in an unknown volume of earthquake-derived sediment remaining in mountainous landscapes for centuries to millennia. The presence of relict landslide deposits, aggraded channels, and landslide dams suggests that this remaining sediment may affect the topographic evolution and sediment export from an orogen long after the earthquake shaking stops. We examine the processes by which the 3km3 of sediment generated by landslides associated with the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake have moved within and through catchments. Sediment export by fluvial erosion, debris flows, and overland flow was measured using a satellite-derived multi-temporal landslide inventory of the 10 years since the earthquake and literature-derived values. Less than 3% of the sediment generated by the earthquake has transited tributary catchments (of order <5) to enter the major axial rivers draining the orogen. Within the tributary catchments, the delivery of sediment to both the axial river and the tributary channel is controlled by the frequency and magnitude of debris flows. Fluvial undercutting of landslide deposits plays a minor role in controlling sediment export, likely due to the low stream power and coarse nature of the sediment in tributary channels. Our observations suggest that the long term evolution of channels in these range front catchments may be governed by the stochastic delivery of earthquake derived sediment for centuries after the earthquake.
ADHD Peer Support Group: Part F - Your Choice (17:00)
TOBY STRONG | THROUGH A WILD LENS (20:00)
A fascinating talk from multi-Emmy and Bafta winning wildlife cameraman Toby Strong, who has worked on many of the BBC’s landmark series throughout his career.
Over the last 25 years Toby has travelled across every continent, from crossing the Sahara with camels to sailing to the Galapagos, from the Himalayas to the ice caves on the peak of mount Erebus in Antarctica. He has walked with elephants, bears and gorillas, stolen the kill from a lion pride with the Dorobo tribe, stood with Sir David Attenborough next to the last two northern white rhinos, and faced more deadly snakes than is healthy.
From Toby’s beginnings in a small English village, we follow his unique and amazing life to the four wild corners of the world, and his encounters with incredible animals and incredible people.
His most recent project, Earthshot Prize, saw him working with Sir David Attenborough and Prince William on a series that looks to halt and solve our great problems. As someone who has seen the beauty of this world but also its demise, Toby cares very deeply and this talk will be full of passion, extraordinary tales, humour, and heart.
Friday 17th June 2022
All staff meeting: Education and student experience strategic plan (11:00)
We will work in partnership with our students to create a University experience that equips them with the skills and mindset to flourish in the world of the future and become the leaders of tomorrow. Teaching and learning practices are flexible and inclusive and are enhanced by opportunities for engagement with our world-leading research and enterprise activity. During their time at the University, and afterwards as graduates, our students will feel supported to thrive, and enjoy a sense of pride and belonging as engaged members of our community.
THE UNTHANKS | SORROWS AWAY (20:00)
The Unthanks return to live touring after two years off the road, showcasing forthcoming new album, Sorrows Away, their first non-project based record since 2015 BBC Folk Album Of The Year, Mount The Air.
Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank head up a five-piece band with influences ranging from Steve Reich to Portishead. They have had a busy few years, having scaled up to symphonic levels with Charles Hazelwood and the BBC Proms, scaled down to the unaccompanied singing they grew up with for Diversions Vol 5, written
six scarecrow soundtracks for Mackenzie Crook’s beautiful adaptation of Worzel Gummidge, and interpreted the work of female writers including Emily Bronte, Molly Drake and Maxine Peake.
Tonight they bring their rich and colourful sound to perform music from Sorrows Away, alongside performances of favourites such as The King Of Rome, Magpie, Starless and Mount The Air.
Few of their contemporaries, within both folk music and the wider artistic spectrum, have such a keenly-honed ability to locate in a song the emotional essence that can, in just a single phrase or vocal elision, cut one to the quick. The Independent
Monday 20th June 2022
CHEP online workshop: Teaching critical thinking skills in HE (12:00)
Critical thinking skills are one of the most valued academic skills
at a British University and one of the most important for being
successful in academia. Critical thinking skills, however, are also one
of the most difficult abilities to master for international students.
While such a difficulty in ‘being critical’ is widely recognised, more
needs to be done in terms of teaching to meet international students’
needs. The aims of this workshop is to help tutors to develop critical
thinking teaching techniques and support students in the acquisition of
higher cognitive competencies.
Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 2 (13:00)
Intended Audience:
This session is aimed at all staff involved in and supporting research as it is being funded by the UKRI research culture pot.
Session Overview:
The overall aim of the workshop is to contribute to enabling and supporting participants understand and develop ways of working that supports the building of compassionate and inclusive cultures. The workshop is learner centred and will combine practitioner action orientated learning, insight-based activities, and transformative change practice.
By the end of the session participants will:
• Understand the importance of interpersonal relationships in building compassionate and inclusive cultures.
• Have an awareness of ways to develop a personal approach to compassionate conversations.
• Have an understanding of how to enhance individual and collective working across the system, including teamworking, through compassionate leadership and conversations.
• Have an experiential understanding of compassionate inclusive leadership and how to apply this in their work, particularly in working collectively.
• Be familiar with ways to build compassionate conversations into everyday practices.
Dates & Times:
This workshop is running four times on the following dates:
27/04/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 1 |
16/05/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 2 |
03/06/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 2 Parts 1&2 |
10/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 1 |
20/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 2 |
05/07/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 4 Parts 1&2 |
You can book for any workshop group on Staffbook. If booking for groups 1 or 3, please ensure you sign up for both parts 1 and 2.
Tuesday 21st June 2022
CHIAROSCURO QUARTET & CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN (20:00)
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Alina Ibragimova violin
Pablo Hernán Benedí violin
Emilie Hörnlund viola
Claire Thirion cello
with
Cédric Tiberghien fortepiano
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, D703
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in F, K414
Mozart Piano Concerto No 13 in C, K415
To round off their first year as Associate Artists the Chiaroscuro are joined by a celebrated special guest. Award winning French pianist Cédric Tiberghien is renowned for his solo recitals and his chamber collaborations, in particular his longstanding partnership with the Chiaroscuro’s first violinist Alina Ibragimova. This evening, performing on fortepiano, Cédric joins the quartet for two of the concertos which Mozart wrote in Vienna in 1782, and which the composer described in a letter to his father as ‘a happy medium between too heavy and too light. They are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being insipid’. The concert opens with the sole complete portion of a planned quartet which Schubert abandoned. Published for the first time in 1870, more than forty years after his death, it has become one of the composer’s most popular works.
Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session.
Thursday 23rd June 2022
Disciplinary perspectives on archiving qualitative data (12:30)
A panel of researchers will discuss the archiving of qualitative data at a free webinar organised by QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton).
The event, on 23 June 2022, will bring together researchers from different disciplines and career stages to explore epistemological, ethical and practical issues.
The webinar has been organised as the expectation to archive research data for reuse becomes an increasingly common feature of the research funding landscape.
The speakers are:
- Carolynn Low: postgraduate researcher at the University of Southampton
- Susie Weller: Senior Researcher at the University of Southampton and University of Oxford
- David Zeitlyn: Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford
Register for the webinar: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disciplinary-perspectives-on-archiving-qualitative-data-registration-341723041817
WNO ORCHESTRA | OPERA CLASSICS (19:30)
WNO Orchestra
Rebecca Tong conductor
Adam Gilbert tenor
Aaron O’Hare baritone
Wagner Overture from The Flying Dutchman
Mozart ‘Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön’ (Tamino’s Aria) from The Magic Flute
Stanford Sea Songs (Sailing at Dawn, The Little Admiral and Fare Well)
Bizet Suite from Carmen
Verdi ‘Dio, che nell’alma infondere amor’ from Don Carlo (Act II)
Interval
Gilbert and Sullivan Overture from The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan ‘Fair Moon to Thee I Sing’ from H.M.S Pinafore
Puccini The Chrysanthemums
Cardillo Core ‘Ngrato
Bizet ‘Au fond du temple saint’ from The Pearl Fishers
This summer, WNO Orchestra returns with a sparkling selection of unmissable opera arias, duets, and orchestral highlights by some of the best-loved opera composers of all time. Music by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi is featured alongside Wagner’s shipwrecked The Flying Dutchman and Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers; two delightful numbers from Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore and Stanford’s rousing sea-songs.
The talented WNO Orchestra are joined by conductor Rebecca Tong, who makes her first appearance with the Company, and WNO Associate Artists Adam Gilbert and Aaron O’Hare.
Concert presented by Welsh National Opera in association with Turner Sims
Priority Booking opens Monday 21 February 2022, 10am
General Booking opens Friday 25 February 2022, 10am
Want to take advantage of Priority Booking? Join the Friends of Turner Sims
Tuesday 28th June 2022
Develop From Within (Group 1, Part 2) (13:00)
This pilot programme is funded through the UKRI Research Culture funding allocation, and is aimed at early career researchers and staff who are seeking to build their research portfolio.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, “Develop From Within” is a 2-part online workshop designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark personality profile coupled with two small-group coaching sessions. As well as support to think about your career development, benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Watch this short video to find out more about Lumina Spark: Loom: Lumina Spark | alpamayocoaching
Find out more about Alpamayo Coaching Ltd at www.alpamayocoaching.com
Dates and Times:
This 2-part workshop is running four times in June and July 2022.
Book on Staffbook. Remember to book both parts 1 and 2 of your chosen group.
There are only 8 places per course, so please ensure you are able to commit to both half-day workshops for the group you sign up for. Due to the nature of the course it is not possible to mix and match sessions between different groups.
Date | Time | Session |
14/06/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 1, Part 1) |
28/06/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 1, Part 2) |
29/06/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 2, Part 1) |
14/07/2022 | 09:30-13:00 | Develop From Within (Group 2, Part 2) |
05/07/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 3, Part 1) |
19/07/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 3, Part 2) |
15/07/2022 | 09:30-13:00 | Develop From Within (Group 4, Part 1) |
26/07/2022 | 13:00-16:30 | Develop From Within (Group 4, Part 2) |
Wednesday 29th June 2022
Develop From Within (Group 2, Part 1) (13:00)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Q&A Research Data Management (13:00)
These weekly Q&A sessions, run by our specialist research data librarians, are for any member of staff or postgraduate researcher with questions about data management, including data management plans for grant proposals and projects, data storage, post-project data sharing of datasets.
Postgraduate researchers should ensure they have completed, or almost completed, the Blackboard course on PGR Data Management Plans before attending.
Additional support, including videos on various topics and online training, can be found on our webpages: https://library.soton.ac.uk/researchdata/support Undergraduates and taught students should book on our ‘Keeping on top of it all: managing your research material/data’ training session.
Tuesday 5th July 2022
Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 4 Parts 1&2 (09:30)
Intended Audience:
This session is aimed at all staff involved in and supporting research as it is being funded by the UKRI research culture pot.
Session Overview:
The overall aim of the workshop is to contribute to enabling and supporting participants understand and develop ways of working that supports the building of compassionate and inclusive cultures. The workshop is learner centred and will combine practitioner action orientated learning, insight-based activities, and transformative change practice.
By the end of the session participants will:
• Understand the importance of interpersonal relationships in building compassionate and inclusive cultures.
• Have an awareness of ways to develop a personal approach to compassionate conversations.
• Have an understanding of how to enhance individual and collective working across the system, including teamworking, through compassionate leadership and conversations.
• Have an experiential understanding of compassionate inclusive leadership and how to apply this in their work, particularly in working collectively.
• Be familiar with ways to build compassionate conversations into everyday practices.
Dates & Times:
This workshop is running four times on the following dates:
27/04/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 1 |
16/05/2022 | 09:00-13:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 1 Part 2 |
03/06/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 2 Parts 1&2 |
10/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 1 |
20/06/2022 | 13:00-17:00 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 3 Part 2 |
05/07/2022 | 09:30-16:30 | Compassionate Inclusive Leadership Training Workshop Group 4 Parts 1&2 |
You can book for any workshop group on Staffbook. If booking for groups 1 or 3, please ensure you sign up for both parts 1 and 2.
Develop From Within (Group 3, Part 1) (13:00)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Wednesday 6th July 2022
Diversity and equity in Education: Race, ethnicity, and culture (00:00)
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
Risk Workshop: Exploring New Frontiers for Interdisciplinary Research (13:00)
Risks are everywhere and they impact our lives in a myriad of profound ways. The COVID-19 pandemic, global climate change, financial crises, fraud, and the rapid spread of misinformation are just a few examples of the spectrum of risks that society currently faces. Hence, it is little wonder that risk now receives an increasing level of attention from researchers from across every academic field.
To harness and bring together researchers interested in risk from across the University of Southampton, Dr Ian Dawson and Dr Yaniv Hanoch from the Centre for Risk Research (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/risk/index.page) is delighted to announce the first university-wide Risk Research Workshop. Researchers from every discipline and school across the university are invited to attend the workshop, where you will have the opportunity to meet other risk researchers, showcase your work, and create new synergies and collaborations.
The workshop - currently scheduled as an in-person event for the first week in July 2022 - will enable researchers to learn about the broad range of risk research taking place at the university, network with other researchers, and learn about forthcoming funding opportunities. We anticipate that the workshop will include speed networking, presentations from external funding agencies (e.g., ESRC), and the option of presenting a poster about your research.
All staff welcome.
Thursday 7th July 2022
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
Friday 8th July 2022
ERIC LU (20:00)
Turner Sims Summer Nights
Schumann Arabesque in C, Op 18
Schumann Waldszenen, Op 82
Brahms Theme and variations in D minor, Op 18b
Bach Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58
A welcome return for the 2018 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition. Opening with Schumann’s popular Arabesque, the programme includes Brahms’ arrangement of the set of variations from his String Sextet No 1 which he transcribed as a birthday gift to Schumann’s wife, pianist and composer Clara. The recital ends with music by a composer with whom Eric Lu has been synonymous since his prize winning performance at the International Chopin Competition in 2015. Chopin’s large-scale technically demanding third sonata is one of the pinnacles of the piano repertoire.
Priority Booking opens Monday 21 February 2022, 10am
General Booking opens Friday 25 February 2022, 10am
Want to take advantage of Priority Booking? Join the Friends of Turner Sims
Wednesday 13th July 2022
Active Bystander Training (10:00)
In this one hour live online session you will learn decision-making and personal effectiveness techniques to overcome the initial fear of tackling challenging situations. You will learn how you can personally intervene when you see, feel or hear any type of behaviour that you think is hurtful or discriminatory. You will work though a number of scenarios and identify what options you have. You will be able to implement the learning from this session immediately.
Thursday 14th July 2022
Develop From Within (Group 2, Part 2) (09:30)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Friday 15th July 2022
Develop From Within (Group 4, Part 1) (09:30)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Tuesday 19th July 2022
Develop From Within (Group 3, Part 2) (13:00)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Wednesday 20th July 2022
Graduation
Graduation celebrations for the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 will be held this Summer at St Mary's stadium on Wednesday 20, Thursday 21 and Friday 22 July 2022. This will be an exceptional graduation event given the exceptional circumstances our students have faced the last two years.
Tuesday 26th July 2022
Develop From Within (Group 4, Part 2) (13:00)
Develop from Within (DfW): Building Self-Awareness – an attribute central to effective leadership, collaboration, and personal and professional decision making.
Led by Dr Jeremy Hinks of Alpamayo Coaching Ltd, Develop From Within is a 3-part programme designed to support early career researchers through tailored use of the Lumina Spark behaviour preference profile coupled with two online small-group coaching sessions. Benefits to participants include enhanced self-awareness, ability to audit personal skills, values and behaviours, and increasing your capacity for coping with change.
Find out more at: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/ResearcherDevelopmentHub/SitePages/Develop-From-Within.aspx
Saturday 30th July 2022
IT Infrastructure Maintenance
Monday 8th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 1: Spreadsheets (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Tuesday 9th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 2: Openrefine (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Wednesday 10th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 3: Bash (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Thursday 11th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 4: Git (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Monday 15th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 5: R 1 (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Tuesday 16th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 6: R 2 (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Wednesday 17th August 2022
Introductory Research Data Management with R: Session 7: R 3 (09:30)
This series is aimed at Research staff and ECRs
Series Overview:
In this workshop, we provide an introduction to some of the core skills and tools needed to produce reliable, sustainable, and reproducible workflows for research data management. The core skills taught are: - Manipulating data in Spreadsheets using traditional programmes e.g. Excel and in the data specific program OpenRefine. - Using the shell/bash which is a text base interface that allows for more precise, efficient, and in-depth control of the computer and its file systems. - Using Git/Github a version control and collaborative working tool that keeps track of previous versions of files and code and can show differences and contributions from many collaborators. - Using R to load, process, and visualise data. As well as demonstrating some best practice for writing clear code. Each of these lessons are suitable for learners who have never used these tools before or have had some experience and are looking to go back to basics to formalise their understanding.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the basics of Spreadsheets, Shell/Bash, Git/version control, and R.
- Use traditional and data-focused spreadsheet tools to load, manipulate, clean, and analyse data.
- Be able to manage and manipulate directories containing thousands of files, process the data and provide output from the command line.
- Use Git to start a project, make changes and commit changes to Github.
- Write an R script that opens a file, processes the data and visualises the result.
Series Details:
"Introductory Research Data Management with R" is a seven part series which runs from 8th – 17th August 2022. You are welcome to book for all seven sessions, or just for those you feel you need. The exception is sessions 5-7, which are all focussed on R, and all need to be attended.
You can book all these sessions on PGR Manager – please be aware you will need to sign up for each one individually:
Introductory Research Data Management with R:
All will take place on MS Teams 9.30am – 1pm
Session 1: Spreadsheets - 08/08/2022
Session 2: Openrefine - 09/08/2022
Session 3: Bash - 10/08/2022
Session 4: Git - 11/08/2022
Session 5: R 1 - 15/08/2022
Session 6: R 2 - 16/08/2022
Session 7: R 3 - 17/08/2022
Wednesday 24th August 2022
EUROMECH Colloquium on Mechanics of Soft Active Polymers (00:00)
Thursday 8th September 2022
Comparative Judgement Methods
The online course will take attendees through the entire process of using comparative judgement to construct reliable measurement scales.
Comparative judgement methods are used by social scientists to construct reliable measurement scales that are difficult to construct using traditional methods.
These methods have a long history but are only now gaining traction due to technological developments making them more accessible to researchers.
Bursaries are available for this course.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12040
Tuesday 27th September 2022
Introduction to Spatial Data and Using R as a GIS
In this one day course we will explore how to use R to import, manage and process spatial data. We will also cover the process of making choropleth maps, as well as some basic spatial analysis.
Finally, we will cover the use of loops to make multiple maps quickly and easily, one of the major benefits of using a scripting language to make maps, rather than traditional graphic point-and-click interface.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=12041
Wednesday 26th October 2022
Interpretive Political Science
Many students in the social sciences, especially in political science, public policy and public administration who decide to undertake qualitative or interpretive research, feel they are unqualified to do so.
They express deep-seated confusion about the reliability and generalizability of data, results, and conclusions. They feel that interpretive approaches lack the type of specialised training that has become commonplace in quantitative political science.
The aim of this course is to redress this gap. We will equip students with a toolkit that will enable them to both conceptualise and execute an interpretive project.
Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11945