Research Seminars - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research seminars
Seminars run by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.
See our full timetable for spring 2022 below, or jump to the school or department you're most interested in to find out more.
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School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link / Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every Friday | 10.00am - 5.00pm | SASHPL Writing Retreat. Schedule time for your research and receive support through the writing process. All welcome. | Cathryn Pearce and Rob James (hosts) | SASHPL PGR students and staff | Link will be emailed out each week |
| 24 February 2022 | 6.00pm - 7.30pm | English Literature Research Event. 'In Conversation with Hallie Rubenhold'. A chance to hear from this renowned author about her research on the victims of Jack the Ripper, writing public history, and getting published. | Hallie Rubenhold | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 25 February 2022 | 5.00pm - 6.00pm | Naval History Research Seminar. Guest talk by Dr Ryan Patterson (University of Carleton, Canada) ‘In order to impress him as much as possible’: Performing technological dominance on Victorian expeditions. | Ryan Patterson | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 7 March 2022 | 09.30am - 11.30am | Global Week. Human rights are for doing, not for talking: Migration activism in East Asia before and during the pandemic. | Isabelle Cheng | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students book tickets via this link |
| 9 March 2022 | 11.00am - 12.00pm | SASHPL Research Seminar. Decolonising the study of the Caucasus | Mark Youngman | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 10 March 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Global Week. Serving a small nation in times of global challenges: a veteran diplomat’s experiences. | Isabelle Cheng | PGR students and staff | Park Building, 1.09 |
| 14 March 2022 | 3.00pm - 5.00pm | English Literature Research Event. Brexit Roundtable event | 3 Faculty PhD students (Sally Emms, Literature, Dimitra Kiousi Politics and Mihaela Iorga, Linguistics) and Visiting PhD Researcher Elisa Santoro (Università di Siena) | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students book tickets via this link |
| 15 March 2022 | 2.00pm - 4.00pm | English Literature Research Event - Holocaust Special Event with Ruth and Tania Barnett about first- and second-generation Holocaust commemoration. | Ruth and Tania Barnett | PGR students and staff | Milldam Building, LE 1.01 |
| 24 March 2022 | 5.30pm - 7.00pm | English Literature Research Event. Spectres, Smoke, and Spring-heeled Jack: Into the London Fog | Dr Elizabeth Dearnley, University of London | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 28 March 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.00pm | Naval History Research Seminar. Guest paper by Dr Edward Hampshire from the Naval Historical Branch (UK MOD) entitled: ‘The Cold War at Sea’ | Dr Edward Hampshire (Naval Historical Branch) | PGR students and staff | Milldam Building, LE 1.01 and online. Link coming soon. |
| 27 April 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Research panel PhD students. Martin Foote, TitleTBC. Jack Fox-Williams, "Edwin Drood, the Opium Den and the Narcotic Power of Reading". Lauren Macpherson, Title TBC. | Martin Foote, Jack Fox-Williams, Lauren Macpherson | PGR students and staff | Milldam Building, LE 0.05 |
| 11 May 2022 | 11.00am - 1.00pm | SASHPL Research Seminar. 'They will shoot you to a pulp!'. Othering and racialisation of migrant workers in emotive cyberspace | Isabelle Cheng | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 1 June 2022 | 2.00pm - 4.00pm | SASHPL Research Seminar - Non-UK Funding Opportunities | Wolfram Kaiser | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
| 13 July 2022 | 11.00am - 1.00pm | SASHPL Research Seminar. Title TBC | James Ryan | PGR students and staff | Staff and Students: follow this link |
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 February 2022 | 2.30pm - 4.30pm | Policing and Social Media | Dr Lisa Sugiura | All welcome | Staff and Students: register online |
| 23 February 2022 | 3.00pm | What is Queer Criminology? A Special LGBT History Month Guest Talk by Dr Carrie Buist of Grand Valley State University | Dr Brian Frederick and Carrie Buist | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
| 10 March 2022 | 2.00pm - 4.00pm | The Forgotten Population: Breaking Myths and Misconceptions about Refugees and Asylum Seekers | Shakiba Moghadam | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
| 24 March 2022 | 3.00pm - 4.30pm | Dealing with online harms: the UK Internet Safety Bill | Dr Vasileios Karagiannopoulos | FHSS Staff and PGR students | Attendees: register online |
| 30 March 2022 | 2.30pm - 4.00pm | EDSOC Methods Workshop (in conjunction with SCCJ) Phenomenology in the Social Sciences: Being and Doing | Dr Aaron Pycroft and Emma Maynard | All welcome | St. George's Building, Room 1.11 |
| 21 April 2022 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | Economic Crime Seminar Series - Food Crime | Professor Lisa Jack, Dr Adam Cox, Professor Mark Button, Dr David Shepherd, Dr Edward Smart, Dr Ansgar Wohlschlegel and Dr Karen Everstine | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
| 27 April 2022 | 3.00pm - 4.30pm | Narrative Methods in Criminological Research - research methods workshop | Dr Kerry Ellis Devitt | All welcome | Attendees: follow this link |
| 3 May 2022 | 6.00pm - 6.30pm | WomenNOW Podcast - Dr Proudman on the dark and misogynistic world of incels | Dr Lisa Sugiura FHEA | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
| 11 May 2022 | 9.00am - 11.00am | "Victimology and ecological justice - explorations into environmental justice with Rob White". An invitation to the launch event for the Victimology and Ecological Research Group, SCCJ | Rob White | All welcome | Attendees: email jacki.tapley@port.ac.uk. St George's Building, Room 0.22 |
| 1 June 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Policing and Police Leadership - Challenges and Lessons Learned | Prof Sarah Charman | All welcome | Attendees: register for the online event or register for the in person event |
| 14 June 2022 | 9.00am - 5.10pm | The 11th Annual Counter Fraud and Forensic Accounting Conference | Prof Mark Button | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
School of Education and Sociology
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2022 | 9.00am - 10.00am | Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Early Education and Parenting support | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and EDSOC | All welcome | Link coming soon |
| 25 February 2022 | 2.30am - 4.00pm | The Academic Journal Peer Review Process in Higher Education Research | Dr QueAnh Dang, Mark Dawson (Coventry University), Rasmus Harsbo (Aarhus University | EDSOC Staff, PGR Students | Staff and Students: register online |
| 31 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Cultivated invisibility and migrants' experiences of homelessness | Simon Stewart, EDSOC | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
| 31 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Trans Day of Visibility 2022 Panel | Chaired by Charlotte Morris, EDSOC with Rosa Marvell (EDSOC) as a guest speaker | All welcome | Online |
| 31 March 2022 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | ERIC Seminar 1: University-School Partnerships | Rob Webster, EDSOC | PO schools | Attendees: register online |
| 30 April 2022 | 2.30pm - 4.00pm | EDSOC Methods Workshop : Phenomenology in the Social Sciences: Being and Doing | Aaron Pycroft and Emma Maynard | FHSS Staff and PGR students | St. George's Building, Room 1.10 |
| 4 May 2022 | 3.00pm - 4.30pm | Power Hour of Writing workshop 1 | EDSOC Staff, PGR Students | Staff and Students: follow this link | |
| 24 May 2022 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | ERIC Seminar 2: Practitioner inquiries | Rob Webster, EDSOC | PO schools | Attendees: register online |
| 25 May 2022 | 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Power Hour of Writing workshop 2 | EDSOC Staff, PGR Students | Staff and Students: follow this link | |
| 1 June 2022 | 9.00am - 10.30am | Monitoring and evaluating impact, with invited guest case study and discussion | Mark Reed, Poppy Townsend (UKRI) and Rachel Blanche (QMU) | FHSS Staff and PGR students | Staff and Students: register online |
| 1 June 2022 | 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Power Hour of Writing workshop 3 | EDSOC Staff, PGR Students | Staff and Students: follow this link | |
| 6 June 2022 | 9.00am - 11.30am | Impact planning using logic models and Theory of Change | Mark Reed with Sarah Bowman (Trinity College Dublin) and LeeAnn Geary (Curtin University) | FHSS Staff and PGR students | Staff and Students: register online |
| 8 June 2022 | 12.00pm - 1.00pm | Aline Cortois and Therese O'Keefe: The Precarity Penalty: the effects of long-term precarious work on higher education workers’ lives, careers and well-being More information here | Chaired by Charlotte Morris (EDSOC) Part of the Gender and precarity in academia series | All welcome | Link coming soon |
| 27 June 2022 | 1.00pm - 4.30pm | Research Impact Skills Session | Mark Reed of Fast Track Impact | FHSS Staff and PGR students | Staff and Students: register online |
| 11 July 2022 | 4.00pm - 5.30pm | ERIC Seminar 3: TBC | Rob Webster, EDSOC | PO schools | Attendees: register online |
| 31 August - 2 September 2022 | 3 days | Culture(s) on the margins | European Sociological Association mid-term conference: various speakers/keynotes | All welcome | Attendees: register online |
School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
| Date | Time | Description | Speaker | Open to | Link to register/join |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 February 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.00pm | A Disability Critical Race Theory Solidarity Approach to Transform TESOL | Dr Valentina Migliarini (University of Birmingham) and Dr Chelsea Stinson (Utica College, NY) | All UoP students and staff | Staff and Students: register online |
| 11 March 2022 | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Guest talk: Mr. Mike Sellers, MD of the Portsmouth International Port | Mike Sellers | Level 6, 7, PGRs and staff | Richmond Building, LT1 |
| 30 March 2022 | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | Engaging with the profession: Introduction to AVT | Cécile Pasquet, professional translator | All UoP students and staff | Staff and Students: register online |
| 30 March 2022 | 4.00pm - 5.00pm | Engaging with the profession - Aspects of Patent Translation | Elke Mckay, Professional Translator | PGR Students and staff | Staff and Students: register online |
| 20 April 2022 | 12.00pm - 4.00pm | SLAL Writing Retreat (1) | Facilitator: Lee Oakley | SLAL PGR Students and staff | Park Building, Room 2.15 |
| 27 April 2022 | 12.00pm - 4.00pm | SLAL Writing Retreat (2) | Facilitator: Lee Oakley | SLAL PGR Students and staff | Online via Zoom - email lee.oakley@port.ac.uk to attend |
| 4 May 2022 | 12.00pm - 4.00pm | SLAL Writing Retreat (3) | Facilitator: Lee Oakley | SLAL PGR Students and staff | Park Building, Room 2.15 |
| 11 May 2022 | 12.00pm - 4.00pm | SLAL Writing Retreat (4) | Facilitator: Lee Oakley | SLAL PGR Students and staff | Online via Zoom - email lee.oakley@port.ac.uk to attend |
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All our faculties run seminars open to academics and students within the University and in the global research community.