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Digital Literacies Conference 2013: Online Learning and MOOCs
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
The second Digital Literacies Conference will take place in Garden Court, Highfield Campus on 24th April. This year’s theme is “Online Learning and Massive Open Online Courses” (MOOCs) There will be contributions from people involved in the development of MOOCs from Edinburgh and the Open University (including Futurelearn) as well as the student perspective of […]
Seminar 1:‘Introductory Session’ – Digital technologies and school-to-work transition
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
Seminar 1 ‘Introductory Session’ | Digital technologies and school-to-work transition | Monday, 25th March, 3 to 5pm | Building 32, Room 2097 We are an interdisciplinary working group at the Work Futures Research Centre at Southampton University. Our aim is to explore the role of digital technology in the formation of learner identities and in school-to-work transitions. […]
Digital technology, learner identities and school-to-work transitions
by Alison Simmance via Work Thought Blog
A new interdisciplinary project aims to help young people with the transition from school to work. The project entitled Digital technology, learner identities and school-to-work transitions in England and Germany, will run from February to October 2013. An interdisciplinary working group will explore the role of the digital technology in the formation of learner identities, […]
Pushing forward on gender equality at the House of Commons
by Catherine Pope via Work Thought Blog
The Work Futures Research Centre was delighted to celebrate the eve of International Women’s Day with a panel discussion on ‘Gender Equality at Work: how far have we come and how far have we still got to go?’, held in the Palmerstone Committee room at the Palace of Westminster, London. This event marked the start […]
PGR coffee morning
by Tom Brughmans via Digital Humanities
We welcome all Humanities PGR students to our first PGR digital research coffee morning Join your fellow Humanities PGRs to discuss everything related to digital research (issues, questions, possible benefits, practical help, brainstorming) in a one-hour morning session fuelled by coffee and cakes! When? Wednesday 13 March 2013, 10-11AM. Where? Room 1085 (film editing suite, with […]
Art, Archaeology and New Technologies
by Nicole Beale via Digital Humanities
This post was originally published at the Basing House: Community, Archaeology and Technology Project blog: http://basinghousecat.wordpress.com/ Photos Acknowledgements: All of the photos in this post were taken by Alick Cotterill, so a big thank-you to him for letting us include them in this post. Touring (*a small part of*) the Archaeology Collection stores Last week […]
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 […]