CAM-DTP (Doctoral Training Partnership) course timetable

This module comprises a series of six workshops based around a range of multimedia that will enable participants to build a professional identity both online and offline. By the end of this module, participants should have an actionable, usable portfolio.

• TV and Radio – Part Two (Simon Hall)

This is the practical to the previous week’s session where you will be giving a ‘real’ interview to a journalist. Learn how to predict questions and how to answer them, along with traps and pitfalls. And also how to get your message across, no matter what you’re asked.

This module comprises a series of six workshops based around a range of multimedia that will enable participants to build a professional identity both online and offline. By the end of this module, participants should have an actionable, usable portfolio.

• Videography and Photography (Simon Hall)

Videos and photographs can greatly enhance your online presence, making visitors to your website stay longer, and your social media posts far more likely to be shared and commented on. Even better, in the era of the smartphone, making videos and taking striking photos is far easier than you might think. As Simon will show you, you can be making your own videos within a few hours.

Does it feel like we are always busy, yet somehow always have too much to do?

This session will help you understand how you work, provide some ways of thinking healthily about the nature of work, and share tips and tools for how you can optimize the way you use your time in your daily life.

Topics to be covered include:

+How to prioritize your time for the work that really counts

+Understanding your work style and habits and how to plan accordingly

+How to manage your time to work most effectively

+Tips, strategies, and tools to help you get the most out of your time

+Managing distractions and interruptions

• • POSTPONED due to industrial action**

New date will be advised soon

Dealing with pressure can be the ability that sets you apart from your colleagues, and allows you to navigate the conflicting demands of your workload. It’s also an art which – to the surprise of many - can be learnt.

In this highly interactive course, strategies are offered for dealing with deadlines, stress and demands, using scenarios ranging from a TV newsroom journalist to an emergency doctor.

POSTPONED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

• • Training and Engagement Day - Compulsory**

As part of the ESRC remit, we are required to provide you with a training and engagement day each term to meet the funder's training guidelines.

For First Year Cambridge ESRC DTP students only

• • Training and Engagement Day - Compulsory**

As part of the ESRC remit, we are required to provide you with a training and engagement day each term to meet the funder's training guidelines.

9.30am to 10am - coffee and catch up

10am -10.30am – Talk from the UK Director, Innovation, regarding social sciences in industrial strategy

10.30am to 1pm - Leadership and Management Skills Training - Dr Peter Dudley, Faculty of Education

1pm to 2pm - Lunch – some presentations from the cohort will be given whilst you have your lunch

2pm to 2.30pm - External non-academic Partner Talk (TBA)

2.30pm to 3pm - Group Work around a leadership issue from the external partner

3pm to 3.30pm - Finish with tea and cake - Providing the external partner with your feedback and results

Venue: Seminar Room B, 17 Mill Lane

Venue: Tower Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane

This workshop takes a broader approach to doctoral fieldwork focusing on emotional support for the planning of fieldwork, being in the field and transitioning back to academic life. This workshop has been structured around a facilitated forum for doctoral social science students to share their plans and experiences, along with some invited short talks providing guidance and key advice.

Many of us are now spending more time online than ever before — both for our work, as well as our personal and social lives. In these strange and sometimes perplexing times, it can all feel like too much. In this session, we will cover helpful strategies and best practices that can help you in your life online and offline. Topics to be covered include: · Managing digital productivity · Tools and strategies to help build a useful daily online routine · Thinking about how we spend our time online: the good, the bad, and the unexpected · Tips for using online news and social media that help us find a healthy balance

Cambridge ESRC DTP is running a workshop to help DTP students work through this period of time when their doctorates are unable to progress or plans have broken down and need repairing. Join Loraine Gelsthorpe (DTP Director), Jean Adams (Deputy DTP Director), Dr Konstantina Stamati (Partnerships Manager) and Alison Harvey (Training Manager).

Would you like to write for our social sciences blog? Join an online session on how to write for a blog on led by writer and BBC journalist, Simon Hall. We hope that you will come away from this session with a complete or close to complete blog that will be published by TCR (https://cambridgeresearcher.com/)

Professional Development Workshop in International and UK Policy (online) Friday 15th May, 11am to 3pm

This webinar, organised by the Centre for Science and Policy, will offer an insight into how evidence and expertise is sought and used by policy professionals internationally, as well as in the UK.

Speakers will discuss their own experiences of gathering and presenting expert advice and evidence for policy – how the process works, the types of policy issues that require evidence, and examples of what has and hasn’t worked well.

The session will also offer an opportunity for participants to say a few words about their research and its potential policy relevance, as well as opportunities to have small group discussions with speakers.

The webinar will take place on Friday 15 May, from 11am to 3pm UK time, with a break for lunch.

The worldwide emergency measures in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic have a huge impact on the fabric of social life across the world. This includes carious manifestations of crime including street crime, hate crimes, domestic violence, and organised crime. This seminar will present an overview of the many critical issues that social scientists may be interested in, and will introduce students to some empirical studies that are currently ongoing. It will provide an opportunity to discuss social science research ideas, and challenges, linked to the COVID-19 crisis.

Provided by Manuel Eisner, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director of Violence Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge.

Many of us are now spending more time online than ever before — both for our work, as well as our personal and social lives. In these strange and sometimes perplexing times, it can all feel like too much. In this session, we will cover helpful strategies and best practices that can help you in your life online and offline.

Topics to be covered include:

Managing digital productivity

Tools and strategies to help build a useful daily online routine

Thinking about how we spend our time online: the good, the bad, and the unexpected

Tips for using online news and social media that help us find a healthy balance

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How do you protect time to focus and manage workload? In this 1 hour session delivered by Tiny Pause you will learn to:

• Establish a method that works for you to enhance focus for the most important work (Deep Work)

• Reduce distraction and prioritise more effectively

• Establish daily 'Protective Pause', to relieve stress, reduce self criticism and strengthen resilience - mini mindfulness

• Create the space to recognise your achievements each day - increase self awareness and confidence

This will be a live webinar, delivered by Sam Thorogood from Tiny Pause. Sam combines proven neuroscience & mindfulness based techniques into useful daily habits. The overall aim will be to help attendees convert proven techniques into useful habits, as well as enhance focus, reduce stress and strengthen resilience.

Please use the below link to register.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudOGvrTsuHdT5gwnWCk6I3vaEuW6XzV6V#/registration

At the start of a doctorate metaphors appear to abound, with casual and repeated references to ‘journeys’, ‘rollercoasters’, ‘marathons’ and more. This workshop is designed to provide an informal and playful time and space at the start of the doctorate to explore metaphors. We will critically evaluate the metaphors we have already encountered, and that may be established within the institution, and how we want to position ourselves in relation to these metaphors. Plus, we will have time to reflectively and reflexively create metaphors that resonate for us, as individuals, considering how these metaphors might support us through the doctoral ‘journey’.

Dr Julia Hayes will lead this session focusing on imposter syndrome. She will explore what imposter syndrome is and how it can affect the feelings and performance of people on a day to day basis. The session will give participants the opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which imposter feelings affect them, before Julia describes the ways in which it can be managed. Participants will leave the session with a greater awareness of the situations that increase their imposter feelings and have strategies to manage them.

A teams link will be sent to all those who have signed up a few days before the workshop.

This workshop is run by the University of Cambridge Student Support Service who will share with you grounding techniques and coping mechanisms to help you as you manage your research, as well as provide a space for some group discussion/activity. Both discussion and activity will be focused on coping and prevention strategies.

Please note there will be a lunch provided during the course of the workshop

As we know, PhDs can sometimes become delayed through unexpected circumstances. Students will be presented with information about sources of help from the University as well as wider suggestions for how to support themselves when their mental wellbeing is challenged.

The small group sessions (maximum 15 people) provide a supportive space for students to reflect upon their PhD thus far before identifying the personal and contextual barriers that might prevent their timely finish. As a very practical session, students will use a combination of structured planning tools (solution focused techniques, productivity tool ideas) and within-group support to explore ideas for how they might overcome the barriers they face to finishing on time.

The session agenda will include:

As we know, PhDs can sometimes become delayed through unexpected circumstances. Students will be presented with information about sources of help from the University as well as wider suggestions for how to support themselves when their mental wellbeing is challenged.

This online group session provide a supportive space for students to reflect upon their PhD thus far before identifying the personal and contextual barriers that might prevent their timely finish. As a very practical session, students will use a combination of structured planning tools (solution focused techniques, productivity tool ideas) and within-group support to explore ideas for how they might overcome the barriers they face to finishing on time.

The session agenda will include: