The Sociology of Animals and Why It Matters – Podcast with Nickie Charles and Bob Carter
In this podcast for Sociology@Warwick I talk to Bob Carter and Nickie Charles about their new book Humans and Other Animals. A paper on this subject written by Nickie Charles is available online here.
Podcast – Exploring the Emergence of Underground Musical Worlds
From the Sociology@Warwick Seminar Series in May 2012.
Nick Crossley from Manchester University discusses his use of social network analysis to explore the early development of punk and post-punk musical worlds in the UK. Read more about this research here and here.
Spotlight on Asexuality Studies
“Spotlight on Asexuality Studies” was a groundbreaking event hosted by the Identity Repertoires/Mind the Gap research group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Academics, activists, community members, therapists and students gathered in the university library and online to discuss contemporary asexual research, with papers presented both in-person and from the United States and Canada via video-conference.
For more information about the event, see the website.
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender – Not Very Far Away Day
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
Not Very Far Away Day
How interdisciplinary are we?
•What does interdisciplinarity mean, in theory and in practice?
•What kinds of possibilities and challenges (epistemological, methodological, conceptual, practical) are generated by working across disciplines?
•What does it mean for our teaching and research in the study of gender and sexuality?
Friday 11th May
Teaching Grid, Library 2nd Floor
9.30 am to 1.45.
Lunch and refreshments provided
All welcome to attend!
Please confirm your attendance:
Postdoctoral Funding Workshop
31st May 12 noon to 3:30 pm (including lunch between 12 and 1.30)
Location TBC
This event has been designed to give attendees the ability to produce competitive Post-Doc funding applications by giving them the chance to listen to, and interact with, more experienced colleagues who have won Post-doc awards.
Matthew Watson is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies. After a period running the department’s PhD programme and trying to incorporate advice on professional socialisation into the day-to-day running of that programme, he became the department’s first dedicated Director of Postdoctoral Programmes.This is a post he held for three years before passing it on to a committee of colleagues to oversee its future development. The department has been extremely successful since investing its staff time heavily in nurturing its postdoctoral programme, and this year it has eighteen fully-funded postdocs working for it.
The main points that Matthew will address will be those that relate to the all-important question from the prospective applicant’s perspective of ‘what do I need to do to put myself in the best possible position to secure postdoc funding?’.
More specifically the issues that he will talk about will be those of:
- Mindset
- CV management before the application stage
- Departmental support
- Tailoring the application to the demands of the particular funder
Three winners of Post-Doc funding awards will also be sharing their experiences and insights. This event will be interactive in style and attendees will therefore get a chance to ask their more experienced colleagues the questions about the issues that are most important to them
Register for the workshop here
28 Social media training resources produced by researchers at the University of Warwick
- 10 ways researchers can use Twitter
- Creating a successful online presence
- Video interviews with Warwick bloggers
- Google scholar and its citation data
- Blog readership: build and maintain an audience
- Open access: what’s in it for you?
- Blogging about your research: first steps
- RSS Feeds: how they work
- Personal branding for researchers
- Facebook for researchers
- Making your blog more interactive
- Using Twitter to boost your research profile
- Enhancing your ePortfolio
- Blogging your research: tips for effective writing
- Podcasting your research
- Literature searching online
- Social bookmarking: organising and sharing sources
- Using LinkedIn to promote yourself
- What type of blogger are you? Blogging quiz
- Top 5 blogging tips
- Video essays
- Selling your research online: e-profiles for Arts PhDs
- The Research Exchange Youtube Channel
- Reflections on 23 Things
- A useful metaphor for teaching academics about Twitter
- Some thoughts on getting academic types to use Twitter
- “Why do you find Twitter useful as an academic?”
- Different uses which PhD students can make of Twitter
Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?
2nd Creating Publics keynote lecture event with Rachel Pain
(University of Durham)
Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?
Wednesday 16 May 2012, 14.00-16.00
Open University, Milton Keynes, Michael Young Building Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
The Creating Publics project was launched in March 2012 with the aim of innovating new ways of engaging publics in the on-going processes of social science research and public life.
For the 2nd Creating Publics keynote lecture we are delighted to welcome Rachel Pain (University of Durham).
Programme:
14:00 Welcome and introduction: Jef Huysmans and Nick Mahony (CCIG)
14:10 Keynote lecture: Professor Rachel Pain (University of Durham)
15:00 Responses by Clive Barnett and Helen Arfvidsson (CCIG)
15:30 Q & A and collective discussion
The event will be followed by a drinks reception.
In the spirit of public experimentation that this project promotes, the event will be webcast live and accessible here.
Those viewing online will be able to post questions and comments, which will be relayed live to the event.
To register to attend in person, please email socsci-ccig-events@open.ac.uk
For further information on the event and more details on the lecture, please visit our website.
Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives, 15 May 2012
Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives
Tuesday 15 May 2012, 10:00-16:40
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Location: Michael Young Building 1,2 & 3
Map and Directions:
http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/faculties-and-centres/milton-keynes-campus
Event
This event brings together people who are studying gender and sexuality from a variety of psychosocial perspectives. There have been a number of events recently considering ‘new femininities’, ‘sexualisation’, ‘girlhood’ and other related topics, but few have explicitly focused on what different theoretical positions have to offer these areas. These topics are of great psychosocial interest because the key tension throughout the work is that between structure and agency.
During this seminar a number of perspectives will be offered during the morning (psychoanalytic, phenomenological, Deleuzian, discursive, critical realist, etc.) in two panels of presentations. In the afternoon, two facilitated workshops will give attendees the chance to bring their own theoretical perspectives to bear on data in this field. Finally, responses to the day will be offered by some key writers in this area.
Programme
10:00-10:15 Introductions: Meg Barker and Ros Gill
10:15-11.45 Panel 1: Valerie Walkerdine, Jessica Ringrose, EmmaRenold & Gabrielle Ivinson
11:45-13:15 Panel 2: Mark Carrigan, Feona Attwood, DarrenLangdridge
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Workshop 1: Working psychosocially with participant data – led by Ester McGeeney
15:00-16:00 Workshop 2: Working psychosocially existing data – led by Laura Harvey
15:45-16:30 Responses: Ros Gill, Gail Lewis, Kesi Mahendran, Meg Barker
Registration: Please e-mail socsci-ccig-events@open.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
If you have any queries please contact Sarah Batt, Research Secretary,a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk. Tel: 01908 654704. Convenor: Meg Barker
Intimate Labour: Sociological and Historical Perspectives
Wednesday, 2nd May, 3-6pm, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House
3.00-4.15pm
Raka Ray, UC Berkeley, US: Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, Class
Iordanis Psimmenos, Panteion, Greece: Domestic Immigrant Workers in Greece:
Welfare Orientations and Social Prospects
4.15-4.45pm: Tea / Coffee
4.45-6.00pm
Carolyn Steedman, Warwick: What I’ve Learnt from
Eighteenth-Century English Servants
Kate Smith, Warwick: Female Hands and the Politics
of Touch in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Discussants: Carol Wolkowitz & Nickie Charles
ALL WELCOME!
Organised by: Department of Sociology, the Social Theory Centre, and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
