Interested in applying for jobs within higher education? Professor Lydia Plowman will guide you through some of the conventions and requirements of the academic CV…
Professor Lydia Plowman (University of Edinburgh), Dr Sam Fawkner (Deputy Head of School, Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh), Dr Anne Sofie Laegran (Head of…
This session brings together SGSSS PhD alumni from across the public, private and third sectors to discuss non-academic interviews and expectations. The SGSSS will be…
The University of Edinburgh Business School and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science are pleased to invite doctoral students and their supervisors to the…
This live session will be hosted by the SGSSS Knowledge Exchange and Employability Manager and one successful student from past competitions, who will be available…
During the 2021-22 academic year, the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Over the past decade we are proud…
This student-led workshop has been designed to teach students strategies on how to develop resilience and a critical consciousness during the challenging process of completing…
The UN Climate Change Conference 2021, known as COP26, takes place in Glasgow from 1st to 12th November 2021. To coincide with this occasion, on…
The scale of the climate emergency demands a drastic and rapid reduction in carbon emissions. The transport sector is a large contributor to emissions, and…
A Sankey diagram is a visualization used to depict a flow from one set of values to another. This half day workshop divided into 2…
The SER Programme for the Social Sciences is a programme run by SGSSS with funding from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to enable research collaborations…
In this workshop, you will be introduced to podcasting as a creative tool for research output to reach international audiences and inspire interdisciplinary collaborations. Join…
The Science Historiography Clinic is a weekly online discussion-based workshop to develop skills in rapidly and efficiently digesting and contextualising the published history of science literature as preparation for teaching, research, and professional engagement.
This live session will be hosted by Flaminia Raiteri, SGSSS Knowledge Exchange and Employability Manager, and recent intern, Rebecca Grant, who will be available answer…
Compassion science offers a promising new framework for social science researchers navigating emotionally-demanding fieldwork. Join us as we explore embodied, evidence-based techniques for cultivating compassion in an interview setting. You’ll come away with an in-depth, interdisciplinary understanding of compassion and its pertinence for the social sciences, plus concrete tools for methodological application.
Fieldwork can be fraught with challenges to researchers’ mental health and emotional wellbeing. Reflexivity is an increasingly common practice for researchers considering the impact their…
The workshop explores the ‘turn to affect’ in qualitative research. Affective research methods can be described as methods which move us; and which have a…
Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students, STAR 1 Pre-Fieldwork training, a four-day residential event at The Burn in Angus. This residential…
These ‘advanced’ online-taught oral history workshops will provide Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences doctoral students with an opportunity to focus in more depth on some…
Many problems in social science and public health that we are interested in studying involve high complexity. Traditional statistical models are often not suitable to…
What makes research feminist? And how is feminist research done? What is the relevance of feminist research to knowledge production in the arts & humanities…
This workshop aims to introduce discourse analysis as a method in social sciences and humanities. In this interactive workshop, students will familiarise themselves with the…
Setting the Scene: You are a postgraduate student, and you have some data for your thesis. Maybe you started to read about ‘Data Analysis’ but…
Does your project contain a questionnaire or survey? Are you developing this yourself? This 2-day interactive workshop can help you to build confidence and add…
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