Author: SGSSS Team
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Women’s Safety from Male Violence – A Societal Issue With Resonance Across Our Universities
As with many individuals and organisations, SGSSS wished to show our solidarity around the issue of women’s safety from gendered violence and, in particular, to highlight the specific connections to the places where we work and study. To this end, we have commissioned a blog from Professor Michele Burman to reflect on the most pressing…
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Urban Life, The Untold Dimension of Happiness
We are indeed aware of some spatial forces behind our actions, or for that matter, inactions. No one has ever doubted how doors enable us to move through, a possibility that a solid wall robs us from. In fact, we are so intrinsically adapted to architectural manipulations, no one is shrinking from how decisive architecture…
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Maintaining Motivation
I’m delighted to have had the opportunity to contribute to the SGSSS Cohort Building Programme this month. The student pitches and presentations demonstrated huge impact and productivity on their projects but also demonstrated the challenge of doing a PhD. I was asked to share some thoughts on maintaining motivation to acknowledge the challenge and give…
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Presenting at the Social Policy Association (SPA) Conference – trepidations and reality
The first time I heard about the SPA conference, I was not sure whether my research would fit in. My PhD focuses on the practice of community development. It compares the effect of approaches aimed at helping people “navigate the system” to those approaches aimed at helping people “change the system” to see which better advances the well-being of communities facing disadvantage. This has little…
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Big Data in Small Packages
North of Sonderborg, alongside the Alssund, the gentle farmland of Jutland stretches into the horizon. Fields of early autumn colours keep small patches of woodland company as the summer comes to a close with a final, and intense, hurrah. Deer move freely between the grasses and the trees, ignoring the hedgerows and fences demarking man-made…
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PhD ‘Must-knows’ from attending the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA) Summer School
PhD ‘Must-knows’ In late August I attended a summer school in Denmark run by the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA). The lessons I learned in those few days changed how I perceive myself, academia, and the potential impact my research could have on the world. Lesson 1: Selling your research After briefly…
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Overseas Institutional Visits: I went, I saw, I conquered (my own fears) by Hazel Booth
On a chilly November day just over two years ago, I sat in a room which reeked of excitement and fear. It was emanating from me, and possibly the rest the new intake of ESRC-funded PhD students who sitting with me at the SGSSS induction event. In those early days, we hadn’t worked out how to tell…