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You have something to write - an article, manuscript, grant application, code, blog, etc. - but you just can't find the time, or perhaps the motivation. Well, CHEP are hosting a series of Power Hours to provide you with that elusive protected time to focus on writing whilst facilitating a sense of community.  

For more information see: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/PowerHourofWriting 

We will have 5 minute head massage available Tues 25th Jan in the library foyer for any stressed out students! The perfect way to relax and give yourself a break from revision and exams. 

No need to sign up just come along on the day between 3-5pm and book in. 

• This one-day workshop invites participants to think critically and pragmatically about research engagement with policymakers. Parts 1 and 2 provide the opportunity to (1) engage critically with common advice for engagement with policymakers and (2) think about how research engagement initiatives relate to policy processes. Part 3 is a practical workshop in which each participant gives a short presentation on the policy relevance of their research.
• Run by Prof Paul Cairney, University of Stirling
  

You have something to write - an article, manuscript, grant application, code, blog, etc. - but you just can't find the time, or perhaps the motivation. Well, CHEP are hosting a series of Power Hours to provide you with that elusive protected time to focus on writing whilst facilitating a sense of community.  

For more information see: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/PowerHourofWriting 

You have something to write - an article, manuscript, grant application, code, blog, etc. - but you just can't find the time, or perhaps the motivation. Well, CHEP are hosting a series of Power Hours to provide you with that elusive protected time to focus on writing whilst facilitating a sense of community.  

For more information see: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/PowerHourofWriting 

Part of the Parkes Institute research seminars series.

Throughout its history, boxing - a sport with a worldwide appeal and profile – has been characterised by the significant involvement of ethnic minorities and immigrants. This is especially true in Britain, where illegal bareknuckle prize-fighting was transformed and codified in the nineteenth century, with gloved boxing going on to become one of the country’s most important and popular sports thereafter.

Drawing from research for his Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded project, Dr Dee’s talk will explore British boxing’s ethnic history from the late eighteenth century, when London-born Sephardic Jew Daniel Mendoza became the Champion of England, through to recent times and the successes of Amir Khan, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. It will demonstrate the considerable participation and interest in the sport amongst Jewish, Irish, Traveller, Italian, South-Asian and Black communities, amongst others, both inside and outside of the ring. However, it will also examine how and why boxing has impacted and influenced immigrant and minority identity, internal communal relations, the construction and deconstruction of ethnic and racial stereotypes and social, cultural, political and economic interactions between these groups/individuals and majority society.

​The University of Southampton is one of the world leading research institution, with world renown faculty members in every school. In this series of talks, we will hear from some of the university research leaders. Speakers will discuss their triumphs and some of their failures; the challenges they have met along the way and how they have managed to overcome them; how they kept their motivation and productivity, and other personal lessons. This is a great opportunity to meet and hear their personal stories as well and ask questions. We are delighted to start this series of talk with Professor Marika Taylor from the School of Mathematical Sciences. 

Brian Finnegan whistles, flutes
Sarah Allen flutes, accordion
Ed Boyd guitar
John Joe Kelly bodhran

Taking inspiration from their roots in the Irish and English traditions, Flook have an enviable trademark sound, weaving and spinning traditionally rooted tunes over precise acoustic grooves, with a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination. There is certainly no shortage of virtuosity amongst the members of Flook, but the unique impact of this band stems from the wholly intuitive, almost symbiotic, exchange between the various flutes, frets and skins. Twenty four years after their first gig together, Flook continue to inspire and enchant audiences of all ages. Tonight they perform material from their most recent release Ancora.

Virtuoso playing abounds … the most creative bodhran player on the planet … superb technique plus a genuine feel and some stonking tunes is a powerful recipe. MOJO

Flook are back with a bang, and better than ever – a very welcome return from one of folk’s finest bands. Irish Music Magazine

Wow. Just wow… music to lift you up and make your heart beat faster… celtbritfolkmusic.net

​Are you aware of the new Authorship, Contribution and Publishing Policy and guidance developed jointly by the Library and the Research Integrity and Governance (RIG) team? Not sure how this will affect you and want to know more? Please join us for an online CHEP workshop on 8^th February from 2.00 to 3.30pm.

Delivered by Anna Lewkowicz from the RIG team and Steven Vidovic from the Library who developed the Institutional policy, guidance and workflows, the workshop will highlight why guidance around this topic is of strategic importance for all authors and contributors.  This session will include an opportunity to discuss authorship related issues with colleagues who might have different perspectives coming from a variety of academic disciplines, as well as a Q&A session.

This session is for all staff.

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Book via Staffbook - https://www.staffbook.soton.ac.uk/login/ 

In this interactive workshop, you will gain confidence and practical knowledge on how you can best integrate equality, diversity and inclusion values in your policy impact. You are not expected to have any prior specialist knowledge in equality, diversity and inclusion or policy impact, but a general understanding will be helpful.

During the workshop, the trainer will talk on why these values and this topic is vital for policy making and policy impact, and provide some practical examples on easy ways to ensure you’re taking these into consideration. Alongside this, the workshop will encourage you to examine power structures and how they fit into your own research and policy impact work, and how to respond to this. This workshop is not intended to capture everything in this space, but it will provide a good starting point for those wishing to learn and more importantly, do, more.

By the end of the workshop you will

❖ Explore why understanding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is vital for policy impact

❖ Gain a better understanding of the current landscape and what this might mean for future policy making

❖ Understand and practice using some tools in accessibility and inclusion for policy impact

About the trainer:

Laura Bea (MSc) is an alumnus of the University of Southampton and of Public Policy Southampton, with a 7+ year background of campaigns and advocacy, and a strong knowledge of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. They worked with Public Policy Southampton in over 2020 and 2021, developing the units EDI Action Plan and Report in consultation with our membership. She previously worked for the University of Southampton Students’ Union, and as a student led a successful University wide campaign reforming strategies and practices around responding to and preventing sexual violence on campus. Her academic work centres on the use of creative arts in policy making processes and intersectional environmentalism, and was recently published in the UN Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development Goals: Reduced Inequalities. Laura has been asked back to PPS to deliver this workshop as part of the Action Plan, and currently works for Student Hubs, a charity dedicated to facilitating student volunteering.

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.

This workshop will introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives.

IE is not just a methodology, but a comprehensive feminist ontology of how the social world works which advocates using a form of standpoint to explore from specific perspectives. IE research ‘takes sides’, often researching as, with, and/or for, marginalised groups who are often made invisible by, or excluded from, organisations and institutions. The focus on texts – conceptualised as replicable materials objects that carry messages – allows IE researchers to ethnographically explore the organising power of language and institutions, made material in institutional texts which act as bridges between different people and places.

The overall aim of the workshop is to provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of institutional ethnography as an approach and the opportunity to translate their own research ideas and projects into an IE research proposal or small piece of text-focused analysis.

This hands on workshop is suitable for students, academics, and anyone else interested in feminist methodologies, text and discourse analysis, and institutional or organisational ethnographies. No prior training in, or knowledge of, IE is required.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11756

Kris Drever guitar, vocals
Martin Green accordion
Aidan O’Rourke fiddle

For the re-scheduled Unplugged Tour Lau will recreate and rearrange material from across their catalogue highlighting an hour of raw, stripped down performance without pedalboards or electronics, just voice, fiddle, guitar and accordion and a 4 track tape

The pioneering folk trio have always experimented with sound and form; the results have always been complex and thrilling.

Already acknowledged as phenomenal live performers (the UK’s best live band The Guardian), Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019’s Midnight and Closedown (Reveal Records). That album was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, This Is The Kit), who said: Lau are in touch with their roots but not bound by them.

Please Note: the instruments for this evening will be played acoustically but the performance will be amplified

Lau are a remarkable band – the most musically adventurous trio in British folk – exquisite and hypnotic, musicianship at its best. ★★★★★ The Guardian

This is music of such stunning creativity – one of most thrilling live bands. Sunday Herald

Instrumental virtuosity MOJO

Intoxicating, mesmerising music. BBC Music Magazine

Quite unlike anything else out there. Acoustic Magazine

Four-time winners ʻBest Groupʼ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

About this event

In this live online course, learn about questionnaire design in the context of different modes of data collection.

Explore question wording issues, the questionnaire as a whole and visual concerns when moving from interviewer-administered to web survey, when creating a web survey in general and when facing the questionnaire design challenges in creating mobile-friendly web surveys.

Mirroring in-person training this will be an interactive course and will also have workshops throughout.

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A strong educational portfolio is increasingly important in supporting career progression for all staff involved in education, and particularly for those in teaching focussed roles.  However, it can be a challenge to engage in the kinds of activity that contribute to such a portfolio given the pressures associated with the multi-faceted role of the modern academic. 

This workshop will give practical examples of how colleagues can develop their educational portfolio in a way that complements the ‘day job’, supporting enhanced effectiveness as well as enhancing the CV.  Pathways to Senior/Principal Fellowship of the HEA will be discussed, along with the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship administered by AdvanceHE. 

The workshop will be facilitated by Prof Shelley Parr and colleagues who have achieved promotion on the education pathway here at Southampton.

In this online two day course (taught over four mornings) you will learn what GIS is, how it works and how you can use it to create maps and perform spatial analysis.

We assume no prior knowledge of GIS and you will learn how to get data into the GIS, how to produce maps using your own data and what you can and cannot do with spatial data.

You will also learn how to work with a variety of different data sources and types (including XY coordinate data and address or postcode data) and using spatial overlays, point in polygon analysis and spatial joins.

​Very few of our students want to cheat, but they might make poor choices in difficult circumstances.  In their first weeks at university, our students will receive their first contacts from the essay mills.  This workshop will focus on what contract cheating is, why students might do it, and how you can help detect it.  It is an opportunity to find out how to support our students and maintain our academic standards.

Run by Yaryna Basystyuk, PPS Policy Engagement Manager

Event details: This interactive PPS session invites participants to learn what policymakers look for in a policy brief and how one can go about writing one. The session will also provide an opportunity to explore some examples of policy briefs and  learn how to use the brief in their policy engagement activities. 

Ethical research is better quality research. This one day online course (taught over two mornings) is designed to raise your awareness of why and how you need to think and act ethically in practice throughout your research work.

The current system of ethical review by comittee can lead to the misleading sense of having 'done ethics'. This course shows you how to conduct research which is truly ethical. It also provides the opportunity for discussion of your own ethical dilemmas, if you wish.

This active workshop explores ways to design support for student transition to studying at university across the programme curriculum. It will focus on curriculum-based approaches to ensure that students have opportunities to develop:

• Concepts of independent learning and studying at university
• Processes for approaching assessments and working with feedback
• Key study skills and academic practices (e.g. critical thinking or academic integrity)
• Understanding of the support available to them and how to access it

The workshop will use examples of good practice and discussion with participants to explore ways of integrating transition support across modules and programmes of study.

Nick Smart keyboards
Jesse Barrett drums, tabla
Jordan Smart saxophones.

Mammal Hands have forged a growing reputation for their hypnotic fusion of jazz and electronica and their pulsating live performances. Drawing on a shared love of electronic, contemporary classical, world, folk and jazz music, Mammal Hands take in influences including Pharoah Sanders, Gétachèw Mekurya, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Sirishkumar Manji to create something exhilaratingly new. They appear tonight playing music from their new album Captured Spirits (Gondwana Records Sept 2020) alongside favourites from previous albums.

The semi-classical drums/sax/piano trio Mammal Hands mutate into a high-volume rave act. The Guardian

Run by Prof John Denham

Event details: This interactive session developed and delivered by the University of Southampton Professor John Denham, Director of the Centre for English Identity and Politics and former Secretary of State is designed for researchers with a public policy impact goal in mind. The session will provide an exciting opportunity to work in small groups with the former Cabinet Minister  and learn what works well when communicating evidence to senior policymakers.

Something magical happens when the sultry hot jazz made famous by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli meets the hard-driving Western swing sound pioneered by Bob Wills and early string bands of the American Southwest. The ear-catching result of this surprising marriage is the Hot Club of Cowtown, the effervescent Austin-based trio beloved for more than two decades by devoted fans across the United States and around the world.

Romantic and rhythmic, happy-making and heart-breaking, sophisticated and elegant while still down-to-earth and rugged, the Hot Club of Cowtown now returns with its much-anticipated eleventh album, an enticing new collection of original compositions (plus a few inspired standards).

hotclubofcowtown.com

This short course is designed to give participants a practical introduction to data linkage and is aimed at both analysts intending to link data themselves and researchers who want to understand more about the linkage process and its implications for analysis of linked data—particularly the implications of linkage error.

Day 1 will focus on the methods and practicalities of data linkage (including deterministic and probabilistic approaches) using worked examples.

Day 2 will focus more on analysis of linked data, including concepts of linkage error, how to assess linkage quality and how to account for the resulting bias and uncertainty in analysis of linked data. Examples will be drawn predominantly from health data, but the concepts will apply to many other areas.

This course includes a mixture of lectures and practical sessions that will enable participants to put theory into practice.

Find out more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11766

Speaker: Dr Catherine Oliver - Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Title: The Galline Urban Revolution: Are London’s Chickens Therapeutic Workers for Urban Wellbeing?

Abstract: Across London – in parks, allotments, and gardens – a new revolution is slowly gaining speed: an urban chicken revolution. These commonplace birds are perhaps not the first species that jump to mind when we think of “urban animals,” but in the last year alone over 50,000 birds were rehomed from laying farms to retirement homes in gardens and allotments in Britain. Around 5% of these chickens are rehomed in London. On first glance, the rise in urban chicken-keeping might be credited to a desire for daily fresh eggs and, while this is one factor, there is a far more complicated story weaved into this “hen fever.” The growing trend for urban chicken-keeping often starts with chickens being kept as “pets with benefits,” but these benefits extend far beyond the humble egg.

Drawing on ethnographies in community gardens, allotments, and hen rehoming sites, as well as interviews with urban chicken-keepers in London, this talk explores how chickens are shifting from food producers to therapeutic pets, supporting recovery from mental illness, and enhancing urban wellbeing. However, keeping chickens is also risky business, potentially posing biosecurity risks to urban communities, as can be seen in the recent avian influenza outbreaks. This talk explores the novel ways that chickens are being put to work as therapeutic support and urban companions, as well as domestic food producers, asking both ethical and practical questions about the more-than-human consequences of the urban chicken revolution.

This course will provide a brief outline of the systematic review process, with a focus on hands-on literature searching, including different search methods for a range of bibliographic databases.

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

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.