03 March 2025, 10:00 - 05 March 2025, 16:00

Knights Park Campus, Kingston University

This 3-day workshop supports PhD students at early as well as advanced stages of their ethnographic research. Early stages: The workshop will introduce visual ethnography methods. Students will undertake a practical fieldwork exercise, reflect on this activity, and consider the application of methods in their PhD projects. Advanced stages: The workshop will support students in evaluating data gathered from ethnographic fieldwork and disseminating through refereed journals It is possible to join all three days (including fieldwork) or alternatively to join only day 1 or 2.

Fri, 10:00 - 16:30

UAL Doctoral School, 272 High Holborn, Second floor, London WC1V 7EY

This event welcomes you to a day of workshops focused on developing listening practices. Whether you are new to the field or this is the subject of your research, this participatory event encourages you to consider ways of listening in your research methodology and/or practice.

Tue, 11:00 - 12:30

Online

If you’ve ever experienced moments of imposter syndrome or low confidence, you’ve come to the right place. This workshop will support you to break free from self-doubt, rediscover your strengths and step into your most confident PhD self. 

Mon, 10:00 - 18:00

Stewart House and BBC Broadcasting House

Are you interested in developing skills for diffusing your research to a wider public via radio broadcasting? This one day workshop introduces skills for presenting your research for podcast or radio broadcast, including an introduction to script writing, interviewing and presentation techniques and basic technical skills for recording and editing.

Thu, 13:00 - 14:00

Zoom

Despite being one of the most powerful job hunting strategies there is, networking remains amongst the least attractive for many people.  In this workshop we look at reframing networking as making friends, and explore strategies that enable us to develop authentic ways of making friends and influencing people for the benefit of our careers, but in ways that feel (and are) genuine and ethical. 

Tue, 10:00 - 12:00

Online

For researchers, reading takes up hours of time. In that time we hope to increase our knowledge. But if we read only for information we’re actually wasting an opportunity: reading can also teach us how to improve our own writing style and generate confidence in our own voice. In this workshop we’ll look at, and practise, different ways of ‘reading like a writer’. We’ll start with efficient reading – information IS important so how to get the most out of a text. Then we’ll look at critical reading – what questions should you ask of a text? Then ‘emotional reading’ – how authors achieve their emotional purpose; and finally ‘gotcha reading’ – how authors keep us reading.

Wed, 11:30 - 15:30

Senate House Room 104

Learn strategies to boost your PhD productivity while enjoying true work-life balance, rest and play in these two game-changing workshops at our in-person training day: There will also be plenty of opportunity for peer discussion with other PGRs, personalised coaching for your individual challenges, and networking.

Mon, 09:00 - 15:00

Online (Zoom)

This spring writing clinic offers 6 x 40 minute 1-1 slots for you to discuss writing challenges from writer’s block and time management to structural difficulties and problems with argument. Or you can use your time to discuss in detail a particular section of text-in-progress which you can send in advance.