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Opportunity – STEPS Social Media Manager

The STEPS Editorial Team wish to recruit a Social Media Manager; please circulate the attached advert for the position to all PGRs in your respective Faculties.

In addition to the printed newsletter, the STEPS blog (http://manchestersteps.wordpress.com/) and STEPS twitter account (http://twitter.com/#!/manchestersteps) provide timely information related to skills training and researcher development that is of interest to postgraduate researchers.

The appointed (volunteer) Social Media Manager will help manage these resources and enhance the social media capability of the STEPS communications.

To view the advert click here: STEPS Social media manager advert

Open Educational Resources for Research Methods

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES for Research Methods

Wednesday 27 July 2011

2 – 4.30pm, Room B3.1, Ellen Wilkinson Building

Have you ever tried to access resources about research methods for your own research or for teaching/training purposes?

The Centre for Sociology Anthropology and Politics (C-SAP) is in the early stages of developing a website that will make it easier to find good quality Open Educational Resources for research methods in the social sciences and would like to get feedback on the project so far. We are looking for 6 – 8 PGR students or staff to join us for a user testing session hosted by methods@manchester. If you would like to take part please complete the booking form at www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/2011-07-27/booking.shtml

Research to the Real World – YouTube Channel

Dear all,

Please find below the link to the dedicated Youtube channel for Research to the real World competition,  in partnership with CityCampMCR:

http://www.youtube.com/user/citycampmcr

The 4 videos with the most ‘Likes’ will win £300 to help to put their research idea into reality during CityCampMCR in September 2011.

So Please circulate widely, and please Vote by pressing the ‘like’ button under the video you think should win!

There’s Still Time!!

Postgraduate Researchers are invited to submit a video pitch to enter the competition – the closing date for the competition is 1st August 2011.  So if you are a PGR and have an idea of how you could use £300 in order to help to bring a research idea into the community – get recording now!

Please submit videos to info@citycampmcr.

In the meantime get voting!

Best regards

Research to the Real World and CitycampMCR

AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship 2011-2014

AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship 2011-2014

Bolton Museum and the University of Bolton

Using social documentary photography to enhance community cohesion amongst young people

Applications are invited for an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award studentship to commence on 1st October 2011. The student will be based in Bolton Museum and will undertake a research project to explore the potential of arts-based participatory work in a culturally diverse community. The research will be based around the Humphrey Spender Worktown Collection of documentary photographs taken in Bolton for Mass Observation in the late nineteen-thirties. For further details visit:

http://www.bolton.ac.uk/POD/Personnel/RecruitmentandSelection/ApplyingforJob/Vacancies.aspx

Free Conference: The Ecology of a Whole Campus Approach to Creativity

The Ecology of a Whole Campus Approach to Creativity

 27 June 2011

10.00-17.00

 University of Warwick, Coventry

CAPITAL Studio, Millburn House

This one-day conference, open to academic staff,  administrators and postgraduate students,  will address the challenges of embedding creativity into teaching and learning in the HE sector across the disciplines. In a changing economic landscape universities must provide students with the space and means to act on and in the world in new and significant ways, to think beyond the known and predictable, to initiate new ideas and ways of knowing and making, to draw together knowledge and practices form across disciplines, in short  the skills for self-fashioning needed in the real world.

The conference brings together some of the key thinkers about creativity in education:

• Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, author of Being a University (2011)
• Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick, Founder-Director of the CAPITAL Centre and, most recently, editor of The Public Value of the Humanities (2011)
• Jonothan Neelands, University of Warwick, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School and Chair of Drama and Theatre Education.
• Rob Pope, Oxford Brookes University, author of Creativity: Theory, History, Practice 

Workshops, case studies and panel discussions will showcase the contribution to the debate of Warwick’s Open-space Learning in Real World Contexts project which aims to develop and embed new forms of creative pedagogy associated with workshop practice and collaborative learning in flexible learning spaces.  The Conference will enlist participants in identifying future directions and action.

Conference registration is free of charge, including all catering, a trip to the RSC’s production of Dunsinane at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and overnight accommodation on the Warwick campus on 27 June if required. Places are limited and registration will be on a first come basis.

To register:

A registration form and details of the programme can be found at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/projects/osl/calendar/

Deadline for registrations is Thursday 23 June.

 This event is sponsored by a National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) funded project being undertaken by the University of Warwick entitled Open-space Learning in Real World Contexts  http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/projects/osl.

E. Ann Kaplan Talk/Film Screening & Master Class (June 7th & 8th)

E. Ann Kaplan Talk/Film Screening & Master Class (June 7th & 8th)

The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) is pleased to be sponsoring two events by Professor E. Ann Kaplan on June 7th and 8th, 2011.

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs The Humanities Institute. She has written widely on media, cinema, and women’s studies, and is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature.

1. Public Talk / Film Screening at Cornerhouse (June 7th)

£7.50/5.50 for talk/screening. Tickets via www.cornerhouse.org

Talk: Dystopian Fictions of Trauma Future-Tense: Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, Tue 7 June, 5.00pm

Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men touched a scholarly nerve that bypassed P.D. James’ novel from which the film is adapted. In this talk, E. Ann Kaplan looks at this unusual attention to a commercial film, accounting for it through the theoretical issues scholars drew out from the film. She then addresses specific concerns with the film that arise from her research in trauma studies, and from a broader concern with increasing fictions about future human-produced catastrophe.

Film Screening: Children of Men, Tue 7 June, 6.30pm

Dir Alfonso Cuaron / 2006 / 109 mins. Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Michael Caine.

2. Master Class with E. Ann Kaplan (June 8th)

Wed 8 June 10.00am-12.00pm, G.30/31 Arthur Lewis Building.

All postgrads and postdocs welcome.

Please email caitriona.devery [@] manchester.ac.uk for the reading materials and to confirm your place.