North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
Archive research at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Amy Stanning, Economic and Social History, Lancaster University (2021 Cohort)
I was incredibly fortunate to spend four weeks this summer in Ann Arbor, Michigan working in the William L. Clements Library. The Library has an extensive collection of unique archival material relating to the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
My NWSSDTP funded PhD project is addressing the question, ‘Was there a Taxation Revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain?’ So why would I need to research papers at the Clements Library?
Read MoreBeing True to Your Commitments: Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies PhD Symposium Aalborg University
Ragnhild Nordset, Business & Management, University of Liverpool (2020 Cohort)
What are your beliefs?
What you believe about the world impacts what you choose to see in it, how you choose to frame that and how you deal with (or not) the elements you exclude. As PhD researchers we are responsible for the lens that we use to navigate our noisy world which, aside from being a skill, is also a moral task. It matters that we question what underpins and drives our choices and what we believe to be true of the world we inhabit. “Do your research”, they say and I wonder what people believe that means? How many decisions have you already blindly made based on your underlying assumptions before you even start doing actual research?
Read MoreWellbeing and Research Consultancy Training in the Lake District
Camilla Woodrow-Hill, Psychology, University of Manchester (2020 Cohort)
This month I was fortunate enough to be offered a place on a Knowledge Exchange and Wellbeing Residential program. The program was organised by the NWCDTP and REALab but luckily was offered to NWSSDTP students too.
The program took place in Windermere in the Lake District. We stayed in a stunning hotel right by a lake and all food was included for the entire stay. There were around 20 of us completing the program in total, comprising PhD students from various universities in the North West studying a huge variety of topics.
Read MoreMy Difficult Language Training experience learning Mapuzugun in Buenos Aires
Dylan Bradbury, Language Based Area Studies, University of Manchester (2020 Cohort)
As part of fieldwork preparations in the second year of my PhD, I had the opportunity to carry out six months of Mapuzugun classes using the Difficult Language Training (DLT) funding provided by the NWSSDTP. These classes proved to have a great impact on my fieldwork, both in terms of the development of the thesis itself and in my experience researching abroad more generally.
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