In our update this week:
- SHSU Postgrad society | renew your membership and consider joining the committee
- Online harassment course – access using your epigeum account
- Research and Innovation for Health and Wellbeing Course | apply by 10 Sep, starts 20 Sep
- 3MT UK final – register to watch | Fri 10 Sep, 12:15-13:00
- IMPACT conference 2021 reminder | 15-16 Sep
- Inside Academia – new series 3 article
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SHSU Postgrad society | renew your membership and consider joining the committee
With the new academic year starting on the 1st September the Students’ Union society memberships are all removed and we have to start fresh. So it is important that students continuing their postgrad studies in the autumn rejoin the society now: https://www.hallamstudentsunion.com/soc/prss/ With the beginning of the new academic year we will also hold a committee election. PhD students interesting in taking over the running of the society and nominating themselves for the post of President, Secretary, Treasurer, or Equality & Diversity officer are welcomed and encouraged to email Elin and Rose for further info: pgresearchsociety@gmail.com
Focus Thursday weekly 9:30am – 11:30am
Join us for some productivity and friendly chats on Zoom. We work in 30 minute periods, with 5-10 minutes for chat inbetween.
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Online harassment course – access using your epigeum account
As you will have seen in the Student Digest email (24 August), all students need to complete the ‘Active Bystander’ course, in our Tackling Harassment programme. You will learn how to recognise harassment and hate incidents, and make a positive impact in our inclusive Hallam community.
Further information on Active Bystander training The Active Bystander course is accessed via the epigeum platform (which you should have already used to access online training in research ethics). If you already have an epigeum account, just add token c8277f40.
Details of other epigeum online courses you have access to
How to create an epigeum account with your shu email address
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Research and Innovation for Health and Wellbeing Course | apply by 10 Sep, starts 20 Sep.
Now more than ever we need innovators within the health system to develop and implement new devices, technologies and services that can improve patient outcomes, improve the working lives of healthcare staff and do so at reasonable cost. This one-week intensive course, running from 20-24 September 2021, is aimed at Early Career Researchers and has now been opened to PhD students across all four Research Institutes at Sheffield Hallam University.
The overarching aim of the course is to develop knowledge and skills in the health and wellbeing innovation pathway. Through interdisciplinary team-work participants will collaborate using their disciplinary expertise to collectively solve complex health and wellbeing issues and develop new solutions to real problems.
Further information HRI Research and Innovation Course in Health and Wellbeing
Expressions of interest EoI R&I Course – Health and Wellbeing should be completed and returned to ! RIS Health RI Enquiries (Health-ri@shu.ac.uk) by Friday 10 September 2021.
PhD students will need to seek approval from their Director of Studies and fill in the EoI indicating that they are a PhD student.
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3MT UK final – register to watch | Fri 10 Sep, 12:15-13:00
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes. The final of the Vitae 3MT national competition will take place on Friday 10 September and you can now register to watch the final on the Vitae 3MT platform and vote for your favourite as the People’s Choice Winner.
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IMPACT conference 2021 reminder | 15-16 Sep
A reminder that the CCRI IMPACT conference is taking place on 15 & 16 September and registration is open via this booking link.
IMPACT 2021, a conference led by the Culture & Creativity Research Institute, invites doctoral students and early career researchers to explore the value and influence of research, and the ways that research impact can be understood, evaluated and articulated from different perspectives. Further information about the conference can be found on our blog via the IMPACT conference info page
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Inside Academia – new series 3 article
The Inside Academia platform was developed to help illuminate, describe, and navigate some of the issues that can impact the mental and physical health of students, researchers and academics. In their article series, members of the academic community describe the experiences they came up against how it affected them physically, mentally and emotionally, and how they overcame such experiences.
The latest article ‘A COVID-19 experience in a home away from home, away from home’ was written by Dustin Oranchuk and you can read it here: https://www.insideacademia.co.uk/articles/ahomeawayfromhome-awayfromhome