THE DOCTORAL COLLEGE www.wlv.ac.uk/DoctoralCollege https://twitter.com/WLV_DoctoralCol University of Wolverhampton Research Student Almanac 2015/16 (Feb 16 onwards) Introduction I am delighted to be able to present this Research Student Almanac for Semester Two of the 2015/16 academic year. This Almanac gathers together all our talks, events, training sessions, workshops and social meetings, extends a very warm welcome to our postgraduates, staff and, in many cases, the wider public, and allows for advance planning in terms of those sessions that you wish to attend. Further particulars are customarily sent out closer to the time, but our Almanac also contains contact details for the relevant organisers. The talks range far and wide, from training on referencing and the ethics of research, to Black British artists and questions of Children and War. This year we will introduce our first Postgraduate Residential week (19-23 September 2016), which will offer a full programme of skills- and academic-related workshops and talks, career development and advice, postgraduate presentations and social events too. Please do make a note of this week in your diary, and I very much hope to see you there! Dr Benjamin Halligan Director of the Doctoral College Key FoA - Faculty of Arts FoSS - Faculty of Social Sciences FEHW - Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing FSE - Faculty of Science & Engineering RIILP – Research Institute in Information and Language Processing RIHS – Research Institute of Healthcare Science LIS – Library and Information Services (within DAS) Doctoral College Events Student’s Union Events February 2016 Tuesday 2nd February 2016 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (CTTR) - Thomas Docherty This lecture will explore how ethical questions concerning responsibility in our time have been systematically emptied of moral qualities and political significance. Responsibility, in effect, has been shrunk to mere 'accountancy' or 'giving an account' of ourselves. There are historical political precedents for this, deriving essentially from the period just after the Second World War; and I explore the consequences of a situation in which there are structural similarities between the camps and some contemporary institutional practices and norms. This allows for an attempt to affect a return of responsibility in our critical practices, but one that is only possible if we succeed in changing the managerial norms of modern and contemporary institutions, especially the university. Wednesday 3rd February 2016 12:30-4pm, MD165 Research Student Induction - Dr Debra Cureton & Jill Morgan Content: In this session you will:  Familiarise yourselves with research at Wolverhampton  Consider what is a PhD and what is doctoral study  Learn how University Services can help with you as a researcher (Services include: IT Services, Learning Information Services, Counselling Services, International Centre etc..)  Assess your own research skills 2-5pm, Arena Theatre Seminar Room Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Presentations - Louise Fenton, Irina Moore, Su Fahy, Stephen Gregg and Aleksandra Galasinska  Irina Moore: The impact of the Linguistic Landscape approach on the study of language practices and language policies in post-Soviet space.  Stephen Gregg: 'Scientology Inside Out: Complicating Religious Identities in Global Scientologies'  Aleksandra Galasinska: ‘Home, (bitter or) sweet home’. Voices of post-enlargement returnees to Poland. Thursday 4th February 2016 Student’s Union Mindfulness and Meditation £1 per person, City SU Tuesday 9th February 2016 2pm, Room MI301, City Campus Research Institute in Information and Language Processing (RIILP) Seminar ‘Taxonomies for semantic tagging: how large do they need to be?’ - Dr Paul Rayson, Lancaster University Abstract: In this presentation, I will describe joint research carried out in the recently completed Samuels project (www.gla.ac.uk/samuels/ ) in which we have applied automatic semantic analysis to two very large corpora around 1-2 billion words each: (a) Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP) consisting of over 53,000 transcribed books published between 1473 and 1700 and (b) two hundred years of UK Parliamentary Hansard made up from over 7 million speeches. We have adopted the Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) taxonomy (developed at the University of Glasgow over 44 years) which is directly linked to the Oxford English Dictionary, thus helping us improve methods for the automatic semantic analysis of historical texts. The Historical Thesaurus contains 793,742 word forms arranged into 225,131 semantic categories. In addition, we have assigned a set of around 4,000 thematic codes reduced down from the HTE (by Marc Alexander and Christian Kay), as well as the existing UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) with 232 tags in its hierarchy. On top of challenges related to historical spelling variation for which we developed the VARD (Variant Detector) software, the sheer size of the corpora and HTE taxonomy pose significant computational challenges but also provide opportunities for contextual semantic disambiguation. I will focus on our new Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger (HTST) and the effects of the relative sizes of our three taxonomies on tagging accuracy and sense differentiation. About the speaker: Dr Rayson is director of the UCREL research centre and a Reader in the School of Computing and Communications, in the Infolab21 building at Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK. His research interests are based on applications of corpus-based natural language processing to address significant challenges in a number of different areas. He is a member of the CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English) interdisciplinary research group and a member of the multidisciplinary centre Security Lancaster. Wednesday 10th February 2016 10-12pm, Room MD165 R12: Career planning and transferable skills – Naresh Patel, Careers Content: Consider career planning, transferable skills, and continuing professional development for researchers 1-2pm, Room MCb12 Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing (FEHW). Psychology Research Skills Training Workshop: Regression analysis - Dr Danny Hinton 2-4pm, Room MD165 R2: Addressing the research focus and planning a programme of research – Dr Debra Cureton In this session you will:  share research foci in order to build a supportive research community  explore the PhDness of a question and its methodological underpinning  revisit your research questions / foci and methodology in light of these considerations Saturday 13th February 2016 First World War Study Day - 'New Ways of Killing' The First World War Research Group invites you to attend a First World War Study Day. On: Saturday 13 February 2016 Venue: Room MC001, Lecture Theatre, MC Building, University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY. Cost: £20 per head, including tea and coffee. Cost for undergraduate students is £10 per head Programme Time Activity 10.00- Welcome and introduction 10.15am 10.15- Dr Howard Fuller (University of Wolverhampton): 'The Royal Navy’s Plans for 11.30am Coastal Assault 1914-18' 11.30- Coffee break 12.00am Dr Peter Preston-Hough (University of Wolverhampton): ‘Developments and 12.00-1.15pm Effects of Air Power in the First World War 1914-1918’ 1.15-2.15pm Lunch break Philip Ventham (University of Wolverhampton): ‘British Tanks on the Western 2.15-3.30pm Front – a Weapon of Mass Destruction?’ 3.30-4.00pm Tea break Simon Jones (Independent Scholar) : ‘In Praise of Phosgene: Gas Warfare in 4.00-5.15pm 1916’ 5.15-5.30pm Concluding remarks 5.30pm Close Book and pay for your place Please use our online booking forms. There are two forms, one for undergraduates and one for other participants. You will be able to make your payment securely online as part of the booking process. If you have any queries please contact: Joshua Barnett, Outreach Administrator, Faculty of Social Sciences Email: [email protected] Tel: 01902 322216 Lunch is not provided, but a range of eating establishments are available near the campus. Monday 15th February 2016 5-7pm, SU Boardroom, City SU Mature and part-time Student’s Forum (Free tea, coffee and biscuits provided) Tuesday 16th February 2016 2-4pm, Lounge, City SU Vice Chancellor and Officers Question Time 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (MTP) - Erica Scourti ‘Systems Vulnerable’ Grounded in her ongoing research into the notion of a subject entangled within technosocial systems, Erica Scourti will draw on unintelligible gestures, encryption and feminist strategies of refusal to present recent projects exploring automatic archives, the maintenance of digital infrastructures and the limitations of rhetorics of exposure and visibility. About the speaker: Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece and is now based in London and Athens. Her work on different media draws on personal experience as a way to explore networked subjectivities and the infrastructure of life, labour and love in a fully mediated world. She has exhibited and performed recently at the Microscope Gallery, New York, the Photographers’ Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, EMST Athens, ICA, David Roberts Art Foundation and Southbank Centre. Erica was in residence at Wysing Arts Centre autumn 2015, is a Near Now Fellow 2015/6 and is currently completing a commission for Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. Wednesday 17th February 2016 10-12pm, Room MD111b R15: The Effective Researcher: Introduction to the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF) Planner – Dr Debra Cureton An introduction to the RDF and how it can be used to:  prepare for one-on-one reviews with your supervisor about your development as a researcher  identify your strengths and areas for further development  provide a language to evidence your skills to current and future employers 1-2pm, Room MC413 BEERS (Built Environment & Engineering Research Seminars) Seminar, FSE  Solomon Adjei - Review of waste management in the UK construction industry  Ashraf Ali - Estimating Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Arising in Libya 1-3pm, Room MCb12 Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing (FEHW). Psychology Research Skills Training Workshop: Literature Search and Systematic Review - Liz Howell & Dr Wendy Nicholls 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (CTTR) – Professor Ian Haywood ‘Pandemonium: radical soundscapes and satirical prints in the Romantic period’. This talk will investigate how Romantic-era satirical prints used different types of sound to both attack and defend radical politics. It is axiomatic that the use of speech bubbles required caricatures to be read as well as viewed, but we are unaccustomed to thinking about the prints as an aural medium that exploited the noisiness of political activism and conflict. To its opponents and detractors, radical discourse was demonised as a Jacobin Pandemonium, a dangerous and disorderly hubbub in which the vox populi is the carnivalesque other of reasoned debate. This myth justified repressive measures aimed at regulating and even silencing radical speech- acts. Conversely, the aim of the radical movement was to make its voice heard in the political public sphere (indeed, its goal was literally to speak in the House of Commons through elected representatives). This clash of soundscapes came to a spectacular climax in the Peterloo massacre of August 1819. Caricature responses to the event use ironic allusions to popular songs and balladry to create a loud, dissonant soundtrack to the tragedy. The debacle also echoed in the poetic soundscape of ‘England in 1819’, including Shelley’s masterpiece Mask of Anarchy. About the speaker: Ian Haywood is Professor of English at the University of Roehampton, London, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Romanticism. He is President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and co-organiser of two research networks in ‘Romantic Illustration’ and ‘Anglo-Hispanic Horizons’. He has published widely on literature, culture and radicalism, and on working-class writing. His current research focuses on popular literary and visual culture in the 18rh and 19th centuries, including the development of political caricature. His books include three edited volumes of Chartist fiction (for Ashgate), a ‘trilogy’ of monographs on Romanticism – The Revolution in Popular Literature (2004), Bloody Romanticism (2006) and Romanticism and Caricature (2013) – and a co-edited collection of essays The Gordon Riots (2012). Recent chapters include a study of the Chartist poet and engraver William James Linton, and an essay on Gillray’s last original cartoon The Life of William Cobbett. Thursday 18 February 2016 12-1pm, Boardroom, City SU Mature and Part-time Student’s Forum (Free tea, coffee and biscuits provided) 1-2pm, Room MA211 RIHS seminar - 'Investigating the role of RhoJ in endothelial motility and angiogenesis' Dr Victoria Heath, Lecturer in Molecular Biology, School of Immunity and Infection, Institute for Biomedical Research, The Medical School, University of Birmingham. 5-7pm, MX Building, Wolverhampton City Campus Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing (FEHW) Public Health Seminar 6:30-8:30pm, City SU Self Defence Taster Session Tuesday 23rd February 2016 13:30-14.30pm, Room MD111b LIS/ DAS (FEHW): Searching the literature - An interactive workshop looking at the searching skills, techniques and resources needed for successful literature searching. Includes use of EBSCOhost folders and how to locate ‘grey literature’, theses and open access resources. 14:45-15:45pm, Room MD111b LIS/ DAS (FEHW): Keeping up to date - Learn to use research tools to keep informed of the latest news and publications in your subject area. Includes setting up database search alerts and journal contents page alerts. 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (CD) - Peter Davies ‘A Northern School Revisited’ The lavishly illustrated talk will focus on a century of art in Liverpool and Manchester, in particular, and in Lancashire generally. The pivotal position of L. S. Lowry has seen an industrial landscape painting school develop in his wake. Many talented and painterly artists like William Turner, Brian Bradshaw, Alan Lowndes, Roger Hampson, and Theodore Major have made the old Lancashire industrial scene a powerful subject in their art. The lecture discusses their contribution and that of a younger generation such as Stephen Campbell, Ben Kelly, and Liam Spencer who have captured the very different post-modern corporate environment of current day Manchester. Also discussed are the very different artistic complexions of Liverpool and Manchester. Liverpool's own artistic contribution has been less about the industrial landscape and more about an avant garde dialogue with international modernism. Merseyside artists have engaged with French and American Abstract Expressionism during the 1950s and Pop Art and photorealism during the 1960s and 70s. Wednesday 24th February 2016 10-12pm, Room MD165 R14: Marketing yourself in CVs, applications and interviews – Naresh Patel In this session you will:  practice writing effective academic (and non-academic) CVs  learn about presenting yourself positively at interview 2-5pm, Room MD212a R19: Sit down and Write – Dr Debra Cureton This series of writing events provides a forum for people engaged in writing to work in the company of other writers on a regular basis. Writing can be an isolating activity, is often thwarted by procrastination or riddled with interruptions. So to combat this and support your writing activities the Doctoral College provides space, time to write, writing resources and regular meeting times which we hope will lead to the development of a supportive writing community. We welcome people who want to write and are looking for the companionship of other writers. It doesn’t matter what you are writing; your thesis, papers, bids, books or book chapters, you will be welcome. There will be no critiquing, exercises, lectures, ego, competition or feeling guilty – just writing. Meet-up Format Making the time to write each month is an empowering and ultimately rewarding experience and will help you develop a writing disciple. To join these writing sessions we ask that you make a commitment to attend the sessions each month; we would like to generate a cohort of writers who will be supportive to each other. The outline for the session is below: 2:00 – 2:15pm – Writing goals for the session: Brief discussion about the aims each writer wishes to set themselves for the session. 2:15 – 3.15pm – writing session one: This is where you write. 3:15 – 3:20pm – Break 3:20 – 3:30pm – Quick update on goals and how you are progressing towards your goal. 3.30 – 4.30pm – writing session two: More writing. 4.30 – Session summary. How did you do? We look forward to seeing you at the workshop series. March 2016 Tuesday 1st March 2016 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (DTTP) - John Smith ‘It is what it is, but what is it?’ John Smith will present a selection of his short films made between 1975 and 2015, focussing on works that playfully explore ambiguity and the construction of meaning in cinema. His films and videos, known for their formal ingenuity and oblique narratives, create mysterious and sometimes fantastical scenarios from the raw material of everyday life. Over four decades he has developed an extensive body of work that defies easy classification, blurring the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Programme  Om (1986, 4 mins)  Associations (1975, 7 mins)  Gargantuan (1992, 1 min)  The Girl Chewing Gum (1976, 12 mins)  Dad’s Stick (2012, 5 mins)  White Hole (2014, 6 mins)  Steve Hates Fish (2015, 5 mins) Wednesday 2nd March 2016 2- 5pm, Arena Theatre Seminar Room Faculty of Arts Research Seminar Presentations: Dave Colton, Kristina Niedderer, Adam Kossoff, Frances Clarke  Dave Colton: An exploration of textual cut-ups. How ‘systematic derangement’ works in a creative environment, and how we can adapt the techniques to discover more about ourselves and our relationship with society.  Frances Clarke: Effects of bilateral differences on dynamic postural stability during landing using time to stabilisation protocols. Tuesday 8th March 2016 2-4pm, Room MD165 R22: Resilience, Perseverance and Self-Confidence - Eleanor Robinson, Counselling This workshop aims to help you overcome some of the difficulties associated with PG study, such as motivation; lack of structure; balancing family, work and your studies; loneliness; procrastination etc.. 6–7:30pm, Room MK045 Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series (CD) – Dr Marta Filipova ‘Images of the Black Country: Wolverhampton and its Great Exhibitions’. Outside of the great exhibitions, expositions universelles and world fairs that were organised in London, Paris or Chicago, a number of smaller, yet ambitious exhibitions took place in provincial cities and towns across the world. Focusing on the period between 1840 and 1940, the talk surveys the idea behind organizing grand exhibitions in regional centres. I will overview the so-called exhibitionary cultures of this period and examine the motivations, scope or impact especially of two lesser-known exhibitions that took place in Wolverhampton in 1869 and 1902. I will also look at the role these events played in addressing the regional identity of the Black Country through visual imagery, the displays of arts and design, the role of modernisation and tradition, and the relationship between capital cities and provincial towns. About the speaker: Dr Marta Filipova is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Cultures of International Exhibitions: Great Exhibitions in the Margins 1840-1940 (Ashgate, 2015). Her research examines the ideas of regional and national identity in the visual arts in the modern period. She is particularly interested in the cultural, political and social circumstances in which world’s fairs and great exhibitions of various sized were organized around the world. She has contributed to various publications on these topics, including the journals The Austrian History Yearbook, The Journal of Design History, The Riha Journal or most recently the edited volume Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in the Age of Globalization (2016). Wednesday 9th March 2016 2-4pm, Room WN212, Walsall Campus R18: Using QMethodology in your Research - Dr Zeta Brown, Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing Q-methodology can be used to investigate the complexity of differing participants’ positions where differences of opinion are expected. Q-methodology is a way of thinking about research; a methodology in its own right. As such, researchers use this methodology across differing fields of research in ways that suit their position as a researcher. This methodology uses a card-sorting technique that generates data for factor analysis. These factors indicate correlations of position amongst participants. Q-methodology can therefore provide in-depth quantitative and qualitative data associated with social influences in a measurable form. The use of subjectivity is of great importance in this methodology, allowing participants the freedom to express their positions. This workshop will focus on the qualitative aspect of Q-methodology. The workshops outline includes:  The Inventor of Q-methodology: William Stephenson  The Science of subjectivity  Considering ones position as a researcher and how this would influence the use of Q- methodology  Developing a concourse  Carrying out the Q-sort  Qualitative analysis of the participants Q-sorts and generated factors  This two hour workshop will introduce you to the key concepts of Q methodology, which will be underpinned with examples from the facilitator’s research and experience. 13:30-14:30pm, Room MD111b LIS/ DAS (FEHW): Getting published and sharing your research – A look at selecting book publishers their requirements for book proposals and things to consider when selecting and submitting to a traditional journal. Discover the benefits of using WIRE and further ‘sharing’ such as Research Gate, Academia. 14:45-15:45pm, Room MD111b LIS/ DAS (FEHW): Maximising and measuring your impact- How to measure and demonstrate your scholarly impact with a hands-on look at citation analysis tools. Find out how researchers are using social media to promote their research. 6-8pm, WN Building, Walsall Campus Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing (FEHW) Inaugural Lecture: ’Student Experience’ - Professor Patrick McGhee, Assistant Vice Chancellor, University of Bolton Thursday 10th March 2016 10-12pm, Room MD165 R28: Ethnography - Dr Martin Partridge, Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing Ethnographic research usually involves observing target users in their natural, real-world setting, rather than in the artificial environment of a lab or focus group. The aim is to gather insight into how people live; what they do; how they use things; or what they need in their everyday or professional lives. (Gov.uk) The workshop will cover:  The background to ethnography  Discussions on how it can be done (participant observations and the different levels of this)  Making writing field notes  Engaging with participants and informants and linking to semi-structured interviews  Real life examples 1-2pm, Room MA211 Research Institute in Healthcare Science (RIHS) seminar: Dr Karen Porter (University of Leeds) Monday 14th March 2016 6pm, Venue tbc Faculty of Arts Public Lecture Series CTTR lectures: Catherine O’Flynn - Reading/conversation