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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 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 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.
Coffee and Catch up at Pembroke College in the Nihon Room on Wednesday 22nd March, 11am to 1pm (coffee and cake will be available). In particular, I’d like to share with you your aspirations that you wrote down at our first induction in October 2021 (so long ago now!). It’s always interesting to reflect back on how our hopes from that first day have developed or perhaps they are still the same.
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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.
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
Dr Julia Hayes will lead this workshop focusing on imposter syndrome. She will explore what it is and how it can affect the feelings and performance of people on a day to day basis.
The session will give participants the opportunity to reflect upon the ways in which imposter feelings affect them, and discussion around the ways in which it can be managed.
Participants will leave the session with a greater awareness of the situations that increase their imposter feelings and have strategies to manage them.
Dr Hayes is an Educational Psychologist, disability consultant and trainer who put her career on hold to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge.
This workshop will be 1.5 hours and will cover the following aspects:
- What is research related trauma/vicarious trauma?
- What can you do to try and prevent research related trauma?
- What might be some of the signs of trauma to look out for?
- When and where to go for support if needed?
The workshop will be led by Margaret Bailey and Phyllis Smith, counsellors from the University Counselling Service.
We will start at 12.30pm and a buffet lunch will be available for you to access throughout the session.
Please note in order to ensure the workshop meets your needs and expectations, we would be grateful if you could complete a short form prior to attending https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7rwpIxR6SvnH94
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Tue 6 Jun 2023 | 11:00 | Finished |
Fri 9 Jun 2023 | 11:00 | Finished |
Tue 13 Jun 2023 | 11:00 | Finished |
Wed 1 Nov 2023 | 13:00 | Finished |
Tue 13 Feb 2024 | 11:00 | CANCELLED |
How do you protect time to focus and manage workload? In this 1 hour session delivered by Tiny Pause you will learn to:
- Establish a method that works for you to enhance focus for the most important work (Deep Work)
- Reduce distraction and prioritise more effectively
- Establish daily 'Protective Pause', to relieve stress, reduce self criticism and strengthen resilience - mini mindfulness
- Create the space to recognise your achievements each day - increase self awareness and confidence
This will be a live webinar, delivered by Sam Thorogood from Tiny Pause. Sam combines proven neuroscience & mindfulness based techniques into useful daily habits. The overall aim will be to help attendees convert proven techniques into useful habits, as well as enhance focus, reduce stress and strengthen resilience.
This 1-hour webinar is delivered by UK mental health specialist charity MIND, and will be a brilliant opportunity to explore the key aims below:
- 1. understand what we mean by the term ‘mental health’
- 2. be able to identify common mental health problems
- 3. understand the effect stress has on our mental health and wellbeing
- 4. know how to look after our wellbeing
- 5. know how to make a wellbeing plan for ourselves or others
- 6. know where to get further help.