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The last thing any PhD student needs to be doing as they try to finish their corrections, is to gather together copyright permissions for the various images, diagrams, tables etc they have used in their thesis that came from elsewhere. This short session will help you avoid copyright and other pitfalls so when you come to your final submission, it's plain sailing! Note: this sessions does not go into great detail on using the UoS templates.

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In this one day online course (taught over 2 mornings) 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.

This course is ideal for anyone who wishes to use spatial data in their role. This includes government & other public sector researchers who have data with some spatial information (e.g. address, postcode, etc.) which they wish to show on a map. This course is also suitable for those who wish to have an overview of what spatial data can be used for. No previous experience of coding is required, although participants would benefit from some experience of using spatial data (e.g. Google Maps).

This course will be taught over two mornings (10:00 – 13:00, including a mid morning break) and equates to one teaching day for payment purposes.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11540

This workshop will help you to identify which databases to use for your assignments.  Using the multidisciplinary database Proquest One Academic, you will learn step by step, how to create an effective search strategy using operators, syntax, and filters. 

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, November is Academic Writing Month (#AcWriMo) and 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 Power Hour of Writing - November & December 2021 workshops (sharepoint.com)

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Speaker:

Dr Julia Helena Heinen - Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate

GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen

Title: Consequences of extinction and introduction of animals for interactions on islands

Abstract: Anthropogenic impact has changed ecosystems around the world, introducing non-native species and causing extinctions. Most of the recent vertebrate extinctions have happened on islands. The current biodiversity crisis is therefore very much an island crisis. The resulting changes in community compositions have in turn changed the interactions between species, risking cascades of secondary extinctions in the future. I will discuss the consequences of extinctions and introductions of fruit-eating animals for plant-animal interactions, on Mauritius and 111 other islands worldwide, across 19 archipelagos.

Link to Dr Julia H. Heinen video's about research: www.juliaheinen.nl

We are delighted to welcome back Cara Dillon, possessed of one of the most celebrated folk voices to have come out of Ireland, with her popular annual Christmas show Upon A Winter’s Night.

Cara and her band will once again capture the magic and mystery of Christmas with a collection of songs ancient and modern providing a welcome reminder that the festive season can be about more than just commercialism. A far cry from Jingle Bells and Santa Baby, Cara is joined by her wonderful band who weave celtic and folksy rhythms alongside reverent and atmospheric carols, while Cara holds the darkness at bay with the purity of her voice.

…simple and stunning… The Sunday Times
An instant Christmas classic. BBC
A reminder of the real meaning of the Festive Season, uplifting and inspirational. The Daily Echo

Alina Ibragimova violin
Pablo Hernán Benedí violin
Emilie Hörnlund viola
Claire Thirion cello

Led by Alina Ibragimova, the Chiaroscuro Quartet is revered as one of Europe’s leading period instrument ensembles today. This afternoon’s performance as part of their two year partnership as Turner Sims Associate Artists is an opportunity to enjoy and experience their insights in to some of the defining works of the Classical period of music. Full programme details will be announced in due course.

FREE TICKETS FOR 8-25 YEAR OLDS TO SELECTED CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS
Through the generous support of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust we are able to offer young people aged 8-25 the fantastic opportunity to experience selected concerts absolutely free.

The Chiaroscuro Quartet are Turner Sims Associate Artists 2021-23. Further performances in 2021-22 take place on 14 October 2021, 3 May 2022, and 21 June 2022

Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Leader David Adams

Turner Sims is delighted to welcome back the WNO Orchestra, presenting its sparklingly successful, and well-travelled, new year’s concert in Southampton for the first time. Under the direction of Leader and Concertmaster David Adams, the Orchestra, joined by WNO Associate Artist(s), will welcome in 2022 with a rousing programme of waltzes, polkas and maybe even a few surprises. Join us for this toe-tapping evening of Strauss, Lehar and so much more – what better way to kick off the new year?

Concert presented by Welsh National Opera in association with Turner Sims

Liam Noble piano, keyboards, electronics
Tom Herbert electric bass, electronics
Seb Rochford drums

A well-known and respected figure on the UK live jazz scene – and through the pandemic via his popular themed livestreams – Liam Noble visits with two long term collaborators (and iconic Polar Bear rhythm section) to showcase music from his celebrated Edition Records release The Long Game.

Expect music that’s a marriage of opposites: Its groove is funky yet abstract, its improvisations move from tranquil to violent and its dense in texture but with a wonderful translucency.

The course gives an introduction to the theoretical and practical concepts of sequence analysis for social sciences.

Sequence analysis, originally developed in biology to analyse strings of DNA, has attracted increasing attention in the social sciences for the analysis of longitudinal data. Most applications in the social sciences study life course processes, such as labour market careers, educational careers, or family formation.

During the short course, we will discuss the usefulness of sequence analysis in applied social sciences as a holistic approach to investigate timing, quantum and sequencing of life course events.

Learn more and register: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11730

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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