The Use of Foreign Language Skills in Social Science Research

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All day, Monday 6 July 2015

Place: James Callaghan Building, Swansea University, Swansea.

The keynote speaker at this year’s Language-Based Area Studies Annual Training Workshop is Dr Claire Spencer, Head of Middle East & North Africa Programmes, Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs), London.

The workshop will include presentations by Professor David James, the Director of the ESRC Wales DTC, and Swansea and Cardiff University staff and research students.

There will also be an open surgery for research students to meet Professor Spencer and Swansea and Cardiff University staff to discuss their research.

Topics to be covered include:

  • The use of foreign language skills in social science research, especially in the fields of politics and international relations;
  • Opportunities and challenges arising from the use of bilingual or multi-lingual research methods;
  • Interrogating language-specific literatures in research in the social sciences, especially in the fields of politics and international relations;

 Download the full programme (Word Doc, 54kb).

For further information on the event or to reserve a place, contact Dr Gerard Clarke (01792 513525) or g.clarke@swansea.ac.uk.

Cost

  • Wales DTC postgraduate social science research students, i.e. students registered at Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff or Swansea Universities – free of charge
  • ESRC and non-funded postgraduate social science research students registered at a UK HEI: conference registration fee – £25.00.

Fees can only be paid by cheque made payable to ‘Swansea University’. Students requiring overnight accommodation on 5th July at Swansea University at a rate of £35.00 should notify Dr Gerard Clarke at the time of booking.

The Wales DTC is able to fund a limited number of bursaries to support the attendance of postgraduate social science research students from outside the Wales DTC institutions. Students must be currently registered at a UK HEI. The bursary is designed to help meet travel (standard/economy fares) and accommodation costs up to a maximum sum of £125. Bursaries will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Non-Wales DTC students should contact Gerard Clarke in the first instance regarding the availability of a bursary and for information on how to claim back travel expenses.