All Schools of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences courses

For late sign ups here is the zoom link:

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94226642364?pwd=VGJPbzhjNE5rRFlxQWoxNTN3amUxdz09 Meeting ID: 942 2664 2364Passcode: 052998

An Introduction to Research Data Management Skills with Dr Curtis Sharma

Simply put, research data is anything that helps to eventually form the basis of your research output. The integrity of our research outputs therefore depends on the integrity of our data. This is one reason why Increased importance is being placed on research data management (RDM). Managing your research data well brings other benefits, however. It helps in structuring your research project, keeping your data safe and secure, making it easier to share data during and after your project, and it is simply good academic practice. In these sessions we will explore what we mean by RDM, looking at storage and backup, organisation, archiving, and sharing. In the first session we will work to achieve a strong basic understanding of RDM. In the second session, we’ll look at these in more detail. 

This is a workshop for PhD students who have reached the point where they need to consider what to do next after their doctorate. Provision from the Careers Service, the Postdoc Academy and the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences will highlight both academic and non-academic career options with Q&A sessions for students to explore ideas. There will be tea and coffee provided at the start, and a lunch at the end for students to have the opportunity to share plans with each other and there will be a session with some alumni who will discuss their internship/fellowship experiences. The aims of this session are for PhD students to: · Have a better understanding of how they can use their doctorate · Be aware what are the different pathways open to them both in academia and outside

This is a workshop for PhD students who have reached the point where they need to consider what to do next after their doctorate. Provision from the Careers Service and the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences will highlight both academic and non-academic career options with Q&A sessions for students to explore ideas. There will be a coffee and cake break for students to have the opportunity to share plans with each other and the session will finish with a panel of Cambridge Grand Challenges alumni who will discuss their fellowship/internship experiences.

10am to 10.45am: How to find the best fit in careers; Academic or Non-Academic?

10.45am to 11.30am: Going into academia - how to find fellowships and make grant applications

11.30am to 12pm: Tea/Coffee and time to talk individually with our speakers and each other

12pm to 1.30pm: Alumni Panel with Konstantina Stamati - an opportunity for you to question past PhD students

This workshop focuses on the why, where, when and how of training during your doctorate including how to integrate the training into your research and using a training needs analysis. This is a one hour online workshop provided by the ESRC DTP Doctoral Training Manager - joining details below:

Join Zoom Meeting https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94770826488?pwd=ME1sVzRlNXVyRUIvcVJiaktwemdLQT09

Meeting ID: 947 7082 6488 Passcode: 507056

This is an event aimed at helping and supporting postgraduate students who have caring responsibilities, whether that is for a relative, friend or child.

This 2 hour online session aims to equip you with the tools and techniques required to effectively manage your time and research projects. Through interactive and practical exercises, we will cover how to prioritize tasks, manage your workload, and develop effective time management strategies that can be applied to any research project.

We will cover topics such as setting SMART goals, developing project timelines, and identifying and managing project risks. Additionally, you will learn how to identify time-wasters, manage interruptions, and optimize your work environment for maximum productivity.

See website for further details: https://ppd4phd.com/effective-project-management/

Please note that the course is taught using Zoom and you must have installed on your computer to participate.

A Zoom link will be sent to all participants before the event.

Peer-led Workshop

Ethics is critical but can often become procedural. Ethics can be embedded and enriching component of research but may fall to the margins as projects progress.

In this two-hour collaborative workshop we will give ourselves time to think deeply about ethics. We will dedicate time to reviewing and unpicking conventional understandings of ethical review procedures, before using rich and reflective group discussions to build ethical frameworks coherent to our own research projects. We will pool resources, insights and perspectives while trying to expand our understandings of ethics beyond the data gathering phase of research.

In particular, we will focus on how we position, view and care for those we are researching with, our research projects, those who may engage with our research outputs and ourselves. By the end of the workshop, participants will have considered whether and how to reconcile institutional, personal and theoretical concerns related to their own ethical considerations.

Brief bio: Samantha Hulston is a former ESRC DTP recipient at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She specialises in conducting research with young children within educational settings and is interested in how situated ethical concerns expand and overlap in such settings.

Provided by Dr Anna Cieslik and Dr Elizabeth Penner, AHSS Research Facilitators, this workshop will focus on grants vs fellowships, an overview of funding options available post PhD, an explanation of the application process and some grant writing tips. You will also have the opportunity to look at a sample application.

Please be aware that the facilitators providing this workshop are from AHSS so there will be references around social sciences and arts and humanities. A large part of the content will be generic but if you are from a different school you may find the final part less relevant.

We will post resources and links onto the website after the workshop.

BOOK VIA THIS LINK https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvceirqTstG9LU15jxGPFiso3MJvMbvMT0

Thursday 14th March 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Everyone has difficult thoughts, how do you cope with yours?

This is a 1 hour live webinar session covering four main aims:

• Understand the science of stress, anxiety and difficult thoughts
• Diagnose how stress impacts you physically and psychologically - understand your triggers
• Learn the 8 MED - Minimum Effective Dose - techniques to help you manage difficult thoughts and emotions - Distilled down from over 120 studies
• Create a personalised mini daily routine to help you convert stress into useful action, get valuable perspective and protect time for personal recovery

The session is followed by a 3 day Mini Habit Course. This is one technique per day to help attendees convert proven techniques into useful habits.

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

Following the success of the TinyPause 'Master Time & Focus' session delivered by Sam in our Michaelmas term, we are pleased to be able to offer further sessions delivered by TinyPause.

PLEASE NOTE VENUE HAS CHANGED TO THE MARSHALL ROOM IN THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE

The first of two peer-led workshops in February will be provided by Joanna Watterson who will share some of her own personal experiences of fieldwork challenges and successes and create space for guided small group discussions. Fieldwork can be an incredibly rewarding experience. It can also be incredibly challenging. This session will cover some important elements of preparing for fieldwork, including making contingency and safety plans.

There is no preparatory work necessary for this session. After the session, you will be provided with various reading materials relating to the topics discussed.

It is important to note some content warnings for this session. While we will not go into detail, some distressing topics will be discussed. These include sexual harassment, violence, trauma, mental illness, and queerphobia.

Joanna Watterson is a third year PhD student in the Department of Geography. Her research interests are urban governance, infrastructure, social and environmental justice, and inequality. She feels strongly about making academic spaces and praxes more diverse and inclusive, particularly for gendered bodies.

https://ppd4phd.com/managing-fieldwork/

You may be interested in attending a forthcoming workshop 'Managing Vicarious Trauma as a Researcher' https://training.cam.ac.uk/event/5105735