Welcome to our weekly update highlighting news and upcoming events for the PGR community for the week ending 11 December 2020.
In our email this week:
- SHU PGR Student Society – X-mas(h) Quiz – Saturday 19 December – 1830 – 2130
- SIPS PG Research online showcase and poster competition – abstract submission opens 6 Jan
- PubhD Sheffield – 16 December 1900-2030
- Epigeum Research Methods course – new content
- The PhD Life Raft Podcast Website
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1. SHU PGR Student Society – X-mas(h) Quiz – Saturday 19 December – 1830 – 2130
To mark the end of the year with festive cheer, the Society is hosting a virtual pub quiz! Join them for four rounds of Christmas themed quizzing: Music, General Knowledge, Say What You See, and Idiot Questions! (There might also be some questions about their unofficial mascot: the potato!
There is also a prize for the winning team – each team member will receive some holiday treats!
This might be the time of evening you’d usually eat your dinner so please feel free to bring along food/drinks/snacks and relax with everyone. Book your FREE ticket by heading to the society page (http://hallamstudentsunion.com/soc/prss/) and adding the Pub Quiz to your basket (all on the right-hand side of the page).
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2. SIPS PG Research online showcase and poster competition – abstract submission opens 6 Jan
Following the great success of the Showcase in a virtual setting earlier this year, advertising for the 2021 SIPS PG Research online showcase and poster competition is now live.
All PGR students from across SHU are invited to apply for a place at this FREE event. There will be a number of prizes for the best posters, judged by a senior team of academics.
To submit an abstract (200 words summarising your thesis) or for more information, please contact Benjamin Archer at b.archer@shu.ac.uk
Abstract submission: 6 January 2021 – 10 February 2021
Online event: 21 April 2021, 1300-1600
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3. PubhD Sheffield | 16 December 1900-2030
The talks have been announced for the next PubhD Sheffield on Wednesday. You can join online for three fun and informal talks from Sheffield students about their PhDs. This month’s line-up includes our very own Charlene Cross who is investigating Urban Stasis – the secret lives of empty buildings. Charlene is joined by Ffion Hammond who is talking about Human vs Pathogens and Christina Schoettler on Runaway Stars.
Book your ticket via Eventbrite and find out more on the PubhD Sheffield website or by following @PubhDSheffield on Twitter.
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4. Epigeum Research Methods course – new content
Epigeum have revised and refreshed the Research Methods courses which you can access via the SHU subscription. The three courses are:
Research Methods in Practice: Social Sciences
Research Methods in Practice: Arts and Humanities
Research Methods in Practice: STEM (due March 2021)
The three Research Methods in Practice courses are designed to be taken in conjunction with the Principles of Research Methods course, and Epigeum recommend that users complete the Principles course first and then do the discipline specific ‘add-on’ that most closely matches their needs.
Further information on accessing the Epigeum suite of courses, creating an account and an overview of the new modules can be found on the following link Epigeum Online Training
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5. The PhD Life Raft Podcast – external website
We have been made aware of an external resource which may be of interest related to wellbeing.
Dr Emma Brodzinski is an academic based at Royal Holloway, University of London. In addition to her academic post, she also works in private practice as a therapist. The overlaps in her work led to an interest in mental health in Higher Education, particularly for PhD students, and she has been running a specialist support programme for TECHNE – the AHRC DTP – for a number of years. She wanted to offer that support more widely and so has developed The PhD Life Raft Podcast.
The PhD Life Raft Podcast offers weekly episodes on topics from Imposter Syndrome to “What Your Supervisor Wants You to Know…” She has had feedback – especially from students who have said that it has helped to ease their feelings of isolation.
Students can access the podcast via apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-phd-life-raft-podcast/id1537420258 or on the website: www.thephdliferaft.com
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If you would like to share any good news stories, highlight any events that might be of interest to the SHU PGR community or wish to request any specific development sessions that would appeal to cross-disciplinary PGR students or supervisors, please get in touch via doctoralschool@shu.ac.uk We’re always pleased to hear from you.
You can find upcoming events in the doctoral school calendar (including the weekly PGR Focus Thursday and PGR Virtual Café events | https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/doctoralschool/events/
We really need to look after our physical and mental health and each other. Please stay connected. You can find help and information about supporting your wellbeing via the University website on https://www.shu.ac.uk/wellbeing
Best wishes,
Nicola, Elizabeth and Liz