Schools of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences course timetable
November 2023
Thu 23 |
Master Time & Focus (online)
![]() How do you protect time to focus and manage workload? In this 1 hour session delivered by Tiny Pause you will learn to:
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. |
Wed 29 |
This is a supported group for PhD students who are managing caring responsibilities alongside their studies. It will be co-facilitated by the Inclusive Learning and Development Manager and a current PhD student who is also managing a caring role. Caring can include a wide range of experiences and responsibilities and involve providing support for both children and adults. Objectives for this group:
Outcomes for this group:
This sesssion will be hybrid: In-person in Room A at 17 Mill Lane as well as offering an online opportunity to join via Zoom |
January 2024
Wed 24 |
Venue: The Long Room, Gonville and Caius College Questions, (a lack of) Answers, and Navigating a Persistently Changeable Field Being a PhD student means you will probably spend around three or four years managing changes and adjusting research and funding, which can be a stressful and difficult time. If you remain in academia, this could continue. Professor Michelle Ellefson addresses these difficulties from a range of perspectives and aims to provide you with ways to cope living within an uncertain structure during your doctoral studies. |
February 2024
Mon 5 |
Managing Fieldwork (In-person)
![]() 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 |
Tue 13 |
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to provide this workshop. |
Fri 23 |
Postponed: Returning from Fieldwork
![]() Unfortunately we will need to postpone this session to Easter Term. Anyone who has signed up will be notified of a new date. |
Wed 28 |
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:
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March 2024
Tue 12 |
This workshop will be 1.5 hours and will cover the following aspects:
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 |
Fri 15 |
This is a supported group for PhD students who are managing caring responsibilities alongside their studies. It will be co-facilitated by the Inclusive Learning and Development Manager and a current PhD student who is also managing a caring role. Caring can include a wide range of experiences and responsibilities and involve providing support for both children and adults. This is an online event. Please join using this zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92147866974?pwd=d0lsWVNSelRvaWsxSW1OOGF5VHRIQT09 See this web page for further information https://ppd4phd.com/phd-students-carers/ |
Mon 18 |
This is a supported group for PhD students who are part-time. It will be co-facilitated by the Inclusive Learning and Development Manager for the ESRC DTP and SHSS and a current part-time PhD Student within the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. This is a space to recognise the challenges of being part-time and the support that is currently in place, discuss if it is enough or if there can be other provision in place. |
Fri 22 |
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. |
April 2024
Tue 30 |
Re-Imagining Impact (In-person)
![]() Research impact can be defined as a “demonstratable contribution” made by research towards "society and the economy”. It can take various forms, including changes in understanding, developments in methods, shaping of policies and shifts in behaviours. Yet, the word ‘impact’ can be burdened by assumptions and connotations of a particular range of research ‘outcomes’. This workshop aims to question these assumptions and connotations regarding what impact should or could look like within social science research. In so doing we will construct nuanced understands of how impact may relate to our own projects as well as the theories, methods and values informing our projects. 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 the re-imagined impacts this might bring. |
May 2024
Wed 8 |
Questions, (a lack of) Answers, and Navigating a Persistently Changeable Field Being a PhD student means you will probably spend around three or four years managing changes and adjusting research and funding, which can be a stressful and difficult time. If you remain in academia, this could continue. Professor Michelle Ellefson addresses these difficulties from a range of perspectives and aims to provide you with ways to cope living within an uncertain structure during your doctoral studies. |
Tue 14 |
Beyond Your Doctorate
![]() 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, the Postdoc Academy 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 tea and coffee provided at the start, and a lunch at the end for students to have the opportunity to share plans with each other and there will be a session with some alumni who will discuss their internship/fellowship experiences. The aims of this session are for PhD students to: · Have a better understanding of how they can use their doctorate · Be aware what are the different pathways open to them both in academia and outside |
June 2024
Fri 21 |
Supporting Student Carers at Cambridge
![]() We would like to warmly invite anyone who is a student with caring responsibilities to an event we are running on Friday 21st June with a talk from the University Counselling Service followed by an informal lunch. There will be a wide range of literature and information of services around the University and the local community available and a chance for you to meet others who juggle studies and caring responsibilities at Cambridge. If you would like to join us, please could you sign up (please click here to register) for catering numbers and room capacity. The talk will be delivered by Margaret Bailey at the University Counselling Service, who will share with you the key support available to you at Cambridge. In addition, Margaret will offer guidance around self-care and managing the many challenges of being a student-carer. Caring can take many forms, whether it is for a child, partner, parent or friend. Even if you don’t care directly for someone but are interested in providing support to those who do, please feel free to attend. |
July 2024
Wed 3 |
ESRC DTP Student Drop In
![]() All ESRC DTP PhD students are invited to drop by on Wednesday 3rd July between 12.30 and 1.30pm in the Junior Parlour at Caius College to meet the DTP Deputy Director, Dr Esther van Sluijs and Alison Harvey, Inclusive Learning and Development Manager. Please register for catering and room capacity purposes. |