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Designed for Postgraduate Researchers in their first year

Get off to the best start possible. We will take you through the essential initial steps to starting your research degree; help you plan through the first 15 months and avoid common pitfalls.

Areas that we will cover include: project planning; time management; objective setting; you and your supervisor; connecting with the research community; networking.

The session will help you towards a greater self-awareness of the skills you already have and those you need to develop. It will connect you with fellow researchers and increase your awareness of the support services 糖心TV has to help you make the most of your research degree.

All RSSP sessions are active, interactive, involve individual and group discussions; and are supported by key pedagogical best practice and coaching theory. Be prepared to contribute to your own and your colleagues learning and development.

Getting Creative (arts based class)

This activity will include the following sessions:

• Sculpture: Making salt dough and sculpting
• Acetate drawing: Drawing on acetate with pens
• Tote bag drawing: Paint and draw on a tote bag that can be taken away
• Drawing: Taking a pen (or pencil) for a walk to create random patterns and shapes and then fill those shapes with creatures/monsters/ other patterns.
• Sketchbook making: Using different types of paper to create a sketchbook to take away.
• Sculpture: Use art straws and wire to weave and sculpt to create nests and hares to take away.
• Observation drawing: Focusing on the tone and texture of the Atsuo Sculptures
• Candle/ tea light holders: Painting jars with glass paints/pens

And, you can keep the art you create!

his activity aims to offer PGR students a range of strategies to help them develop personalised and proactive techniques to help maintain a state of 鈥榩ositive relaxation鈥� through their work and life as PGR students, which can support their overall mental health and wellbeing.

Topics covered through the course of sessions will include:
鈥� How to do your own grounding body scan to keep you relaxed anytime, anyplace, anywhere
鈥� A checklist of common unhelpful thinking habits so you can identify what prevents you from being relaxed
鈥� A review of your personal stress resources and demands, including tips on how to maintain a calm but productive state of work-life balance
鈥� Using affirmations and positive self-talk as a tool to cope with difficulties and develop a state of positive relaxation
鈥� Learning a relaxation technique to keep you calm, destressed and focussed
鈥� Practicing a positive visualisation technique to help sustain a relaxed state of mind to optimise your capacity to live and work

The sessions will be experiential so students will have the opportunity to personally experience and explore these different elements of positive relaxation. Within the sessions, there will also be worksheets to consider individually, discussions in pairs and small groups, some didactic psychoeducational teaching and whole-group guided relaxation activities. There will be no requirement to speak out in the larger group and no physical movement activities.
All relaxation activities will take place seated in chairs. No special kit or attire is required, although comfortable clothing is recommended. The ethos of the sessions will be supportive and facilitative with a focus on calm and relaxation.

Pop into the Research Exchange to enjoy some coffee and cake, while chatting with other researchers.

These sessions are a great opportunity to network with other researchers, discuss your research, and to take a break so that you can return to your work refreshed and relaxed.

Research Refresh runs throughout the year, apart from University closed days.

Running, lasting approximately 30-45 minutes.
Anyone joining the running group should be able to jog continuously for 15 minutes at a moderate pace.
Get some fresh air and exercise while meeting new people!

Absolute beginners, as well as experienced crafters, are welcome to attend our knitting and crochet group in the Chaplaincy. All materials are provided and volunteers will be on hand to help and to teach.

Join us for tea, cake, and good company as we chat, knit and crochet together!

Designed for Postgraduate Researchers

The academic world is predicated on effective communication, whether through formal publication, lecturing, public engagement, self-promotion or interacting with scholarly peers. Yet, early career researchers habitually adopt the communicative norms and assumed audiences within their own disciplinary niches, excluding other potentially advantageous avenues. Hence, developing an extensive, professional, scholarly communication toolkit to better convey their endeavours, represents a critical imperative for all effective researchers

Workshop attendees will engage with a range of individual and small group exercises, employing an enjoyable range of interactive, discursive and game-based learning methods. They will examine how enhancing their written, verbal and non-verbal communication, alongside addressing different audiences and broader communities鈥� expectations, needs and values can increase their research鈥檚 visibility. The session will also explore building an effective social media and professional personal brand for engendering beneficial collaborative opportunities.

The session will be hosted by Senior Editor of Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal Dr Gaz J Johnson (Institute of Advanced Study). A former communications lecturer and multimedia creation practitioner, Dr Johnson maintains research interests in the power-relationships and political economy within emergent open access scholarly praxis.

The Centre for Teacher Education at 糖心TV hold Information Evenings once a month to help you make an informed decision about training to teach Early Years, Primary or Secondary (3-18 years).

We will talk you through the different training routes, as well as how to present a strong application and what to expect as a trainee teacher. You will also have an opportunity to talk with tutors from our 鈥淥utstanding鈥� PGCE courses (Ofsted rating) and hear first-hand about life in the classroom, as well as ask questions to our Admissions team.

Registration starts at 5.30pm with the main presentation starting at 6pm. The evening should finish around 8pm.