This half-day workshop is organised by the Civil Society, Development and Democracy (CDD) Pathways and is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. Whilst this workshop is aimed at CDD Pathway students, PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend. This … Continue reading Enhance Your Writing Toolkit Part 2

This one-day workshop is organised by the Education, Childhood and Youth (ECY) Pathways and is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. Whilst this workshop is aimed at ECY Pathway students, PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend. Publishing research … Continue reading An introduction to writing your first research article

This session aims to support PGR’s in developing outcomes from their conference attendance.  Over the summer there are numerous SHU internal conferences, and this session will discuss the many reasons and benefits of attending an internal conference.  The session will be led by Katrin Stefansdottir.  Katrin’s PhD research, The Holistic Conference Experience: Understanding the Individual Attendee’s … Continue reading Making The Most Of Your Conference Attendance

This training is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend. Documentary and archival material is increasingly used by postgraduates across the social sciences and humanities. This can include written, visual, and audio materials, … Continue reading WRDTP: Getting to grips with research using archives, documents and material culture: An advanced qualitative methods workshop

For more information on this session and to book a place please visit the website. You will need to login using your usual Sheffield Hallam student username and password.

This training is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend. This training session will provide a broad introduction to the world of academic publishing, to find out more about the ‘mechanics’ of publishing, … Continue reading WRDTP: Getting started in academic publishing

This training is open to all ESRC and non-ESRC funded PhD and MA Social Research students within the WRDTP’s seven partner universities. PGRs from all seven interdisciplinary Pathways are welcome to attend. Guest speaker Kitty Turner will be delivering a session on podcasting with a technical focus. This will cover Audio recorders and their safe … Continue reading WRDTP: Creating podcasts about your research – technical focus

In this session you will have the opportunity to: Understand what is meant by critical thinking at university Learn how to apply critical questioning to sources and arguments Consider how to write an argument which is robust, critical, and cautious. The webinar will be facilitated using Blackboard Collaborate. There will be opportunities for discussion and … Continue reading Skills Centre Webinar: Critical Writing

The workshop is intended to be of benefit to a wide range of Sheffield Hallam staff with an interest in, or responsibility for, research degree student examinations. It is likely to be of particular interest to inexperienced research degree examiners and inexperienced independent chairs and staff who are considering putting themselves forward for either or both … Continue reading Independent Chair/Examiner Training

The Centre for Global Security Challenges at the University of Leeds will be holding monthly workshops for PGRs to present and share their PhD projects running along some of the key themes of the Centre: health, environment, conflict, terrorism and order. The workshops will offer PGRs the opportunity to deliver a 10-15 minute presentation of … Continue reading WRDTP: Security Workshops 4 – Global Reordering/Peace & Conflict