North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
Internship with the Department for Education
Andrew McKendrick, Economics, Lancaster University, 2017 Cohort
In September 2020 I started an internship at the Department for Education (DfE). Its in London, I was in Lancaster. Such is the deal with an internship taking place during in a major public health situation – interning from home.
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Charlotte Evans, Economic and Social History, Lancaster University, 2020 Cohort
It was late September, the colours on the trees boasting their most beautiful shades of the year and I was packing up my car to move to Lancaster. It was getting dark as I navigated the town-centre’s one-way system and eventually, after a couple of wrong turns, I reached my new house. I remember being dropped off by my parents in Nottingham where I completed my undergraduate degree, and that same, overwhelming sense of unfamiliarity washed over me. I didn’t know where any of these streets led. I’d have to learn my way around a whole new place, a new university and a new department in the middle of a worldwide pandemic.
Read MoreQualitative Research Symposium Workshops 2021
Olivia Fletcher, Geography and Environment, University of Liverpool, 2020 Cohort
On the 27th of January, I attended the workshop on Digital Methods as part of the Qualitative Research Symposium organised by the Centre for Qualitative Research at the University of Bath. The workshop was led by Dr Stephanie Merchant and the aim was to help researchers identify study contexts where technology would be useful for enhancing understanding, increase confidence in this method of data collection and inspire creativity and innovation.
Read MoreHow did we tell the time without clocks and calendars?
Susie Johns, Economic and Social History, Keele University, 2020 Cohort
I am writing this article in the 68th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, five months since the annual Statutes Fair came to the market town where I live, five days after the last full moon. I started writing a little after daybreak and expect to be writing for the time it would take five sermons to be given in my town’s church on Christmas Eve.
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