The Voluntary Sector Studies Network (VSSN) New Researchers Network is for those working, studying or researching in the third or voluntary sector. There is a New Researchers’ Session taking place at the NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference, which takes place at Sheffield Hallam University 10-11 September. Continue reading →

The British International Studies Association Postgraduate Network is inviting  abstracts for its conference which is to be held in Warwick on October. Continue reading →

This seminar, hosted by the Society for Research into Higher Education, Collier Street, London, will explore public engagement, the challenges and opportunities, from the postgraduate and the HEI perspective, and provide useful insights into both with presentations and group discussion. Continue reading →

The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) has issued a call for participation for the first ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences which is taking place at Lancaster University from 16 – 19 July 2013. The event is aimed at junior social scientists, especially PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, in any of the social science disciplines. The summer school will be of interest to those with an interest in the analysis of social issues via text and discourse, especially on a large scale. Continue reading →

The School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences at Newcastle and Durham University’s School of Education are holding a two-day workshop for doctoral students on the development and use of visual methodologies. The workshop will take place on Monday, 01 July and Tuesday, 02 July 2013 at Durham University. Continue reading →

Translations: Exchange of Ideas is an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference in Cardiff June 27 – 28. Doctoral researchers from the humanities and social sciences are invited to attend. Organised by and for doctoral students, this conference will encourage participants to consider how the theme of translation relates to their own research and how their work relates to other researchers both within their subject area and in different disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. There will be a number of panels with presentations on topics such as literature, space, art, translation practice, and colonialism. Continue reading →

This roundtable will feature eminent social scientists and practitioners discussing the ‘usefulness’ and ‘practical relevance’ of social science research, beyond its intellectual and theoretical contributions, addressing themselves to questions: How useful is social science? Could it be more useful? Are there costs in pursuing usefulness? Continue reading →

The Manchester Metropolitan University Summer Institute in Qualitative Research takes place 22-26 July and is subtitled ‘Putting Theory to Work’. The directory of the Wales DTC, Professor David James, will be one of the keynote speakers. Continue reading →

The Manchester Methods Summer School will be held at the University of Manchester 17-21 June. Participants will select a single course for the duration of the school. Each course will deliver four days of content to a five-day timetable (Monday afternoon to Friday lunch-time). The fee for external students is £500. Continue reading →

The Sustainable Places Research Institute is launching a new Sustainability Science Summer School 24-28 June this year. The Summer School will provide a unique and high quality research training forum for interdisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in the field of sustainability science and place-making. Continue reading →