The School of Psychology at Bangor University is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and in celebration are organising a Summer School on the investigation of the human mind with event-related potentials.

Attendees will learn how to conduct, analyse and interpret event-related potential studies in psychological domains like memory, development, mindfulness, language, and perception and cognition. The emphasis will be on practical sessions and hands-on experiences with the analysis of event-related potentials like the treatment of artefacts and eye movements, filtering, segmentation, averaging, baseline correction and data measurements. Continue reading →

The British Sociological Association Medical Sociology (Wales) will be hosting an informal seminar on Thursday 25th April, 12.30-2.00pm at Cardiff University on ‘The implications of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry’ and everyone is welcome to attend. Continue reading →

The aim of the Cardiff policy café is to bring together researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to encourage reflection and debate about research, policy and practice in diverse fields of social and public policy activity. The events are monthly, and the next one will take place on Tuesday 23rd April, 5.30 – 7.00, on ‘What and who needs funding in Wales?’. The venue is the Committee Rooms in the Glamorgan Building at Cardiff University. Cheese and wine will be provided. Continue reading →

As part of the British Sociological Association‘s annual conference there is a pre-conference postgraduate workshop on Tuesday 2nd April (the conference takes place from Wednesday 3rd April to Friday 5th April) at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Professor David James, directors of the ESRC Wales DTC is one of the keynote speakers; the others are Dr Matthew Waites and Professor John Solomos. Continue reading →

The Tyndall Centre’s Annual PhD Conference “Climate Transitions Connecting People, Planet and Place” is now less than a couple of weeks away. The hashtag for discussion on Twitter is #TyndallPhDConf and the conference takes place from 3rd-5th April 2013 at Cardiff University. Continue reading →

The next round of ESRC media training days has been announced. These courses are run by the ESRC’s Senior Communications Manager, and they are free of charge to ESRC funded students. Continue reading →

The ESRC Final Year Student Conference takes place on 24 April 2013 at Sheffield, and it is a great opportunity for early career researchers to gain an insight into the grants application process. There will be advice and discussion on future careers with a broad panel of experts. Continue reading →

Human Geography students from across Wales came together this week for the annual Wales Human Geography Postgraduate Conference at Gregynog. This is an opportunity for all first and final year PhD students from Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Swansea to present their research as well as meeting and networking with peers from across Wales in the beautiful rural setting of Gregynog Hall. Continue reading →

The Sixth Doctoral Student Research Conference hosted by the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex will take place on Thursday 27th June 2013, from 8.30am-5pm in the University’s Fulton Building. Continue reading →