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.).

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.

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.