1st Feb 2023 - 1st Mar 2023

Online (Zoom)

While a joyful curiosity might be the fuel of research, doing it day-to-day can be really tough. The purpose of this programme is to help researchers move – even just a little bit – from a sense of merely surviving within the research process to thriving within it.

7th Mar 2023 - 8th Mar 2023

Online (Zoom)

Year 2 of a PhD is, for many, a time of feeling overwhelmed and making tough choices from a wealth of material. This two-day writing retreat is an opportunity to scrutinise your writing through specific lenses

10th Mar 2023 9:30am-5:00pm

Kingston University

This training and development day aims at equipping postgraduate researchers across the arts and humanities with tools that will help them identify the potential their research projects hold to drive social transformation.

11th Mar 2023 11:00am-6:00pm

Hybrid (Online and University of Surrey)

Cultural encounters with the nineteenth century re-align our understanding of the period and its relationship to our contemporary moment. How do we confront – through art – the most problematic aspects of our nineteenth-century past?

14th Mar 2023 - 4th Apr 2023

Online (Zoom)

Sound Starter is a course for students with little or no previous experience, who wish to develop a podcast of their research. It offers an introductory level of sound recording and editing and will provide a guide to the possibilities of sound manipulation, restoration and mixing.

15th Mar 2023 1:00pm-2:00pm

Online (Zoom)

Office politics has an unjustifiably bad reputation, so in this workshop will explore the good side (there is one) of office politics.

15th Mar 2023 2:00pm-3:00pm

Online (Zoom)

This session will explore the problem of overcommiting - including the relationship between people-pleasing and perfectionism - and will offer practical ideas of how you can start to set boundaries and reduce your risk of burnout on your PhD journey and beyond.

16th Mar 2023 10:00am-12:00pm

Online (Zoom)

This highly practical workshop offers strategies and frameworks to turn editing into a manageable, and even enjoyable, part of the writing process.

21st Mar 2023 - 22nd Mar 2023

Online (Zoom)

This training will focus on ethical and collaborative interview and research methods that focuses on the specifics of data collection and ongoing, participant informed consent.

22nd Mar 2023 5:00pm-7:30pm

Online (Zoom)

Artist, curator, and writer Dylan Robinson will present and share about his current research and creative work in a seminar.

23rd Mar 2023 11:00am-1:00pm

University of Brighton & online

The digital human has in recent years emerged as a new subject of research. This lecture will introduce the ideas behind the digital human, the new research field associated with it and what archives have to do with it all.

23rd Mar 2023 2:00pm-4:00pm

Online (Zoom)

This session will be led by several speakers currently working in the arts and culture sectors, both freelance and employed, who will speak about their own experiences.

29th Mar 2023 - 30th Mar 2023

Online (Zoom)

Writing up can be an isolating experience, and sharing challenges with those at the same stage can energise and motivate. This online retreat offers a mutually supportive space to reinforce techniques and boost the momentum and confidence needed to push through to submission.