North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
Feminist Inquiry: BSA Regional Postgraduate Event, 10th October 2023
Adele Moore, SSSTM, University of Liverpool (2020 Cohort)
On Tuesday 10th of October, one of our student reps, Adele Moore, co-hosted an event called ‘Feminist Inquiry with her colleague, Lara MacLachlan. The event was funded through the British Sociological Association’s Regional Postgraduate Award, and the SLSJ Research Cluster, ‘Publics and Practices’.
This symposium sought to highlight the value and importance of feminist thinking to the field of sociology. Organised by and for PGRs, we managed to bring together UK-based PGRs involved in or who are interested in feminist perspectives.
Read MoreThe amazing opportunity of going to and presenting at multiple conferences
Brandon O’Hanlon, Psychology, Lancaster University (2020 Cohort)
I recently had the amazing opportunity of going to and presenting at multiple conferences before the start of the new academic term – it’s been a great Summer of Science with our lab, the NoSA group! The first stop was my first international conference and my first trip to Scandinavia: The International Symposium of Auditory and Audiological Research (ISAAR) conference in Nyborg, Denmark. This was a wonderful (and very intense!) conference for hearing science, involving work about hearing aids and hearing loss, new techniques for improving hearing quality in older adults, and plenty of biological and neuroscientific accounts of how we might improve our perception of speech in difficult listening conditions. As my PhD is looking at using different senses, like sight and touch, to improve speech perception in noisy environments, the conference was the perfect fit for me! I took a lot from the work shared that has been beneficial for my own research outlooks, and I have been inspired more so to get stuck in with further research projects already! The venue itself was also great: by the beach on one of Denmark’s many islands, with incredible food. I’ll definitely look to go again in the future.
Read MorePopular Music and Wellbeing Conference
Ragnhild Nordset, Business & Management, University of Liverpool (2020 Cohort)
With a few academic conferences under my belt, including presenting my PhD research at EGOS, I felt ready to face the music. Or to be more precise; face the music industry. My research focuses on the wellbeing experiences of the working artist and the Popular Music and Wellbeing Conference would be my first industry conference presenting my own work. I have enjoyed and learned from all the academic conferences I have had the privilege of attending, but it is the kind of experience that can be just as alienating as fulfilling. Perhaps it is the many different disciplines crammed together for a short period of time, or the pressure for many academics to be seen and heard in a meaningful way at these influential happenings? Whatever the cause, by the end of them I have always been happy and ready to reconnect with the ‘normal’ world. I must admit, the industry experience was a different kettle of fish.
Read More£20m in ESRC-funding awarded to the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
The North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) is pleased to announce that it has been recommissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for a further five years of activity, commencing in 2024.
The NWSSDTP is a consortium of universities, led by the University of Liverpool, which provides funding and training for postgraduate students in the social sciences. The partnership will receive more than £20 million in funding from the ESRC, equating to a minimum of 44 postgraduate studentships a year for the next five years across the constituent universities.
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