Programme and venue
Venue: ARU Doctoral School, 3rd floor, Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB), East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT
Registration will take place in Lab 326, 3rd floor, Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB). Enter the campus building via the main reception from East Road/Bradmore Street. Signing in at the main reception is not required. Upon entering the building, continue straight down the corridor all the way to the end until you are facing the entrance to the library. Look to your right and there is a set of doors. Pass through here and take the lift or stairs to the 3rd floor. The Doctoral School and Lab 326 is immediately through the double doors when you exit the lift or stairs.
A campus map is available here. A video is also available showing how to navigate to the Doctoral School.
Quiet writing space
During the Summer School, attendees will have access to room LAB321 on the 3rd floor corridor of the Doctoral School for writing; desk space with monitors will be available. Please note that this space is open to all ARU PGRs who may be using it during the Summer School. If additional space is required, please talk to one of the DTA Team.
Lockers
A limited number of small lockers for personal possessions are also available to use during the days. Lockers can be found in the main social area (LAB326) and quiet writing space (LAB321).
Please note that the programme is correct as at 10 July 2024 but may be subject to change.
| Day 1 - Wednesday 10 July 2024 | |||
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Time |
Session |
Lead |
Location |
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10:30-11:00 |
Registration, refreshments and welcome |
LAB326 |
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11:00-11:15 |
Welcome and introduction to the Summer School |
DTA/ARU |
LAB326 |
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11:15-12:30 |
Keynote: Creative technologies and storytelling for research Hear from colleagues at ARU’s StoryLab Research Institute on a variety of immersive technologies & approaches used in communicating research through storytelling followed by Q&A and interactive session. See Summer School website for further details on the institute, presenters, technologies and research projects to be showcased, as well as an opportunity to undertake a mini-placement with the institute post-Summer School. |
Fabrizio Galeazzi, Violeta Tsenova, Jemily Rime, Christopher Nightingale ARU |
LAB322 |
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12:30-13:00 |
Icebreaker: Reconnecting via the SDGs The purpose of this activity is to provide you an opportunity to reconnect with your fellow PGRs, learn out about their research, see how Future Societies research projects are contributing to the SDGs, and discuss the SDGs with your peers. |
Naomi Thompson, ARU/ Heng Jie Choong, Derby/Rabia Arshad, DTA |
LAB326 |
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13:00-13:45 |
Lunch |
LAB326 |
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13:45-14:45 |
Workshop: Formality, Gesture and Space in the Performance of Presentations Making a presentation is so much more than preparing the content, designing slides and talking about them. Fundamentally, giving a presentation is a giving a performance. Sometimes, presentations need to be done in sub-optimal spaces, with badly functioning equipment, or room layout that is unusual or challenging. Even in optimal presentation contexts, giving a good presentation also depends upon aspects that are seldom considered as being as important as the content. This session explores how thinking about different styles of presentations, levels of formality. the use of gesture – both physical and audible – in communicating ideas, and managing a performance space, can vastly improve your ability to give effective and memorable presentations. |
Andrew Rawnsley, Teesside |
LAB322 |
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14:45-15:15 |
Programme refresher: The Telephone Game |
Rabia Arshad, DTA |
LAB322 |
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15:15-15:30 |
Refreshment break |
LAB326 |
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Parallel Sessions |
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15:30-16:30 |
World Café: DTA Alumni Peer Advice World Café Opportunity to talk with recent DTA alumni about their PhD experience and career journeys so far. |
DTA Alumni |
LAB326 |
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15:30-16:30 |
1:1 Clinics: Post-doc/Fellowship Applications |
Elena Maters, ARU |
LAB325 |
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17:00-20:00 |
Evening social: Tram Depot, Dover Street (opposite campus) Informal drinks and light refreshments to unwind at the end of day one Please note that the Men’s UEFA EURO 2024 Semi-final is scheduled for 8pm and will be shown in the Tram Depot |
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| Day 2 - Thursday 11 July 2024 | |||
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Time |
Session |
Facilitator/Speaker |
Location |
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09:30-10:00 |
Morning refreshments |
LAB326 |
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|
10:00-10:30 |
Keynote: Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), ARU Presentation from a current PGR student within ARU’s Global Sustainability Institute. Pier’s PhD project is ‘Towards Net Zero Carbon: Researching and Innovating for Citizen and Business Stakes’. The GSI ‘pioneers interdisciplinary, action focussed social science & humanities research to support transformations towards sustainable and just societies.’ |
Piers Reilly, GSI PGR |
LAB322 |
|
10:30-12:00 |
DTA Researcher Showcase Presentations – Part 1 Objective: to provide DTA researchers with the opportunity to present their research to their peers in a mini-conference situation; to gain experience of presenting, answering questions and receiving feedback. 5-minute presentations with/without visual aids, plus Q&A |
DTA/TG Reps |
LAB322 |
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12:00-12:15 |
Refreshment break |
LAB326 |
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12:15-12:45 |
Programme refresher: Group communication exercise with Lego |
Llinos Spargo, USW |
LAB326 |
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12:45-13:45 |
Lunch |
LAB326 |
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|
13:45-15:00 |
DTA Researcher Showcase Presentations – Part 2 |
DTA/TG Reps |
LAB322 |
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15:00-15:30 |
Refreshment break |
LAB326 |
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15:30 |
Social activity: Punting on the River Cam / Cambridge City Walking Tour Punt will leave from Rutherford’s Punting, Jesus Green Moorings, Quayside Boardwalk, CB5 8AQ at 16:30 lasting 45minutes Walking Tour will leave from outside The Fudge Kitchen, 11 King's Parade, CB2 1SJ at 16:30 lasting 60minutes |
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19:00 onwards |
Evening social: The Eagle, Bene't Street (City centre) #DrinkInSomeHistory Semi-private space reserved from 7pm with drinks; a finger buffet selection to be served from 7.30pm. |
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| Day 3 - Friday 12 July 2024 | |||
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Time |
Session |
Facilitator/Speaker |
Location |
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Parallel Sessions |
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09:00-09:30 |
Programme refresher: Beyond Language - Embodied Communication There are more ways to communicate than through language. Explore communication of mind and body, through the breath. No experience, flexibility, equipment or special clothes needed for this chair yoga inspired session to experience non-verbal communication and the role of your body in your research. |
Caroline Kocel, ARU DTA Researcher |
LAB322 |
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09:00-09:30 |
Launch: Interdisciplinary Reading Group Inaugural session to introduce plans for the DTA Interdisciplinary Research Group, with the aim of enabling researchers and supervisors to propose and discuss interesting, thought-provoking material in relevant research fields across the disciplines. This will help participants gain different perspectives and ideas which can be hard to achieve when reading alone. |
Rabia Arshad & Emma Cowley DTA |
LAB221 |
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09:30-09:45 |
Morning refreshments |
LAB326 |
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|
09:45-11:00 |
Workshop: Narrative CV Narrative CVs are increasingly being used by UK and international funders in funding applications. This workshop will give you the what, why and how of Narrative CVs: you’ll leave with a good start on how to collect appropriate evidence and how to structure your application paragraphs. Be prepared to spend some time reflecting on your activities as a PhD student and see how these activities will fit into the narrative CV format. |
Kate Murray, Action Research on Research Culture Project |
LAB322 |
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11:00-11:15 |
Refreshment break |
LAB326 |
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11:15-12:30 |
Workshop: Preparing for your viva: it’s never too early to prepare… This session will look at the purpose of the viva from both the candidate and examiners’ point of view; what will happen on the day – before and after – and tips and suggestions on how to prepare, the resources available to you, and concluding with an interactive VIVA game to help you trial Q&As. |
Llinos Spargo, USW & Jennie Eldridge DTA |
LAB322/ LAB326 |
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12:30-13:15 |
Lunch |
LAB326 |
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13:15-14:30 |
Workshop: Compassion, values, culture & communication Inclusivity, communication and student wellbeing have been issues that we have been trying to address with our postgraduate research communities at Teesside University within the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law over the past year. Our student demographic has an increasing number of international students, but considering inclusivity in its widest sense we also have a student body that is heterogenous across all demographic criteria.
In addition, some of our students have experienced some traumatic event in their lives which has effects on their wellbeing and education. We have been drawing from the psychological theory of compassion focused therapy in order to take a compassionate approach to pedagogy across both our taught and research student communities. This promotes understanding of self and each other and, we hope, leads to inclusive teaching practice, doctoral supervision experience and development of metacognitive skills amongst both academics and research students.
CFP reflects a move from competitive, isolationist modes of delivery and assessments and promotes assessment and implementation of group and team working skills and compassionate leadership. In this workshop you will be guided through the application of CFP and invited to consider what the opportunities and challenges might be for applying a compassion focussed pedagogy to the normally highly isolationist mode of delivery in the PhD by research.
Suggested reading: Gilbert, T ‘Assess compassion in Higher Education. Why and how would we do that?’, LINK, University of Hertfordshire, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2016, https://www.herts.ac.uk/link/volume-2,-issue-1/assess-compassion-in-higher-education-how-and-why-would-we-do-that |
Natasha Vall & Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Teesside |
LAB322 |
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14:30-15:00 |
Reflections & Final goodbye |
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LAB322 |
