DTP Event Recordings
Recorded 12th November 2020
The DTP welcomes Dr Ed Brooks, Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project, as he discusses social science leadership in times of uncertainty, and the opportunities that academics and researchers have in 2020 despite these challenges.
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Recorded 5th June 2020
Given constraints on travel and fieldwork, what types of remote research methods are available within the social sciences? How can research and PhD projects adapt to use techniques and methods such as remote interviewing, remote ethnography, or to consider other available data sources? This session features a discussion with a Dr William Kelly (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford) and Prof. Rebecca Eynon (Oxford Internet Institute).
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Recorded 22nd May 2020
This session explores what academic leadership means in the context of Covid-19. Faced with significant challenges and constraints relating to fieldwork, funding, and networking, what are the opportunities of the 'new normal', and how can they be harnessed in positive ways by social scientists? Featuring a conversation with Dr Edward Brooks, Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project.
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Recorded 31st October 2019
The Grand Union DTP 2019-20 webinar addressing the most common questions from applicants interested in pursuing a PhD in the Social Sciences with the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.
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Recorded 26th November 2020
GUDTP in discussion with Professor Carlos Vargas-Silva (Oxford, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration Studies), Dr Eleni Andreouli (OU, Associate Editor for the European Journal of Social Psychology and member of Editorial board for the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology), and Helen Pickford – PhD student at OU, as they unpack the publishing process as academics, editors and students alike.
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Recorded 18th February 2021
The DTP welcomes Professor Felicity Callard, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Glasgow and author of ‘Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences’. Professor Callard leads a session exploring what interdisciplinarity means for the social sciences and how to do it in practice.
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Recorded 4th November 2021
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 were: 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 and Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová, who has just moved to the USA with a Marie Curie Fellowship, following an ESRC post-doc. The video finishes with some advice from Professor Steve Pile (Grand Union DTP Associate Director, The Open University) on compiling a post-doctoral fellowship application.
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Recorded 18th November 2021
In this session panel of speakers from different disciplines, ranging from students to journal editors gave advice about the basics of publishing your first journal article, whether as a solo author or co-authored with your supervisor. The panel consisted 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; 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; Helen Pickford is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist with a special interest in injury rehabilitation.
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Recorded 17th March 2022
With 11 books between them and counting, DTP Directors Alex Betts and Velda Elliott talked through you through the process of proposing a book, writing the outline, and negotiating the contract. When do you propose a book from your PhD? How much can you publish in articles if you're writing a book? What's the difference between a monograph and an edited volume? Should you co-author? They also talked royalties; author copies; indexing; ALCS and Copyright Licensing.
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Recorded 7th June 2022
Part one of the Keynote Speech by Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) at the ESRC Grand Union DTP Annual Conference 2022
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Recorded 7th June 2022
Part twoof the Keynote Speech by Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford) at the ESRC Grand Union DTP Annual Conference 2022
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Recorded 10th November 2022
A panel of speakers from different disciplines and points in their academic careers give advice about the basics of publishing both academic journals and books. The speakers will included: Dr Marnie Howlett. Departmental Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Dr Georgia Cole. Book Review Editor, Journal of Refugee Studies and Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Professor Alexander Betts. Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs and Associate Head (Doctoral and Research Training) of the Social Science Division, University of Oxford
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