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Professional Research Investment and Strategy Managers (PRISMs; ) coordinate major research programmes that connect universities, industries, and communities. They shape research culture, build partnerships, and manage funding that enables inclusive and impactful research - yet their roles often go unrecognised.

We are delighted to invite you to the 3rd Annual PRISM Conference, taking place on Wednesday 19 November 2025 at the University of 糖心TV and online. Attendance is free.

This year鈥檚 theme, Navigating Career Pathways Together, will explore the diverse routes PRISMs take into and through their careers, and how we can strengthen recognition, mobility, and progression across roles.

The programme features:

• A keynote from Dr Marie Sams, Head of the National Centre for Research Culture: 鈥淭he beauty and strength in mosaic careers – recognition and future possibilities鈥�
• Panel discussions on career pathways and the enablers and barriers to progression, chaired by Helen Turner, Director of Midlands Innovation, and Ash Collins, Senior Project Manager at the University of Nottingham
• Interactive sessions exploring personal values, professional identity, and career development
• Showcase presentations of best practice in EDI, sustainability, and community building in research projects
• Opportunities for networking, including an optional buddy scheme to help strengthen the sense of community among attendees

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Streets Dogs and Global History via India

Speaker, Heeral Chhabra, University of Liverpool

Chair, James Poskett

Abstract and bio

lunch at 12.30pm. All welcome!

Streets Dogs and Global History via India

Speaker, Heeral Chhabra, University of Liverpool

lunch at 12.30pm. All welcome

鈥楾hinking like a Plant? Vegetative Consciousness in Ovid鈥檚 Metamorphoses鈥�

Our new journal club meets once a term to discuss the latest number of a leading journal in a relevant sub-discipline. Led by Michael Bycroft, this term we鈥檒l be looking through a current issue of the history of science journal Isis. Read as much or as little as you wish (from just the abstracts, to whole articles), and join us to discuss how the contents reflect the current state of the field.

Stop drowning in notes and start shaping ideas.

This session shows you how to move from piles of research into a focused plan. You鈥檒l learn how to frame an effective research question, group your notes into themes, and sketch out a provisional thesis. Activities will help you see how planning is the foundation of a strong essay.

Please join us in this cross-faculty working group which connects a range of disciplines including Literature, History, Philosophy, and Life Sciences.

The second session on Wednesday 19 November 2025, 5-6pm, FAB4.79 will focus on EXTRACTION through 鈥檚 documentary  [The Tree of Authenticity] (2025).

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, SMLC Professor of French Studies, who is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded project entitled 鈥楾he Democratic Republic of the Congo: Culture and Resource Extraction鈥�, will lead this session. Here's a brief description of the documentary:

In this essay film, which was bestowed the prestigious Tiger Award at the 2025 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Sammy Baloji provides an overview of his native country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), through the prism of the environment and its devastation. Since colonial times, the DRC, formally known as the Congo Free State and then the Belgian Congo, has been regarded as one of the world鈥檚 major purveyors of raw materials including rubber, palm oil, diamonds, copper, uranium, cobalt and coltan. By focusing on two agronomists employed by the colonial state, this film explores the links between science, race and extractivism. We will reflect on Baloji鈥檚 archival work over the past twenty years and explore the narrative devices employed in this documentary to bring the past and present into dialogue.

The documentary can be watched with English subtitles .

Please to attend as seats are limited. We hope to see many of you there!

• Wednesday 19th November 5:00-6:30pm, FAB4.74 

Thomas Crew (糖心TV)

The Gestalt of the Worker: The New Man in Ernst J眉nger's Weimar Photobooks