Coffee and Chat

Microsoft Teams

An opportunity to meet up with peers to chat, celebrate progress, share experiences and provide peer support. These online session complements the in-person events around campus. Do join us for either or both! (Please check your inbox for the meeting link)

Coffee and Chat

Parkside Third Floor Coffee Bar 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom

In-person, informal meeting for PGRs to catch up. Do join us in-person, as it will be lovely to see you if you fancy a cup of coffee and a chance to catch up with other PGRs in the faculty.

Data analysis workshop on stance and stancetaking

The Curzon Building Birmingham City University, 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) will be leading a workshop on data analysis, drawing on his research on stance. Stance and stancetaking is a useful tool for all sorts of sociolinguistic analysis, but what is it and how do we find it? This workshop outlines a framework for analysis and then provides practical steps […]

The meaning of tough(ness) in sociolinguistics

The Curzon Building Birmingham City University, 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham

Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) talks about how toughness can help shed more light on sociolinguistic variation. Toughness has long been appealed to as a quality used to explain patterns of sociolinguistic variation, particularly in relation to gender (e.g., Trudgill 1974). This paper explores the role of this term and the qualities it describes […]

Helen Kara’s Writing Intensive

Zoom

This is a thesis writing intensive, intended primarily for PGRs working on a first draft. The focus of the day is on churning out words, but it can also be useful for researchers at a later stage who are focused on editing. A Zoom link will be circulated to registered delegates a few days prior […]

Coffee and Chat

Coffee Pod (third floor of Curzon building)

This is a great opportunity to come and drink coffee, meet up with other PGRs, and help to shape a summer research event with a focus on practice research. Our Coffee and Chat session might help to ease you into a day of research activity, if you fancy joining a PGR-led Get S*** Done Day, […]

Embracing Doubt

Parkside - P249 5 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

This is an interactive, in person - and potentially glitter-filled - session on embracing doubt in research. Led by Dr Lisa Metherell, this will explore some of the concepts at play - care, orientation, and relationships to power - and involve exploring the significance of these ideas in relation to your own doctoral research. It […]

Coffee and Chat

Coffee Pod (third floor of Curzon building)

If you are coming in for the Get S*** Done Day (C459, 1100-1500) - or even if you aren't - then why not join us for a cup of coffee and a catch up with other PGRs?  It will be lovely to see you and to hear about how your projects are progressing.

Get S*** Done Day

C459 Curzon Building

The latest incarnation of a PGR-led initiative - Get S*** Done Day - to which any ADM PGRs are invited.  An opportunity to work together, provide peer support and community.  Takes place in Curzon, and will be preceded by Coffee and Chat if you'd like to join us there, too.

Demystifying the Progression Assessment Panel

Microsoft Teams

It's that time of year again, with first-year doctoral students' Progression Assessment Panels on the horizon and questions beginning to form:  what needs to be prepared? How long is it? Is it the same for everyone? Does it impact on the success or failure for the PhD? This informal, online workshop will explore all this […]

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