April 2020
Developing and Creating Virtual Internships, Placements and Industry Networking
3rd Apr 2020 12:30pm-1:30pm
Online Webinar
COVID-19 has moved placement and internship activities virtual – how can you make the most of this with Techne support?
Recording the Intangible: Approaches to the ethnographic archive
7th Apr 2020 9:30am-6:30pm
Postponed
This one-day workshop which will take place in the Economic Botany Collections at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to explore alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to working with ethnographic archives.
Writing through a Crisis
15th Apr 2020 10:00am-12:00pm
Online
Writing time is precious. In this online workshop we’ll share our ‘normal’ writing habits, and what, because this current crisis is protracted, may become our ‘crisis’ writing habits. We’ll explore writerly techniques to help us focus.
Spring Online Writing Group
21st Apr 2020 9:30am-11:00am
Online
Our current situation is challenging for everyone but especially for researchers who are struggling to write because of anxiety, their home situation or a lack of motivation. This writing group aims to to inspire, motivate, reduce isolation and create a sense of community for researchers.
Introduction To Radio Operations Media Training
21st Apr 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Online
Working in a BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 on air studio you will have the chance to create your own podcast, and programme-making exercises, as if live on radio.
Common Creative Professional Dilemmas: The Imposter Syndrome
23rd Apr 2020 12:30pm-1:30pm
Online Webinar
This webinar will give you the opportunity to analyse how the Imposter Syndrome may manifest in a creative/research context, explore how it may help or hinder you in your research, and share strategies to mitigate negative self-talk and to celebrate your achievements authentically and positively.
Writing Workshop: Writing for Non-Specialist Audiences
29th Apr 2020 9:30am-11:00am
Online
This practical workshop helps students to identify who might be interested in their research and gives them a set of tools to explain complex research, in writing, to people outside their discipline, or outside academia.
The Nonconformist Intellectual: On the Development of Critical Theory in the Frankfurt School. A Workshop with Alex Demirovic
30th Apr 2020 10:00am-4:00pm
Postponed
Over twenty years since its publication, Alex Demirovic’s Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle remains one of the most important and challenging interpretations of so-called Frankfurt School critical theory. Tthis workshop aims to introduce the book and its central theses to an Anglophone audience.