Join us for the 2023 SGSSS Hub Festival. Hosted this year at the University of Strathclyde on the 9th & 10th of March.

This year, the theme will be centered around the theme of Crisis.

Crises are ubiquitous and we are likely to experience several over the course of any 3-year degree. Between macro-level political and micro-level personal crises, there are also project management crises, such as access to data which cannot be negotiated, or difficulty in publishing results. The recent Covid-19 multi-faceted crisis certainly brought together examples of all of these crises, the aftermath of which are still reverberating. We shall cover these types of crises and more in our 2023 Hub Festival.

We are bringing together 60 Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) in Social Science in Scotland so that together we can reflect on these personal, epistemological, methodological and publishing crises and consider how to deal with them in a way that helps us flourish. We are offering opportunities to learn about, and co-create approaches to tackle, the mental health crisis in academia. We will also offer opportunities to learn the co-authoring craft, showcase your research, as well as any findings and methodological approaches others could learn from.

Schedule

Thursday, 9 March 2023

11:30 AM | Registration

12:00 PM | Networking Lunch

1:00 PM | Welcome and opening keynotes:

Dr Adina Dudau (University of Glasgow) – Crisis! What crisis?

Dr Jess Butler (University of Aberdeen) – Most published research is false: the quality crisis in the scientific record and how young academics can fix it

2:00 PM | 3 Minute Thesis Presentations

3:15 PM | Labs:

• Manuscript Lab
  • Have you got interesting findings you wish to explore publishing? We’ll bring editors, ex-editors and editorial board members in the room to help you target your paper to the right journal and in the right way.
• Collaborative Writing Lab
  • Are you keen to publish but not from your PhD (yet)? Would you like to learn to publish as part of a team? We can hack this together.
• Methods Lab
  • Are you using an unusual methodology you wish to showcase? Are you encountering unusual issues with common methodologies and could use some advice?

Friday, 10 March 2023

9:30 AM | Keynote Address:

Jelena Milicev and Professor Stephany Biello (University of Glasgow) – Promoting PGRs’ mental health and wellbeing: a balancing act

10:30 AM | Zine-Making Workshop: Your PhD Journey

12:30 PM | Networking Lunch

1:30 PM| Closing Keynote:

Dr Michaela Hruskova (University of Stirling) – Keep calm and carry on: professional identity for researchers

2:30 PM | Awards Ceremony

Registration

Please fill in the registration form below. Once you have registered, you will be emailed a link to an additional details form to confirm your workshop selection.