Research Student Almanac 2016/2017 Research training, seminars, lectures, conferences and events in one handy guide. www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Introduction I am delighted to be able to present this Research Student Almanac which 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. For semester one we include a variety of events allied to Black History Month, a vast array of expert visiting speakers, and a series of research training and careers-related sessions from the Doctoral College. And, of course, our Christmas get-together on 16 December, which is not to be missed! Further particulars are customarily sent out closer to the time. I very much hope to see you there! Dr Benjamin Halligan Director of the Doctoral College Key Faculty of Arts Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral College Events Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing Faculty of Science & Engineering Library and Information Services Student’s Union Events Page | 1 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Semester 1 October 2016 Wednesday 5th October 2016, 2-4pm, Harrison Learning Centre, Pod 1 Skills for Researchers ‘Drop In’ (Learning and Information Services) http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research/skills-for-researchers/ Thursday 6th October 2016, 2-4pm, MD165 R20: Research and Erasmus (Dr Glyn Hambrook, FoA) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Thursday 6th October 2016 3pm - 5:30pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Bend it Like Beckham (2002) A screening of the award winning sports based comedy directed by Gurinder Chadha, OBE. Join us as we follow the life of the 18-year-old daughter of Punjabi Sikhs in London who’s infatuated with football but her parents have forbidden her to play because she is a girl. She joins a local women's team against their wishes which climbs its way to the top of the league. Saturday 8th October 2016, 12:30-2pm, Helpzone at Walsall campus. Doctoral Drop in Sessions - for professional doctorates students. http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research/skills-for-researchers/ Monday 10th October 2016, 6pm - 9pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Invictus (2009) A 2009 American-South African biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The story is based on the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Freeman and Damon play, respectively, South African President Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar, the captain of the South Africa rugby union team, the Springboks. Tuesday 11th October 2016, 1-2pm, MD165 FSE Science Seminar Dr Sean Davidson, University College London, London Exosomes-mediated intercellular communication Dr Davidson is a senior research associate at the Hatter Cardiovascular Inst, and collaborates closely with Professor Michael Duchen on imaging the heart using both confocal and multiphoton microscopy. Page | 2 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Tuesday 11th October 2016, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, MD165 University of Wolverhampton Athena SWAN - Intersectionality Working Group Launch Professor Mustafa F. Özbilgin ‘Untangling Diversity, Intersectionality, and Privilege’ Mustafa is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel Business School, London. He also holds two international positions: Co-Chaire Management et Diversité at Université Paris Dauphine and Visiting Professor of Management at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion at work from comparative and relational perspectives. His seminar is based on two studies funded by the Arts Council England, ACCA and the ESRC. The event is free, but booking is essential as places are limited. For bookings and enquiries email: [email protected] Tuesday 11th October 2016, 6pm-7.30pm, MK045 *FREE PUBLIC LECTURE* Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation: Art, Philosophy and Social Practice Stalinism, Neoliberalism and the Reshaping of Higher Education in the UK and Beyond - Craig Brandist “While the rhetorical surface of Stalinism and neoliberalism as socio-political projects and ideologies appear to be opposites, analysis reveals a surprising number of continuities. Stalinist invocations of ‘socialism’ and neoliberal refrains about deregulation conceal a common drive to subordinate all state organisations more directly to the accumulation of capital, driven by international competition. “The current neoliberal transformation of higher education provides a particularly clear illustration not only because there are clear parallels between forms of Stalinist organisation and those developing in higher education in the UK and elsewhere (targets, metrics, ‘impact’, etc.), but also because there is an implicit educational dimension to both Stalinism and the neoliberalism, aiming to create new types of subjectivity often referred to as the ‘new Soviet Man’ and homo economicus. This lecture explores the historical links between the two systems, both structural and cultural, their pathologies, and the characteristic forms of opposition that are generated.” Craig Brandist is Professor of Cultural Theory & Intellectual History and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on aspects of early Soviet literature and intellectual history in such books as Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (Macmillan, 1996); Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938 (with Katya Chown, Anthem Press 2010) and, most recently, The Dimensions of Hegemony: Language, Culture and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Brill 2015, Haymarket Press 2016). As well as the structural continuities between Stalinism and neoliberalism, he is currently working on tracing the roots of postcolonial theory in early Soviet Oriental Studies. For further details contact: Stephanie Whitehouse Tel: 01902 322 213 Email: [email protected] Page | 3 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Wednesday 12th October 2016, 10-12pm, MD165 R26: Planning your project (Matt Mellors, PSO) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Wednesday 12th October 2016, 1-2:30, MC229 Built Environment & Engineering Research Seminar [BEERS] #74 Some Pedological Studies of Egyptian Soils - Dr Ahmed El-Baroudy (Tanta University, Egypt) RSVP: Dr Ezekiel Chinyio ([email protected] ) & Dr David Searle ([email protected] ) Wednesday 12th October 2016, 1:30-4:30pm, MD165 R23: Writing a Literature Review (Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Wednesday 12 October 2016, 2pm - 4pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Rhythmicity African Drum Workshop Hand drums, bells, shakers and voices all combine to create the joyful energy of an African village gathering, using rhythm and voice. The group will learn the drum and percussion music for a traditional West African song, accompany the facilitator as he sings the song, and even learn to sing the song themselves! There will be two sessions held in the afternoon with each limited to a maximum of 20 participants. To reserve a place, contact the SU. If there are any spaces on the day, they will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Wednesday 12th October 2016, 5:30pm, venue tbc Robbie Guevara, Associate Professor RMIT, Melbourne ‘Education for resilience or Education for re-silence and lifelong learning’ Roberto (Robbie) Guevara is an Associate Professor in International Development at RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Robbie’s main research interest and supervision areas are popular and community environmental education in the Asia-Pacific region; Education for Sustainable Development; HIV-AIDS education; community and sustainable tourism; participatory action research; international aid and development; community development; local and global sustainability and global citizenship. To book a place email [email protected] Page | 4 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Thursday 13 October 2016, 3pm - 5:30pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus 12 Years a Slave (2013) A screening of the critically acclaimed and multiple Academy Award winning period drama adaptation of the narrative memoir by Solomon Northup, a New York State- born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. Monday 17 October 2016, 6pm - 9pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Selma (2014) A 2014 British-American historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb based on the 1965 voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. Tuesday 18th October 2016, 5:30pm, venue tbc Professor Diana Burton, University of Wolverhampton ‘Research: Passionate Realities’ Professor Burton is an established researcher and former Pro-Vice Chancellor with extensive University leadership experience. She began her career as a secondary school teacher later becoming a teacher educator at Crewe College where she led the development of school-based ITE courses. She has taught on teacher education, education studies and research programmes and has supervised and examined a number of doctoral students within several universities. Diana held senior leadership posts in 3 institutions, including as Head of Education at MMU, Dean of Education at LJMU and later Pro-Vice Chancellor. In 2013 Diana joined UOW part-time to lead education research. She enjoys working with colleagues and students to support their research endeavours. Diana has a Masters in Educational Psychology and a PhD in Cognitive Style and Differentiated Learning and is the author of over 100 publications including over 50 peer-reviewed articles and conference papers, 8 books and 19 chapters. A 4th edition of the leading text for education studies students which Diana co- authors with Professor Steve Bartlett, ‘Introduction to Education Studies’, will be published by Sage in March 2016. Her research interests include teacher education, children’s learning, education policy and practitioner enquiry. Diana has held professorships at LJMU and Wolverhampton and is an active member of the British Education Research Association. She has held committee posts at national and regional level in a number of organisations, including as chair of a large FE College and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Royal Society for the Arts To book a place email [email protected] Page | 5 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Tuesday 18th October 2016, 6pm, MK045 *FREE PUBLIC LECTURE* Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation: Art, Philosophy and Social Practice How To Be Inhuman - Professor Gary Hall Many thinkers are currently attempting to replace the tyranny of the human with an emphasis on the nonhuman, posthuman, and postanthropocentric. Yet such “post-theory theorists” continue to remain intricately bound up with both the human and humanism in the very performance of their attempt to think through and beyond them. Regardless of what anti-humanist or nonhuman philosophies they profess – be they inspired by Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, Butler, Haraway, Latour or Laruelle –they continue to act in terms of a (neo)liberal humanist model of what it is to be a theorist, working as what are in effect entrepreneurs of themselves and of their own subjectivities. How to be Inhuman explores the possibilities for an inhuman mode of theory, operating neither in terms of the human nor the nonhuman, the “I” nor the “we,” the private nor the public – nor indeed the collective. Instead, inhuman theory involves a form of communicating with the nonhuman that takes account of and assumes an intra-active relation with what is not human – be it animal, plant life, technology, the environment, the planet, the cosmos or other non-human entities and energies. Gary Hall is Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts at Coventry University, UK. He is author of Culture in Bits (Continuum, 2002), Digitize This Book (Minnesota UP, 2008), Pirate Philosophy (MIT, 2016), and The Uberfication of the University (Minnesota UP, 2016), co-author of Open Education: A Study in Disruption (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014), and co-editor of New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh UP, 2006), and Experimenting (Fordham UP, 2007). In 1999 he co-founded the open access journal Culture Machine, and in 2006 he co-founded Open Humanities Press. For further details contact: Stephanie Whitehouse( [email protected] ) Wednesday 19th October 2016, 9am-7.30pm, MK045 *FREE CONFERENCE* Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation: Art, Philosophy and Social Practice presents Agency and Crisis: Scenes from Political Philosophy and Contemporary Art Conference This conference will look at the growing intersection between political philosophy and contemporary art. Of principle concern will be questions of: agency, representation after the critique of representation, violence and symbolic violence, the collective author, dramaturgy, art and use-value, art and ethics, art and the crisis of democracy, art and labour. Speakers Euripides Altintzoglou, Meena Dhanda, Angela Dimitrakaki, Chris Gomersall, Benjamin Halligan, Adam Kossoff, Stewart Martin, Gerald Raunig, John Roberts, William Pawlett, Alexei Penzin, Anna Santomauro. For further details and to secure your place, contact: Stephanie Whitehouse ( [email protected] ) Page | 6 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Wednesday 19th October 2016, 12:30-4pm, MD165 R1: Research Student Induction (Dr Debra Cureton & Jill Morgan, Doctoral College) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Wednesday 19 October 2016, 2pm - 4pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Jaivant Patel Latin America/Folk Dance Workshop Join us for our second dance workshop led again by Jaivant Patel. We are travelling to a different part of the globe to explore Latin American dance for our final workshop of the month. Jai will once again be hosting a Q & A event after the workshop where you can find out more information on the sessions he delivers. Wednesday 19 October 2016, 5.30-7pm, Room MC001 Western Front Association Open Public Lecture. Guest speaker Professor Elaine McFarland (Glasgow Caledonian University) on Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston (1864 – 1940) at Gallipoli. Elaine is Professor of History at GCU and heads the History subject group in the Division of Social Sciences. She formerly served as Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Law & Social Sciences and chaired the University's Higher Degree's Committee. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries (Scotland). To date, her main research interests have been in the area of migration and community identity, with particular reference to the Protestant Irish. Her current research focuses on Scottish military history, examining the relationship between war and commemoration. Professor McFarland is Convenor of the Scottish Historical Review Trust and Joint Editor of Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. The event is free. To book your place email Phylomena Badsey, Western Front Open Public Lectures Co- ordinator on [email protected] Thursday 20 October 2016, 3pm - 5:30pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Straight Outta Compton (2015) An American biographical film directed by F. Gary Gray depicting the career of the notorious gangsta rap group N.W.A. The film follows the stories of the groups’ members as they rise to fame whilst overcoming pressure and discrimination from the police. Thursday 20th October 2016, 5-7pm, venue tbc Public Health Seminar To book a place email [email protected] Page | 7 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Thursday 20th October 2016, 5:30pm – 7:30pm (Tea/Coffee at 5pm) MK045 Royal Institute of Philosophy Open Public Lectures (Series 2016-17) Action in Art and Ethics - Prof Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire) This talk is motivated by the thought that the things we say and do are to be distinguished from our acts of saying and doing them. I defend a particular way of conceiving this distinction before proceeding to argue for its importance to art and ethics. In particular, I hope to show that the correct evaluation of what one does or creates may part ways with that of one’s act of doing or creating it. If the implications of this corrective for ethics and aesthetics are as significant as I claim, then the philosophy of action should be accorded a far more prominent place within both fields than previously supposed. Constantine Sandis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author and editor of numerous books in the philosophy of action, moral psychology and heritage ethics, including, Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice (edited, 2014); Human Nature (co-edited, 2012); The Things We Do and Why We Do Them (2011); Hegel on Action (co-edited 2010); A Companion to the Philosophy of Action (co-edited 2010). Thursday 20th October 2016, 6 - 8:30pm Crystal Lecture 2016 The Sustainable Development Goals - Why should business bother? We are delighted to announce that Malcolm Preston, Global Head of Sustainability Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers will deliver the keynote address at this year's prestigious lecture - in partnership with the Chartered Management Institute. Malcolm leads a global team of some 700 sustainability and climate change experts, with over 100 based in the UK. A graduate in Oceanography, Malcolm decided the world of research would be tedious. In 1983 he joined Coopers & Lybrand and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986. After spells working in the US, Australia and Zambia, he was admitted to the partnership in 1996. During his career he has advised large multinationals, entrepreneurial start-ups and co-led the firm’s dot.com team through the turn of the century. He has led the Sustainability & Climate Change team since 2008. Schedule: 6.00pm: Refreshments and networking (The Forum - Lord Swraj Paul Building) 7.00pm: Introductions and presentation of CMI Rosebowl Award (Lecture Theatre - Mary Seacole Building) 7.10pm: Lecture (Lecture Theatre - Mary Seacole Building) 8.30pm: Event concludes Venue: *Reception and Networking – The Forum, Lord Swraj Paul Building, University of Wolverhampton Business School, University of Wolverhampton, WV1 1SG. *Introductions and Presentation of CMI Rosebowl Award – Lecture Theatre, Mary Seacole Building (adjacent to Business School). Admission: Free TO BOOK, PLEASE VISIT: www.managers.org.uk/CrystalLecture2016 For any queries, please email: [email protected] Or telephone: 01902 321747 Page | 8 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege Friday 21st October 2016, 2pm-3pm in WN114, Walsall Campus Hands-on Citation Indexing tools - A workshop which helps you to use using citation indexing to measure the impact of journals and articles. Bookable via the LIS Skills for Researchers page http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research/skills-for-researchers/ Monday 24 October 2016, 6pm - 9pm, The Venue, SU, City Campus Race (2016) Join us for the screening of the 2016 biographical sports drama about African American athlete Jesse Owens who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Directed by Stephen Hopkins and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, the film stars Stephan James as Owens, and co- stars Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt and Carice van Houten. Tuesday 25th October 2016, 1-5pm, MD165 Doctoral College Quarterly Research Day – The viva experience The afternoon will include a screening of the 'Good Viva' Video, a short discussion about vivas and their purpose, including why examiners ask the questions that they ask. There will be an opportunity to practice responses to general viva questions with peers, followed by the opportunity to be 'in the viva hot seat' and gain some feedback from the Doctoral College and peers. http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/doctoral-college-university-of-wolverhampton-10043495760 Week beginning 26th October 2016, 10am-11am, SA208 -Telford Campus Hands-on Referencing with RefWorks – Introduction to using this Reference management tool. Bookable via the LIS Skills for Researchers page http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research/skills-for-researchers/ Wednesday 26th October 2016, 10-12pm MD111b R34: First steps to finding and using research (Dr Helen Williams, LIS) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Wednesday 26th October 2016, 2-4pm, MD165 R2: Addressing the research focus and planning a programme of research - post-induction session. (Dr Debra Cureton, Doctoral College) Book via the Research Skills Development Workshops webpage Wednesday 26th October 2016, 2-4pm, Walsall Learning Centre, Pod 1 Skills for Researchers ‘Drop In’ (Learning and Information Services) http://www.wlv.ac.uk/lib/research/skills-for-researchers/ Page | 9 www.wlv.ac.uk/doctoralcollege