Digital Literacy Workshops
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
Fiona Harvey and myself have a number of workshops coming up over the next few weeks that may be of interest to staff and students – more information and booking links are here These are informal sessions with coffee and cake and all are welcome Thanks Lisa
Social Justice and Gender Equality – WFRC gets to grips with big political issues
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
Members of the Work Futures Research Centre joined forces with the Sustainability Science at Southampton multidisciplinary research group at the University of Southampton to mark the UN World Day of Social Justice on 20th February. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s message for the day was “let us intensify our efforts to achieve a […]
Gender Equality at Work: How far have we come and how far have we still got to go?
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
You are invited to a symposium to debate the current state of play for Gender Equality at Work Thursday 7 March 2013 | 2.00pm–4.00pm | Thatcher Room, Portcullis House, Westminster. This event in celebration of International Women’s Day will bring together an important and inspiring range of speakers: policy makers, practitioners and academics, to debate […]
York Heritage Seminar Series: Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology
by Tom Brughmans via Digital Humanities
Date: 26.02.2013 Time: 5.30pm Speaker: John Swogger (Archaeological illustrator) Location: Room 3043 building 65a (avenue campus) Tuesday 26 February we will be live-streaming another York Heritage Seminar, this time by the archaeological illustrator John Swogger who will talk about “Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology”. The seminar […]
Get involved in Multidisciplinary Research Week 2013
by Alison Simmance
Multidisciplinary Research Week 2013 | 17-22 March
This week full of interactive events, open to staff and students, aims to showcase different aspects of multidisciplinary work taking place across the University.
RSVP and to download the full programme, please visit www.southampton.ac.uk/multidisciplinary
Highlights this year will include blue sky thinking on sustainability at the inaugural TEDx University of Southampton; top academics presenting challenging arguments on ‘the brain and behaviour’, an intriguing talk on how we can improve performance of hearing aids at ‘Your Brain at the Cocktail Party’, a dynamic workshop that will allow participants to use sustainable materials to create something new and a talk by world famous Sustainomics guru Professor Mohan Munasinghe.
Explore some examples of what new applications in imaging science at the University can reveal in areas such as archaeology, health sciences and biological systems. Find out why one of our researchers has wired up TV presenter Ben Fogle at ‘A Human Research Vessel across the Atlantic’. The week will culminate in a celebration of United Nations World Water Day. This water themed day will offer insights into the global water crisis and will include an explosive mix of talks by our top academics and the showing of the seminal film Flow.
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sotonDH small grants: A Connected Island? Citation Network Analysis
by Tom Brughmans via Digital Humanities
By Tom Brughmans and Iza Romanowska This third blogpost about the Connected Island project will introduce our method for analysing publications and their citations. We will briefly discuss how citation network analysis works and the issues surrounding its applications. Finally, we will look at the very first results of this project: an analysis of publications […]
Enhancing Research Impact: Public Policy
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
By Lisa Then, Public Policy@Southampton Co-ordinator The Public Policy@Southampton Team was formed in October 2012 to increase the reach and impact of University of Southampton research. With a remit to engage world-leading research with key policy makers, I organised the inaugural Public Policy event ‘The Policy Implications of Austerity on Active Citizenship’ which took […]
Labour markets in developing countries: what’s new, what’s old? UN World Day of Social Justice Seminar
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
The University of Southampton will be celebrating the UN World Day of Social Justice with a special afternoon seminar on ‘Labour markets in developing countries: what’s new, what’s old?’ by Duncan C. Campbell, Director for Policy Planning in Employment at the International Labour Office (ILO). The United Nations’ (UN) World Day of Social Justice is […]
Speaker Bio: Duncan C. Campbell UN World Day of Social Justice Seminar
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
Duncan C. Campbell, is the Director for Policy Planning in Employment at the International Labour Office and a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labour, IZA. He joined the ILO in 1990 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he had been a member of the Management Department faculty and […]