Events

When: Thursday 4th November 4-5.30pm

Where: Online remotely via Teams. 

Eventbrite link for booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/looking-to-the-post-doctoral-future 

In this session a panel of recent graduates from the PhD/DPhil will talk about their immediate post-doctoral role, how they progressed from student to work place and the transferable skills gained during doctoral study.

Our speakers are:

• Dr Natasha Robinson, currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Education, University of Oxford who will take up an ESRC post-doc shortly;
• Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová, who has just moved to the USA with a Marie Curie Fellowship, following an ESRC post-doc;
• Dr Matilda Andersson, who is the Group Managing Director at Crowd DNA.

There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. We will finish with some advice from Professor Steve Pile (Grand Union DTP Associate Director, The Open University) on compiling a post-doctoral fellowship application.

Please note this event is only for those in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of their PhD/DPhil. Please use your University email to book via Eventbrite. This event is open to non-ESRC funded students.

The deadline for booking for this event is 3rd November, 5:30pm. You will be sent a Teams link to the event closer to the time.

When: Thursday 18th November: (online) 2-4pm

Where: Online remotely via Teams. 

Eventbrite link for booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/how-to-publish-a-journal-article

A panel of speakers from different disciplines, ranging from students to journal editors will focus on giving advice about the basics of publishing your first journal article, whether as a solo author or co-authored with your supervisor. This will be followed by an extensive session of Q&A which will get to grips with the nitty gritty of what the journal sites don’t tell you. 

The panel consists of:

• Dr SJ Cooper-Knock (she/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Sheffield, researching housing, policing and justice in urban South Africa. She is currently on the Editorial Board of JSAS and the Editorial Team of Critical African Studies. She completed her doctorate at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, as an ESRC scholar. For a taste of her work see: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480616680704 (although she recommends not using ‘beyond’ twice in the same title).
• Dr Kelsey Inouye is a Senior Researcher at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland and University of Geneva. She also works part-time as a Research Assistant at the Research Staff Hub at the University of Oxford. Kelsey received her DPhil from the Department of Education (Oxford) as a Clarendon Scholar, and her research interests include doctoral education, research writing, and non-academic PhD career trajectories. For a taste of her work, see: https://www.informingscience.org/Publications/4168?Search=kelsey%20inouye
• Helen Pickford is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with a special interest in injury rehabilitation. She two published papers, with a third awaiting approval. The two published papers are based on a research project she undertook for her MSc dissertation, (written in collaboration with her supervisor) and both looked at long-term injury in Football in the UK. The first paper looked at the long-term psychological consequences of injury for footballers, and the second investigated the current provision of mental health support available in UK football clubs. See: https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2019.1634832 and https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2018-0049

Please use your University email to book via Eventbrite. This event is open to non-ESRC funded students in the Social Sciences at Oxford University, The Open University, and Brunel University. The deadline for booking for this event is 17th November, 5:30pm. You will be sent a Teams link to the event closer to the time.

When: Seminar: Monday 6th December: (online) 9:45–1pm. One-to-one internship planning: Monday 6th December 2-5pm and Tuesday 7th December 9:45am-14:30pm.

Where: Online remotely via Teams. 

Eventbrite link for booking seminar and interest in one-to-one: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/collaboration-accelerator-2021

A half day seminar focusing on internships, placements and taking your skills into non-academic settings in policy and industry environments.

This will include keynotes from:

• Dr Gary Morris, who recently completed his doctorate on business-university knowledge exchange and is now Director of Enterprise at Southampton Education School;
• Dr Tanja Collavo of the Judge Business School, Cambridge, will focus on the benefits and challenges of placements in industry and social enterprise.

A panel of students who have taken advantage of the ESRC funding arrangements to undertake internships or placements of various sorts will discuss their experiences and add their advice, including

• Peter Mitchell is a final year DPhil student whose research focuses on investigating ethnic school segregation within English school systems. Between Jan-Jun 2021 he undertook two part time placements as a part of his studies at the department. The first was with TeacherTapp, a fast-growing UK EdTech start up, whose survey app helps businesses and policy makers understand the thoughts and opinions of teachers working in the UK. The second was with Emerge Education, a venture capital firm which backs promising EdTech start-ups based in Europe.
• Luke Botting is a first year DPhil on an ESRC-funded 2+2 programme, studying International Relations and Green Templeton College. Their research focuses on human security, though they also interact with outside partners on broader security and defence issues. Before started the MPhil at Oxford, Luke served in the Royal Air Force. Between January and February 2021 he interned at the UK Ministry of Defence providing academic research into emerging trends in contemporary warfare. Luke was subsequently invited back to participate in a conference on a similar topic, also held by the MoD.
• Ludovic Arnaud is a third year DPhil in International Development at Oxford, working on the impact of anti-globalisation backlashes in the Global North on North-South trade relations. Their case study is the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement under US President Trump. Ludovic’s research consists mostly of in-depth interviews of trade negotiators, politicians, CEOs, and union leaders. They interned at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) during the summer 2021, where they developed the methodology for their first Sustainable Ocean Economies report, wrote press releases, and edited said report.

Following this there will be (Monday pm and all day Tuesday 7th December) opportunities for one-on-one meetings for planning your own internships/ placements (in person or online).

When registering for this event please indicate your interest in a one-to-one. This event is only for ESRC funded DTP students. Please use your University email to book via Eventbrite. The deadline for booking for this event is 3^rd December, 12pm. You will be sent a Teams link to the event closer to the time.

Please see the tab on the left-hand side or click here to access the library of Grand Union DTP event recordings made available to students. 

(This series has completed - recordings of the below sessions are now available for viewing at the same link)

The Department of International Development has organised a series called the 'Oxford Development Talks' to showcase the best of Oxford thinking on international development and to make it accessible to a wider general public. The talks will take a variety of forms, from lectures to interviews, and will take key ideas from research and explain them in an accessible way. All the talks will be live on Zoom at regular points during Trinity Term 2020. Themes will include:

• 'How Covid-19 Will Affect the Global Poor'

Monday 18th May, 2pm 

Sabina Alkire 

• 'China's Growth Strategy, and What It Means for the World'

Tuesday 26th May, 2pm 

Xiaolan Fu

• 'Space, Class and Social Distancing in the Indian City'

Monday 1st June, 2pm 

Nandini Gooptu

• ‘Migration Control and Human Rights in the Pandemic Era'

Monday 8th June, 2pm 

Cathryn Costello

• 'The Growing Costs of Inequality: Lessons from Latin America'

Monday, 15th June, 2pm 

Diego Sanchez-Ancochea

• 'Islam in the Changing World'

Friday, 19th June, 2pm 

Masooda Bano

• 'The Politics of Pandemics in Africa' 

Monday, 22nd June, 2pm 

Simukai Chigudu 

• 'Should We Abolish Immigration Control?'

Monday, 29th June, 2pm 

Matthew Gibney 

To access the complete programme and registration details, please visit https://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/content/oxford-development-talks.