The Faculty and School will hold several training sessions and seminars during 2020. The dates and topics for these are listed below. If you need further advice or support contact Dr Carolyn Beasley.
Training in the School of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (curated by Jessica Balanzategui):
26 February: Planning and scheduling annual research goals
26 March: Getting the most out of your supervisor
29 April: Publishing with your supervisor
26 May: Academic CVs and Interviews
25 June: Defining your methods
29 July: Dealing with Traumatic Materials
26 August: What Examiners Want
30 September: Powering towards a full thesis draft
28 October: Exploring grants and other funding avenues: How to make a start
11 November: Self-gardening as a PhD student (date may change)
24 November: Building a research profile and publication strategies
Seminar Series:
First Monday of Month in Semesters – Screen Studies Seminar Series AS324 and Trivia at the Lido Cinema
Monthly (Wednesday 3-5pm) – Practice-Led Research Seminar Series – AS324
Other:
Monthly from March (Tuesdays 3-5pm) – Training or Themed Presentation Seminar – AS324
CUT and CTMT also run their own training and presentation series.
Faculty of Health, Arts and Design (FHAD) Events
FHAD HIT SUBMIT – 12 week journal article writing program – Tuesday 1-3 from first week of March. Runs semester 1 and 2.
FHAD Thesis Bootcamp – late November
FHAD Student Conference – first week of November
FHAD Shut up and Write Retreats
FHAD Research Training
11 February – AMDC level 5
9.30-10.20 the language of a thesis (academic writing)
10.30-12.00 literature reviews and Nvivo
Lunch
12.30-1.20 Systematic reviews
1.30 pm – 2.20 Research Design – Epistemological paradigms and case study 2.30 – 3.20 Research design – empirical project with a quantitative design
3.30 – 4.20 Research Design for theoretical projects
12 February – AMDC level 5
9.30-10.20 Future Proofing Your Research
10.30-11.20 Organising your Data and Thematic Data Analysis
11.30-12.20 Results/finding/discussions
Lunch
13.30-14.20 Working with Traumatic materials
14.30-15.20 Pulling the threads together on your thesis
15.30-16.20 Publishing from your thesis
15 September (some topics may change)
9.30-10.20 Research design: validity and reliability
10.30-11.20 Linking Research Questions and methods
11.30-12.20 Introduction to qualitative research approaches
Lunch
13.30-14.20 Strategies for qualitative data collection
14.30-15.20 Analysing qualitative data
15.30-16.20 The art of survey
16 September (some topics may change)
9.30-10.20 Qualitative Social media research methods
10.30-11.20 NVivo graphical tools for literature review
11.30-12.20 The basics of Open Science
Lunch
13.30-14.20 Integrating practice-based research
14.30-15.20 How to write an impactful data report
15.30-16.20 Literature reviews
Politics & History 