Tue, 10:00 - 12:00

Online (Zoom)

"There are many reasons to share your research outside your discipline, but it can be challenging to communicate complex ideas concisely and coherently to non-specialists. This practical workshop helps you develop a pitch for ONE non-specialist publication (which you identify before the workshop).

Wed, 10:00 - 12:00

Online (Zoom)

'How can I find my academic voice?' This is a question asked by nearly every PhD researcher, and in this workshop we drill down into 'voice' in academic writing, analysing both its restrictions and its possibilities. Through activities and examples, we’ll identify the writerly techniques that forge a ‘voice’ and explore how to recognise your own voice. We’ll also look at paraphrasing: what it is and how to keep your own voice from being drowned out.

07 November 2024, 11:00 - 08 November 2024, 13:00

Online (Zoom)

By the end of this two-day course, participants will have considered: • How to develop positive and productive relationships with intermediaries who may act as ‘gatekeepers’ between researchers and research communities. • How to set up, conduct and evaluate participant interviews and projects in a manner that is ethical, trauma aware and consent based. • How to adopt, monitor and adapt an ongoing practice of ‘informed consent’ throughout the research process and up to publication. • How to acknowledge, evaluate and contend with practical limitations in research (language barriers, unknown interpreters, cultural challenges etc.).

11 November 2024, 10:00 - 12 November 2024, 15:00

Online (Zoom)

Find your Focus, Find your Feet is a two-day intervention for new PhD researchers to help you negotiate the particular challenges of Y1. After this course, you will be better able to: • appreciate uncertainty as an important part of the creative process • understand the intellectual and emotional labour of Year 1 • explore different ways of scoping and defining you project • summarise your project in clear, direct language • assess your skills in academic practice and identify areas to develop

Mon, 10:00 - 17:00

20 Cavendish Square, London

Increasingly, academics in all sectors are faced with challenges of a rapidly changing world. Driven by imperatives to decolonise, rewild, queer or otherwise challenge the fixed hegemonic nature of traditional educations, many of us, particularly in the humanities are drawn to more imaginative and creative forms of research. However, despite a real need for innovation and cultural shift, this outlook on research is often met with challenges spanning from disproportionate funding cuts to the humanities, to general stigma upon the humanities in the opinion of the wider public.

Thu, 10:00 - 13:00

Senate House 104

If you think in pictures, or in 3D, how do you write a sequential, linear academic argument? This practical in-person workshop gives visual thinkers tools and techniques to organise their thinking before starting to write and to plan with confidence, without losing creativity.

26 November 2024, 11:00 - 27 November 2024, 16:00

Online (Zoom)

Sound Starter is a course for students with little or no previous experience, who wish to develop a podcast of their research. It offers an introductory level of sound recording and editing using Reaper software (free-to-download) and will provide a guide to the possibilities of sound manipulation, restoration and mixing. Through a series of practical and analytical tasks it focusses on the details of how to present one’s research clearly in a short podcast. It will cover how to record interviews, mix music and sound effects with voice, heighten listening awareness and dip into some of the different creative ways to experiment with processing sound such as reverberation and compression.