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The Alternative Futures seminar series aims to foster an interdisciplinary conversation that engages possible futures from our current conjuncture, as empirical material or theoretical proposition. Past and upcoming topics and perspectives include reimagining repair and infrastructures, mental health, and climate and energy futures, but speakers are welcome on all topics with an orientation to and discussion of future possibilities and the social world. The seminar series was created by Dr Helen Traill and Dr Franziska Paul with the aim to host early career academics across critical social science to showcase and discuss their cutting edge research. The series consists of a standard seminar structure, with a 45 minute talk from the speaker followed by an audience discussion. Seminars are held throughout the academic year, and usually take place on the last Friday afternoon of each month at 3.30pm. While we particularly invite early career researchers to join us as speakers, the seminars are open to all and should be of interest to postgrads, postdocs and staff across the School and wider College of Social Sciences. If you would like to put yourself forward as a speaker, please email Franziska.Paul@glasgow.ac.uk and Helen.Traill@glasgow.ac.uk

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Our Centre for International Development has a great series of events coming up for both staff and PGRs...

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Events
Note: We advertise events here that are organized by, or relevant to, our members. Not all are organized by GCID specifically and relevant contact details are provided so you can contact the organizers directly.
Primary pedagogies and in / out of school learning in Tanzania with Rhona Brown
Date/Time: June 15 th, 13:00-14:00
Description: Part of the School of Education's Education Leadership and Policy Series.

Music & Social Inclusion: International Research and Practice in Complex Settings co-chaired by Oscar Odena and Andrew Green
Date/Time: June 21 st from 3-5pm.
Description: Practice and research specialists will discuss social music projects from five countries and a study of Indigenous music at the 2nd workshop of The Arts of Inclusion (TAI) network. This event will be online and free of charge. Contributors will include Sergio Figueiredo (Brazil), Lukas Pairon (Belgium), Hector Vázquez (Mexico/Canada), Shelly Coyne with Raymond MacDonald (UK), Daniel Mateos-Moreno (Spain), Geoff Baker (UK), Patricia González-Moreno and Rubén Carrillo (Mexico). They will draw on their contributions for a forthcoming Routledge book.

Gender in STEM and beyond: the implications of precarity in the academic workforce for gender diversity in STEM fields with Barbara Read
Date/Time: June 22nd, 13:00-14:00
Description: Part of the School of Education's Education Leadership and Policy Series.

Challenging the aspirations-poverty trap? Aspirations' (trans)formation and choices of secondary vocational students in Chile with Alice Aldinucci
Date/Time: June 29th, 13:00-14:00
Description: Part of the School of Education's Education Leadership and Policy Series.

Building Sustainable Partnerships with Enrich in Africa & beyond
Dates: June 29 th-30 th.
Description: On 29-30 June, the AEIP organises the final event! It marks the official end of the AEIP pilot and focuses on celebrating and disseminating information on the key achievements, lessons learnt across all activities, and on discussing ways to continue to collaborate in a more sustainable manner. Outcomes of all the different project activities will serve to demonstrate the benefits of African-European innovation collaboration and exemplify the added value of the AEIP in facilitating such a collaboration. The success stories chosen also showcase how innovation collaboration can contribute to the UN SDGs. The event also provides a platform for relevant, recently launched third party initiatives/opportunities to present themselves and to discuss how these could be used to continue some of the activities launched in the AEIP in the future, after the AEIP itself is no longer financed by the European Commission. The event will be attended by the Commissioners of the African Union, European Commission and national governments, as well as, by other prominent speakers across Africa and Europe. Why should you join:

Learn about relevant third-party initiatives/opportunities, launched by international donors, development agencies, and multilateral funding schemes, notably Enrich in Africa, that can support innovation actors in Africa and Europe.

Participate in discussions on key thematic challenges in cleantech, food and edtech sectors, together with prominent speakers from Africa and Europe.

Expand your professional network by participating in networking sessions with key innovation actors in Africa and Europe.

Learn about success factors for Africa-Europe collaboration for different innovation actors.

Join discussions on IP & vaccines and training sessions for tech hubs and TTOs (technology transfer offices).

Rethinking International Student Issues: Virtual Summer School.
Dates: July 6 th-7 th, 2021.
Abstract Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021
Description: We are providing a space for early career researchers (ECRs) and early career academics (ECAs), including post-graduate research students (PGRs), to engage in active discussion about issues concerning international students and the research process in this field. The online summer school will feature a variety of talks and workshops on international student experiences, mobility of students and researchers, and new directions of research. This summer school would also provide the opportunity for ECRs conducting research on the relationships and influences between COVID-19 and the 'international student experience' to share their novel insights in a timely manner. Registration opens March 1 st (please note you must register for each day separately).

Moving the Centre: Toward Radical Futures - Cross-Disciplinary PGR Conference on Post/Decolonial and Global Studies
Deadline for Proposal Submission: April 5 th, 2021
Event date/time: August 4 th-6 th, 2021.
Description: The climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have only exacerbated the already stark inequalities and inequities that are pervasive around the globe, which run along class, gender, and race lines; a state of injustice that was decried on a global scale in 2020 by a multitude of social justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter, in transnational solidarity. The members of this conference organising committee, a group of PhD students from the College of Arts and the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, assembled with a view to planning a cross-disciplinary event that would try to grapple with these issues, as well as with decolonising movements more broadly. 'Radical futures', for us, are those in which these disadvantages and privileges are considerably reduced and, one day, eliminated completely. Futures in which every human being has guaranteed access to basic human rights; in which every nation and community is free to safely experience the world from their own perspective, according to their own values; in which there are no hierarchical relationships between these cultures, and in which we benefit from the richness of diversity. This is why we have included part of the title of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's 1993 book, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms, in our own conference title. Building on Priyamvada Gopal's ideas ('Insurgent Empire: A Discussion with Priyamvada Gopal' 2020), we interpret decolonisation as a constant process of reparation, compensation, restitution, and re-education, instead of a fixed state to be achieved exclusively as a final result. In other words, we see decolonisation as both the means and the end, as the continued struggle toward a more just and inclusive world. Our radical futures are thus both decolonisation (the process) and decolonised (the state). It is within this framework that we see this conference as a platform for dialogue and collaboration. Rather than to provide definite answers, the main aim of this event is to foster reflection on and enable conversation about not only decolonial futures as a goal, but also the concrete steps that would need to be taken when working toward these futures, as well as to address the past and present of empire, (neo)colonialism, and anticolonial struggles. We see this conference as an exercise in awareness raising, a space to promote a better understanding of the current state of affairs and wider participation in the process of decolonisation. With this in mind, we want to invite postgraduate research students in all academic disciplines to think about how their own research or subject area stands in respect to these issues. We also welcome submissions by early-career researchers who have finished their PhD in the past three years. Our aim is to be as inclusive as possible; we want to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange between the arts and humanities, social and life sciences, and STEM subjects. We believe these explorations and dialogues to be a key initial step in the direction of a decentred world that someday will become 'a universal garden of many-coloured flowers' (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1993).

Online conference focused on the ethics, tools & theories of online research into the trafficking of cultural and natural resources
Dates: August 5-6, 2021
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2021
Description: The Art, Feathers & Crime project, based at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (University of Glasgow), in collaboration with the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (University of Kent), is excited to announce a forthcoming virtual conference that will cover the ethics and intricacies of conducting online research into illicit trade of cultural and natural resources, including the trafficking and illegal trade of wildlife, art and antiquities, jewellery, precious stones and minerals, timber, fossils, flora and fauna, etc. This conference is particularly timely amid the global pandemic, when the dimensions and impact of these illicit economies has increased online. We are interested in the digital locations of crime convergence relating to the trafficking networks of cultural and natural resources and the ethics around investigating, mapping and monitoring these. With this conference, we hope to move the discussion around the trade and trafficking of cultural and natural resources towards a common understanding of the ethical foundations of interdisciplinary research into this topic. Ultimately, this conference will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange on sensitive, ethical and legal ways to investigate illicit trades on challenging mediums.

The Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R)
Deadline to apply: Friday, May 28, 2021
Description: The Global Forum on Humanitarian Health Research (GFH2R) seeks to bring researchers and humanitarian organizations (including NGOs, local policymakers, and international agencies) together to share experiences and promote collaboration around health research in humanitarian settings. The meeting will be built around case study presentations by researchers from regions of the world affected by humanitarian crises. The forum prioritizes the participation of researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), encourages networking and mentoring, and creates a venue for open and inclusive discussions. The theme is Research in the Context of Concurrent Crises. Accordingly, the meeting will feature case studies describing health research experiences from settings beset with multiple, concurrent humanitarian crises. Case studies may describe health-related research in any type of humanitarian crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, as long as more than one crisis affects the study population.
Apply to Participate: The Global Forum is seeking two types of participants for the meeting

1. Case study presenters will present case studies of their research experiences during the forum and receive informal mentoring prior to the forum.

2. General participants will also be selected based on the geographic, disciplinary, and experiential diversity, to join the virtual event and participate in small group discussions and networking activities.

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Note: We advertise events here that are organized by, or relevant to, our members. Not all are organized by GCID specifically and relevant contact details are provided so you can contact the organizers directly. Primary pedagogies and in / out of school learning in Tanzania with Rhona Brown Date/Time: June 15 th, 13:00-14:00 Description: Part of the School of Education's Education Leadership and Policy Series.

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Get involved: the Lab for Academic Culture

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Get involved: the Lab for Academic Culture

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Supporting Neurodiversity in the workplace

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Supporting Neurodiversity in the workplace

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This current IHW project has a wealth of advice on how we can all support neurodiversity

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The ARC is a five-storey building will house around 600 academics, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, opening in 2022. Take a virtual tour on the website and think about how you could use the space on offer...

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Organising Ourselves For World Domination: what ECRs can do to change institutions

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Organising Ourselves For World Domination: what ECRs can do to change institutions

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We were so sad Jess Butler had to drop out of the conference keynote slot. Watch her short talk from 2020 to make up for this! 12 min...

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Jessica Butler: “Organising Ourselves For World Domination: what ECRs can do to change institutions”

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The Researcher Development Concordat sets out an expectation that researchers will engage in 10 days a year of continuing professional development (pro rata). Find some ideas for development opportunities to discuss with your line manager...

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What 10 days of CPD might include

Line managers should discuss with researchers how they will allocate and prioritise their CPD time. However, the researcher themselves will take the lead in identifying what is most appropriate for their own needs, situation and career aspirations.

We expect that the 10 days a year will include a mixture of practical experiences, mentoring, exploration of careers, self-directed learning or formal 'workshops' or 'training'.

Note: an individual in one School might see a particular opportunity as 'development' (such as the opportunity to gain teaching experience), in areas where this is a normal expectation for research staff, it should not be considered as such.

Committee, policy and organisational skills development

Being an ECR representative on a School or Research Institute committee

Participating in your School / RI Athena Swan self-assessment team or sub-group

Joining the Postdoctoral Researcher Forum

Joining a professional body committee

Organising conferences or seminar series or ECR skills development, careers or networking events

Taking on budget management or other skills development roles (with support from line manager)

Career exploration

Participation in careers events, workshops, MOOCS

Learning about other career sectors - interviewing alumni, engaging with industry groups, secondments

Talking to the UofG careers adviser for Researchers

Teaching and supervision

Experience of different types of teaching. If not available locally, opportunity to explore through the Centre for Open Studies, acting as a tutor for PGR workshops, or similar

Inclusion in teaching-related committees and events at School level (e.g. open days)

Formal or informal reflection on teaching (perhaps leading to a qualification)

Supervisor online development online or workshops

Personal development planning and reflection

Creating a personal development plan

Working with a mentor

Peer observations or feedback (e.g. on teaching or training)

Developing new skills (outside of core technical skills required for current project)

Formal learning - training courses

Shadowing or peer learning

Reading or online (e.g. MOOCS)

Go back to Researcher Development Hub with online and f2f training opportunities for researchers.

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Line managers should discuss with researchers how they will allocate and prioritise their CPD time. However, the researcher themselves will take the lead in identifying what is most appropriate for their own needs, situation and career aspirations. We expect that the 10 days a year will include a mixture of practical experiences, mentoring, exploration of careers, self-directed learning or formal 'workshops' or 'training'.

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Are you in a discipline where talk used to be of 'impact factor' or citation counts? In under 4 mins you can find out  how to highlight your publications without using irresponsible metrics or other proxies for quality...

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