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22 - 23 April 2024		Introduction to Python and Python for Data Analysis This practical-based face to face session will be delivered over two days and will provide you with both the technical programming skills and understanding of data science techniques that you will need to research pre-existing and novel social-political and economic issues and the kind of transferable skills that are currently in demand in the job market.. Full details	Add event
21 March 2024	13:00	Practicing listening and responding through the body w/choreographer Jane Mason We are looking for up to 4 participants for an interactive workshop: Thursday 21 March 1 - 3.30pm. Full details	Add event
24 January 2024	15:00	Exeter Q-Step Relaunch and Networking Event We would like to invite you to our upcoming networking event, to celebrate our launch as the Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2). Full details	Add event
29 November 2023	13:00	Utilising Textual Data in Crime Analysis: Insights from the Sex Market and Public Reactions to Crime on Twitter Text is often used for qualitative research, but it hasn’t been used much for quantitative research. This talk will show how we can use automated text analysis in crime research.. Full details	Add event
8 November 2023	10:00	Maps in Stata The two hour interactive workshop aims to equip the participants with the tools and the code to start making high-quality maps in Stata. Full details	Add event
29 - 30 June 2023		NCRM Mixed Methods Workshop This two-day workshop will focus on analysing and presenting data from mixed methods projects. REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW LIVE. Full details	Add event
23 June 2023	15:15	Egenis book launch: Drawing Processes of Life, Molecules, Cells , Organisms. Gemma Anderson and John Dupre (University of Exeter) Drawing Processes of Life is the product of biologists, philosophers, and artists working together to formulate new ways of representing our new approach to life. It is a mutualistic symbiosis, where identities are transformed, information and nutritive substances shared, and where new organisms emerge.. Full details	Add event
19 June 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Cloud Coyotes in Los Angeles", Prof Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles) Coyotes (Canis latrans) exist throughout North America and increasingly thrive in dense urban spaces; they also cause controversies when they eat small pets or seem to pose a threat. Based on fieldwork in Los Angeles, and an archive of over 400 conversations collected from the online application Nextdoor (2015-2019), we theorize the emergence of what we call the cloud coyote. Full details	Add event
19 June 2023	11:00	Egenis: Second discussion session on American Metabolism with Hannah Landecker (UCLA) We are delighted to host Professor Hannah Landecker, a top STS scholar and world-leading expert on the social and historical study of metabolism and sciences thereof. In these two interactive sessions, Professor Landecker will be discussing with us chapters from her forthcoming book American Metabolism. Full details	Add event
16 June 2023	15:00	Egenis: First discussion session on American Metabolism with author Hannah Landecker (UCLA) We are delighted to host Professor Hannah Landecker, a top STS scholar and world-leading expert on the social and historical study of metabolism and sciences thereof. In these two interactive sessions, Professor Landecker will be discussing with us chapters from her forthcoming book American Metabolism.. Full details	Add event
12 June 2023	15:30	Egenis Book launch: Mind as Metaphor, by Adam Toon—with a response by Professor Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong) This event will celebrate the publication of Adam Toon’s new book, Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism (Oxford University Press, 2023). Full details	Add event
8 - 9 June 2023	12:00	Workshop - Past Material, Past Minds: Philosophy, Cognition & Archaeology This workshop addresses methodological, theoretical and philosophical issues across cognitive archaeology and paleoanthropology. How are inferences drawn from material items to cognitive and social capacities? And from fossil and other specimens to demographic, behavioural and phylogenetic dynamics? What can knowing past minds tell us about the nature of cognition? How should cultural innovation and evolutionary novelties in the paleontological and archaeological records be treated? How should we understand the ontology of artefacts and specimens, and how does this relate to archaeological and paleoanthropological practice?. Full details	Add event
5 June 2023	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar: Dr Susannah Crockford (University of Exeter) This seminar has been postponed until Autumn 2023. Full details	Add event
22 May 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The Invention of Biodiversity as a Conceptual Tool for Science Communication", Stefan Bargheer (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) Few scientific concepts have the same amount of public resonance as the notion of biodiversity. The talk traces the creation of this relatively new concept and its impact on scientific research. I show based on archival documents that the neologism was coined in the mid-1980s by conservation biologists connected to the U.S. National Committee of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program in order to buffer the adverse economic impacts of an announced withdrawal of the United States from UNESCO.. Full details	Add event
19 May 2023	12:00	Political Theory Reading Group Session on Professor SUN Xiangchen’s paper: “How to Interpret Chinese Philosophy to the West” Full details	Add event
15 May 2023	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar: Prof Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge) This seminar has been postponed until Autumn 2023. Full details	Add event
11 May 2023	11:00	Workshop on “Self, Family and Community: Eastern and Western Perspectives” Workshop on “Self, Family and Community: Eastern and Western Perspectives” with Professor SUN Xiangchen (School of Philosophy, Fudan). Full details	Add event
5 May 2023		Workshop on “Transcultural Modernities” Professor Regenia Gagnier (Exeter University) on “Decolonizing Neoliberalism” Professor Nan Zhang (Fudan University) on “Aesthetic Sources of Liberal Thinking”. Full details	Add event
28 April 2023	9:30	Ocean Waves, Ocean Science, Ocean Media - Stefan Helmreich How do oceanographers apprehend ocean waves? This presentation draws on anthropological work I undertook among wave scientists in the United States to argue that what oceanographers take ocean waves to be has been strongly imprinted by the techniques, technologies, and media — maritime, photographic, filmic, information theoretic — through which waves have come to be known.. Full details	Add event
27 - 28 April 2023	10:30	International Workshop - Values at sea: Science Studies meets Marine Biology Across many disciplines, attention is increasingly focused on the sea. This is no surprise: it is a site of immense value, supporting and shaping the global biosphere, and is under considerable threat. Whilst ocean ecosystems are pushed to the brink, scholars now often talk of the blue humanities and oceanic turns, of blue economics and accelerations, and of ocean decades. These trends necessitate a similar refocusing towards the sea in the history, philosophy, and social studies of science, fields that are well placed to help understand and contextualise some of the changes occurring to marine systems. To facilitate the emergence of social studies of marine life, as well as the integration of such scholarship with biological and ecological research, this two-day seminar will bring together people engaged in and focused on interactions between scientists and the sea.. Full details	Add event
17 - 27 April 2023		NCRM 2nd Annual Exeter Spring Computational Communication Science School Researchers interested in computational social science will be given the chance to learn new skills at our 2nd annual spring school in April 2023. Full details	Add event
31 March 2023	16:30	Is Open Science Good for Research? This public debate brings together world-leading scholars working at the intersection of Open Science, Science and Technology Studies and the philosophy of science, to discuss the value, opportunities and challenges involved in making research more open. The Open Science movement has been tremendously successful, spurring a global shift in research policies, evaluation procedures and publication channels. At first sight, this seems to be a very good thing: a necessary development in the face of research and publication practices that have grown more and more restrictive, inaccessible and (arguably) unreliable over the last few decades. At the same time, the specific ways in which science is being made open – ranging from Open Access publishing agreements to Open Data mandates by funders and research institutions – are proving controversial and, in some cases, downright damaging to at least some forms of research.. Full details	Add event
30 March 2023	18:00	Can I Trust Science? From anti-vaxxers to climate deniers, not everyone trusts science. Join us for a special live event with a panel of international experts to look at why there is mistrust and positive antidotes to deal with it. We’ll be exploring the Open Science movement, which is sweeping the globe promoting practices to make science more transparent and less biased. One method is sharing data – that increases trust through openness and accelerates the quality of research. There are hurdles to sharing data: who owns it, how it’s arranged, and the motivation of scientists when their careers are driven by publishing results. But are there limitations, a tyranny of openness? Sharing data without acknowledgement or payment may lead to exploitation of those who produced it. We’ll examine the ethics of data and share positive solutions to make science more responsible, so we can all trust it.. Full details	Add event
30 - 31 March 2023	9:30	Workshop "Whither Open Science?" OS movement is transforming research, with OS policies adopted around the globe and widespread agreement on implementing key OS principles like openness, transparency and reproducibility. However, the philosophy of science underpinning the OS movement has not been clearly articulated. Moreover, there are significant epistemic risks in implementing OS across widely different research settings, such as the marginalisation of contributions from low-resourced environments. This raises questions about the relation between open and good science. Full details	Add event
13 March 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: “Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction”, Prof Joseph Rouse (Wesleyan University) This talk introduces central themes from a forthcoming book that seeks to overcome the conceptual bifurcations between human animality and sociocultural persons that are built into our academic disciplines and intellectual life. This re-conception draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology--- ecological-developmental biology, niche construction, and work on early hominin evolution. It also reworks the social theory of practices as the basic makeup of human social life into a “naturecultural” conception of the evolution of practice-differentiated human developmental environments. Full details	Add event
6 March 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Are continuity claims a challenge to medical classification?", Prof Lara Keuck (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) and Dr Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University) The boundaries of many disease categories are contested: when does Covid end? What should count in the Autism Spectrum? When does Alzheimer’s Disease begin? In our collaborative research we combine historical, philosophical and sociological perspectives to examine the role of continuity claims—such as that of a continuity between states of health and disease—in these debates. Continuity is often depicted as the opposite of categorical thinking, and therefore as a challenge to the validity of medical classification. However, we want to argue that the relationship between continuity claims and disease categories is more heterogenous and complex; up to the point that continuity claims can stabilize existing structures and, indeed, save contested categories. Full details	Add event
20 February 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Stylistic Pluralism and Its Discontents", Dr Matteo Vagelli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice/Harvard University) Post-positivist philosophy of science, as it developed in the second half of the twentieth century, is characterized by a “pluralist turn”, partially building on previous “historical” and “practice” turns. Contrary to the prevalently monist approach espoused by mainstream philosophy of science during the first half of the twentieth century, the pluralist turn is normally taken to emphasize the disunity of the sciences, in terms of both methods and results. However, pluralism has developed in different directions, giving place to different ontological, epistemological, and methodological positions that are at times in tension with one another.. Full details	Add event
13 February 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge", Daniel Menchik (University of Arizona) Despite our interest in determining our health decisions, physicians have great control over our bodies, minds, and lives. How do doctors manage this privileged authority? This talk, based on my recent book, draws on over six years’ worth of ethnographic data to answer this question, incorporating factors internal and external to medicine. I argue that doctors manage their authority in the context of competing for status among doctors who share with them an interest in developing new knowledge. Specifically, the terms for status among doctors will be closely tied to the expectations of these peers regarding how knowledge is produced, and public expectations for the practice of medicine. Physicians compete with peers for status by making a case for the quality of the knowledge they have developed and would like to have orient practices profession-wide.. Full details	Add event
8 February 2023	14:00	Institutional Ethnography: A Feminist Approach to Analysing Institutions Using Texts Institutional Ethnography is an interdisciplinary feminist approach to research that examines how texts and language organise our everyday lives.. Full details	Add event
6 February 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Climate, Fertility and Heredity in Airs Waters Places ", Prof Rebecca Flemming (University of Exeter) The Hippocratic treatise Airs Waters Places is perhaps the founding text of environmental medicine. The author explains how living bodies, in health and disease, are all crucially shaped by climate, topography and water sources. Its ideas and advice proved influential across millennia, in the ancient Mediterranean, the medieval Islamicate and Christian worlds, and into the Early Modern Period, as neo-Hippocratism followed new colonial pathways. The focus of the text on questions of fertility and childbearing has been generally overlooked, however, and its models of generation and heredity have been rather hastily subsumed into more modern formulations such as ‘pangenesis’ and the ‘inheritance of acquired characteristics’. Full details	Add event
30 January 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Pain and suffering: Racialized immigrant women’s compliance and defiance to psychiatric discourses and treatments in Canada", Dr Shahina Parvin (Brandon University) This presentation engages in an intersectional interrogation of psychiatric discourses, categorization, and treatments. I present findings from interviews with 13 racialized immigrant women in rural Canada with diverse cultural and geopolitical backgrounds reflect on psychiatric discourses. After describing how their pain was categorized and treated by mental health professionals, I analyse how the women either fully complied with the medicalisation and psychiatrisation processes associated with their diagnoses, or chose to strategically comply with or refuse mental health discourses.. Full details	Add event
23 January 2023	15:30	EGENIS seminar: Extraordinary moments of coronavirus crisis and Brexit seen through the lens of a new interactive art exhibition, Prof Katharine Tyler (University of Exeter) & Helen Snell (artist in residence, Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation In this talk Snell and Tyler will introduce and reflect on their experiences, from the standpoint of their differing disciplinary perspectives, of producing an interactive on-line art exhibition designed by Snell entitled ‘Red Amber, Green Britain’ (https://www.redambergreenbritain.com/). Red, Amber, Green Britain is an online exhibition of work produced by Helen Snell during her tenure as artist in residence at the University of Exeter from September 2020 to March 2022, as part of the project ‘Inequality, Identity and the Media in Brexit-Covid 19 Britain’ led by Katharine Tyler. This research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of UK Research and Innovation’s rapid response initiative to COVID-19. Full details	Add event
12 December 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Algorithmic fairness and decision thresholds", Kate Vredenburgh (LSE) Procedurally fair decision-making in the fair machine learning literature is primarily understood in terms of a requirement of equal treatment, or treating like cases alike. In the fair machine learning literature, equal treatment is understood as requiring at least the following two conditions: (1) the same threshold is applied regardless of one’s social identity or arbitrary characteristics, and (2) some form of parity in error rates, regardless of one’s social identity or arbitrary characteristics. Criticisms of the fair machine learning literature mainly focus on (2) (e.g., Eva 2022). In this talk, I focus on (1), or the application of the same threshold. I argue that thresholds violate a plausible further notion of fairness, that of respecting claims in proportion to their strength (Broome 1991). This account of fairness pushes us towards the greater use of (weighted) lotteries for algorithmic decision-making.. Full details	Add event
28 November 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Climate Trauma and the Virtue of Cooperation", Rachel Elliott (Visiting researcher, University of Exeter) Climate change is expected to increase the incidence of trauma and mental illness through several different mechanisms. Trauma can in part be understood as a modulation in subjective temporality, which could be described as a limit on the openness of what Husserl calls protention, a phenomenon otherwise described by Winnicott in Fear of Breakdown as a search in the future for what happened in the past. Without a robustly open protentional temporal structure, we become less able to react to indeterminate stimuli in new ways. The raised incidence of trauma associated with the environmental crisis combined with the future-altering nature of traumatic consciousness creates an array of problems for the possibility of marshalling a collective response to climate change. In this talk, I would like to focus on the impact of trauma on virtue ethical approaches to the climate change crisis.. Full details	Add event
28 November 2022	14:00	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo Michele Scotto Di Vettimo (SPSPA) will discuss his working paper on EU integration and policy preferences.. Full details	Add event
22 November 2022	14:00	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Simge Andi & Travis Coan Simge Andi & Travis Coan (SPSPA) will discuss their ongoing research measuring the impact of fake news laws on online political discussions. Full details	Add event
21 November 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Give me a phenomenon to observe, and an intervention precise enough, and I can find the mechanism", Caterina Schürch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) In 1928, chemist Fritz Laquer framed the Archimedes-postulate of hormone research: „Give me a test object! — and one can hopefully begin the chemical processing of a hormone.“ This talk looks at the study of plant growth hormones and other cases from the 1920s and 1930s in which researchers attempted to elucidate the chemical processes taking place in living organisms. Taking Laquer’s metaphor one step further, I argue: In order to elucidate biochemical processes, researchers not only needed precise intervention techniques (levers), but also regular biological phenomena (places to stand on). The analysis highlights the essential role of research organisms and their behaviour in the experimental life sciences. Moreover, we better understand why the chemists and biologists cooperated as equals: Both disciplinary groups had resources and skills that the other needed to achieve their epistemic goals. Full details	Add event
16 November 2022	14:00	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Alexey Bessudnov Alexey Bessudnov (SPSPA) will discuss his work on predicting perceived ethnicity from data on personal names for major ethnic groups in Russia.. Full details	Add event
7 November 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "How to Incorporate Non-Epistemic Values in a Theory of Classification", Marc Ereshefsky (University of Calgary) Non-epistemic values play important roles in scientific classificatory practice, such that philosophical accounts of kinds and classification should be able to accommodate them. However, available accounts fail to do so. I aim to fill this lacuna by showing how non-epistemic values feature in scientific classification, and how they can be incorporated into a philosophical theory of classification and kinds. To achieve this, I present a novel account of kinds and classification (the Grounded Functionality Account), discuss examples from biological classification where non-epistemic values play decisive roles, and show how this account accommodates the role of non-epistemic values. Full details	Add event
2 November 2022	14:30	Decolonising Quantitative Teaching The teaching of quantitative methods has a crucial role to play in the decolonisation of undergraduate politics degree programmes, given that Eurocentrism determines the quantitative approaches used today. As such, the decolonisation of, and through, quantitative methods teaching is both possible and necessary. Full details	Add event
31 October 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "AI in Medicine: Finding equilibrium in global data capture", Prof Robin Pierce (University of Exeter) The range of applications of AI in medicine has grown considerably in recent years. The increase in computational capacity has allowed for an array of technologies that can uncover a vast number of correlations that could improve health outcomes or yield scientific knowledge. Increased understanding of the impacts of the social determinants of health, environmental, and other (non-) biological factors on health outcomes would seem to support the drive to amass, aggregate, and integrate different types of data. Yet, even in global data capture, what is absent may be the greater challenge for data governance, possibly affecting explainability, accuracy and, ultimately, health outcomes. Data governance aims to govern data but may have little to say about “absent” data. Using examples of data-intensive technologies, e.g., Deep and Frequent Phenotyping, this paper explores the terrain of finding equilibrium as a regulatory challenge for health research. Full details	Add event
17 October 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Data Integration without Unification", Beckett Sterner (Arizona State University) How should billions of species observations worldwide be made reusable? Data unification according to a universal hierarchy of domains has been a popular ideal for biodiversity science, but it relies on heuristic assumptions that are known to fail systematically in practice. We propose a new regulative ideal for how scientists can coordinate their knowledge-making without unification to achieve better results when pluralistic conditions apply. We focus on data pooling as a crucial form of integrative research in science that supports data reuse. We define data pooling as a process that combines data from multiple sources into one harmonized body of information, provide infrastructure for managing and accessing the combined data, and governs it as a shared resource for a community of users and stakeholders beyond a single research project or lab.. Full details	Add event
10 October 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The Disunity of Science and Unity of the World", Prof John Dupré (University of Exeter) This talk reflects on the relations between the philosophy of science and metaphysics. I have tried to show for many years that these are essential to one another, though with respect to a view of metaphysics that remains a minority one, that metaphysics must be grounded in empirical science, a so-called “naturalistic” metaphysics. I begin by sketching the view of disunity of science articulated in my 1993 book, The Disorder of Things. I then trace the evolution of my ideas about the implications of this thesis to metaphysics, leading to the advocacy of the processual metaphysics that I have been defending more recently. The adoption of processual metaphysics enables a proper reconciliation between a disunified science and the intuitively compelling thesis that there is only one world. Finally, illustrating my view that metaphysics and science are mutually informing, I illustrate some scientific consequences of this processual metaphysics.. Full details	Add event
5 October 2022	13:00	Suffrage, Turnout and the Household: The Case of Early Women Voters in Sweden How were newly enfranchised women mobilized? Classic narratives suggest that newly enfranchised women were mobilized by their arguably more politicized husbands. However, husbands' mobilization of wives has not been subject to rigorous tests, primarily reflecting lack of suitable data.. Full details	Add event
12 September 2022	15:30	Seminar: Linking health and social data for research: the CIDACS experience in Brazil The Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS, Fiocruz) was established in December 2016 in Salvador (Bahia-Brazil). Its main purpose is to conduct interdisciplinary research on populational health, generating scientific knowledge and providing evidence to support public policymaking. The core data come from integrating Brazilian national health and social datasets into two main resources - the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort and the CIDACS birth cohort. CIDACS has been developing and consolidating its data management and governance practices and experimenting with novel methodological approaches for data linkage (Cidacs-RL) and data analysis (quasi-experimental designs).. Full details	Add event
14 July 2022	9:30	50 years of Educational Psychology training at the University of Exeter Full details	Add event
6 July 2022	13:00	GSE Lecture Series - Professor Liz Pellicano (University College London) - Reimagining Autistic education: Lessons learnt from remote learning during lockdown Full details	Add event
6 - 8 July 2022		BSPS Annual Conference 2022 The BSPS 2022 Annual Conference will take place on 06–08 July at the University of Exeter. At this stage, the BSPS Committee are planning on BSPS 2022 being an in-person event. That said, there will be provision for speakers to present remotely if they wish. The Committee will continue to monitor the situation and necessary steps will be taken to ensure the safety of attendees. Full details	Add event
28 - 30 June 2022		Philosophy and Psychedelic Studies – Hybrid Conference for Emerging Scholars A hybrid conference on philosophic issues relating to psychedelic studies. Presenters include students from Exeter's thriving postgraduate MA and PhD courses, postdocs affiliated to research in Philosophy and Psychology, as well as eminent international scholars. Full details	Add event
22 June 2022	13:30	DIGIT LAB - How Do Industries Change: Mapping Digital Transformation Professor Neff’s award-winning research allows her to map technological transformation through three mechanisms: futuring, negotiating shared practices, and rewriting institutions. Gina’s perspective brings agency and work back to stories of disruption. Full details	Add event
13 June 2022	13:00	Building the Belt and Road Initiative. An Empirical Exploration. Since its launch in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative had attracted considerable attention from scholars and policymakers.. Full details	Add event
10 May 2022	17:30	Inaugural Lecture for Professor Walid Saleh (Toronto) Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies An Introduction to Quranic Exegesis (Tafsir): An outline of a Handbook. Full details	Add event
3 May 2022	16:30	GSE Lecture Series - Professor Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti (University of British Columbia) Facing Human Wrongs: Navigating the complexities and paradoxes of social and global change. Full details	Add event
29 April 2022	9:30	Digital Societies Grow House Pilot Launch and Lunch This is a multidisciplinary networking and collaboration-exploration event aiming to bring together staff from across Exeter’s future faculties with an interest in how digitalisation and digital technologies are profoundly influencing all aspects of societies.. Full details	Add event
6 - 14 April 2022		NCRM UoE Computational Communication Methods Spring School - APPLY NOW Researchers interested in computational social science will be given the chance to learn new skills at a spring school in April 2022. The NCRM/Exeter Computational Communication Methods Spring School will provide training at introductory and advanced levels, catering for both social scientists and data scientists. Full details	Add event
30 March 2022	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series More information to follow. Full details	Add event
30 March 2022	10:00	COVID Research Across Borders Workshop Full details	Add event
21 March 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "An Impossible Science? The quest for biomedical measurement and clinical management in pain medicine", Dr Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University) Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there existed another pandemic known as the opioid crisis. Over the last 30 years the Global North saw a rise in addiction to opiates and opioid related deaths, many of which began as medically prescribed therapeutics to manage both acute and chronic pain (e.g., oxycontin). Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom had all declared national crises related to opiate addiction by 2019. Even now, well into the pandemic, research has continued to demonstrate a worsening of the crisis as a result of public health restrictions.. Full details	Add event
16 March 2022	12:45	Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series To request a Teams link to this online seminar please email ExeterFood@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
14 March 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The Risk of Biological Race Realism", Dr Celso Neto (University of Exeter) Biological race realism (hereafter BRR) is the view that humans form biologically distinct groups. Non-racist versions of BRR have emerged recently based on sophisticated and reputable work in science and philosophy (Hardimon 2003; 2017; Spencer 2012; 2014; 2019a). In this chapter, I examine Quayshawn Spencer’s new version of BRR and argue that it fails to consider how social, political, and moral values influence the metaphysics of race. To do so, I rely on the “science and values” literature and the notions of inductive, epistemic, and ethical risk (Douglas 2000; Douglas 2009; Brown 2015; Biddle and Kukla 2017; Elliot and Richards 2017). Once one realizes the complex relationship between these types of risks and BRR, Spencer’s sophisticated metaphysical arguments become less appealing than one might think. Furthermore, broad questions arise concerning how socially responsible metaphysics should be done.. Full details	Add event
11 March 2022	13:00	'Group identities and strategic discrimination' presented by Dr Dominik Duell, University of Innsbruck In a laboratory setting, we explore strategic discrimination in principal-agent relationships, which arises from mutually reinforcing expectations of identity-contingent choices. Our experimental design isolates the influence of the strategic environment from effects of other sources of discrimination, including statistical differences between subpopulations and outright prejudice.. Full details	Add event
9 March 2022	12:30	Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series The popularity of ‘soda taxes’ as a public health policy has grown rapidly in the last few years, offering what appears to be a ‘simple’ solution to a ‘complex’ problem. While the evidence suggests that a tax is associated with reducing the purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages, there are a number of questions that remain, including: understanding possible spill-over effects across the food system, the mechanisms for behaviour change (how much of the effect is actually price versus other effects), extensions to tax policies beyond ‘soda’, importance of changed product composition versus overall consumption. In this presentation, I will outline research we have conducted in the UK over the last few years that cover these (and other) areas, including our current evaluation of the UK’s ‘soda tax’, the ‘sugar drinks industry levy’.. Full details	Add event
3 March 2022	9:00	'The 4D Project: a holistic response to climate misinformation' presented by John Cook, Monash University A number of psychological challenges hinder the countering of misinformation and science denial. Polarization on issues such as climate change and COVID-19 result in some segments of the population being more resistant to fact-checks. Inoculation theory offers a solution to polarization, with experimental studies finding that inoculating messages neutralize the polarizing influence of misinformation on issues like climate change.. Full details	Add event
2 March 2022	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series More information to follow. Full details	Add event
28 February 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Madness, dictatorship and utopia. The case of the "protected community" inside the El Peral Psychiatric Asylum, 1983-1999", Dr Cristian Montenegro (University of Exeter) In this presentation, Cristian will talk about two projects. First, his ongoing project about psychiatric deinstitutionalization in Chile. And then the project that he aims to develop while working at the Wellcome Centre and SPA. Here are the titles and abstracts for both parts of the talk. Full details	Add event
24 February 2022	14:00	'Microtargeting: Reverse engineering of an ethical conundrum' presented by Prof Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) There has been much concern about the “microtargeting” of political messages at individuals on social media based on sometimes sensitive personal characteristics that are inferred by the platforms from mundane data and activities. Evidence suggests that this type of microtargeted advertising, for example based on recipients’ personality, can be effective.. Full details	Add event
21 February 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The International Space Station as a Platform for Plant Biology: Institutionalising a Research Community", Dr Paola Castaño (University of Exeter) The International Space Station (ISS) is commonly defined as a laboratory in Low Earth Orbit for hundreds of experiments across disciplines. What kind of social object is a space station? What kind of platform for scientific research is the ISS? How might one study that research? And what are the conceptual implications of this study? In my previous work, I have examined those questions using NASA experiments in plant biology, biomedicine, and particle astrophysics as my units of analysis. For this presentation, part of work in progress, I shift my focus to the process of institutionalisation of research communities around the ISS. Specifically, I concentrate on space plant biologists and the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space (2023-2032) that is currently underway (2020-2022) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the United States. Full details	Add event
2 February 2022	12:45	Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series Wtih Professor Tom MacMillan from the Royal Agricultural University.. Full details	Add event
31 January 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Environmental health and the protection of P. oceanica; developing an intersectional approach for more-than-human categorization", Dr Jose Canada (University of Exeter) In this presentation, I discuss work in progress that follows the scientific, social and political dynamics of destruction and protection of Posidonia Oceanica, a recently protected seagrass endemic to the Mediterranean that plays a key role in the landscapes of Mallorca (the biggest of the Balearic Islands) and its ecologies.. Full details	Add event
24 January 2022	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "A New Tuskegee? Unethical Human Experimentation and Western Neocolonialism in the Mass Circumcision of African Men", Dr Brian Earp (University of Oxford) Campaigns to circumcise millions of boys and men to reduce HIV transmission are being conducted throughout eastern and southern Africa, recommended by the World Health Organization and implemented by the United States government and Western NGOs. In the United States, proposals to mass-circumcise African and African American men are long standing, and have historically relied on racist beliefs and stereotypes. The present campaigns were started in haste, without adequate contextual research, and the manner in which they have been carried out implies troubling assumptions about culture, health, and sexuality in Africa, as well as a failure to properly consider the economic determinants of HIV prevalence.. Full details	Add event
1 December 2021	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series Paul Hurley is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Change in Agriculture’ research group at the University of Reading where he is involved in research projects about so-called ‘harder-to-reach’ farmers, about the Christian ethics of farmed animal welfare, about human-viral interactions and imaginaries, and about the politics of human and nonhuman migration. Full details	Add event
30 November 2021	10:00	Exeter - Fudan Global Thought Network: Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: From Local to Global Full details	Add event
29 November 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "A Spinosaurus Tail Tale: Underdetermination, Capacities & Historical Knowledge", Dr Adrian Currie (University of Exeter) Most discussion of paleontology’s credentials focus on ‘epistemic scarcity’: paleontological data is rare, degraded, incomplete and hard to manage. In virtue of this, paleontological hypotheses are often underdetermined, that is, we lack sufficient evidence to discriminate between competing hypotheses. However, this discussion assumes that paleontological knowledge is focused on understanding life’s actual history: token events and processes. I’ll push against this interpretation via an examination of secondarily aquatic vertebrates, that is, once-terrestrial critters who have returned to the sea, in particular the enigmatic, enormous theropod Spinosaurus.. Full details	Add event
25 November 2021	13:00	Exeter-Fudan Global Thought Network Invited Talk Onward migration from Italy to the UK: sociolinguistic implications. Full details	Add event
24 November 2021	12:35	Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series Professor Joanna Bowtell, Sports and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, presents the latest seminar in the Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series: A Smorgasbord of Nutrition for Health: From Meals on Wheels to Blueberries for Brains.. Full details	Add event
23 November 2021	13:00	GSE Lecture Series - Professor Martin Ubani (University of Eastern Finland) Full details	Add event
23 November 2021	11:00	South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP): Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research Funded by ESRC and as part of NCRM training, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial information for researchers and policymakers on the changes and stability of people's lives in the UK on topics including Biomarkers, Genetics and Epigenetics; Covid-19; Education; Employment; Ethnicity & immigration; Family & households; Health & wellbeing; Politics & Social attitudes; Transport & environment; Young people. As with most other longitudinal household surveys, the structure and documentation of the Understanding Society are quite complex. Sometimes this may seem as an obstacle for researchers who are just starting to use the data. Full details	Add event
23 November 2021	9:00	Exeter Q-Step/NCRM Introduction to Nvivo for Social Scientists NVivo is a powerful and intuitive qualitative data analysis software for gaining richer insights from diverse data. This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Nvivo and little-to-no experience of computer coding. Full details	Add event
22 November 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Demonstrations, Definitions and Newton’s Experimental Philosophy", Dr Kirsten Walsh (University of Exeter) Newton’s Opticks Book 1 opens with a set of definitions and axioms, so one might expect to find the theorems contained therein to be proved from said definitions and axioms via deductively valid rules of inference. But they’re not. Instead, Newton employs ‘proof by experiment’: each theorem is proved via a series of experiments, which are represented by geometrical diagrams and accompanying text. Newton’s axioms and definitions do not feature explicitly in these proofs—they are not even mentioned in the discussions. I address two questions in relation to this case. First, how does ‘proof by experiment’ function as a proof? Second, what roles do axioms and definitions play in the trajectory from experiment to proven theorem? I argue that this case is revelatory of Newton’s understanding of experimental philosophy and the probative force of his (in)famous experimentum crucis.. Full details	Add event
17 November 2021	16:00	Routes Conversation: The Legal Aid Market: A talk with Dr Jo Wilding Dr Wilding is a barrister, author and researcher with particular interests in legal aid, asylum and immigration, unaccompanied migrant children and quality of legal services.. Full details	Add event
17 November 2021	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series The Somerset Levels and Moors comprise low-lying farmland in south-west England, prone to seasonal flooding. The area suffered uncommonly severe floods in 2012 and 2013/2014, triggering high-profile debates about the area’s long-term future. Full details	Add event
15 November 2021	19:30	James Rebanks: How to (try to) be a good farmer His two bestselling books about his farming life – The Shepherd’s Life and English Pastoral – have been translated in to many languages and have won a number of literary awards including the Wainwright Prize, the Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year and the Sunday Times Memoir of the Year and Nature Book of the Year, and have been shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize. English Pastoral was described by Melvyn Bragg as ‘masterpiece’ and by Wendell Berry as ‘just about perfect’. In this lecture, which has been organised by the Centre for Rural Policy Research and Exeter Food as part of their Distinguished Lecture Series, he will tell the story of what his land has taught him about farming with nature, and how we must strive to reconcile all our different needs from the British landscape. For more information and to register for your place, please visit jamesrebanks.eventbrite.co.uk.. Full details	Add event
8 November 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Out of control: creating reliable data in the laboratory", Dr Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter) The idea of experimental control is often associated with positive notions such as reliability, certainty, and reproducibility; control is seen as part of what makes the laboratory-based sciences powerful and trustworthy. It is part of the reason why scientists can create reliable data. However, like in society, control can also have a negative effect: exert too much of it and you stifle freedom, creativity, and exploration. This is a problem for science. As Hans-Jörg Rheinberger has highlighted, experimental systems cannot become too rigid and standardized because science depends on a certain openness to unfold its full potential; uncertainty and fuzziness are at the heart of the experimental process.. Full details	Add event
3 November 2021	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series Nathan Einbinder, course lead for Regenerative Food and Farming programmes at Schumacher College, presents our first CRPR seminar of the year. There will be opportunity for discussion and questions after his talk. You can read, and hear, more about Nathan and his research here https://campus.dartington.org/dr-nathan-einbinder-joins-academic-faculty/ and here https://campus.dartington.org/interview-with-nathan-einbinder/. Full details	Add event
25 October 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Quality judgment in data production processes: two case studies on economic and health data", Dr Quentin Dufour (Mines ParisTech) Despite the rules and measurement conventions that structure quantification processes in statistical institutes, producing data always involve a moral dimension, that of quality judgment. By those terms, I refer to a set of techniques, knowledge and know-how, that helps a community of practice to define and evaluate what a correct data is in specific contexts. Quality judgments involve thoughts about the right ways to produce data, and the characteristics of the result to be achieved. At the crossroads of Science Studies and the sociology of quantification, this presentation tackles the problem of quality judgment following two data production processes.. Full details	Add event
25 - 29 October 2021	9:30	NCRM Research Methods Festival: 25-29 October 2021 The University of Exeter and Exeter Q-Step Centre are partners in the National Centre for Research Methods -- the UKRI funded national consortium for social science research methods training. Full details	Add event
13 October 2021	14:00	Exeter Food 2021-2022 Seminar Series A lecture by Michael S. Carolan, Professor of Sociology, Colorado State University (USA). Full details	Add event
11 October 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: Tracking a Concept through a Medical Humanities Perspective: The Strange Case of the “Parthenos” , Dr Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University) Working with concepts in the field of medical humanities means recognizing that discourses, be they cultural or medical, have an indubitable role to play in how we think, imagine, speak or remain silent about different domains of inquiry and how these thought processes erupt, devolve or mutate over time. In this talk, I will trace the emergence of the Ancient Greek concept of “parthenos” as it pertains to illness as well as lack or excessive knowledge by documenting its transformations in humoral medicine, medical jurisprudence, legal texts, and will conclude on sketching out future directions for this research. Full details	Add event
8 October 2021	10:00	Exeter-Fudan Global Thought Network Seminar: Multilingualism, language education and social participation Full details	Add event
4 October 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "From pluripotent stem cells to human embryos", Dr Ge Guo (University of Exeter) Our life starts from a fertilized egg that develops into a distinctive multicellular structure called blastocyst. The blastocyst comprises three founding tissues, the epiblast, trophectoderm and hypoblast. Epiblast is the origin of the embryo proper and the source of pluripotent embryonic stem cells. Trophectoderm and hypoblast give rise to extra-embryonic tissues, the placenta and yolk sac, that support embryo development in the uterus. We have established human naïve embryonic stem cells. They are called “naïve” because they represent an earlier developmental stage than conventional human embryonic stem cells. Classic developmental biology studies in animal models suggested that epiblast and embryonic stem cells cannot regenerate trophectoderm. Full details	Add event
7 July 2021	14:00	South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP): Secondary analysis of cross-national, comparative survey data webinar Those completing PhD research over the past 16 months may have had to develop new strategies for conducting comparative research because travel to other countries has not been possible. Full details	Add event
6 July 2021	9:00	Exeter – Fudan Global Thought Network online workshop - Citizens’ Empowerment in Global Perspective 9.00-10.30am UK time/16.00-17.30 Beijing Time 11.00-12.30 UK time/18.00-19.30 Beijing Time. Full details	Add event
2 July 2021	9:00	Group meeting: “Between Tradition and Modernity. Liberalism and Confucianism in China and Europe: A Transcultural Perspective” Full details	Add event
7 June 2021	10:00	EGENIS seminar: "Ferrets Here and There: Global Development of Experimental Practices for Influenza Modelling", Prof Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide) Since at least the 1930s, ferrets have been recognized as extremely well-suited models for studying the pathogenicity and transmissibility of both human and avian influenza viruses. Ferrets are attractive mammalian models due to their relatively small size and other physiological features including the similarity of their lungs to humans, but particularly because they evidence numerous clinical features associated with human disease, especially influenza. Ferrets are highly susceptible to the influenza virus, and have become indispensable for elucidating virus-host interactions following influenza virus infection. However, unlike many other more traditional model organisms such as mice, ferrets are not standardized and often are sourced from diverse types of locales.. Full details	Add event
2 June 2021	14:00	Women Candidates Use More Positive Language than Men Candidates in Political Campaigns Dr Akitaka Matsuo will be presenting his work with Tiffany Barnes, Charles Crabtree and Yoshikuni Ono. What explains the type of electoral campaign run by politicians? Prior work shows that parties strategically manipulate the level of emotive language used in their campaigns based on their incumbency status, their policy position, and objective economic conditions ... Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	16:00	SSIS Honorary Graduate Speaker Series - Kate Lampard CBE The University of Exeter is delighted to welcome Kate Lampard CBE for an afternoon of conversation and discussion. Kate will share her insights and reflections on conducting independent reviews and investigations - processes and approaches, advantages and challenges - particularly in the areas of health and immigration. Kate will also take questions from the audience. Everyone is welcome!. Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	14:00	Negativity in Politicians' Communication during Campaign and Regular Times Bruno Castanho Silva, Lennart Schürmann, and Sven-Oliver Proksch While research on the tone of politicians' rhetoric has picked up steam in recent years, almost all of our knowledge on factors that influence negativity is based on political communication during electoral campaigns. Full details	Add event
19 May 2021	14:00	A Cross-National Analysis of the Effect of Parties' Characteristics on Affective Polarization and Interpersonal Trust This paper uses multilevel models to investigate how parties influence affective polarization and interpersonal trust in multiparty systems. Full details	Add event
19 May 2021	10:00	Applying for Government Research Tenders Training Session Join Dr Bridget Sealey, Higher Education Consultant, to understand why you might want to apply for a government tender and how. Full details	Add event
17 May 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Making up publics: configuring expertise, knowledge and ignorance in environmental research", Prof Judith Green (University of Exeter) This paper takes an example from a field where scientific knowledge is emergent and uncertain - the health impacts of artificial light at night – to explore how knowledge and ignorance are mobilised to create publics. Artificial light at night has become a matter of political, environmental and public health concern, as urban administrations across the world seek to reduce carbon emissions and costs by using emergent LED and smart technologies to manage street lighting. In doing so, these administrations interact with civil society and academic groups concerned by the impacts of light pollution on the ecosystem and human experiences of the night sky. However, urban light at night is not just a technological accomplishment and light pollution risk: providing it is intricately tied to the histories of city governance, and the making of modern spaces of security and safety. Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	14:00	When (not) to trust the overlap in confidence intervals: A practical guide Researchers often aim to compare estimates across groups. For an intuitive and compact presentation of empirical results, many practitioners prefer reporting group-specific estimates instead of pairwise differences, and subsequently seek to infer the statistical significance of pairwise differences from the confidence intervals of the group-specific estimates. Full details	Add event
26 April 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Regulating the Circulation of Knowledge across US Borders: A transnational approach" Prof John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) This talk will explore the contours of a gray zone of knowledge that is neither classified, nor can circulate freely, and then trace the historical arc of one major instrument – export controls – as mobilized by the U.S. national security state to regulate its movement across national borders. To illustrate the range of regulatory instruments devised, I will then briefly describe how the meaning of fundamental research in biomedicine was recently fashioned by the NIH to bring it within the purview of the national security state. To conclude, I will discuss the interest of a transnational approach to knowledge circulation as a method that can help us to overcome the more or less total absence of any engagement with this gray zone in the scholarly literature. Full details	Add event
30 March 2021	18:30	Connecting Strands on Current Indigenous Realities in the Americas Full details	Add event
26 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 4 & Conclusion: Social challenges of data linkage The social implications of plant and agricultural biotechnologies have been the focus of much debate in recent decades. Data production, sharing and linkage raise new issues concerning the inclusion of diverse stakeholders and ensuring that data works for them, practically and equitably. Building plural knowledges into plant data infrastructures, through the inclusion of practical and traditional knowledge from farmers and breeders, the recognition of diverse (e.g. gendered, but also professional) expertise and the implementation of multilingual systems, will be an important facet in establishing the relevance of those infrastructures to a wide range of stakeholders. Ensuring that global circulations of plant data are fair as well as FAIR, moreover, requires sustained attention to the distribution of scientific and computing resources that facilitate access to and effective use of data resources. Throughout all of this, ensuring that key subjects of food security and end-users of data. Full details	Add event
24 March 2021		CRPR Seminar Series - Dr Conny Guell Full details	Add event
22 March 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: Exploring the Easter E.g. - Shifting Baselines and Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological "Aliens" Prof Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter) Very little of what we see around us in Britain today can be classed as 'native'. When the sea cut off the island from the rest of the continent (c. 8,000 years ago) the flora, fauna and human population were very different. Over millennia, Britain's ecology and culture have been transformed. Change has been the only constant, with population movements being responsible for the island's unique bio-cultural heritage. Full details	Add event
19 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 3: Governance Challenges of Data Linkage New flows and intersections of big data from -omics research in plant science, including field-based phenomics as well as genomics, to various types of socioeconomic and environmental data, pose distinct challenges for governance. Data access and ownership for the common good and/or scientific advancement remain areas of considerable contestation, especially given the distinctive intellectual property landscape of plant science, which is marked by the predominance of transnational corporations on the one hand and regimes of national sovereignty on the other. Moreover, longstanding challenges of implementing Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) schemes in regard to biological materials are renewed by the increasing availability of digital data, while the integration of biological with socioeconomic data raises new questions of privacy. This session will address these and other governmental issues raised by plant data linkage, from open science policy through legal and political regulation. Full details	Add event
15 March 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Hard Knock Life: Concussion, Dementia and Sport" Dr Greg Hollin (University of Leeds) The first decades of the twenty-first century have seen a ‘concussion crisis’ in sport. While there has been increased, and considerable, concern about the acute health risks associated with brain injury, much of the crisis has oriented around ‘Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy’, or CTE, a form of dementia associated with repetitive head injuries such as those experienced as part of sporting activity. Within this context, there has been widespread criticism levelled at innumerable Sports Governance Organizations with accusations that responses to the crisis have been both too slow and too circumscribed. Nonetheless, concussion governance has been embedded in numerous sports in the form of, for example, new or altered rules, increased medical provision, diagnostic technologies, compulsory coaching courses, return to play protocols, and legislative change.. Full details	Add event
12 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 2: Technical Challenges of Data Linkage Making plant data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) has been the subject of much effort. Extensive semantic tools are now available, including the multiple, intersecting ontologies that comprise the Planteome project, as are metadata standards such as the Minimum Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment (MIAPPE). Such tools nevertheless require collective work to develop and maintain. Beyond ensuring data themselves are FAIR, actively linking and circulating data poses further challenges. These include finding ways to link biologically, experimentally or geographically related yet heterogeneous datasets consistently, and to make data usable in practice to potential users with divergent aims and resources, not only reusable in theory. This session will address the technical challenges of data linkage, including the development of standards and infrastructures; epistemic issues; and the organizational requirements of this work.. Full details	Add event
9 March 2021	13:00	GSE Lecture Series - Dr Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield) Full details	Add event
8 March 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "AI Extenders and the Ethics of Mental Health" Dr Karina Vold (University of Toronto) The extended mind thesis maintains that the functional contributions of tools and artefacts can become so essential for our cognition that they can be constitutive parts of our minds. In other words, our tools can be on a par with our brains: our minds and cognitive processes can literally ‘extend’ into the tools. Several extended mind theorists have argued that this ‘extended’ view of the mind offers unique insights into how we understand, assess, and treat certain cognitive conditions. In this chapter we suggest that using AI extenders, i.e., tightly coupled cognitive extenders that are imbued with machine learning and other ‘artificially intelligent’ tools, presents both new ethical challenges and opportunities for mental health. We focus on several mental health conditions that can develop differently by the use of AI extenders for people with cognitive disorders and then discuss some of the related opportunities and challenges. Full details	Add event
5 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Introduction & Session 1: Experiences from The Trenches How is data managed in practice? To start the workshop, this session will discuss case studies of plant data use and linkage in the context of particular research projects and breeding programs, drawn from contemporary experience as well as historical research. Consideration of these cases will ground the thematic discussion of the following sessions, and provide an opportunity to reflect on the practical dimensions of the various challenges of data linkage and their solutions. This session will also begin with a general introduction to the online workshop goals and format by the organisers. Full details	Add event
25 February 2021	19:00	The Log Books Podcast Talk and Q+A Part of LGBT History Month. Full details	Add event
24 February 2021	17:30	GW4 FRS Network and Exeter Law School Baroness Butler-Sloss Annual Family Law Lecture The University of Exeter Law School is delighted to announce that Lady Hale has agreed to give this year’s annual Family Law lecture, which combines the Butler-Sloss Family Law Exeter Student Lecture with the annual lecture of the GW4 Family Regulation and Society Research Network. Full details	Add event
24 February 2021		CRPR Seminar Series - Professor Paul Young and Dr Branwyn Poleykett Please email crpr@exeter.ac.uk to receive a link to join this online seminar. Full details	Add event
23 February 2021	18:00	Anthony Delaney: Within The Verge of The Rainbow: The Vyne, John Chute and the Queer Country House Part of LGBT History Month. Full details	Add event
22 February 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Data through time: Figuring out the narrative self in longitudinal research" Prof Jane Elliott (University of Exeter) This paper will explore the ways in which individuals can be obscured and revealed through the practices of longitudinal social research. In particular it will juxtapose qualitative and quantitative data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort study (which has followed thousands of individuals from their birth in 1958 through childhood and adult life) in order to consider the ways in which different approaches to research can reinforce or disrupt narrative conceptions of the self. It will also discuss the opportunities and challenges for longitudinal research provided by new practices of self-tracking e.g. using apps and wearable devices made possible following the digital revolution. Full details	Add event
17 February 2021	17:00	History Society talk - Professor Helen Berry on the ‘Queer marriage of The Castrato and His Wife’ Part of LGBT History Month. Full details	Add event
15 February 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: Book Launch: 'The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis' Dr Ginny Russell (University of Exeter) The book is about how the use of diagnosis has increased over the last 30 years in the UK and is a key output from our Exploring Diagnosis project. An initial overview will describe how it was written as a counterpoint to work with the neurodiversity movement, and present some data from the latest surveys that demonstrate the dramatically increased diagnosis of autism in Europe and US since the 1990s. The book offers a critical understanding of autism statistics, and why there are competing interpretations of the same data. It provides both commentary on, and contribution to, the neurodiversity movement. After a talk to introduce the contents of the book, discussants will give their own unique take on the rising use of autism diagnosis and the phenomenon of diagnostic creep. Full details	Add event
8 February 2021	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The Politics of Scientific Pluralism in Global Perspective" Dr David Ludwig (Wageningen University & Research) Epistemic and ontological diversity have become core topics in debates about global challenges from deforestation to food security to public health. Responding to these challenges does not only require scientific expertise but the knowledge of diverse stakeholders who are commonly marginalized in academic knowledge production. The aim of this talk is to bring concerns about global knowledge diversity in dialogue with philosophical debates about scientific pluralism.. Full details	Add event
5 February 2021		International Seminar: Mediation at the Heart of Learning Grammar A seminar discussing a range of issues related to teaching and learning grammar. Full details	Add event
3 February 2021		CRPR Seminar Series - Amy Simpson (DECIPHer, Cardiff University) Please email crpr@exeter.ac.uk to receive a link to join this online seminar. Full details	Add event
29 January 2021	9:00	Philosophy of Coordination As a follow-up to the workshop held in Nijmegen in Nov 2018, Egenis, The Centre for the study of Life Sciences at University of Exeter and the Philosophy of Mind and Language group at Radboud University Nijmegen are organising a small online workshop on the Philosophy of Coordination on Friday January 29th 2021. Full details	Add event
13 January 2021		CRPR Seminar Series - Caroline Bennett and Professor Steve Simpson Please email crpr@exeter.ac.uk to receive a link to join this virtual seminar. Full details	Add event
14 December 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Emotions online: What are they, and what can they do for us?" Dr Anna Bortolan (Swansea University) The seminar explores from a philosophical perspective the nature and role of emotions experienced in the context of social media use. First, I will argue that a narrative theory of emotion is better positioned than competing approaches to account for the key features of affective experiences on the internet. I will claim that these experiences are best understood as socially shaped processes, suggesting that such an account enables us to make sense of some of the characteristics of emotions undergone on social media (e.g. their intensity and contagiousness). I will then move to outline how such an account can shed light on the way in which online interactions may have transformative effects on one’s self-experience and self-understanding.. Full details	Add event
10 December 2020	16:30	Racism & Social Justice Seminars (organised with the Exeter Decolonising Network): Hazel Carby (Yale University): ‘Imperial Sexual Economies’. Full details	Add event
7 December 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Signalling, Solidarity, and Strategic Delusions", Dr Daniel Williams (University of Cambridge) Some widely held beliefs seem absurd. They appear so radically at odds with the available evidence that it is difficult to understand how anyone could genuinely hold them. Unlike clinical delusions, however, they do not appear to be produced by a dysfunctional psychology. Such beliefs therefore generate a puzzle: How – and why – do functional psychological mechanisms give rise to absurd beliefs? Drawing on signalling theory and research in the psychological and social sciences, I clarify, defend, and explore the hypothesis that such beliefs are a strategic response to the signalling incentives generated by coalitions.. Full details	Add event
2 December 2020	11:30	CRPR Seminar Series - Jess Fagin Jess is a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research. She is also a member of SOAS Food Studies Centre and the Graduate Association of Food Studies. Jess co-edits the Graduate Journal of Food Studies. Full details	Add event
1 December 2020	16:30	Global University Lecture: Joao Florencio, ‘COVID-19: Pandemics, Care and Communities’. Full details	Add event
30 November 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "An ethnography of metagenomics: Preliminary Results and Next Steps" Dr Roberta Raffaeta (Alma Mater University of Bologna) This presentation will be a critical discussion of my last book ‘Antropologia dei microbi. Come la metagenomica sta riconfigurando l’umano e la salute’ CISU, 2020. The book illustrates how the ecosystemic understandings of health and of biology introduced by microbiome research is perceived and enacted by metagenomics researchers. The main argument is that metagenomics working practices develop across the tension between theory and practice, holism and reductionism, and the molecular and the ecosystemic view. Full details	Add event
27 November 2020	12:30	ICE Development Fund Presentation: Stacey Hynd, Sefina Dogo Aliyu, and Elena Gadjanova, ‘#BringBackOurGirls and Humanitarian Advocacy: Analysing Race, Gender, and Childhood in Local and Global Child-Saving Campaigns’ Full details	Add event
23 November 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Cognitive Science Goes Green: The Quest for Plant Intelligence", Prof Paco Calvo (University of Murcia) Cognitive science provides the means to make headway in the quest for plant intelligence. Contrary to common belief, plants are not merely acted upon; they rather take action autonomously according to their own needs. Plants are intelligent insofar as they behave adaptively, flexibly, anticipatorily, and in a goal-directed manner. Plausibly, to do so, self-propelled mobility is needed—although, unlike animal locomotion, plant movement takes the form of growth and development. With that being said, being rooted, plants need to be much more distributed and decentralized than animals. Unfortunately, the default understanding of the relation between mobility and cognition is by resorting to an information-processing paradigm.. Full details	Add event
20 November 2020	12:30	ICE Development Fund Presentation: Michael Pearce, ‘Diversity & Participation in South African Wildlife Tourism and Conservation: Race, Culture, Performance’ Full details	Add event
17 November 2020	18:30	Global University Lecture: Clare Corbould (Deakin University) ‘Slavery and Public History inside and outside Australian Universities’. Full details	Add event
16 November 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "A Candyman in Letchworth: Making Human Environments Liveable", Prof Des Fitzgerald (University of Exeter) It is commonplace now to say that mental life is partly a product of the environment – to say that a person’s mental health is rooted in the external circumstances of their life, and not (only) in the internal workings of their body. There is however an emergent wrinkle in this form of thought, which is not new, but has nonetheless gained prominence in recent years: for both cultural and scientific practitioners, the environment, as it relates to mind, has come to signify not simply a generalisable set of social and cultural circumstances, but rather a person’s immediate physical environment; which is to say, the materials composing the building they are in, the arrangement of the urban scene they are passing through, or the set of small plants and shrubs with which they desperately populate their living and working spaces.. Full details	Add event
13 November 2020	12:30	ICE Development Fund Presentation: Christine Robins, ‘Fragile Faiths: Endangered Religious Cultures in Dialogue’ Full details	Add event
11 November 2020	15:30	Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities. Full details	Add event
9 November 2020	17:00	SSIS Honorary Graduate Speaker Series - "Leadership – a perspective" Colonel Lucy M Giles The College of Social Sciences and International Studies will be organising a short programme of online VIP Honorary Graduate talks for the College over the course of Term 1. Colonel Lucy M Giles BSc MA PGCE Hon LLD will be giving a talk on Monday 9th November 2020 titled "Leadership – a perspective". Full details	Add event
9 November 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Intercultural dialogue and learning across difference in traditional fishing communities using the partial overlaps methodology" Charbel El-hani (University Federal da Bahia) I will describe the partial overlaps methodology as an approach to deal with ontological, epistemological, ethical and political issues related to knowledge integration, by taking a via media between overly optimistic and pessimistic views on the possibility of integrating different knowledge systems. A central topic will be how learning may take place through partial overlaps, both when there is overlap between knowledge systems and when they diverge from each other. I will illustrate both the partial overlaps methodology and some mutual learning process from fieldwork in artisanal fishing traditional communities from Northeast Brazil. Full details	Add event
5 November 2020	12:30	Racism & Social Justice Seminars (organised with the Exeter Decolonising Network): Josie Gill (Bristol), ‘Race, Science, and Literary Studies in the 21st Century’ Full details	Add event
4 November 2020	11:30	CRPR Seminar Series - Simon Pope Simon is an artist, and an associate researcher at the University of Toronto.. Full details	Add event
26 October 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "The Spaces In Between: What geographic data can and cannot tell us about the past" Prof Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter) The appeal of geographic data to those studying the past seems self-apparent. Few sources of evidence provide such immediate and compelling means of conveying broader context and identifying correlatory relationships between ostensibly separate phenomena. But without disputing its importance as an essential component of historical inquiry, this seminar will seek to problematise the use of spatial data using two case studies.. Full details	Add event
22 October 2020	16:30	US Political Culture and the Presidential Election Seminar (with the Exeter Q-Step Centre): Chryl Laird (Bowdoin), ‘Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behaviour’ Full details	Add event
22 October 2020	12:30	Racism & Social Justice Seminars (organised with the Exeter Decolonising Network): Alyosxa Tudor (SOAS) ‘Is ‘the Postsocialist’ Racist or Anti-Racist?’ Full details	Add event
19 October 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Social practices, contested values. Forensic genetics innovations for policing" "Dr Matthias Wienroth (University of Northumbria) This paper contributes to studies of values and valuation within debates about social practices of responsible innovation. It proposes to understand innovation as social practice, and values in innovation as temporary settlements of considerations around validity, operability, and social compatibility of socio-technical innovation. As such, the paper adopts a practice-based approach to values in new technologies and their respective emerging governance and practice arrangements around Reliability, Utility and LEgitimacy (RULE). These three principles combine scientific with operational and social aspects of innovation as centre points around which deliberative engagement can be facilitated between different societal perspectives, offering the opportunity to develop greater awareness of diverse and at times competing understandings of values.. Full details	Add event
19 October 2020	10:00	Black History Month - "Symbols of Colonialism in the South West & Beyond" Black History Month Event, organised by the SSIS EDI Team . A talk by Louisa Adjoa Parker & Richard Toye. Full details	Add event
13 October 2020	17:00	SSIS Honorary Graduate Speaker Series - Harriet Lamb The College of Social Sciences and International Studies will be organising a short programme of online VIP Honorary Graduate talks for the College over the course of Term 1.. Full details	Add event
13 October 2020	16:30	Global University Lecture: Louise Lawrence, ‘Compassionate Research and Teaching? The Bible, Disability, and Cognitive [In-] Justice’ Full details	Add event
9 October 2020	14:00	"COVID Societies: What is the place of the social sciences and humanities in pandemic times?" The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the world. As the temporal horizon of the pandemic moves into years, and perhaps decades, however, it becomes clear that there are more than medical and scientific questions at stake, both in the pandemic and in our response to it. Learning to live with COVID also means identifying, understanding and tackling the social, cultural, political, ethical and environmental shifts emerging from the pandemic. This means, in turn, that research from experts in the social sciences and humanities will increasingly move towards the forefront of how we respond to the pandemic – sometimes in collaboration with clinical and scientific research, but sometimes under its own steam too. In this online roundtable, we draw together social science and humanities expertise from Exeter University to situate COVID-19 as a crisis that is posing major questions to research in these disciplines.. Full details	Add event
9 October 2020	12:30	ICE Development Fund Presentation: Gabriella Giannachi, ‘Understanding how to Improve Support to Veterans During Transition into Civilian Life’ Full details	Add event
7 October 2020	11:30	CRPR Seminar Series - Dr Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh Olivia is a Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, UEA and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the European Centre for Environmental and Human Health (ECEHH) at the University of Exeter, working on a transdisciplinary project on healthy food systems in the Caribbean. She also teaches two online short courses at Goldsmiths University, 'Decolonising Anthropology' and 'Masters of Sex: Feminisms, Sexuality and the Archive". Please email crpr@exeter.ac.uk to receive the link to join this online seminar. Full details	Add event
6 October 2020	15:30	CRPL Research Tea - Ambiguity tolerance across different educational settings Centre for Research in Professional Learning informal research discussion led by Jason Hancock. Full details	Add event
5 October 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar: "Processual Empiricism the COVID-19 Era: Rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification" Prof John Dupre and Prof Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) Whether we live in a world of autonomous things, or a world of interconnected processes in constant flux, is an ancient philosophical debate. Modern biology provides decisive reasons for embracing the latter view. How do we understand the practices and outputs of science in such a dynamic, ever-changing world - and particularly in emergency situation such as the current pandemic, where scientific knowledge is regarded as bedrock for decisive social interventions?. Full details	Add event
9 September 2020	15:00	Establishment Relations and Fatherhood Wage Premiums Fathers often earn more than their childless counterparts, although effects can vary among groups of men. Most of this literature uses micro data and attributes these wage effects to individual selection. We instead draw on relational inequality theory (RIT) to argue the importance of establishment relations behind group differences in net fatherhood wage premiums.. Full details	Add event
30 July 2020	11:00	"Do Not Feed the Animals?" Signs stating ‘Do not feed the animals’ are ubiquitous in zoos, national parks and urban spaces. They stress that uncontrolled feeding by people can affect animal health, alter wild animal behaviour and create public hygiene and nuisance issues. However, humans appear to have a deep-seated proclivity to feed animals. Many ancient cults fed animals, some modern religions require it, and feeding is often actively encouraged as a tourist attraction. Millions of people feed wildlife in gardens and in 2018, the pet-food industry was worth £2.7 billion in the UK alone. Full details	Add event
3 July 2020	15:30	Book Launch: Data Journeys in the Sciences This Joint event between the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Egenis, features the official launch of the Springer Open Access volume Data Journeys in the Sciences, edited by Sabina Leonelli and Niccolo Tempini and appearing in July 2020. The volume is a key output of the ERC project DATA_SCIENCE (led by Sabina Leonelli from 2014 to 2019, see www.datastudies.eu) and brings together leading thinkers in the history, philosophy and social studies of science to reflect on the challenges and conditions for mobilizing and (re)using research data. Full details	Add event
1 July 2020	13:00	Data Analysis and visualisation with Python Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python and the Seaborn package. Full details	Add event
24 June 2020	13:00	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Python and little-to-no experience of computer coding.. Full details	Add event
19 June 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series / book launch: Prof Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) To be rescheduled. Full details	Add event
9 June 2020	13:00	CANCELLED Lecture by Dr Sam Friedman (The London School of Economics and Political Science) Full details	Add event
8 June 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series: Dr Marta Halina (University of Cambridge) We hope to reschedule. Full details	Add event
3 June 2020	13:00	Longitudinal Data Analysis In this workshop you will learn about the principles of longitudinal data analysis; when it should be used and the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal methods. Full details	Add event
18 May 2020	15:30	CANCELLED. EGENIS seminar series: Prof Alison Wylie (University of British Columbia) May be rescheduled. Full details	Add event
15 May 2020	13:00	An Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence and its practical applications - ONLINE Workshop This seminar will be an Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). It will cover some broad themes of what OSINT is and what it is not, as well as some thoughts on the future of OSINT.. Full details	Add event
12 May 2020	14:00	Bayesian analysis with JAGS/Topics in Bayesian analysis - ONLINE Workshop One of the advantages of Bayesian analysis is its great flexibility with respect to the functional form of the model. To take full advantage of this flexibility, the analyst need to know how to write code for Stan, JAGS, BUGS or a similar sample.. Full details	Add event
11 May 2020	14:00	Introduction to Bayesian analysis - ONLINE Workshop This workshop offers an introduction to Bayesian analysis in R. We will talk about the theoretical underpinnings of Bayesian analysis and the practical considerations for conducting such analyses in R.. Full details	Add event
5 May 2020	16:30	CANCELLED Lecture by Dr Aratha Sriprakash (Cambridge University) Full details	Add event
4 May 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series: Exploring the Easter E.g. – Shifting Baselines and Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological ‘Aliens’, Prof Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter) Easter is the most important event in the Christian calendar. Despite its global reach and cultural significance, Easter has attracted minimal academic attention since the 1970s. Astonishingly little is known about the festival’s genesis, when it first appeared in Britain, the origins of its component customs – e.g. the gifting of eggs purportedly delivered by the Easter ‘bunny’ – or how they coalesced to form current practices. Equally obscure are the timing and circumstance by which animals that have come to be associated with the festival – notably the brown hare and the rabbit but also the chicken – arrived in Britain. As a result, Easter is a high-profile natural and cultural history puzzle. This talk, timed to coincide with the festival, will bring together the results of an AHRC-funded project on the subject.. Full details	Add event
27 April 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series: Prof Carole McCartney (Northumbria University) We hope to reschedule. Full details	Add event
23 March 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series: "Beliefs, Signals, and Groups" Dr Daniel Williams (University of Cambridge) An increasingly influential hypothesis in political science is that certain forms of group-based misinformation are driven by psychological and social processes in which unfounded beliefs come to function as signals of group identity and loyalty. I clarify, scrutinise, and offer a partial defence of this ‘signalling hypothesis’. Drawing on signalling theory and various characteristics of human psychology and groups, (i) I develop a theoretical framework for understanding why and how beliefs come to perform group-signalling functions and (ii) I explain how this phenomenon can be distinguished from other explanations of group-based misinformation.. Full details	Add event
20 March 2020	9:30	CANCELLED Lecture by Professor Joe Elliott (Durham University): "The dyslexia debate" Full details	Add event
20 March 2020	9:00	CANCELLED GSE Annual Education Research Conference This event reflects the research culture of the Graduate School of Education, bringing together postgraduate and PGCE students, new researchers, academics and leading practitioners from different disciplines and research traditions. Full details	Add event
18 March 2020	15:30	CANCELLED: Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities.. Full details	Add event
18 March 2020	10:30	Postponed: CRPR Seminar Series: Made Setiawan and Janet Sawyer Janet Sawyer is the Founder and Executive Chair of Littlepod. Made Setiawan is an Forest Agroecologist, Entrepreneur, and Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University Udayana, Indonesia.. Full details	Add event
16 March 2020	15:30	CANCELLED. EGENIS seminar series: Dr Matthias Wienroth (Newcastle University) Hope to re-schedule in the autumn. Full details	Add event
10 March 2020	14:00	CANCELLED - Hope and Despair: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Populists, Polarization and Mass Democratic Accountability in Challenging Times The Executive Approval Project (EAP) is a global collaborative data and research project whose goal is to measure public approval of political leaders to help understand why some executives are despised and removed while others remain popular and reelected.. Full details	Add event
10 March 2020	13:00	CANCELLED Lecture by Dr Franziska Felder (University of Zurich) - The ethics of inclusion, or: why we still need to talk about what inclusion means Full details	Add event
9 March 2020	15:30	CANCELLED. EGENIS seminar series: Prof Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter) Hope to be reschedule in the autumn. Full details	Add event
4 March 2020	15:30	POSTPONED: SPA Seminar Series - Professor Michael Carolan Professor Carolan is a Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Affairs for the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University. His areas of expertise include environmental and agricultural law and policy, environmental sociology, the sociology of food systems and agriculture, economic sociology, and the sociology of technology and scientific knowledge. Full details	Add event
4 March 2020	13:00	Data Analysis with R for Social Scientists Building upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Full details	Add event
4 March 2020	10:30	POSTPONED: CRPR Seminar Series: Prof. Michael Carolan This seminar engages with two rich but largely disparate research traditions: one looks at ethical consumption, that is, constructions and contestations around good food, while the other interrogates the equally contested space of what it means to be a good farmer. The argument is informed by qualitative data collected from, on the one hand, those engaged in shaping urban food policy and institutional procurement plans in Denver, Colorado, and, on the other hand, rural Colorado farmers and ranchers who supply out-of-state markets. Given the growing appeal of locally sourced food from smaller scale producers utilizing certain so-called ethical management practices (resulting in, e.g. cage-free chickens, organic food, and grass-fed beef), the seminar asks, “how are particular markers of good food,” which I show to be commonly held in urban foodscapes, “understood by rural producers?,” and “how do these constructions play into their conceptions of what it means to be a good farmer?”. Full details	Add event
24 February 2020	15:30	CANCELLED. EGENIS seminar series: Dr Gregor Greslehner (University of Bordeaux/CNRS) May be rescheduled. Full details	Add event
19 February 2020	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Dr. Kaley Hart The UK’s planned withdrawal from the European Union (EU) and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides an unparalleled opportunity to rethink and experiment with farming and land use policy design in a way that addresses the scale of the environmental and climate challenges. This seminar will consider the range of pathways being contemplated by the four UK administrations – from the removal of direct payments in England and Wales in favour of public goods oriented (England) and sustainability focussed (Wales) policies and the more conservative options under consideration in Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will investigate the issues currently under discussion and consider the implications of diversity and experimentation in policy design and implementation in this post Brexit era.. Full details	Add event
17 February 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Using open data to define problems: How residents, policymakers, and engineers approach open government data" Dr Caitlin Donahue Wylie (Virginia University) Making a city’s data publicly available online can serve the democratic ideal of transparency. Advocates argue that open civic data can equip stakeholders to achieve such lofty goals as supervising their government, identifying social problems, making evidence-based arguments for reform and social justice, and designing tailored solutions and research projects. As a result of this variety of uses, open data brings together several stakeholder groups, such as residents, elected officials and government staff, and engineering researchers. How these groups understand, interpret, and apply the same datasets offers a valuable comparison between their values, beliefs about knowledge, and conceptions of public good. Understanding these groups’ different epistemic approaches to data is crucial for identifying factors that influence whether and how users succeed in transforming open data into knowledge. Full details	Add event
10 February 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Plant Phenome", Dr Ozlem Yilmaz (University of Exeter) Plant Phenome Project* has started last month. Plant Phenomics has been growing and advancing rapidly in the last decades. Two important facts drive this growth: 1) the need for growing more, and more nutritious crop plants, for the rapidly growing world population, a growth that has been marked by increasing social inequalities; 2) the need for better understanding of plant-environment interaction, thereby improving the ability to produce crops better adapted to uncertainties in future climate. While recent research has focused heavily on genomics, it is increasingly recognised that achieving these vital goals will require matching genomic insights with deeper understanding of phenomes. The main purpose of the Plant Phenome Project is to provide a philosophical analysis of the main concepts in plant science.. Full details	Add event
7 February 2020	15:30	Geographical and Place-based dependence in multilevel models Multilevel models have been applied to study many geographical processes in epidemiology, economics, political science, sociology, urban analytics, and transportation. They are most often used to express how the effect of a treatment or intervention may vary by geographical group, a form of geographical process heterogeneity.. Full details	Add event
5 February 2020	15:00	Eating Together: Commensality seen through objects in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter We would like to invite you to join us for the presentation and discussion of food and drink-related objects in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum collection. Harry G West (Professor of Anthropology and Convenor of the MA Food Studies at the University of Exeter) will frame the presentation with observations on commensality—the act of coming together to share food and drink. Tony Eccles (Curator of Ethnography at the RAMM) will then present a range of materials, with commentary provided by a number of specialists from the University of Exeter. Full details	Add event
5 February 2020	13:00	Introduction to GIS A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to allow researchers to capture, store, manipulate, analyse, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. This workshop will introduce attendees to the introductory principles of GIS and how to use Python QGIS for research purposes. Full details	Add event
4 February 2020	16:30	Lecture by Dr Antonio Olmedo (University of Bristol) New landscapes and logics of competition in education: geography, demography and equity in English education policy This talk explores the new landscapes of competition in the English educational system. Such new landscape is part of broader processes of N/neoliberalisation, which involve not only changes at a structural level but also a reconfiguration of the subjectivities of political actors (from politicians to teachers and parents). Full details	Add event
30 January 2020	9:00	Analysing ambiguity: understanding and managing complexity in the professional environment Suggested participants: Mid/senior level managers, SMEs in any business sector, those seeking promotion to management levels or new to management, HR SMEs, Data scientists/analysts. Full details	Add event
22 January 2020	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Dr. Allan Butler This seminar explores the implications that the study of complex systems has for economics and policy evaluations. Complex system cut across the social sciences but the focus on economics is particularly interesting as it challenges some of its fundamental assumptions. This in turn can lead to differing approaches to policy evaluation that complements rather than competes with existing models. Therefore, the purpose of this seminar is to demonstrate how complexity thinking can enrich approaches that economists use when evaluating policy. Allan is an experienced economist and researcher. Intellectually, he is interested in understanding how complexity systems function and their influence on economic thought. He currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Royal Agricultural University, and has previously worked as a researcher fellow at the University of Exeter and Scottish Rural College.. Full details	Add event
15 January 2020	13:00	Introduction to R for Social Scientists This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of R, and will provide a solid introduction to using it for data analysis by covering how to handle data structures such as vectors, matrices, and data frames. Full details	Add event
15 January 2020	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Dr. Katharina Graf Hardly a meal is eaten without bread in Morocco. Despite a nutritional transition mirroring the global trend towards more sugar, fat and animal protein, cereals - largely in the form of wheat bread - remain highly valued and the unchallenged staple food of Moroccans. At the same time wheat is politically sensitive, for the legitimacy of the government historically rests on the provision of cheap flour and bread to its urban citizens. In this context, what cereals are eaten and how they are made into bread is meaningful not only culturally, but also economically and politically. To capture the multiple values of bread and to analyze their material and symbolic entanglements, I think of poor and recently urbanized Moroccans as ‘cereal citizens’. I argue that, in selecting cereals and making bread, recently urbanized poor Moroccans craft an ambivalent sense of belonging that celebrates their rural origins while accepting their dependence on cheap, largely imported wheat.. Full details	Add event
13 January 2020	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Open Knowledge Institutions: Is there a future for the university in a networked world?" Prof Cameron Neylon (Curtin University) From the inside it feels as though universities are under threat. Trust in expertise and support from governments seems to be ebbing, at the same time as massive tech giants pose an apparent threat to our core business of disseminating curated knowledge to students and sites of innovation. Yet universities are amongst the oldest surviving institutions in western society, predating the nation state, the corporation, and modern government. They have weathered massive societal change in the past. Are they well placed to do so through the crises of today? And are the tools available to university leaders fit for purpose, or even actively dangerous to the future of our institutions? What could a university be in the 21st century?. Full details	Add event
8 - 9 January 2020	9:30	Turning the Mirror: From Scientific Pluralism to Pluralism in HPS Turning the Mirror: From Scientific Pluralism to Pluralism in HPS All welcome, but please RSVP here https://philevents.org/event/show/74754 for catering purposes. 8-9 January 2020, Egenis, University of Exeter, UK Panel discussions are 90 minutes, talks are 60 minutes.. Full details	Add event
16 December 2019	9:30	"AI between Plant and Agricultural Science: Green Paths towards Environmental Intelligence" The workshop seeks to bring together experts in the plant and agricultural sciences who are working with computational methods of analyses, the integration of diverse datasets spanning biological and environmental data, and the management of plant data infrastructures, in order to discuss what possibilities might be offered for the field by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and the Environmental Intelligence initiative based at the University of Exeter. The Environmental Intelligence initiative seeks to develop new ways to understand complex interactions between climate, ecosystems, and human social and economic systems through the application of data science tools. Full details	Add event
9 December 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: Book Launch "Badgers and Bovine TB: Past, Present and Future", Dr Angela Cassidy (University of Exeter) Full details	Add event
4 December 2019	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Prof. Damian Maye Theme: Living Labs and rural-urban governance.. Full details	Add event
3 December 2019	12:30	Introduction to LaTex LaTex is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting that is used extensively in academia and elsewhere for technical and scientific documents. This workshop is aimed at those with little-to-no experience of LaTex, but who wish to develop a working understanding of it in order to produce high-quality documents. Full details	Add event
25 November 2019	15:30	POSTPONED - Egenis seminar series: Prof Leif Isaksen (University of Exeter) To be re-scheduled. Full details	Add event
22 November 2019	15:30	Data Analysis & Q-Step Alumni Careers Q&A Discussion Come along to our Q&A event and speak to a number of recent Exeter Q-Step and Politics graduates who have taken different career routes into social data science since graduating! This event is intended for any students, UG or PG, interested in a career in data analysis. You will have the opportunity to find out about a range of careers, and learn about what you can do, both now during your studies and after graduation, to follow a similar path.. Full details	Add event
20 November 2019	10:30	Who do we think you are? Detecting salient identities in text Behaviour differs between social groups – this appears to be true for linguistic style as well. Recent research has shown differences between age, gender, religious and political groups in the way group members speak. Since we are members of many different social groups, the question arises whether group membership affects our linguistic style constantly or whether our style shifts towards the group membership most relevant to the situation. Full details	Add event
11 November 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Offerings and Interruptions: co-creating with life" Heather Barnett (University of the Arts London) Heather Barnett is an artist, researcher and educator working with natural phenomena and biological systems. Working with live organisms, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies, her work explores how we observe, influence and relate to the world around us. Full details	Add event
8 November 2019	17:30	Penryn Careers Speed networking for Politics and IR students This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. Full details	Add event
8 November 2019	15:30	The case against perfection in the mean: Why it is time for an individualised approach to evidence for education Analyses of educational interventions need to produce evidence that is relevant to specific groups of students. When a group is not the target population of an intervention, any analysis involving just that group is called subgroup analysis, which is often regarded as a statistical malpractice, as its findings are often underpowered, unreliable, prone to overinterpretation at best, or misleading at worst.. Full details	Add event
6 November 2019	13:00	Data Analysis and visualisation with Python for Social Scientists Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python and the Seaborn package. Full details	Add event
6 November 2019	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Prof. Steffen Boehm This paper develops a new governance model for restorative and regenerative agri-food economies that balance, economic, social and environmental factors in new ways. Based on a critique of dominant neoliberal and extractivist governance approaches, this paper will make a case for a circular economy that works at a wider regional and landscape scale. Such a new economy is not focused on efficiency and productivity – the main mantras of contemporary agri-food and economic policies – but on effectiveness and resilience. A circular economy is not dependent on endless expansion, i.e. economic growth, but can still provide resilience for people and ecosystems within a degrowth (e.g. Brexit) scenario. Prof. Steffen Boehm is professor of organisation and sustainability at the University of Exeter Business School, UK.. Full details	Add event
6 November 2019	10:30	Worlds Colliding: Examining the social networks and linguistic patterns of a merging organization through email During a merger the acquiring organization is often a dominant force. It overwhelms the target organization and replaces its norms, routines, and formal structures. I will present the results from an ongoing analysis of a massively rich dataset of emails, longitudinal surveys, individual performance, and ethnography that paints a detailed picture of an unfolding organizational merger.. Full details	Add event
29 October 2019	13:00	When politics and diplomacy collide; the conflict spiral in the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 An investigation into the conflicting interests and powerplay revealed in the behaviour of the main protagonists- USSR and USA. A brief overview of this dangerous incident will be provided, but the main focus will be an analysis of public versus private decisions. We'll look at the personal drives and motivations of key figures such as John F Kennedy and Nikita Khrushev and discover why was not all as it seemed... Full details	Add event
28 October 2019	18:30	Careers in Social Justice Explore a range of careers which we have badged under the title of "Social Justice" - Police, Civil Service (Ministry of Justice), Youth offending services and more. You will have the opportunity to speak with all guests for around 15 minutes. See My Career Zone for booking details and information about our speakers. Full details	Add event
28 October 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Connecting the plots: 176 years of Long-term Experiment data and samples" Richard Ostler (Rothamsted Research) The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments (LTEs), started by Lawes and Gilbert between 1843 and 1856 are among the oldest continuing agricultural field experiments in the world. Seven of these early "Classicals" continue today, and more LTEs have been added since, the most recent being the Large Scale Rotation Experiments started in 2015/16.. Full details	Add event
23 October 2019	18:00	Professor Sue Prince, Professor of Law at the University of Exeter - Inaugural Lecture Professor Sue Prince, Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, will be presenting her Inaugural Lecture on "The 21st Century Academic Warior: Adversarialism and Justice". Full details	Add event
21 October 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: 'The coordinative function of cultural conventions', Prof Marc Slors (Radboud University) In this talk I want to argue that there is an intimate connection between trivial cultural conventions—such as social etiquette, styles of clothing and architecture and the styling of public space—and the (massive) division of roles and tasks that are characteristic of human societies. Full details	Add event
18 October 2019	17:30	Careers Discussion at Exeter Law School Cornwall / Skol an Lagha Karesk Come along to our Alumni discussion panel and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Law degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Law Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice careers in law. There will be a drinks and nibbles reception afterwardsin Exchange RED, where you will have chance to speak with all the Alumni. Full details	Add event
18 October 2019	15:00	St Luke's Day Lecture by Professor Daniel Muijs (Head of Research at Ofsted) Full details	Add event
17 October 2019	15:30	Careers in the Humanitarian sector Our speakers bring with them a wealth of experience working for different UN agencies focusing on translation and policy work. For more information about our speakers and to book, please visit My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
16 October 2019	12:30	SWDTP Information Session Gabriel Katz, Exeter's Institutional Academic Lead for the ESRC-funded South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP), has organised an information session on the SWDTP PhD and MA Programs, scholarships and selection procedures. Full details	Add event
14 October 2019	17:30	Is teaching for Me? Our panel of PGCE alumni will discuss their teaching careers, what it's like to be a teacher, and give you their tips on how you can follow a similar path.We will also be joined by student campus ambassadors from the Department of Education who will talk about the "Get into Teaching" campaign and the support and resources available through the Department of Education. Full details	Add event
14 October 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Cultivating Bioscience Image: A New Approach to Understanding the Life Sciences and Life Science Education as Participatory Visualisation Process" David Hay (King's College London) In this paper I set out to challenge the firmly held assumption that bioscience research is a quest for knowledge and the imperative to change, develop, modify, and manipulate things. In its place I will advance a different thesis, one that situates researchers and their objects in a line of understanding. Without contesting the obvious association that bioscience is for human benefit: healthcare, economy, conservation, and the like, I will also assert that these potential gains are only half the story and that while this goes on, there is another current of research in which human and non-human sensitivities are being cultivated by the practice of research for different – more important – reasons. Full details	Add event
9 October 2019	16:30	Regional Law firm Careers speed networking Join us for an afternoon of networking with law firms from across the South West. Take the opportunity to talk to them about what they look for in a potential intern or trainee and what a successful application looks like. Full details	Add event
9 October 2019	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series: Thomas Vetter - (Un-)learning through new communities of practice This paper presents a qualitative case study analysis of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, (PFLA) which seeks to ‘kick the grain habit’ in ruminant farming by promoting, certifying and legitimizing purely pasture-fed production systems. Read through a social learning perspective, the paper traces how the PFLA has become established as a new and distinct community of practice. The role that unlearning plays in legitimizing new communities of practice such as the PFLA is highlighted. The PFLA case study informs debates about the potential role that new communities of practice can play in bringing alternative practices, knowledges, and products to peoples’ minds and markets. Thomas Vetter is a PhD candidate at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and was conducting fieldwork in the United Kingdom. His research interest lies in the transformation of agri-food systems and its implications for society, economy, state and the environment. Full details	Add event
2 October 2019	18:30	Valuing Nature Keynote Lecture This Valuing Nature Keynote Lecture will be given by Dr Nicola Beaumont from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Full details	Add event
2 October 2019	13:00	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of Python and little-to-no experience of computer coding. The workshop will provide a practical introduction to the Python programming language, and cover a host of the major operations a user will need to do in Python; ranging from assigning variables and working with lists, through to writing to/reading from a file, producing graphs, and debugging. Full details	Add event
1 October 2019	18:30	Careers Speed networking for Politics and IR students Come along to our Speed Networking evening and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics and IR degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. You will have the chance to speak with all of our 5 Alumni in 15 minute sessions. Full details	Add event
30 September 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: “Evolution evolving”, Prof John Dupre (University of Exeter) My title refers both to changes in the theory of evolution and to changes in the processes of evolution themselves. With regard to the former, I shall discuss the gradual relaxation of the hegemonic grip of so-called neo-Darwinism, as this has had to confront insights into phenomena such as the variety of modes of inheritance and of sources of novelty, the two-way interaction between organism and environment, and the widespread significance of biological plasticity. Full details	Add event
9 - 13 September 2019	11:30	Q-estival 2019: People, Data and Society The Exeter Q-Step Centre is celebrating six years of teaching and research and our move to a new home. We are holding a series of workshops, seminars and keynote addresses around our key research labs: Education and Life Course Studies, Policing in Practice and Computational Social Science. We will also be hosting a related Arts & Culture stream. Full details	Add event
25 July 2019	13:00	Understanding women's mental health across the lifecourse The aim of this workshop is to bring researchers together across the University of Exeter, and beyond, with an interest in understanding women’s mental health. The workshop will convene a multi-disciplinary group with shared substantive interests, but who take different approaches to research on this topic.. Full details	Add event
15 July 2019	17:30	Keynote Lecture - Animal Research Unbound: The Messiness of the Moral. Lesley A. Sharp (Barnard College, Columbia University) Interspecies intimacy defines an inescapable reality of lab animal research. This talk is an effort to disentangle this reality’s consequences—both in and outside the lab—as framed by the quandaries of ethnographic engagement. Full details	Add event
15 - 16 July 2019	8:30	"Animal Research Unbound" Conference Much social scientific, philosophical and historical work on animal research has followed the enclosures around research communities and the relatively closed nature of animal research to highlight the construction of boundaries around animal research. This includes the ethical boundary work used to justify the use of animals in research, the human-animal and species boundaries constructed through research practices, the regulatory boundaries shaping responsibilities for animal use and care, through the spatial and material infrastructures that separate the animal house and laboratory. Even work tracing the accelerating mobilities and movements of research using animals often starts from consideration of how these might overcome boundaries between previously closed species and spaces of animal research. Full details	Add event
9 July 2019	13:30	Working for Excellence for Equity in Higher Education The Centre for Social Mobility is delighted to announce a summer lecture by our distinguished international colleague, Professor Penny Jane Burke. Full details	Add event
27 - 29 June 2019		European Society for Central Asian Studies 2019 Conference (ESCAS) The 16th biennial conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) will be held at the University of Exeter, 27–29 June 2019. ESCAS seeks to support the study of Central Asia — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and adjacent regions of the Caucasus, Russia, China, Afghanistan and Iran. The theme for the 16th conference is "The Globality of Central Asia". Our conference will assess globalizations from below as well as those from above. We ask how individuals and communities of Central Asia are related to global processes.” Registrations now open. Full details	Add event
24 June 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "On the Nature and Intelligibility of Medical Knowledge and Practitioners", Prof Dr Hakan Ertin What kind of knowledge is produced in the realm of medicine? Does the medicine have exact results as mathematics and physics have? Or is medical knowledge not certain? Medical professionals believe that the result of medical knowledge is not always as precise as two and two is four. Why is this so? If so, what kind of results can be deduced from this situation? For instance, does complementary and alternative medicine take advantage of this situation? The complex nature of medical knowledge involves some challenges for scientists outside the medicine researching issues relating to the medical field. This is often encountered while medical (and/or technical) knowledge is being interpreted by social scientists. In fact, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow describes medicine as social science, but medical professionals - usually physicians - cannot even imagine that medicine can be a social science. This perception has become stronger as more and more new technologies enter -even occupy- th. Full details	Add event
24 June 2019		Institute of Coding Summer School 2019 at the University of Exeter For students with little or no experience of programming or coding, the Institute of Coding Summer School at Exeter is an opportunity to enhance your digital skills through a course designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of computer programming and social data analysis. Full details	Add event
20 - 21 June 2019		"Science and Values" Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Workshop Questions of value have always played a role in the history and philosophy of science. Philosophical questions surrounding scientific realism, for instance, often turn on the epistemic value or otherwise of virtues such as ‘simplicity’. While historians have long recognised this, philosophers have recently begun to acknowledge a wide range of values - the political, moral and aesethetic - in understanding scientific practices. This opens up a variety of new questions, both historical and philosophical, regarding the relationship between scientific practice and its historical development on the one hand, and the role of values—understood broadly. Consideration of the role of values in research provokes a host of historical and philosophical questions, typically well suited to an integrated HPS approach. This meeting of the iHPS will focus on such questions. Full details	Add event
17 June 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Public Health, Biopolitics, Security", Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University, Canada) Biopolitics is a force relation that deploys security mechanisms to regularize general biological processes within a population according to a norm. These mechanisms are institutionalized around those uncertain or random elements within a population of living beings with the objective of optimizing the state of life. This presentation analyzes a case study of the preparation of The Health of a Nation – a strategy for England, a public health policy for the National Health Service in the 1990s. I argue that the power-knowledge of public health and the policies installed to organize and inform the rates of mortality within the NHS have congealed within a dispositif of security.. Full details	Add event
17 June 2019	9:30	Centre for Social Mobility Conference 2019 After a successful launch event last year, the University of Exeter is delighted to be holding the second Conference for the Centre for Social Mobility, which will take place on 17th June at the Streatham Campus. This conference will be open to all University of Exeter professional services staff, academics, research fellows and students who are interested in finding out about building a whole institution approach to social mobility, and about plans to improve the access, success and progression of Widening Participation students within Higher Education and specifically at the University of Exeter. The conference will take place in the Forum Auditorium and Seminar rooms, and will include plenaries, a number of different workshop breakout sessions (bookable upon registration on the day of the event), and discussion throughout.. Full details	Add event
13 June 2019	10:00	GW4 Doctoral Student Training Workshop Publishing ethnographic work: monographs, journals and mainstream media. Full details	Add event
12 June 2019	14:00	The Future of Farming A seminar exploring UK agriculture at a point where, for the first time in a generation, the future of agriculture is unclear and unfettered by the constraints and incrementalism of the Common Agricultural Policy. Guest speakers Carmen Hubbard (University of Newcastle) and Tom MacMillan (Royal Agricultural University) will be joined by Matt Lobley and Michael Winter from the CRPR to explore the latest research findings in order to discuss the potential impact of Brexit and the future shape of policy. Full details	Add event
11 June 2019	13:00	Lecture by Professor Neil Humphrey (University of Manchester) Are the kids alright? Examining the intersection between education and mental health Full details	Add event
10 June 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "An empirical challenge for scientific pluralism – Alternatives or Integration?" Sophie Juliane Veigl (University of Vienna, Austria) Scientific pluralism has become an increasingly popular position in the philosophy of science. One shared notion among scientific pluralists is that some or all natural phenomena require more than one theory, explanation or method to be fully understood. One distinction within pluralist positions is often overlooked. Some pluralists argue that several theories or explanations should be integrated (e.g. Mitchell, 2002). Others rather treat different theories and explanations as alternatives (e.g. Kellert, Longino and Waters, 2006). But does this distinction address the “nature” of the respective phenomena? And, consecutively: Are there genuine cases of “alternative” or “integrative” pluralism? In this talk I challenge this perspective and argue that it is not possible to uphold the distinction of alternatives vs. integration. Full details	Add event
5 June 2019	13:00	CANCELLED: Introduction to SQL for Data Science Unfortunately this workshop has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Full details	Add event
5 June 2019	10:30	Centre for Rural Policy Research Seminar: Prof. Paul Young - Rider Haggard, Rural England and the Romance of Frozen Meat In the latter part of the 19th century, as a result of advances in preservation and transportation technologies that operated in tandem with extensive programmes of overseas pastoralization, Britain’s growing body of meat-eaters were increasingly devouring animals reared and slaughtered in the Americas and Australasia. While this meat was relatively cheap it was also controversial. This paper considers the work of the novelist, landowner and agriculturalist H. Rider Haggard in the context of the dynamic but debated rise of imported meat in late 19th century Britain. My paper will turn to three of Haggard’s most popular adventure stories arguing that they worked to stimulate the expansionist carnivorous culture that gripped Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and that became so foundational to the world-ecological development of meat-eating modernity. Paul Young is Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter.. Full details	Add event
22 May 2019	18:00	PhD Open Evening for Humanities and Social Sciences Have you ever wondered if studying for a PhD could be right for you? Perhaps you are interested in delving into a subject that fascinates you; or think a PhD might boost your career prospects. Full details	Add event
22 May 2019	10:30	Centre for Rural Policy Research Seminar: Prof. Jesse Richardson - Hillbilly Resurrection: a critical look at socio-political-economic-legal issues in rural America through the lens of Appalachia Shockwaves resonated throughout much of the United States (and the wider world) upon announcement of the 2016 US presidential election results—Donald Trump had secured a victory. Over half the voters (Hilary Clinton won a majority of the votes) and onlookers wondered despondently, “How did this happen?”. One hypothesis which has given rise to controversy is presented in Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance, a New York Times Best Seller, which provided fuel for a debate about the role of the deteriorating white working class in the election and post-industrial American society. Professor Jesse Richardson, Professor of Law at West Virginia University Law School and Lead Land Use Attorney at the WVU Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Clinic, will provide insights into the socio-political, economic, and legal aspects he encounters through his work in Appalachia that challenge many assumptions about rural America and arguments such as Vance’s.. Full details	Add event
22 May 2019	9:30	Inner Speech, Self-talk and Mental Health For several decades the phenomenon of inner speech has been seen as relevant to understanding psychiatric conditions; most notably, voice hearing and thought insertion. But inner speech itself is far from being fully understood. Full details	Add event
20 May 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Assembling the Dinosaur" Lukas Rieppel (Brown University, USA) Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 19th century turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs soon dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Full details	Add event
16 May 2019	18:00	An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Justin Dillon Professor Justin Dillon, Professor of Science and Environmental Education at the University of Exeter, will be presenting his Inaugural Lecture on “A National Disgrace: Why Learning Beyond the Classroom Matters More Than Ever”. Full details	Add event
13 May 2019	16:30	Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents "What is the meaning of 'Tajik'?" Richard Foltz (Ph.D., Harvard, 1996) is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world and his work highlights the wide-ranging influence of Iranian civilization on diverse societies stretching from the Balkans to China.. Full details	Add event
7 May 2019	16:30	A lecture by Professor Elizabeth de Freitas (Manchester Metropolitan University: Affect, sympathy and the felt experience of form Full details	Add event
17 April 2019	13:00	Detecting trolls on Reddit: Introduction to Computational Text Analysis and Supervised Machine Learning in R Computational propaganda is becoming a non-negligible presence on news forums and social media, and it is crucial to be able to separate between real users and social bots or trolls. Following Twitter, Reddit released a list of accounts suspected of being state-sponsored trolls, users who wrote more than 15.000 posts and comments between 2015 and 2018. How precisely can these posts be detected based on their content and the available metadata and what techniques can be used to achieve maximum accuracy?. Full details	Add event
15 April 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Developing a cross cultural comparison of child mental health: stories from the field", Dr Ginny Russell, Dr Abby Russell & Daisy Elliott (University of Exeter) In this seminar we want to examine differing cultural understandings of child mental health gleaned from our recent working visits to Peru, India and Vietnam. We will each give a brief introduction to the history of one region, our host institutions, and the understandings of child mental health that we gleaned, using photos to illustrate. We hope to discuss how to synthesise culturally informed understandings about children’s mental health in a planned trans-national comparison. We will have a particular focus on girls’ mental health and gender inequality. Full details	Add event
2 April 2019	10:00	BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: 'Analytical Approaches in Educational Research' Full details	Add event
2 April 2019	10:00	BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: 'Analytical Approaches in Educational Research' Full details	Add event
25 March 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Citizen-Led Science and Participatory Science and Technology Studies" Dr Ernesto Schwartz-Marin (University of Exeter) Weakness and vulnerability lie at the centre of what we call Citizen-Led Science. Paradoxically the strength of weak knowledge production is to systematically start our activities and enquiries not with a position authority, or in the know, but in the margins of what we have considered possible, desirable and realistic so far. Citizen-Led Science begins in the what if? Nonetheless, Citizen-Led Science will hardly (if ever) become solely a thought experiment, a foundational principle is that it should be a matter of practice: citizen-led scientists learn by doing. Actioninside and outside laboratory settingshelps to reveal the boundaries, limits and unspoken rules of the status quo and scientific production. Intervention is revelation. Taking inspiration from Karl Marx’s famous 11th thesis, I argue that all interpretations are interventions, but not all interventions are equal. In short disrupting is not necessarily subverting, and subversion does not necessarily lead to justice.. Full details	Add event
22 March 2019	10:00	UNHCR Careers talk Our speaker will share details about the application process and what attributes and skills the organisation is looking for. Laura will also discuss their own career journey and the field of external relations, with some personal tips. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. Laura has been a spokesperson and campaigner for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, for over a decade. She works on parliamentary advocacy and communications on UK and international refugee issues, and manages relationships with high profile supporters in the UK. Prior to UNHCR, she worked on asylum issues in government and as a parliamentary advisor. She co-chairs the Families Together coalition of over 30 organisations campaigning on refugee family reunion. Full details	Add event
22 March 2019		GSE Annual Education Research Conference This event taking place on Friday 22 March 2019 reflects the research culture of the Graduate School of Education, bringing together postgraduate students, new researchers, academics and leading practitioners from different disciplines and research traditions. Full details	Add event
20 March 2019	13:30	Longitudinal Data Analysis for Social Scientists In this workshop you will learn about the principles of longitudinal data analysis; when it should be used and the advantages and disadvantages of longitudinal methods. Full details	Add event
20 March 2019	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series - Dr David Rose David will explore how we might do academia differently to enhance the policy impact of our work. He will draw on a report on the role of research in the UK Parliament, co-authored with colleagues at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and UCL STEaPP, which gained insights from 157 MPs, Peers, and staff in Parliament. This report explored how individuals and groups in Parliament use research, and why particular types and sources of research are used more than others. Academic evidence was widely criticised for a number of reasons, including lack of timeliness, accessibility, and relevance, as well as its poor presentation. The talk will assess how academia can change to encourage the production of research which is more likely to influence policy David is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of East Anglia. He currently holds a Research Placement Fellowship at Defra and is seconded to the department for a day per week.. Full details	Add event
18 March 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Epigenetic Variables and Postgenomic Influences", Dr Lara Choksey (University of Exeter) This paper looks at what counts as a variable in human epigenetics, and at how a combinatorial approach in postgenomic research is producing novel accounts of experience, embodiment, and inheritance, while also throwing up problems of interdisciplinary methods. When it comes to epigenetics, the question, “what matters, and how?” passes through a network of distinct disciplinary conventions of identification, assembled - sometimes speculatively - into cause and effect. Moreover, the process of identifying life experiences as biologically significant often follows established narrative conventions of understanding human life within different disciplines – commonly, psychological and sociological approaches – while also urging reconceptualisations of their significance and processes.. Full details	Add event
14 March 2019	12:00	Are you listening? Crisis Negotiation Skills with Deborah Goodwin OBE Join us as we welcome prestigious guest speaker Dr Deborah Goodwin OBE, to present her seminar on Crisis Negotiation Skills. Ever wondered how negotiators work? How do they even start to de-escalate something like a siege or a conflict? Would you know what to do? No? Well, here's a chance to learn! We're also throwing in a pizza lunch for attendees!. Full details	Add event
13 March 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - “Can genetics tell us anything about voting patterns, including Brexit?” Abstract TBC. Full details	Add event
12 March 2019	13:00	A lecture by Professor Cathy Burnett (Sheffield Hallam University), The messiness of literacy: unsettling simple accounts of literacy through a baroque perspective on virtual play Full details	Add event
11 March 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Responsible Futures:Industrial Biotechnology and the Challenge of Responsible Innovation", Dr Achim Rosemann (University of Exeter) The seminar explores one of the key problems of contemporary society: to develop new forms of technology and industrial production that are safe, sustainable and accepted by the public. Industrial biotechnology (IB) is often portrayed as fulfilling this promise. Hailed as part of a new industrial revolution, IB is seen as offering solutions to some of the world’s largest problems: climate change, clean production, food shortages and major global health issues. However, akin to the industrial transformations of the past, IB is also creating new types of challenges, such as risks arising from manufacturing accidents, unintended environmental effects, and disruptive impacts on economic systems and human societies.. Full details	Add event
8 March 2019	17:30	Women in Leadership: Balance for Better To celebrate International Women’s Day we are delighted to announce our Women in Leadership discussion panel and networking will take place on Friday 8th March. With support from the Annual Fund and from the Women and Law SACA project, this exciting event will be a highlight of the social sciences employability events calendar. Open to all students and local alumni, this event will showcase the inspiring career journeys of our speakers. This discussion panel event will allow plenty of time for a Q&A. Following the event there will be the opportunity to network with all of our guests, where you will be able to speak more freely with them about their careers. Light refreshments will be provided. Our speakers are all SSIS graduates and leaders in their fields: Janet Garcia – Law and Society, President at PSI International Denise Hadow – Law, Non-Executive Director, AJH Ltd Sue Heady – Philosophy, Director at Heady Communications. Full details	Add event
6 March 2019	13:30	Data Analysis with R for Social Scientists Building upon the basic introduction offered to R in workshop 4, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data using R, as well as introducing the various libraries that a user needs to be familiar with in order to carry out such tasks. Full details	Add event
5 March 2019	13:00	Gender, Sexual Orientation and Stereotypes: Challenges for Lesbian and Gay Candidates This paper explores how the public stereotypes politicians based on gender and sexual orientation when cued about these identities in low information environments. While many studies examine high profile races to demonstrate the impact that media coverage and its potential to trigger stereotypes has on opportunities for female or queer candidates, few studies explore its implications in typical elections at the riding level.. Full details	Add event
28 February 2019	12:30	SSIS Careers: Working in Public Relations / Communications Join Alicia De Haldevang (International Relations with Arabic and German, 2010), Public Relations and Digital Communications Manager at Atkins Global, who will deliver a session on what it's like to work in PR and communications. In this interactive workshop, Alicia will cover: An introduction with a career outline PR scenario group task Consolidation on how the skills you learn from your social sciences degree are relevant to your future employers Q&A on what steps you can take to get in to a PR careers The session will cover both UK and Middle Eastern opportunities, the skills required from your social sciences degrees to succeed in PR employment, what steps you can take to do so, as well as a Q&A where you will get the chance to ask our guest speaker the questions on your mind!. Full details	Add event
27 February 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - “Measuring global gender inequality indicators using large-scale online advertising data” The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a key instrument in setting the agenda around global development until 2030. The promotion of gender equality features prominently in the SDGs, both as a standalone goal as well as in relation to other goals (e.g access to education). Full details	Add event
25 February 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: “The Greenpeace Research Laboratories and the role of science within a global environmental campaigning organisation”, Dr David Santillo (Greenpeace Research Laboratories, University of Exeter) In working towards a more sustainable future across all aspects of society, Greenpeace aims to bear witness to environmental problems and to support work to identify innovative solutions. Campaigning is in part about winning ‘hearts and minds’, but that is only likely to lead to secure change in the right directions if work is underpinned by a strong evidential basis, including in science. The role of the Greenpeace Research Laboratories, which have been based within the University of Exeter and affiliated with the School of Biosciences for more than a quarter of a century, is to provide objective scientific advice and primary analytical research capabilities to Greenpeace’s offices around the world, across a range of disciplines. Full details	Add event
20 February 2019	10:30	CRPR Seminar Series - Dr Rachel Kaleta Dr. Rachel Kaleta first trained as an ecologist, and went on to gain a Masters and PhD in Ethnobiology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Her research has focused on the sustainability of socio-ecological systems. She has conducted research on medicinal plant use by snake charmers in India, wild resource use in Morocco, and local food systems in the UK. Rachel’s current research is on socio-ecological food systems in the Tamar Valley. Rachel is a lecturer in Ecology and Ethnobotany at Eden Project Learning.. Full details	Add event
18 February 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit" Dr Staffan Müller-Wille & Prof Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) We present our plans for a collaborative research project that consists of two intertwined elements: a new English on-line edition and translation of Carl Linnaeus's diary of a journey through Lapland undertaken in 1732, and a re-enactment of that journey. Full details	Add event
13 February 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - 'Religious decline in the West: Unravelling age, period and cohort effects' Old people tend to be more religious than young people, and Western societies today are less religious than they were in the past. Scholars disagree, though, about what’s changing and why.. Full details	Add event
11 February 2019	15:30	EGENIS seminar series: "Who is Afraid of Mimesis?", Dr Chiara Ambrosio (University College London) Full details	Add event
8 February 2019	14:00	Human Rights Careers Discussion and Q&A Barrister Jonathan Cooper OBE is a Human Rights specialist with experience before English and International courts and tribunals, as well as conducting training programmes and advising on human rights issues in jurisdictions all over the world. You can read more about Jonathan's own career path and find out how he combines his work as a leading barrister in Doughty Street Chambers with his work developing teaching and training programmes in Human Rights. https://justice.org.uk/jonathan-cooper-obe/ https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/jonatha... Jonathan's talk will be of special interest to any students considering becoming a barrister and those with an interest in working in the area of Human Rights. An informal Q&A session will be accompanied by tea / coffee and biscuits. Full details	Add event
6 February 2019	13:00	Introduction to Discourse Network Analysis (DNA) Discourse network analysis is a toolbox of research methods for the analysis of actor-based debates, such as policy debates or political discussions. Examples include the policy debates on climate change, pension politics, or around the introduction of large infrastructure projects. Full details	Add event
5 February 2019	16:30	Lecture by Professor Wasyl Cajkler (University of Leicester), Lesson Study and Growth of Pedagogic Literacy in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Full details	Add event
5 February 2019	11:30	SSIS Careers: Life as a commercial lawyer in a regional law firm Our speaker, corporate solicitor Henry Maples, trained at a large regional full service firm (Foot Anstey) which included a secondment to a large London law firm specialising in private equity work before moving in 2013 to Murrell Associates, a smaller corporate commercial law firm based in Truro, Cornwall. He will share his views on life as a corporate lawyer in a regional firm (large and small) for those interested in such career outside of the major cities. He will also provide some tips on how to demonstrate your commercial awareness – a key question in many job applications. Full details	Add event
5 - 22 February 2019		First Call for Papers - GSE Annual Research Conference Full details	Add event
1 February 2019	12:30	SSIS Careers: Journalism Workshop: Getting a story on air with Simon Vigar (5 News) Join Exeter alumnus Simon Vigar (Royal Correspondent for 5 News) for a workshop focusing on delivering a news story, analysing different scenarios and practical ways of dealing with them. There will also be time for a Q&A with Simon about careers in journalism. 'Everything you wanted to know about getting a story on air but were afraid to ask' Exeter alumnus Simon Vigar shares his 30 years experience in broadcast news, which includes everything from major terrorist attacks to Royal weddings. Simon will lead a workshop analysing different scenarios and will look at practical ways of dealing with them. Simon will also reveal some newsgathering top tips on how to stay safe but still get the story. The session will finish with a Q&A. Full details	Add event
31 January 2019	18:30	Social Sciences Careers Speed Networking Back by popular demand! Hear from alumni speakers working in Government, Foreign Office and Consultancy. We have four alumni working in a variety of sectors who have used their degrees to have successful careers. This will be a fantastic opportunity to hear about the career options open to you, to network with a number of successful alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path.. Full details	Add event
28 January 2019	15:30	"Receiving an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis for a child: a longitudinal interview study on parents’ experiences" Delphine Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium) Egenis seminar series. In a longitudinal empirical study, I investigate how the autism concept is understood and experienced by parents. Parents who ask for an ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) diagnostic assessment for their child are interviewed at three different moments (Saldaña, 2003): before the ASD diagnostic assessment, right after the feedback session, and 12 months later. Full details	Add event
23 January 2019	13:00	Network Analysis for Social Scientists This workshop provides an introduction for beginners to Social Network Analysis. It gives an overview of key concepts needed to design research that looks at social relations (networks) that connect individual units (actors), so that students can apply social network analysis to their own research.. Full details	Add event
23 January 2019	12:30	SSIS Employer Workshop: Macfarlanes Application session Macfarlanes are a distinctive London-based law firm, focusing on their clients and delivering excellence in the international legal market. Join Lindsay Bridges, Graduate Recruitment Advisor, who will be delivering a session on how you can succeed with your application forms. Full details	Add event
21 January 2019	15:30	"The Art of Moving in Biology", Janina Wellmann (Leuphana University of Lüneburg) Egenis seminar series. Since ancient times, self-propelled movement has been considered the distinguishing characteristic of the living, setting it apart from mere matter. Motion has always been observed, described and visualized: cells “dancing”, “swimming”, or “swarming”, for example, or “twitching”, “floating”, and “curling” have vividly brought to life the hidden world inside our bodies. But what is biological motion? While motion has always been central to studying the living world it appears to have been taken for granted in biological analysis. Full details	Add event
18 January 2019	9:00	Language teacher cognition research: theoretical stances and methodological choices Full details	Add event
16 January 2019	10:30	Centre for Rural Policy Research Seminar Series James Whetlor founded Cabrito after keeping a few goats to solve a land management problem. He was cooking at River Cottage at the time and a few of the goats ended up on the menu. After seeing how well the kids sold, James thought perhaps there was a market for kid goat meat. Cabrito was created and has continued to grow a market for kid goat meat. All Cabrito kids are a by-product of the dairy industry and in the past would have been euthanized shortly after birth. In a world of dwindling resources and rising food prices Cabrito believe this cannot be justified. They now have a network of farms producing high quality meat from a previously wasted resource. James’ seminar will reflect on the development of his business and its mission, sharing his thoughts on the production and consumption of goat. Information about James’ book 'Goat' (2018) here: https://cabrito.co.uk/goat-book/. Full details	Add event
14 January 2019	15:30	"Expressivism about the Attribution of Mental Illness" Dr Sam Wilkinson (University of Exeter) Egenis seminar series. There is an on-going debate surrounding different answers to the question “What is mental illness?” My aim in this paper is not to engage directly with this debate, but to see the consequences of adopting a form of expressivism with regards to the attribution of mental illness. In other words, I am (at least initially) retreating from the contested ground about what mental illness might be, to an exploration of what attributing mental illness might do. I argue that calling someone mentally ill expresses (in a sense that I will clarify) certain evaluative attitudes (in a sense that I will clarify). I end by investigating consequences of this view for related issues, including: cultural relativism, the nature of illness more generally, and, returning to the more traditional debate, a potential answer to what mental illness might actually be. Full details	Add event
9 January 2019	13:00	Introduction to R for Social Scientists This workshop is aimed at those who have no experience of R, and will provide a solid introduction to using it for data analysis by covering how to handle data structures such as vectors, matrices, and data frames. Full details	Add event
10 December 2018	15:30	POSTPONED "Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit" Dr Staffan Müller-Wille & Prof Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) Egenis seminar series. This seminar has been postponed until Monday 18th February.. Full details	Add event
5 December 2018	14:00	Sentiment Analysis/Career as a Data Scientist ASI Data Science utilise artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in conjunction with large and small data sets in order to provide businesses with a competitive advantage. In this workshop, members of the company will provide an in-depth understanding of sentiment analysis, and how it can identify and categorise opinions from text data in order to understand the attitude of the individual(s) that wrote a piece of text. Full details	Add event
5 December 2018	10:30	Centre for Rural Policy Research Seminar Series Ruth Hancock is a first generation farmer, and is the lead grower at Fresh and Green Vegetables - a medium scale agroecologically run Vegetable Box Scheme in East Devon. She started her agricultural journey after leaving school at seventeen and moving to Devon. Here she gained experience in a wide range of livestock and arable farming, and completed a three year National Diploma in Agriculture, at Bicton College in the early 1990's. Ruth will be sharing her experiences of setting up and running a productive, profitable, but also ecologically and socially conscious business, within the present constraints of the food system. Ruth is also a core group member of The Land Workers Alliance, a union of small scale farmers, that seeks to promote agroecological land use methods and aims to enable more people, from a greater diversity of backgrounds, to have the opportunity of making a living from producing food, fuel and fibre in an ecologically and socially conscious way. This presentation will link the practical and political to illustrate - and illuminate - a positive route forward to making good food and considerate land use an accessible, sustainable reality. Full details	Add event
4 December 2018	15:30	Seminar Series - 'From riot police to tweets: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics' Elite communication has the potential to influence public opinion, civil conflict, and diplomatic interactions. However, a comparative study of leaders' public rhetoric has proven elusive due to the difficulties of developing comparable measures across countries and over time. The advent of social media sites, and its widespread adoption by world leaders, offers a unique new source of data to overcome these challenges. Full details	Add event
28 November 2018	18:00	An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Jamie Shea At a time when multilateralism and the value of international organisations are being questioned, not least by the United States, the nation that did more than any other to establish the global liberal order in the first place, Jamie Shea will examine whether NATO is still fit for purpose. Is the Atlantic Alliance resilient enough to withstand the shocks from within and without that are currently testing its solidarity? Will its current strategy be enough to guarantee Europe security and to rebuild a solid transatlantic partnership?. Full details	Add event
27 November 2018	13:00	GSE Lecture Series - Introduction to Research in the Centre for Social Mobility A series of seven lightening talks showcasing the research in the Centre for Social Mobility. Full details	Add event
26 November 2018	15:30	"Fragile cultures and unruly matters: the role of microbial lives in collaborative knowledge practices in synthetic biology", Dr Sally Atkinson & Prof Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (University of Exeter) Egenis seminar series. In this paper we describe the pluralistic and mutable roles attributed to and enacted by microbes in the process of microbial engineering for bioproduction. Examining the tension between live cultures as bio-objects and bio-actants, we discuss how such roles reveal and shape scientific practice and emerging knowledge in an industry-academic synthetic biology collaboration.. Full details	Add event
23 November 2018	18:00	Special Guest Lecture and Book launch by Dr Lee Elliot Major Why is climbing the social ladder so difficult in Britain - and what can we do to create a fairer society? Are we all enemies of social mobility? These are some of the questions which will be addressed by University of Exeter Honorary Professor Dr Lee Elliot Major in a special guest lecture to mark the launch of his new Penguin book Social Mobility and Its Enemies. Dr Lee Elliot Major is Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust, the UK’s leading foundation improving social mobility. Full details	Add event
19 November 2018	15:30	"Squandered value? How to overcome the challenges of joining up government data for statistics and research", Ed Humpherson & Catherine Bromley (UK Statistics Authority) To speak to people involved in linking Government datasets is to enter a world that at times seems so ludicrous as to be Kafkaesque. Stories abound of Departments putting up arcane barriers to sharing their data with other parts of Government; and of researchers waiting so long to get access to data that their funding runs out before they can start work. Full details	Add event
14 November 2018	15:30	Seminar Series - 'Connected networks, wellbeing and the power of representation: Qualitative and quantitative evidence from Facebook and social network data' Full details	Add event
13 November 2018	12:30	Meet the Barrister: Jonathan Ashley-Norman QC A talk from Jonathan Ashley-Norman QC about his career, with a Q&A session about becoming a barrister and life as a barrister. Jonathan is a specialist in corporate crime. Full details	Add event
12 November 2018	15:30	"Creativity as Strategy", Dr Adrian Currie (University of Exeter) Egenis seminar series. Against most philosophers who are interested in creativity, I think there is good reason to want an account of creativity that doesn’t tie it to agents or individuals. First, the arguments for tying creativity to agenthood are based on unstable, historically contingent intuitions which are a bad basis for analysis. Second, if creativity is importantly linked to knowledge-production, and knowledge-production is best thought of as a population-level phenomena, then we should develop ways of understanding creativity at the population-level. Third, some arguments for human exceptionalism turn on our capacity to be creative, and I suspect our ability to articulate and critique such positions are marred if we cannot get a non-anthropocentric grip on creativity in the first place: decoupling creativity from agenthood is one way of doing this. In light of this, I present an account of creativity which is non-agential and non-purposeful but, I think, both deserves to be named creativity and sheds light on arguments for human exceptionalism. Full details	Add event
9 November 2018	12:30	Applying for pupillage workshop with alumnus Tom Windsor, Slaughter and May Exeter Law alumnus Tom Windsor will be running a workshop on applying for pupillage. Come along to get advice on the application process, including what to write in your application, strategies for applying and ask questions about career options for barristers. Full details	Add event
8 November 2018	18:30	Sociology/ Anthropology/ Criminology; Careers with your Degree Come along to our discussion panel where we have four alumni working in a variety of sectors who have used their Sociology degrees to have successful careers. This will be a fantastic opportunity to hear about the career options open to you, to network with a number of prestigious Sociology alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. We have a fantastic group of alumni attending the evening! The full list of guests are: Adam Bundy (Financial Accountant, UK Ministry of Defence), Sociology Lauren Redfern (Volunteer Coordinator- Trafficking, The Children's Society & PhD Candidate, Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine U. of London), Sociology and Anthropology Lily Megson (Public Relations Consultant, Lily Megson Public Relations and Lobbying), Politics and Sociology Esther Craddock-Taylor (Senior Capability Lead- Promotions, Dunnhumby), Sociology and Philosophy. Full details	Add event
8 November 2018	18:00	Penryn campus: Politics and IR Careers Speed Networking Come along to our Speed Networking evening and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics and IR degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. There will be a drinks and nibbles reception afterwards, where you will have chance to speak with all the Alumni. Full details	Add event
7 November 2018	17:00	Penryn Campus: Is Teaching for Me? Thinking about a career in Education? Don’t miss our 'Is teaching for me?' panel discussion. Our panel will discuss their teaching careers, what it's like to be a teacher, and give you their tips on how you can follow a similar path. Currently our list of panelists are: James Hitchens – Penryn Primary Academy Martin Dewberry- Treviglas Community College. Full details	Add event
7 November 2018	13:00	Data Analysis with Python for Social Scientists Building upon the basic introduction offered to Python in workshop 1, this workshop will cover exploratory data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and visualising data in Python. It will also provide an introduction to the major Python packages used in data analysis; including NumPy, Pandas, and Seaborn. Full details	Add event
7 November 2018	10:30	Please come, sit and share my view Communities in general, and rural communities in particular, punctuate their lives with events that bring people together and celebrate aspects of culture. Rural communities in the United Kingdom (UK) are no exception and there is a heavily populated calendar of rural events, celebrating touchstones such as farming, hunting and horses. Thus there are numerous agricultural shows, game fairs, and horse events such as gymkhanas and horse shows. Research with regard to events such as these has been limited. There is a feeling amongst many people in the rural community that the UK is increasingly dominated by urban, as opposed to rural, concerns and that this cultural influence is changing the nature of many rural events. This paper aims to explore and articulate some of these concerns. In order to do this an autoethnographic approach has been adopted as a method, utilising logocentrism as an ontological lens. I grew up immersed in the culture and traditions of rural England. I was taken hunting and was attending horse and agricultural shows before I could walk. As a young man I worked on farms and helped organise and run rural events. As such I view(ed) the world from a perspective that reflects my cultural upbringing. I find it difficult living in an urban dominated ‘society’ where I consider rural events are increasingly urbanised to a point where the life, past and present, of the countryside becomes a sideshow. This commodification of rural life in the UK is something that has local and also global relevance, though there are ways that event organisers can address some of these concerns. Dr. Sean Beer is a Senior Lecturer in Agriculture at the Faculty of Management, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University.. Full details	Add event
29 October 2018	15:30	"Inductive risk in framework shifts: the case of cultural evolution", Azita Chellappoo (University of Cambridge) Egenis seminar series. Non-epistemic values have been long-acknowledged to play a significant role in scientific inquiry: for example, in problem selection, and directing the use of scientific knowledge. Douglas (2000) provides a widely-applied account of another avenue for non-epistemic values to play a legitimate role: inductive risk. Inductive risk refers to the risk involved with the acceptance or rejection of a hypothesis: in the decision whether to accept a given hypothesis or not, there is always the risk of either accepting a false hypothesis (a Type 1 error, or ‘false positive’) or rejecting a true hypothesis (a Type 2 error, or ‘false negative’). When these errors have non-epistemic consequences, non-epistemic values will influence the ‘rule of acceptance’ (the level of evidence or statistical significance required to accept the hypothesis). Full details	Add event
23 October 2018	18:30	The Judges Are Coming! Careers in the judiciary An insight into modern-day legal careers, from getting started to judicial roles A seminar from 2 full-time judges and former Exeter graduates Chaired by Judge Mark Sutherland Williams LLB (Exon), Resident Judge, Hatton CrossTribunal Hearing Court With Judge Elizabeth Grant LLB (Exon), Hatton Cross Tribunal Hearing Court. Full details	Add event
18 October 2018	16:30	Lecture by Professor Michael W. Apple (University of Wisconsin), Can Education Change Society? Many people take it for granted that there can be no serious change in education unless "society" changes. While these arguments need to be taken seriously, there are substantive conceptual, historical, and political problems with them. Furthermore they can lead to cynicism. I critically examine a number of these claims and argue for a position in which education can indeed participate in social transformation. Full details	Add event
17 October 2018	13:30	Speaker series: Associate Professor Neil Harrison, UWE Full details	Add event
16 October 2018	17:30	Is Teaching for Me? Our panel of PGCE alumni will discuss their teaching careers, what it's like to be a teacher, and give you their tips on how you can follow a similar path. Full details	Add event
15 October 2018	11:00	The Tyranny of Distance: Assessing and Explaining the Apparent Decline in U.S. Military Performance This is the first in a series of Q-Step Seminar talks for Autumn 2018. The talk will address the growing sense that U.S. military effectiveness has been on the wane in recent years. Is this the case? If so, what are the reasons for the decay in American combat performance?. Full details	Add event
10 October 2018	13:00	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists Python is increasingly used by social scientists to collect, process and analyse new types of unstructured or semi-structured data, such as online text and social media data. It is an accessible, yet versatile programming language which is also broadly used for data science and machine learning tasks, combining multiple types of data, simulation and visualization. This workshop provides an introduction to basic programming notions in Python, and introduces some of the most useful packages used in social science research. No previous programming experience is required.. Full details	Add event
10 October 2018	10:30	'Terroir' and the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines Prof. Demossier’s seminar will discuss the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines. Based on a long-term ethnographic analysis of Burgundian viticulture, she will examine the concept of ‘terroir’ – the place-based construction of particular products – and explore how regions have used heritage and culture as a tool of economic development.. Full details	Add event
9 October 2018	18:30	Speed Networking for Careers with Arabic and Islamic Studies This Speed Networking evening will be a fantastic opportunity to speak with prestigious Arabic and Islamic Studies Alumni, and get their tips on how you can use your degree to have a successful career. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Full details	Add event
8 October 2018	15:30	"Tasting like a cheese. Lactic ferments, cheese specificity and the making of the dairy industry", Dr Elise Tancoigne (University of Geneva) Egenis seminar series. There are just a few dairy breeds, yet there are hundreds of different cheeses. Then what makes the specificity of a cheese? In addition to dairy breeds, pasture, environmental conditions, cheesemakers’ practices, and lactic ferments have been among the most frequently cited sources of cheese specificity. Here I will explore how lactic ferments came to be considered as an essential determinant of cheese specificity and terroir in France, and its relationship with the making of the dairy industry. Full details	Add event
27 September 2018	18:30	Politics Speed and IR Careers Speed Networking Come along to our Speed Networking evening and speak to a number of Exeter graduates who have taken different career routes with their Politics and IR degrees! This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. Full details	Add event
24 September 2018	18:00	An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Sabina Leonelli What impact are big and open data having on research and on what counts as empirical knowledge in the 21st century? One way to answer this question is to engage in empirical philosophy of science. In this talk, I exemplify what this involves by examining three dimensions of this type of scholarship. Full details	Add event
2 August 2018	11:00	"The future(s) of open science", Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame) Almost everyone is enthusiastic that ‘open science’ is the wave of the future. Yet when one looks seriously at the flaws in modern science that the movement proposes to remedy, the prospect for improvement in at least four areas are unimpressive. This suggests that the agenda is effectively to re-engineer science along the lines of platform capitalism, under the misleading banner of opening up science to the masses. Full details	Add event
25 July 2018	18:30	WCCEH Event: An alternative to diagnosis? This event will explore the role and nature of diagnosis in mental health and critically consider an alternative model to conventional diagnosis: The Power Threat Meaning Framework. Full details	Add event
25 July 2018	18:00	Seminar by Dr Phil Durrant (University of Exeter) Language development in children's writing from six to sixteen This presentation will discuss the Growth in Grammar project - a three-year study of the linguistic development of English children's language through the course of their compulsory education, funded by ESRC. Full details	Add event
20 July 2018	13:00	Exploring PluriLogicality Hosted by the Creativity and Emergent Educational-futures (CEEN) Network, Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter. Full details	Add event
4 July 2018	10:30	Nuffield Farming Lecture 2018 Professor Michael Winter OBE will be presenting the findings of his recent Nuffield-sponsored research on changing food cultures. Full details	Add event
3 July 2018	15:30	CRPL Research Tea - Factors in Professional Learning: using ‘Diamond 9’ ranking as a tool to explore what practitioners think is important Full details	Add event
2 July - 10 August 2018		The Institute of Coding Summer School at the University of Exeter The Institute of Coding (IoC) Summer School at Exeter is an opportunity to enhance your digital skills at a summer school designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of computer programming and social data analytics. The school seeks to attract those undergraduate and postgraduate students who may not yet have had the opportunity to learn these skills (e.g. Humanities and Social Sciences). A desire to challenge yourself and learn to code is the only requirement. A background in maths or statistics is not expected of participants.. Full details	Add event
26 June 2018	13:00	Seminar by Emeritus Professor Ian Menter (University of Oxford) Teacher education and government: a tale of two countries The relationships between politics and teacher education have become increasingly close over recent decades in many contexts around the world, often causing significant challenges as well as some opportunities. Full details	Add event
18 June 2018	18:00	CRPR presents 'In Our Hands' In Our Hands has been made throughout the tumultuous year of the Brexit referendum as a collaboration between the small scale farmers’ union the Landworkers’ Alliance, and Black Bark films. It has been made to bring people together to think about their food and to bust the myth of the industrial farming system.. Full details	Add event
12 June 2018	9:30	Social Mobility Conference The University's first social mobility conference aims to bring academics, professional services staff and students together to share insights and understanding about the University's role in promoting social mobility by working to improve access to higher education and to create a level playing for students to thrive. Full details	Add event
7 June 2018	15:30	Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil - Dr. Antoine Acker, University of Zurich Exeter Centre for Latin American Studies Research Seminar. Full details	Add event
5 June 2018	17:00	Seminar by Dr Laura Black (University of Manchester) Deepening Engagement in Mathematical Learning: A question of ‘identity’? This seminar will focus on the concept of identity and its value for exploring both engagement in learning and alienation from formal schooling. I will draw on work from across our research projects which have looked at students’ relationships with mathematics in a variety of contexts, including post 16 A-level mathematics, mathematically demanding programmes at university and more recently in early primary school (aged 5-6 years old). I will argue that identity provides a useful way to understand how our experiences ‘in practice’ become crystallised (through reflection) into statements about who we are as a person – for example, ‘I did this well’ may become ‘maths makes sense to me’ and eventually ‘I am gifted at maths’. Our work in this area has considered how students’ mathematical identities are mediated by practices which are classed, gendered etc. Therefore, in this seminar, I will argue that researching ‘identity’ is not merely a matter of addressing the STEM agenda by increasing engagement (and participation) in mathematically related subjects, but rather it can provide a lens through which to study the function mathematics plays in re-producing broader social inequalities in education.. Full details	Add event
5 June 2018		CRPL Research Tea (Theme: ProTEACH) The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
1 June 2018	14:00	Future Challenges for Autonomous Vehicles Full details	Add event
30 May 2018	15:30	What Can Genetics Tell Us About Education? Dr Emily Smith-Woolley from King's College London is a behavioural geneticist from the group of Robert Plomin at the KCL. They work with the data from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) to separate genetic and environmental effects on children's outcomes. They've just published a paper in the Science of Learning on the effects of school type on exam performance arguing that superior results of children in selective schools come from the selection of more academically able children rather than school performance (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-018-0019-8). Emily will present these results as well as a more general framework of how behavioural geneticists study education.. Full details	Add event
22 May 2018	13:00	Seminar by Professor Dongbo Zhang (University of Exeter) Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Reading Development In this talk, I will discuss development of reading abilities from cross-linguistic perspectives. Print represents spoken language, which is a universal principle that holds across languages; yet how specifically different linguistic units are encoded in print vary from language to language. The similarities and variations in language-to-print mapping relationships suggest universal as well as language/script-specific processes in early reading development. Full details	Add event
16 May 2018	15:30	The Social Stratification of Educational Enjoyment Dr Roxanne Connelly from the University of Warwick is a sociologist working in the area of social stratification. Most educational research is concerned with children's academic outcomes. In this talk Roxanne looks into how much primary school children in the UK actually enjoy learning using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Survey. Full details	Add event
16 - 17 May 2018		Exeter-Fudan Research Workshop: Political and Philosophical Traditions in Comparison. Sino-European Dialogues on Liberty, Government and Community The Workshop’s main focus is on the interaction between European and Chinese political languages and traditions.. Full details	Add event
10 - 11 May 2018		Social Sciences Graduate Conference Graduate students in a changing world. Full details	Add event
8 May 2018	17:00	Seminar by Dr Joanne Pearce (University College London) From Anthroposophy to non-confessional preparation for spirituality? It has been suggested common schools might be able to learn from spiritual education in Steiner schools. This assumes practice in Steiner schools is compatible with the aims of spiritual education in common schools. I question this by considering whether the former is confessional, as the latter should not be. I explain how my concern about the potentially confessional nature of Steiner spiritual education arose. I then argue for a nuanced understanding of confessional education, distinguishing between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ confessional education, as well as between confessional education as intentional and as defined by outcome. I argue that spiritual education in common schools should prepare pupils for spirituality, without being confessional. I consider whether Steiner schools are confessional by drawing upon findings from research conducted at six Steiner schools. Full details	Add event
2 May 2018	15:30	Avoiding Bias When Estimating the Consistency and Stability of Value-Added School Effects. As part of the Exeter Q-Step Centre Research Seminar on Education Dr George Leckie for the University of Bristol will talk about value-added school effects (used in many school rankings) and how to estimate them best. George is a statistician and economist from the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, and he's got a lot of experience with working with the National Pupil Database and is a co-chair of the NPD user group.. Full details	Add event
1 May 2018	15:30	CANCELLED - CRPL Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
21 March 2018	13:30	Rethinking Marriage: Theoretical and Policy Challenges The Family Regulation and Society Network and the Gender Research Network are jointly running this interdisciplinary event entitled “Rethinking Marriage: Theoretical and Policy Challenges”. Following presentations from the four speakers, see below, the discussion will centre around theoretical and policy challenges to traditional conceptions of marriage, with speakers from Law, Sociology and Theology whose research interests include feminist and queer theory, gender studies, sexuality and marriage, civil and formalised partnerships, polygamy and the implications of intersex and transgender for theologies of marriage. Full details	Add event
12 March 2018	10:00	Interview Techniques In this session we will cover: What is the function of an interview; what are interviewers looking for; what are the dos and don’ts in an interview situation; how can you prepare for an interview and how the Careers Service can help / what else you can do?. Full details	Add event
6 March 2018	15:30	CRPL Research Tea - Professions as Politics: the Medical Profession and its End in the United States, 1783-1860 In a striking case of professional collapse, the medical profession in the United States gave way to a raucous free market for healthcare around the middle of the nineteenth century. To explain the causes and consequences of these events, we draw on insights from political sociology to probe the origins of opposition to the medical profession. Dominant professions must both maintain cultural authority over potential rivals and secure the support of state officials in order to maintain their advantages. We argue that the cultural and institutional power of a dominant profession can be overturned if challenger occupational groups organize and mobilize actively, and if populist political coalitions find that anti-professional sentiments resonate with the electorate. Moreover, each of these processes can reinforce the other, lending the normally staid world of professions the character of a contentious social movement arena. Our analysis contributes to sociological knowledge of the professions by demonstrating that the loss of professional power is not simply a case of professionalization in reverse. Instead, political dynamics within professional and political ecologies can give rise to insurgent forces that challenge the foundation of professional power. Full details	Add event
5 March 2018	14:30	SSIS Careers: Finding internships and jobs This session will give you tips and advice on how to plan and apply for internships, work experience and jobs. If you are looking to find an internship during the summer, this is a great opportunity to get some top tips!. Full details	Add event
1 March 2018	17:30	Careers in lobbying and advocacy with Danny Kushlick (Transform Drug Policy Foundation) Join Danny Kushlick (Founder and Head of External Affairs at Transform Drug Policy Foundation) for a workshop focusing on a career in lobbying and advocacy. Transform is a charitable think tank that campaigns for the legal regulation of drugs both in the UK and internationally. Transform aims to educate and inspire policymakers to explore and implement the effective legal regulation of drug markets. Danny will speak about his diverse career and experiences, give an in-depth look into the work of organisations such as Transform, and give his tips on being successful in the industry. There will be a Q&A after the talk, and a drinks reception where you will have the chance to speak to Danny further. Danny Kushlick bio: Danny is the founder of Transform Drug Policy Foundation, which he started in 1996, after working in a variety of jobs in the drugs field. It was his clients' experience that led him to the understanding that prohibition is a social policy catastrophe. He worked for Bristol Drugs Project, the Big Issue Foundation, Bath Area Drugs Advisory Service and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO). He is now an internationally recognised commentator on drug and drug policy issues, with a unique combination of personal experience and broad, global view. Please ensure that you arrive promptly for the start of this event and that you have your University ID card (UniCard) with you. Your attendance at this appointment/event will be recorded. If you are recorded as absent your ability to book further events and appointments may be temporarily revoked. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking as soon as possible. Please see attendance policy at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/exeter/aboutus/policies/. Full details	Add event
28 February 2018	14:30	Getting Started with your Career Planning: How to develop a strong CV for a career in Law This workshop with a careers consultant will help you get your job searching strategy on the right track. Bring along your CV, analyse its strengths and weaknesses and plan next steps for future work experience and a career using your law degree. Full details	Add event
24 February 2018	11:00	Teacher Training Open Day Visit our St Luke's Campus; meet our tutors and some of our trainees/graduates; and learn more about our Primary and Secondary PGCE and School Direct programmes. Full details	Add event
22 February 2018	13:30	Law Commercial Awareness workshop with Tozers Solicitors LLP Join Deborah Black and Gráinne Staunton (Partners at Tozers Solicitors LLP) for a workshop focusing on commercial awareness and its importance to Law firms. The session will look at what ‘commercial awareness’ means, why it is important to Law firms, what firms look for in graduates, and how to demonstrate commercial awareness in your applications. Tozers Solicitors LLP is a leading firm of solicitors with offices in Exeter, Teignmouth and Newton Abbot. With 23 partners and over 120 staff Tozers Solicitors LLP offer an extensive legal service to businesses and individuals both locally and nationally.. Full details	Add event
20 February 2018	9:30	Technology and Electoral Research: Perspectives from Industry and Academia This conference is the closing event for VOTEADVICE, a four-year research project funded by the European Commission to investigate the impact of new technologies on political behaviour. The scientific objectives of VOTEADVICE have been to produce research related to how new technologies and social media influence political and social behaviour. In order to achieve this aim the Research Network developed and applied techniques for the analysis of non-probability samples, online surveys and experiments and eye tracking tools.. Full details	Add event
13 February 2018	10:30	How to write effective application forms for social sciences students New and specifically designed for Sociolgy, Anthropology, Philosophy, Criminology, Politics and International Relations students, we take a look at how to write an effective application form using your experiences as a student of the social sciences. Full details	Add event
7 February 2018	14:00	Using your social sciences degree for a career in Finance Full details	Add event
7 February 2018	13:30	Getting Started with your Career Planning (Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies) This workshop with a careers consultant will help you get your job searching strategy on the right track. Full details	Add event
6 February 2018	17:00	Seminar by Dr Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University) Text World Theory and teacher-oriented grammatics: Facilitating creativity, reading and writing in the classroom Stylistics has both over time and more recently underpinned much work that has gone on in EFL teaching, work in English departments in higher education, and creative and professional writing programmes. However, its potential influence as a valuable pedagogical tool for secondary age students (11-18) has yet to be fully explored. This paper therefore argues for a stylistics-informed pedagogy in the secondary phase drawing on Halliday’s notion of ‘grammatics’ as a way of using knowledge about language ‘to think with’. Specifically, I argue that Text World Theory offers an example of what I term ‘teacher-oriented grammatics’ and provides a cognitively-informed updating of existing readers-response theories which have traditionally been seen as highly attractive by teachers.. Full details	Add event
6 February 2018	15:30	CRPL Research Tea: Relating models of expertise to academics’ professional learning The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
2 February 2018	12:30	Interpreting for the British Red Cross Dr. Orieb Masadeh-Tate is a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester and works as a volunteer Interpreter (English to Arabic) for the British Red Cross. Dr. Orieb will be running a workshop focusing on everything you need to know about a career as an Interpreter, and will be able to answer questions about the University of Manchester's MA Translation and Interpreting Studies programme. Full details	Add event
2 February 2018	11:30	The Perils of Polling: so, what went wrong (and less wrong) with the polls in 2017? After another poor election for many (but not all) in the polling community, Mike Wheeler- former pollster and current Civil Service Principal Research Officer- analyses what went on with the polls this time. The talk will look at: • What the polls got wrong (and less wrong) in last year’s race – and why. • Why different pollsters came up with such a wide-ranging spread of eve-of-election results. • The changes the polling industry have brought in since the Election. • The potential implications for wider research The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and a chance to network with Mike in a more informal setting.. Full details	Add event
1 February 2018	16:30	Women in International Law: discussion and networking Our impressive panel are made up of a wide range of women who have made it to the top of their profession and gain an insight into the challenges they faced along the way but also the value of choosing such a career path. Networking drinks will follow this event from 5:30pm. Panellists: Lucy Martinez https://www.threecrownsllp.com/team/lucy-martinez/ Kate Parlett http://www.20essexst.com/member/kate-parlett Diana Ellis QC https://www.25bedfordrow.com/site/people/profile/diana.ellis. Full details	Add event
31 January 2018	14:00	International Development Speed Networking at Bristol University Are you a student interested in a career in international development? If your answer is ‘yes’, or if you are just curious, then come along on Wednesday 31st January. Last year, over 150 people came to this event at the Wills Memorial Building at the University of Bristol. Join us! The event will be interactive with speed-networking opportunities among students, academics and development practitioners. We will also hold a roundtable discussing the key issues facing the sector today. The venue is a half hour walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station, and even less from Bristol Bus & Coach Station. Tickets are free, but limited, and must be registered through the EventBrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-development-speed-networking-at-bristol-university-tickets-39554659050. Full details	Add event
29 January 2018	10:30	Mock Assessment Centre- Group Work Simulation This session is designed as a mock assessment centre to give you an opportunity to take part in some typical assessment centre activities to get a feel for what one might be like and receive feedback on your performance. This session will give you the opportunity to: Explore what employers are looking to assess at an assessment centre Discuss ways of presenting yourself in the best light for an assessment centre Have the opportunity to share your own experiences of assessment centres Identify what you may need to do as part of your preparation. Full details	Add event
24 January 2018	14:30	'What else can I do with my Law degree?' with George Paige (Merlin Entertainments) Are you in your second or third year of a law degree and want to explore career options other than solicitor or barrister? This is the session for you. Find out how your skills can make you a versatile and desirable graduate from alumni speaker George Paige, now working at Merlin Entertainment. Full details	Add event
24 January 2018	12:30	Getting in to Marketing workshop Join Exeter alumnus George Paige (Group Head of Merlin Annual Pass at Merlin Entertainments plc) for a workshop focusing on careers in Marketing. George will speak about his career and experiences since graduating, his tips for following a similar path, and give a taste of what to expect in a marketing role by looking at one of Merlin Entertainments’ recent campaigns. There will be time for a short Q&A with George at the end of the session. George Paige biography: After graduating in Law from the University of Exeter, George Paige joined Merlin Entertainments plc as part of their graduate scheme. On the brink of flotation, Merlin Entertainments was, and still is, Europe's largest visitor attraction company and the world's second (only to Disney!) The graduate scheme took George far and wide from theme parks such as Thorpe Park and LEGOLAND to Tokyo and Osaka - all in the name of fun! Now four years with the company, George's legal background has been put to good use and has recently been appointed as the entertainment giant's Group Head of Merlin Annual Pass - looking after the sales and management of this mass consumer product. Full details	Add event
19 January 2018	13:30	Journalism Workshop: Getting a story on air with Simon Vigar (5 News) Join Exeter alum Simon Vigar (Royal Correspondent for 5 News) for a workshop focusing on delivering a news story, analysing different scenarios and practical ways of dealing with them. There will also be time for a Q&A with Simon about careers in broadcast journalism. Full details	Add event
19 January 2018	10:30	Understanding Psychometric testing This session will help you prepare for the types of psychometric tests you are likely to experience both on-line and at assessment centres as part of the graduate recruitment process. Full details	Add event
16 January 2018	17:00	Seminar by Professor Andrew Martin (University of New South Wales) Growth Approaches to Academic Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement Too many assessment systems represent a zero-sum game in which some students’ success comes at the expense of other students’ success. Under a growth framework, however, all students have access to a sense of achievement and efficacy; although they may not outperform peers, they can outperform their own previous efforts.. Full details	Add event
11 January 2018	18:00	NERC Valuing Nature Keynote Lecture Lecture by Professor Sian Sullivan, University of Bath Spa, followed by a panel Q&A session. For more information and to book your free place, follow the link below.. Full details	Add event
14 December 2017	14:00	Information Session: Economic and Social Research Council SWDTP We would like to invite you to our Economic and Social Research Council, South West Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship Information Session on Thursday 14 December in Lecture Theatre 4.2 in the Queen’s Building. There are 45 fully-funded studentships from the ESRC available through twelve disciplinary pathways that span the social sciences and five innovative interdisciplinary pathways, to offer students the broadest possible approach to their studies with us. The SWDTP are also funding cross-council remit studentships and details of these can be found here. More details about how to apply for studentships can be found on the SWDTP website The event will start at 2pm and will conclude with refreshments at 3:45pm when you will have the chance to talk with academic staff and current students. The information session will give you an opportunity to: • Find out more about the SWDTP and PhD study at the University of Exeter • Get advice on how to write a strong application for funding • Learn more about the application process for studentships • Hear from current SWDTP students about their research and experiences • Meet academics and current students • Ask any questions you have about SWDTP Studentships and studying at Exeter If you would like to attend, please rsvp to doctoral.college@exeter.ac.uk by 5pm on Wednesday 13 December. If you have any questions about this event, or about studying towards a PhD at the University of Exeter, please email us via pgrenquiries@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
7 December 2017	16:30	Q-Step: Collecting Social Media Data This workshop provides an introduction to the main methods used to access, download and store social media data. You will learn how to use Twitter's APIs to collect tweets and user details, and how to collect Facebook posts and comments. Basic knowledge of programming in Python is required, and participants are required to attend the "Intro to Python" workshop first.. Full details	Add event
7 December 2017	12:30	Applying to Law Firms - Planning your strategy Alison Peyton from Aspiring Solicitors will be giving this workshop on how to plan your strategy for applying to law firms, and will focus on: how to develop your commercial awareness; how to confidently navigate the application process, and; hints and tips to help you succeed. Alison is the Universities and Student Liaison Manager at Aspiring Solicitors. Before that, she worked in the graduate recruitment team at Hogan Lovells for over eight years, during which time she screened many applications and interviewed many candidates! Alison will go through what law firms are looking for, and how you can best present yourself throughout the application process. Aspiring Solicitors is an organisation which provides careers assistance and access to the legal profession for students from underrepresented groups. We do this through a variety of different programmes and opportunities, including mentoring and employability schemes, summer skills workshops, open days with law firms, careers advice and mock interview sessions, and a commercial awareness competition. Since the organisation was set up in 2013, our members have secured over 1100 vacation schemes and training contracts. For more information, please visit www.aspiringsolicitors.co.uk.. Full details	Add event
6 December 2017	17:00	Research talk by Dr Li Li (University of Exeter) Researching Teacher Cognition - A Discursive Approach Language teacher cognition has become a significant research area in the last decade to promote learners’ active participation in learning, to address the important role of teachers in developing effective pedagogy and to enhance teacher learning. Majority of this research is framed in a cognitive framework, adopting research methodology to gain understanding of teachers’ mental lives.. Full details	Add event
6 December 2017	12:30	How to write a winning application form with Womble Bond Dickenson Join Head of Recruitment Sam Lee, and Trainee Solicitor and Exeter alumna Rae Ahmed from Womble Bond Dickinson for a workshop focusing on how to write a winning law application. Hear what a transatlantic law firm looks for in their applicants and gain hints and tips to make your application standout from the crowd. Full details	Add event
5 December 2017	15:30	The Educational Role of Professional Bodies The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
5 December 2017	13:00	Seminar by Dr Steven Jones (University of Manchester) Value-For-Money Discourses in English Higher Education In England, the notion of ‘value for money’ (VFM) is ubiquitous in discourses of Higher Education. Young people are assumed to make participation decisions based on rational cost-benefit analyses of long-term loan repayments against deferred graduate premium, and VFM is widely invoked as a driver of government policy.. Full details	Add event
5 December 2017	12:00	Teacher Recruitment Fair 2017 The Teacher Recruitment Fair is open to all PCGE and Education students, and is your chance to meet over 20 graduate recruiters who offer NQT vacancies locally, nationally, and internationally. No need to book, just turn up!. Full details	Add event
29 November 2017	13:30	Finding Internships and Jobs This session will give you tips and advice on how to plan and apply for internships, work experience and jobs. If you are looking to find an internship during the summer, this is a great opportunity to get some top tips!. Full details	Add event
29 November 2017	10:00	Employer Visit to Trowers and Hamlins in Exeter Come and join us for a coffee on Wednesday 29 November 2017 from 10.00 to 12.00 to learn more about what you can expect from a training contract at Trowers & Hamlins in Exeter. Find out about who we are; hear first-hand from our trainees about our graduate recruitment and trainee development programmes; meet our trainees, solicitors and partners; and get a flavour of what it’s like to work at an international law firm in Exeter. Full details	Add event
27 November 2017	17:00	David McKay on Trump, the Republican Party and Populism In this talk David McKay will place the Trump phenomenon in historical context and argue that a unique set of circumstances have facilitated the rise of Trump. These include profound changes in the Republican Party, demographic change and the effective use of new forms of communication. While the political outcomes of these changes are deeply disturbing, he will argue that the strength of US civil society and the checks and balances in the Constitution will likely serve to check the worst excesses of Trumpism. The longer term prospects are a probable return to relative political normality. Full details	Add event
23 November 2017	13:30	Teaching at The British School in Kuwait Mr Paul Shropshire, the Principal of the British School of Kuwait (BSK), will be giving a presentation on the theme of opportunities for newly-qualifying teachers and those considering teaching as a career at British-system school overseas. Topics will include: An outline of the international schools following the Natonal Curriculum in whole or in part. The positive effect on the British economy of such schools. Global distribution and growth in the sector. Accreditation of schools overseas. BSO status and its importance to newly-qualifying teachers. Advice on the composition of a CV and the application process. Advice on internview technique. Package expectations For more information about the school visit www.bsk.edu.kw. Full details	Add event
22 November 2017	13:30	How to apply to Law Grad School Please note we will be discussing LLM studies including international opportunities and how to get funding. Full details	Add event
21 November 2017	17:00	Seminar by Professor Carol Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University) Posthumanist/ new material feminist imaginaries for higher education research and pedagogy Posthumanism is a mobile term, a constellation of theories, concepts, approaches and practices which share an interest in destabilizing binaries, decentering the human, and forging new ways of doing and thinking ethics in relation. Posthumanism has been seen as both a ‘reaction’ to Humanism (Wolfe, 2010) and a recognition that the current era of the Anthropocene is having a destructive impact on the planet and its inhabitants. It is for these reasons that Rosi Braidotti (2013: 2) suggests that the post-human condition has introduced a ‘qualitative shift’ in our thinking about what ‘the basic unit of common reference is for our species, our polity and our relationships’, that Karen Barad (2007: 142) urges attention to ethico-onto-epistemological understandings of how matter comes to matter in more-than-human entanglements, and Donna Haraway (2016) argues for a speculative feminist practice of ‘making kin’ through relational acts of string-figuring.. Full details	Add event
16 November 2017	17:30	Is teaching for me? Thinking about a career in Education? Don’t miss our 'Is teaching for me?' panel discussion. Our panel of PGCE alumni will discuss their teaching careers, what it's like to be a teacher, and give you their tips on how you can follow a similar path. The panel will be followed by a drinks reception where you will have the opportunity to speak with our panellists further. Currently our list of panellists are: Maria Freestone (Deputy Team Leader English Team – ISCA) Adam Atkins (Current MA Politics and IR student, former Assistant Head Teacher - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School) The PGCE team will also be there to answer your questions about applying for a PGCE in Exeter. Full details	Add event
14 November 2017	11:30	What else can I do with my Law degree? Did you know that 5 years after graduation, law is ranked second in the Russell Group for numbers of students in further study and/or sustained employment? A law degree opens up many career opportunities beyond traditional routes in to the legal profession. Join our careers consultants to have a careers conversation about what other opportunities you can explore. Full details	Add event
9 November 2017	18:00	Speed Networking for Careers with Politics and IR Alumni This will be a fantastic opportunity to network with a number of prestigious Politics and IR Alumni, find out about their careers, and learn about what steps you can take to follow a similar path. All graduates are from within the last six years, so they will be able to provide perspectives and advice on translating an Exeter Politics or IR degree into a successful career. You will have the chance to speak with 3 of the Alumni in 20 minute sessions. However, there will be a food and drinks reception afterwards, where you will have chance to speak with all the Alumni. Full details	Add event
9 November 2017	10:30	Applying for pupillage workshop The workshop will focus on advice on applying for pupillage, as well as the BPTC and mini-pupillage and will cover what to do/what not to do in terms of writing your application. The workshop will finish with a Q&A session and you will have the opportunity to ask Tom any general questions on the process of becoming a barrister and his own career aspirations in his chosen field. Full details	Add event
8 November 2017	12:30	How to prepare for the Law Careers Fair The Law Fair is your opportunity to meet and speak to graduate recruiters and find out whether they are the right law firm for you. It's really important to do some research in advance of the fair, so you have a plan of the stands you wish to visit, and think of questions to ask. Once you have struck up your conversation, it's your chance to impress. Look smart and be yourself! If recruiters / trainees take your name or give you their card, follow up with an email and keep the conversation going. If you decide to apply to the firm, make sure you include information about who you met and the impressions you got from them which have influenced your application and be really positive about why that firm made a good impression on you. Find out more about preparing for the Law Fair by attending this workshop. Full details	Add event
7 November 2017	15:30	Medical Student’s View of Science The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
7 November 2017	13:00	Seminar by Professor David Hall (University of Exeter) Education professionals and the permanent revolution of public service reform This seminar examines the implications of what is characterised as a permanent revolution of rapid and thoroughgoing educational reform upon teachers’ professional identities. Full details	Add event
2 November 2017	12:30	Education Theory Reading Network Paper on design based research, Kevin O'Neill 'Designs that fly: what the history of aeronautics tells us about the future of design-based research in education'.. Full details	Add event
26 October 2017	14:00	Perspectives on Work in the Aid and Development industry Join our speaker, Yasamin Alttahir, for an informal discussion on the challenges and opportunities of working in the aid and development sector. You will gain an insight of the practicalities of working across a broad range of jobs that make up the Development industry. Yasamin Alttahir is project manager of a counter ISIS communications project based in Baghdad and has a decade of experience working in the government, NGO and private sectors within the MENA region and beyond.. Full details	Add event
26 October 2017	11:30	Careers talk by Alaco Alaco is a leading business intelligence firm. Adrian Stones, Director of Operations, is visiting to speak primarily to students in the Institute of Arab and Islamic studies about opportunities for Arabic language students at Alaco. Full details	Add event
25 October 2017	14:00	Perspectives on Work in the Aid and Development industry Join our speaker, Yasamin Alttahir, for an informal discussion on the challenges and opportunities of working in the aid and development sector. You will gain an insight of the practicalities of working across a broad range of jobs that make up the Development industry. Yasamin Alttahir is project manager of a counter ISIS communications project based in Baghdad and has a decade of experience working in the government, NGO and private sectors within the MENA region and beyond.. Full details	Add event
25 October 2017	12:30	Getting Started with your Career Planning (Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Criminology) Bring along your CV, analyse its strengths and weaknesses and plan next steps for future work experience and a careers in the SPA subjects. Full details	Add event
24 October 2017	17:00	Seminar by Dr Colin Foster (University of Nottingham) Developing mathematical fluency: exercises or rich tasks? Achieving fluency in important mathematical procedures is fundamental to students’ mathematical development. The usual way to address procedural fluency in the classroom is by repetitive practice of routine exercises, but is this the only effective way?. Full details	Add event
19 October 2017	18:00	Alumni talk: specialise your career as an in-house lawyer Our panel of Law alumni have reached the top of their professions as in-house lawyers, but how did they get there? Were there any defining moments that guided them on their career paths and what indicators can be identified from their time at university that helped them make career decisions? The careers discussion will explore all these questions as well as give you the opportunity to ask questions about the different specialism our panellists have gone in to. We have two Media specialists so if you are interested in hearing more about this area of law, come along to find out. We also have a finance lawyer. Panel discussion 6pm - 7pm Drinks and networking 7pm - 7:45pm. Full details	Add event
19 October 2017	13:30	How to become a barrister The barrister's profession can seem a little mysterious so this session is designed to clearly lay out the path to becoming a barrister from understanding Inns of Courts to applying for Pupillage. Full details	Add event
18 October 2017	12:30	Getting started with your career planning for Politics and IR students Bring along your CV, analyse its strengths and weaknesses and plan next steps for future work experience and a careers in politics. Full details	Add event
16 October 2017	10:30	Introduction to Career Planning for Mature students THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW SIGN UP. OUR CAREERS CONSULTANT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE ROOM AT THIS TIME FOR ONE TO ONE APPOINTMENTS. PLEASE EMAIL KATE FOSTER K.L.FOSTER@EXETER.AC.UK. Full details	Add event
12 October 2017	12:30	How to become a solicitor In this workshop, you will learn about the step by step process to becoming a solicitor, from application to training contract, including when and how to apply. Full details	Add event
11 October 2017	13:00	Presumed married? With Professor Rebecca Probert Presumed married? Last week the newspapers reported the case of the billionaire property developer seeking to establish that he was never married to the woman he had held out as his wife for 14 years. Counsel for the wife argued that she was ‘entitled to rely on the presumption of marriage and the facts that the parties presented to the world for the totality of the period between 2002 and their separation.’ But how should the court deal with disputes as to whether a marriage ceremony complied with the requirements laid down by law, or even as to whether it took place at all? The conventional answer is that there is a presumption in favour of the validity of a marriage: if there is evidence of a ceremony, it will be presumed that that ceremony was duly performed, while in the absence of direct evidence of any ceremony, the fact that a couple have lived together and been reputed to be married will raise a presumption that they have in fact gone through a valid ceremony of marriage at some point. Yet both the academic literature and judicial decisions display considerable confusion as to precisely what is being presumed, when, and why. In order to chart a route through what has been described as ‘an impenetrable morass’ of case-law, it is necessary to examine the way in which these presumptions have evolved. In the case law of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was no single presumption in favour of marriage but rather a range of different approaches depending on the context of the case. Cohabitation and reputation might provide a defence to a suit for jactitation, confirmation of the marriage in a suit for restitution of conjugal rights, or a reason for caution in annulling a marriage. Evidence that long-deceased parties had lived together and been reputed to be married would be regarded as good evidence that there had been a ceremony for the purposes of establishing a right to administration of an estate, but would have to be weighed against any competing evidence. In the common law courts cohabitation and reputation would be accepted as sufficient evidence of a marriage for their purposes, without impinging on the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to decide what was and was not valid. In the early years of the nineteenth century these different strands became entwined as jurisdiction over the validity of marriages passed from the ecclesiastical courts to the common law courts and a more rigid doctrine of precedent emerged. The presumption began to be stated in more positive terms, and the House of Lords in Piers v Piers held that it could only be rebutted by clear and positive evidence. It began to be taken for granted that there was a rule that cohabitation and reputation gave rise to a presumption in favour of marriage, and in a number of cases courts seem to have attached more weight to the desirability of the marriage having taken place than to the plausibility of this explanation. During the twentieth century there was relatively little need to invoke the presumption, but it was rediscovered in CAO v Bath in order to confer recognition on a long-standing union where it was unclear whether the requisite formalities had been observed. So the presumption has been used for a variety of different purposes at different times, but what should its role be in the very different conditions of the twenty-first century? Should it merely be an evidential starting point, to be rebutted by clear evidence that there was no marriage, or that the only ceremony did not constitute a legally binding ceremony? Or should it be deployed to prevent individuals disclaiming their marriage and the obligations that go with marital status?. Full details	Add event
11 October 2017	10:30	Civil Service Diversity Internships Talk In this session, Exeter Alumnus and Civil Service Fast Streamer Jonathan Webb will discuss the Civil Service's Early Diversity Internship Programme (EDIP) and Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP). These internships are available to undergraduates and graduates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, socially or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, or who have a disability. They aim to give people from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to see what a career in the Civil Service is like, and put talented undergraduates and graduates on a work placement in a government department. The Early Diversity Internship Programme (EDIP) is for first-year undergraduates only. For more information please click here: https://www.faststream.gov.uk/early-diversity-internship-programme/ The Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP) is for both undergraduates and graduates. For more information please click here: https://www.faststream.gov.uk/summer-diversity-internship-programme/ *This event is for students from BAME backgrounds, socially or economically disadvantaged, or who have a disability.. Full details	Add event
3 October 2017	17:30	Frontline: The skills you need to succeed in the third sector Frontline's mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children by recruiting and developing outstanding individuals to be leaders in social work and broader society. Frontline is especially interested in meeting life social sciences students. Full details	Add event
3 October 2017	15:30	Preparing healthcare scientists for team work The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
28 September 2017	18:30	Speed Networking for Careers with Politics and IR Alumni This Speed Networking evening will be a fantastic opportunity to speak with a number of prestigious Politics Alumni, and get their tips on how you can use your Politics or IR degree to have a successful career. Drinks and nibbles will be provided. Full details	Add event
11 September 2017	18:00	"The Problem of Misperceptions" While some people may simply lack relevant factual knowledge, others may actively hold incorrect beliefs. These factual beliefs that are not supported by clear evidence and expert opinion are what scholars call misperceptions (Nyhan and Reifler 2010). My current research is principally about misperceptions—the “facts” that people believe that simply are not true. What misperceptions do people hold on issues like immigration, vaccines, and climate change? Who holds these misperceptions? What demographic and attitudinal variables are correlated with holding misperceptions? And ultimately, what can be done to help reduce misperceptions? In this inaugural lecture, I present highlights from my research in this area, and discuss my research plans going forward. If you wish to attend the above lecture and drinks reception, you much reserve a seat. All seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please email ssis-events@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
4 May 2017	12:00	CRPL Research Seminar - Dr Michelle Lazarus (Monash University) & Professor Lynn Monrouxe (Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre (CG-MERC)) Full details	Add event
2 May 2017	15:30	Reducing teacher workload - what can we learn from the medical profession about how clinicians collect and analyse data The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2016/17 academic year. Full details	Add event
23 April 2017	9:30	Fudan-Exeter Workshop: Populism: Origin. Evolution. Effect Workshop: Populism: Origin. Evolution. Effects. Full details	Add event
28 March 2017	15:30	The use of Activity Theory to Investigate Professional Learning The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2016/17 academic year. Full details	Add event
22 March 2017	15:30	Careers in International Justice and Human Rights On behalf of the International Law Forum at Exeter Law School and Department of Politics, we are pleased to invite you to an expert panel on careers in International Justice and Human Rights, with drinks reception. Event open to students in the College of Social Sciences and International Studies. Full details	Add event
13 March 2017	19:00	What did European research funding ever do for us? Full details	Add event
10 - 11 March 2017	9:00	Decolonizing Teacher Education An Expert Seminar hosted by the Centre for Creativity, Sustainability and Educational Futures, Graduate School of Education. Full details	Add event
10 - 11 March 2017		Decolonizing Teacher Education An Expert Seminar hosted by the Centre for Creativity, Sustainability and Educational Futures Graduate School of Education. Full details	Add event
7 March 2017	15:30	‘Religious Education and the Mary Whitehouse Experience’… The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2016/17 academic year. Full details	Add event
6 March 2017	16:30	What are the benefits of carrying out Research using Ethnographic Methods and how can it be used effectively? CenCSE Research Seminar. Full details	Add event
3 March 2017	11:30	A Barrister's perspective on working with tribal communities Gordon Bennett is a human rights lawyer who works closely with Survival International. He recently published an article in the Guardian on the rights of tribal people to hunt. In this talk, Gordon will reflect on his work as a barrister and how his role interacts with other agencies involved in supporting the human rights of indigenous people. This event is designed to give you a flavour of some of the roles and activities involved in working in human rights with indiginous communities. Students from all disciplines are welcome to come and hear Gordon speak and discuss issues of tribal human rights. Full details	Add event
20 February 2017	13:00	Problematizing the MA Dissertation (Looking at Feedback to Feedforward) In this seminar I will present an analysis of tutors’ qualitative feedback on a cohort of 25 full-time MA Education students’ dissertations within the University of Exeter’s Graduate School of Education. Totalling over 15,000 words, the markers’ comments are roughly equivalent to the length of an MA dissertation and grades awarded ranged from 40% to 83%. The rationale behind this small-scale inquiry is to identify patterns in what the dissertation markers considered to be of importance in terms of reporting perceived strengths and weaknesses of the work. Assessment data were accessed through the university’s EBART system and I suggest that such innovations in the use of technology to facilitate marking open up new possibilities for improving the quality of teaching and learning. I will share the implications of my findings, which are likely to have relevance for both the supervision and marking of future MA Education dissertations. Regarding the potentially sensitive nature of this data, the anonymity of students and markers - one of whom was me - will be upheld.. Full details	Add event
17 February 2017	15:00	The Refugee Crisis in the Modern World, UNHCR External Relations Andrej Mahecic is UNHCR spokesman based in London. Formerly a radio and TV journalist, he joined the UNHCR in 1997 and has been working for the UN refugee agency throughout South East Europe, at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva and in numerous emergency deployments to refugee crises in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Andrej will give a formal module presentation on the Refugee Crisis in the modern world, covering forced displacement. Andrej will also speak about his own personal career journey and the field of external relations. The talk will also cover the broader work of the UNHCR and give tips on career opportunities for graduates.. Full details	Add event
17 February 2017	9:30	Data Visualisation in R In this workshop we will introduce you to data visualisation in R with two popular packages, dplyr and ggplot2. We will cover most main types of statistical graphics. Full details	Add event
13 - 17 February 2017	10:30	SSIS Careers Week 13th - 17th February 2017 If you are in Politics, International Relations, Law, Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, Philosophy or Arabic & Islamic Studies, you will find the SSIS Careers Week events and drop-ins designed to help at all stages of your career planning. Full details	Add event
10 February 2017	9:30	Presenting and Visualising Regression Results This workshop introduces various ways of automating regression output from Stata and R.. Full details	Add event
9 February 2017	18:30	The British School in Kuwait on teaching opportunities in the Middle East Mr Paul Shropshire, the Principal of the British School of Kuwait (BSK), will be giving a presentation on the theme of opportunities for newly-qualifying teachers and those considering teaching as a career at British-system school overseas, particularly in the Middle East. Full details	Add event
8 February 2017	13:30	The University of Law: Step into Law - How To Convert Your Degree The University of Law offer the Graduate Diploma in Law at The University of Exeter.. Full details	Add event
7 February 2017	15:30	Using video-debrief to prevent prescribing errors in newly qualified doctors The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2016/17 academic year. All are welcome to attend.. Full details	Add event
3 February 2017	9:30	Data Analysis in R Building upon the 'Introduction to Programming in R' and the 'Data Visualisation in R' sessions, this workshop provides a brief introduction to major data analysis topics and their implementation in R. Covered topics include: probability distributions, regression analysis, models for binary and categorical data. Full details	Add event
2 February 2017	6:30	Applying for Pupillage workshop Exeter alumni Alex Cisneros (LL.B., 2012) and Maya Chopra (LL.B. 2012) will be visiting campus to run a workshop on making pupillage applications. Alex is currently completing a Public law and human rights pupillage and Maya is a criminal barrister. The workshop will focus on advice on applying for pupillage, as well as the BPTC and mini-pupillage and will cover what to do/what not to do in terms of writing your application. The workshop will finish with a Q&A session and you will have the opportunity to ask Alex and Maya any general questions on the process of becoming a barrister and their own career aspirations in their chosen fields. Full details	Add event
24 January 2017	1:30	Getting into the PR and Media sector This is a great opportunity to find out more about a career working in the PR, marketing and media sector. Local PR and marketing agency, Astley Media, will be running a workshop designed to help you understand how to develop a career in this competitive industry. You will be able to find out what a typical day involves, the types of skills needed and career prospects, while also having the opportunity to work on developing valuable skills that will help you get noticed and secure a job! Spaces are limited, so book on now! Find out more about Astley Media: http://www.astleymedia.co.uk/. Full details	Add event
20 January 2017	14:00	ESRC SWDTP Studentships Info Day An afternoon to experience and learn more about what Social Sciences and International Studies Postgraduate Research in Exeter can offer. Full details	Add event
20 January 2017	14:00	ESRC SWDTP Studentships Info Day An afternoon to experience and learn more about what Social Sciences and International Studies Postgraduate Research in Exeter can offer. Full details	Add event
19 January 2017	4:30	Is Teaching for Me? - Alumni panel discussion Interested in a career in teaching? Come along to this event to hear from a panel of alumni who have completed the PGCE course at Exeter as they discuss their professional teaching career so far. You will also have the opportunity to ask our speakers any questions at the end! The PGCE team will be there to answer your questions about applying for a PGCE in Exeter. Full details	Add event
17 January 2017	3:30	Is Teaching for Me? - Alumni panel discussion Interested in a career in teaching? Come along to this event to hear from a panel of alumni who have completed the PGCE course at Exeter as they discuss their professional teaching career so far. You will also have the opportunity to ask our speakers any questions at the end! The PGCE team will be there to answer your questions about applying for a PGCE in Exeter. Full details	Add event
13 January 2017	1:30	Journalism workshop: A practical approach to dealing with a story Simon Vigar, Politics alumnus and Royal correspondent for 5 News, will be running a journalism workshop focused on delivering a news story. Through analysing different scenarios, you will have the opportunity to look at practical ways of dealing with them. The workshop will finish with a Q&A session. Full details	Add event
11 January 2017	17:00	Community of Inquiry as a framework for practice School Improvement research has demonstrated that the single most important factor in determining the quality of education in our schools is the teacher in the classroom. We also know that teaching is a complex activity and understanding the relationship between teaching and learning is far from straightforward. Much attention has been given to the provision of initial and continuing education that can equip teachers to exercise judgement in the ambiguous, uncertain and immediate contexts of classrooms. However, finding sustainable means of developing such ‘transformative’ teachers (Menter et al., 2010) remains a challenge. The seminar will focus on how metacognitive approaches, increasingly recognised as having the potential to make learning in the classroom ‘visible’ (Hattie and Timperley, 2007), can provide the means of framing practice and support teachers in problem posing and problem solving in a professional learning community. Particular attention will be given to the Community of Inquiry as a framework for practice; we will examine the origins of the idea in the work of the American pragmatists and evaluate its application in social and educational settings.. Full details	Add event
6 December 2016	12:00	Teacher Recruitment Fair 2016 Are you a PGCE student? Don't miss our upcoming Teacher Recruitment fair for the opportunity to speak with a number of teacher recruitment agencies and local education authorities. Come along and find out about the NQT vacancies they have available locally, nationally and internationally. There is no need to book in advance. Full details	Add event
1 December 2016	13:00	Paradoxes of the Academization Process: A Sociological Exploration of the History of Foreign and Classical Language Education since 1864 Contemporary higher education has become a consumerist affair since student choice was put ‘at the heart of the system’ in 2011. This marketization extends universities’ function as an occupational clearinghouse: choice of degree course is assumed to be related to career aspirations. Yet, such expectations of rational career-accounting prove mythical if we consider the declining uptake of modern foreign languages in English-speaking countries: despite the obvious occupational skills multi-lingualism offers graduates in a globalized economy, fewer and fewer university consumers opt to study foreign languages.. Full details	Add event
30 November 2016	16:00	Anna Craft’s Legacy: The importance of creativity to teaching and learning and its role in resisting and challenging performativity. Reflections on a creative partnership. (Speark: Bob Jeffrey, University of Exeter) Bob Jeffrey, who worked closely with Anna Craft from the early Nineties, will reflect upon the reasons for developing creativity in education, its successes and its importance for teachers, schools and learners. The period will cover the introduction of the first National Curriculum, SATs , Ofsted inspections, Literacy and Numeracy programmes and increasing performativity in primary schools. He will provide examples of how they opened up a popular space for creativity in education in the UK and more globally which still pertains to today. He will argue that creativity in education is vital as a teaching methodology, crucial for developing learner’s own creativity and a necessary element to maintain a high profile for creativity itself, as Anna did, in order to ensure productive economies and innovatory practices. Full details	Add event
30 November 2016	16:00	Anna Craft’s Legacy: The importance of creativity to teaching and learning and its role in resisting and challenging performativity. Reflections on a creative partnership. (Speaker: Bob Jeffrey, University of Exeter) Bob Jeffrey, who worked closely with Anna Craft from the early Nineties, will reflect upon the reasons for developing creativity in education, its successes and its importance for teachers, schools and learners. The period will cover the introduction of the first National Curriculum, SATs , Ofsted inspections, Literacy and Numeracy programmes and increasing performativity in primary schools. He will provide examples of how they opened up a popular space for creativity in education in the UK and more globally which still pertains to today. He will argue that creativity in education is vital as a teaching methodology, crucial for developing learner’s own creativity and a necessary element to maintain a high profile for creativity itself, as Anna did, in order to ensure productive economies and innovatory practices. Full details	Add event
23 November 2016	13:00	Video-based Classroom Research and the Development of Professional Vision in Language Teacher Education (Speaker: Professor Dr Britta Viebrock, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt) The purpose of my talk is to present examples of video-based classroom research as part of a large teacher education project – Linking Pedagogic Expertise through Video Enhanced Learning Scenarios (LEVEL) – carried out at the university of Frankfurt between 2015 and 2018 (and possibly beyond). The project is concerned with the development of future teachers’ professional vision, i.e. their ability to observe and interpret events and situations specific to classroom interaction on the basis of pedagogical knowledge about teaching and learning. Professional vision is understood to be an important element of a more general professional development and an indicator of teaching expertise. In my presentation I will examine the concept of professional vision in greater detail and explain how it is put into effect in the LEVEL-project. In addition, I will have a more general look at classroom videography in foreign language education, which forms the foundation of the video enhanced learning scenarios to be developed in the Level-project. By way of example, I will present data from a research project on the development of transcultural competences through literature in the foreign language classroom. Contextual information on the structure and models of (foreign language) teacher education in Germany will also be provided.. Full details	Add event
21 November 2016	12:00	What I did with my Politics and International Relations degree Come along to hear from two alumni from the Politics Department about the variety of things you can do with your degree. This informal event is open to all Politics students. 12.00– 2.00pm Discussion and Q&A with tips on applications, internships, career decision making and more. Networking lunch: time to speak individually to our panel and have some lunch. Due to catering for lunch, booking is essential. Full details	Add event
17 November 2016	13:30	Law firm application form workshop with David Higgins, Freshfields David Higgins, and Exeter Law alumnus, works in London for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. His workshop with contain: Timelines for the various options available at Freshfields Training contract. Vacation scheme (for students in their penultimate year at university). Workshops (for students who haven’t yet made up their mind about their career. Workshops last one or two days – they provide a great opportunity to get an inside view of Freshfields). Application forms What the firm looks for in applicants. Highlighting positive ways to ensure an application form get noticed. Giving examples of common mistakes made on application forms. Q&As David would very much like this to be an interactive session. He is very happy to answer any questions not just on Freshfields but also on other law firms and any other aspects of the legal profession. It would therefore be good if the students that attend come prepared with questions they would like to ask him.. Full details	Add event
17 November 2016	10:30	SPSS Intermediate This workshop introduces you to the basics of statistical analysis using SPSS focusing on cross-tabulations and correlations in particular. The workshop is taught at the intermediate level and requires basic knowledge of SPSS or the attendance of SPSS Beginners Workshop. For materials and further information visit Q-Step's ELE page. Full details	Add event
16 November 2016	12:30	Barrister Q&A: Ask me Anything! Sophie and Ben are both Exeter alumni and both worked for the CPS prior to joining 9 Kings Bench Walk. The Chamber specialises in high level and general crime, offences of serious violence, child abuse, rape cases and fraud, immigration, particularly those cases linked with criminal charges, traffic and regulatory work. As well as finding out about getting pupillage and tenancy, you can also find out about the Chamber’s mini-pupillage and internship opportunities. About our speakers: Sophie Quinton-Carter graduated in 2012 with an LLB (Maitrise) and attended Kaplan Law School to complete her BPTC. Prior to joining the CPS, Sophie worked for the Financial Ombudsman Service. She joined Chambers in January 2016. Sophie specializes in Crime and Regulatory work. Ben Edwards graduated in 2006 with an LLB, and was called to the Bar in 2007. Ben specializes in Crime and Regulatory work. Ben is currently on a 6-month secondment to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. His previous work for the CPS involved working alongside Treasury Counsel and regularly meeting with the Attorney General and Solicitor General. Full details	Add event
14 November 2016	18:00	Golden Threads and Pragmatic Patches: Fairness in Criminal Justice - Lecture 2: Righting Criminal Justice, Delivered by Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand as part of the Hamlyn Lecture Series. Full details	Add event
10 November 2016	12:30	Professional learning in teacher centres – current and historical perspectives In this seminar I will present a paper that I have been developing with my colleague Dr Tamar Groves, in which we undertake a comparative historical analysis of the role of teachers’ centres in England and Spain from the 1960s-1990s and explore how their distinctive approach to teachers’ professional learning might speak to current debate about a perceived crisis in teaching and teacher education. The paper is in three main parts. First, I will briefly outline the development of teachers’ centres in England and in Spain. Then I will focus on identifying what we consider to be the fundamental elements that constituted the core essence of the teachers’ centre model of teacher professional development. Finally, I will argue that in their brief historical moment, teachers’ centres had the potential to radically shape the teaching profession and that there might be scope for reinventing a refined model of teachers’ centres as part of the twenty-first century teacher re-professionalisation agenda.. Full details	Add event
9 November 2016	13:30	How to Prepare for the Law Fair This session will provide a basic introduction to the purpose of the Exeter Law Fair and offer some useful information and advice on making the most of the law fair and interacting with the law firms and other exhibitors attending. Please sign up to attend on My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
9 November 2016	10:30	SPSS Beginners This Q-Step workshop offers a brief guidance on how to get started with SPSS. It reflects on the drawbacks and benefits of the software and explains how to prepare your data to use in SPSS. The workshop then moves on to demonstrate how you can describe the data in SPSS. There are no pre-requisites for taking the workshop, and no prior knowledge of data analysis is assumed. For materials and further information visit Q-Step's ELE page. Full details	Add event
8 November 2016	13:30	Graduate Careers in Local Government The National Graduate Development Programme (NGDP) is a two-year graduate management development programme for individuals who want to make a difference. We train high-calibre managers who can influence and implement the huge change programme facing local government. Full details	Add event
3 November 2016	13:00	Supporting content and language learning through collaborative drawing (exploratory research)… (Presenters: Dr Gabriela Meier & Dr Emese Hall) Aim 1) Outline key theories and research; Aim 2) Invite participation in a collaborative research project.. Full details	Add event
2 November 2016	13:30	How to apply to a top city law firm - with Herbert Smith Freehills In this session Exeter alumni / recruitment specialists from Herbert Smith Freehills with give you tips and guidance on applying to a commercial law firm. In this session Exeter alumni / recruitment specialists from Herbert Smith Freehills with give you tips and guidance on applying to a commercial law firm; how to plan and prepare applications and balance prioritising with academic work, be resilient and adaptable when dealing with setbacks and give advice on how to present yourself in applications. Please come prepared to discuss questions about your own applications. Full details	Add event
31 October 2016	16:00	Researching creative intersubjectivities – a journey from language-based collaborations to embodied dialogues Collaborative learning research generally investigates how school-based peer interaction mediates children’s intellectual development, focusing on the ‘relationship between language and thinking’ (Mercer & Littleton, 2007). There is a paucity of socio-cultural studies exploring the embodied and affective dimensions of peer collaboration, especially in creative contexts (Vass et al, 2014). My earlier work on children’s collaborative creative writing revealed the significance of the affective dimensions in the observed dialogues (Vass et al, 2014). My current research examines the links between music, body perceptions and imagination. The data document participants’ free movement improvisations and collective reflections. This enables the study of bodily imagination in vivo, as it spontaneously evolves during delicately scaffolded opportunities to experience and respond to music via improvised movement. This presentation charts my methodological journey from the study of children’s collaborative discourse towards the analysis of embodied dialogues in order to capture the nature and evolution of creative intersubjectivities.. Full details	Add event
27 October 2016	13:30	Careers with the Civil Service Come along to this event to hear from a team of second year "Fast Streamers" as they answer your questions on the Fast Stream and speak about their experiences so far. There are a wide range of roles and opportunities within the Civil Service including working in services such as Finance, Diplomacy, Health, Science & Technology, so there is something for everyone! Our speakers, who include Exeter alumni, will also talk about the Early Diversity Internship Programme, and the summer Diversity Internship Programme; two schemes that give undergraduates the opportunity to gain invaluable work experience in a government department.. Full details	Add event
25 October 2016	12:30	Careers in Germany for PGCE students with Phorms Susanne Ramírez-Zimmermann, the HR Manager of Phorms Education SE, will give a talk to PGCE students about finding teaching jobs in Germany. Phorms Education SE are looking to recruit graduates from Early Years, Primary and Secondary PGCE programmes for their seven schools in Germany. They offer bilingual education in English and German at their internationally minded private schools with nursery, reception, primary and secondary divisions. Phorms Education SE offers: - an international team with 50 % native English speakers, - an innovative didactic concept - a relocation allowance for international new staff - and a lot more to be presented during Susanne’s talk Please note that you do not need any prior knowledge of the German language as you would be teaching exclusively in English. For more information please visit their website: http://www.phorms.de/en_pms/. Full details	Add event
20 October 2016	16:00	Data Analysis in Practice: Examples from the Fire Service Data Analysis in Practice is a series of talks designed to showcase how a range of organisations and industries use data analysis to inform best practice and improve performance. Full details	Add event
20 October 2016	12:30	Law firm application form workshop with Lara Moore, Ashfords Lara Moore works in Exeter for Ashfords. You can read more about Lara here http://www.ashfords.co.uk/lara-moore/ Ashfords is a regional law firm with offices in London and across the South West. In this workshop, you will be given the chance to work on your own style of writing, gain an understanding of the do's and don'ts of application form writing, and have the opportunity to ask questions about what it's like working for a large regional law firm. Full details	Add event
18 October 2016	17:30	Alternative Careers for Law Students Our panellists have all followed an alternative career with their law degree. Come along to hear how they have used their degree in their career path and any advice for getting into their sector. The talk will include a Q&A session. This is a great opportunity to start exploring your options. The panel discussion will be followed by drinks and networking. Please sign up for this event on My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
18 October 2016	15:30	Working in the Middle East: FULLY BOOKED We are delighted to be welcoming back two alumni, Andrew Turner and Daniel Jeffery, who will be discussing working in the Middle East. Both have extensive experience of the Arab world and have followed interesting career paths working in a range of sectors including government, defence and security. Their roles have seen them working in several different countries across the MENA region. If you are interested in developing your own career working in the Middle East, then come along to hear from our speakers and ask any questions during the Q&A session. Our speakers: Andrew Turner (LL.B. European, 1986) Andrew joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a graduate entrant on graduation from Exeter. He studied Arabic with the FCO in London and Cairo, before working as a Political officer in Oman and Syria. On return to London he headed up the teams in maritime issues including Law of the Sea (1994-96) and North Africa (1996-98). He worked in Cape Town 1998-2001 as Head of the Political Section at the British High Commission in South Africa, covering events including South Africa’s second democratic national elections and the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. Back in London he headed up the FCO’s work on international export controls and Small Arms control 2001-4 and then worked on international counter-terrorism co-operation. He went to Riyadh as Deputy to the British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia 2006-9. Back again in London he was worked in senior roles on strategic finance, IT and promoting the UK’s prosperity. He has just started a new Middle-East focussed role with the Ministry of Defence. Daniel Jeffery (LL.B., 2007 and MA International Relations of the Middle East, 2008) Dan attended Exeter Uni between 2004 and 2008 where he achieved a 2:1 in Law (LLB) and an MA in International Relations of the Middle East and received the Ayubi Memorial Prize for Most Outstanding Dissertation in Middle East Politics. Since graduating Dan interned at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and worked his way up to acting Head of the Middle East & North Africa desk before moving to BAE Systems to work in their Competitive Intelligence Team. Dan then moved to Detica (a specialist cyber security and intelligence company now called BAE Systems Applied Intelligence) where he helped them break into the Middle East after moving to Abu Dhabi. Specifically he headed up a national Government account and was Head of the Commercial Client Group across the Middle East. After a two successful years in this role Dan was made Director of Operational Analysis for the Middle East & North Africa for BAE Systems’ Head Office. In this role Dan devised and executed growth strategies in key markets; project managed key opportunities in the region; and was responsible for governance and financial reporting to the Board of Directors. In 2016 Dan moved to Accenture in the UK where he helped found their UK Cyber Security Strategy practice. In this role Dan has designed, built and delivered a Cyber Academy; worked on a number of projects covering a wide variety of subject matter from Threat Intelligence, through to Governance and Leadership; and Cyber Resilience to name a few.. Full details	Add event
13 October 2016	17:30	What I did with my Politics and International Relations degree Our panellists will reflect on their own experiences and share any tips + advice on how you can also get into their career sector. The talk will also include a Q&A session.Please sign up to this event on My Career Zone. The discussion will last an hour, followed by drinks and networking. Full details	Add event
13 October 2016	17:00	Academic attitudes towards becoming educational leaders In this seminar I shall draw on my on-going doctoral research into the attitudes of academics towards taking on educational leadership roles. This research has largely been based on a case study of the University of Exeter but I hope ultimately will be of wider value to academics and institutions. In the session I shall:. Full details	Add event
12 October 2016	13:30	How to apply to Law Grad School In this sessions we will be looking at the range of exciting LLMs available worldwide, many of which have seen successful Exeter graduates get on to. We will look at how to get organised and tackle applications as well as the decision making process about what to do and where. Please note: this is not about the LPC or BPTC but LLM programmes. Please sign up on My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
12 October 2016	13:00	‘Influence of an American initial teacher education program on pre-service and in-service teachers’ The primary purpose during this seminar will be to describe the research-based initial teacher education program at the University of Alabama. In addition, I will highlight some of the research I have conducted on this program with post-graduate students and colleagues.. Full details	Add event
5 October 2016	13:30	How to become a barrister We shall cover all the basic steps from joining an Inn of Court to applying for pupillage. Please sign up for this event on My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
29 September 2016	16:30	The Law on Data - exploring a career in this specialist area of law Travers Smith provides data protection advice to clients in a diverse range of sectors, covering retail, financial services, online start- ups, pension funds and insurance. This regularly involves giving advice in relation to data protection audit and policy work, online privacy policies, data collection and exploitation, information security breaches and international data transfers. Recent work includes advising: Office in relation to a data security incident; Shazam on obtaining and using geo-tracking data; and A number of financial institutions and private equity houses on their international transfers of data. Our speakers will provide insights in to this complex area of work and you will have the opportunity to ask questions about law and data.. Full details	Add event
28 September 2016	13:30	How to become a solicitor We shall cover all the basic steps from application to training contract, including when and how to apply. Please sign up on My Career Zone. Full details	Add event
12 September 2016	13:00	“There was probably a tear in my eye”: emotion regulation as an individual and interpersonal phenomenon Emotion regulation (ER) refers to the control we are able to exert over our emotions and is often constructed as a skill that an individual has (or has not) to varying degrees. In medical practice, unregulated emotions impact on doctor and patient well-being. In teachers, such negative emotions (e.g. anger, frustration), increase students' negative emotional experiences. For both groups, unregulated, or inappropriately regulated, emotions can lead to lack of motivation and is associated with mood and anxiety disorders, depression and burnout. In this seminar Lynn will report on the findings from a study examining junior doctors’ emotional regulation as part of a larger GMC-funded programme of research investigating medical graduates’ preparedness for practice. Although participants narrated a range of strategies of how they personally managed work-related negative feelings, with different patterns of regulation being identified by the researchers, participants also narrated times when the wider team rallied around to help them manage their emotions during and following difficult events. Similarities and differences between how emotions are regulated within educational and clinical settings will be explored with the audience.. Full details	Add event
6 September 2016	15:30	Longitudinal audio diaries in healthcare education research: What, why and how (Professor Lynn Monrouze) Visiting academic, Professor Lynn Monrouxe (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan) will be leading the research tea; the theme is 'Longitudinal audio diaries in healthcare education research: What, why and how'. Full details	Add event
1 September 2016	13:00	Design-Based Research and Collective Intelligence Visiting Scholars, Drs Tony Hall and Michael Hogan, are visiting the Centre for Teaching and Thinking Dialogue and will be presenting a seminar on Design-Based Research and Collective Intelligence on 1 September 2016. All are welcome to attend.. Full details	Add event
14 July 2016	16:30	ITE Networking Event - Centre for Research in Professional Learning - ExPLAIN Network ExPLAIN - affiliated to CRPL - is a collaborative network open to anyone interested in exploring debates and dilemmas in the current research, policy and practice of professional learning. A forum for the exchange of ideas. All colleagues involved with or with an interest in Initial Teacher Education are warmly invited to attend this networking event.. Full details	Add event
8 July 2016	10:00	Making CenCSE, Moving Forward Fran Martin, Kerry Chappell (Centre Co-ordinators) and the CenCSE group would like to invite you to the launch of this new research centre. Professor Keri Facer, from the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, will be keynoting, followed by structured debate around the new Centre's key themes. Full details	Add event
5 July 2016	15:30	Grounded Practice: Putting the 'self' back into self-evaluation The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2015/16 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
25 June 2016	11:00	University of Law – Open Day Come and find out more about our Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL). Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) The conversion course for non-law graduates wanting to become a successful solicitor or barrister. Legal Practice Course (LPC) For students with a GDL or law degree, our LPC is the best preparation to practise as a solicitor, with the skills to succeed in business.. Full details	Add event
25 June 2016	11:00	University of Law – Open Day Come and find out more about our Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL). Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) The conversion course for non-law graduates wanting to become a successful solicitor or barrister. Legal Practice Course (LPC) For students with a GDL or law degree, our LPC is the best preparation to practise as a solicitor, with the skills to succeed in business. To book your place, please visit the University of Law website: http://cc.law.ac.uk/personal/events/book?et=1. Full details	Add event
25 June 2016	11:00	University of Law – Open Day Come and find out more about our Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL). Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) The conversion course for non-law graduates wanting to become a successful solicitor or barrister. Legal Practice Course (LPC) For students with a GDL or law degree, our LPC is the best preparation to practise as a solicitor, with the skills to succeed in business. To book your place, please visit the University of Law website: http://cc.law.ac.uk/personal/events/book?et=1. Full details	Add event
9 June 2016	16:00	Issues impacting the motivation of Iranian university students to learn English In this talk Shahrzad Ardavani will talk about the issues impacting the motivation of Iranian university students to learn English, and more generally, the teaching of English in Iran from the perspective of socio-economic and political development. Full details	Add event
9 - 10 June 2016	14:00	Translating Political Langauges: A Sino-European Workshop The workshop is organised by the Centre of Political Thought in collaboration with Chinese scholars from various universities in Beijing. Full details	Add event
8 June 2016	18:00	Brexit: Would it leave Britain and Europe less secure? Full details	Add event
7 June 2016	15:30	Co-construction, co-design and collaboration: developing a professional learning community in schools The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2015/16 academic year. All our welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
24 May 2016	18:00	The EU Referendum discussion Full details	Add event
3 May 2016	15:30	Centre for Research in Professional Learning - Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2015/16 academic year. Full details	Add event
25 April 2016	19:00	Ask the Experts: The UK and the EU Full details	Add event
4 March 2016	12:30	The Race for the White House 2016 Mr King will talk about the nomination contests and the 2016 general election. Full details	Add event
4 March 2016	10:30	Alumni Presentation: Working in the Communications sector Andrew Honnor is the founder and Managing Partner of financial communications firm, Greenbrook. In this talk, Andrew will discuss his career path working in the communications sector and highlight both the opportunities and challenges within this industry. The event will include a Q&A session. Full details	Add event
4 March 2016	10:30	Alumni Presentation: Working in the Communications sector Andrew Honnor (History and Politics, 1992) is the founder and Managing Partner of financial communications firm, Greenbrook. In this talk, Andrew will discuss his career path working in the communications sector and highlight both the opportunities and challenges within this industry. The event will include a Q&A session. Full details	Add event
3 March 2016	16:00	A History of Political Television Advertising in America Mr King will discuss the history of television advertising in American Politics. Full details	Add event
2 March 2016	13:30	Applying for the BPTC with the University of Law Speaker:- Charlotte Baker – BPTC Consultant, University of Law. Objective:- Information for students interested in applying for the bar – specifically gaining pupillage. Method:- The session utilises real pupillage application forms and interviews conducted between barristers and soon-to-be pupils to give students a realistic insight into the process (further details are contained in the information document attached).. Full details	Add event
23 February 2016	17:30	How to get a career in (American) Politics and other reflections on Washington Mr Petts will talk about his advice for getting a career in Politics - whether in America or elsewhere. Full details	Add event
23 February 2016	16:00	Enjoying ethnographic writing Bob Jeffrey has spent over 20 years researching primary school using ethnographic methods and he will show the importance of writing to qualitative research in different literary forms. The intention of the session is to show how detailed written accounts of the contexts of research brings authenticity to the readers of research findings in the way accounts are re-presented in literary forms. He will emphasise the value of the use of literary forms in the research process both in the field and when examining data some distance from the fieldwork. He will suggest that by using the imagination and creative writing skills the researcher can enhance the legitimacy and validity of their ethnographic research. There will be an opportunity for group discussion.. Full details	Add event
22 February 2016	16:30	Political Polling and Campaign Strategy Mr Petts will talk about how political polling is conducted and used in American elections. Full details	Add event
22 February 2016	16:00	Creative Learning in the Primary School Descriptions and analysis of creative learning is an essential check on the effectiveness of creative teaching. The documentation of creative teaching has more validity if the outcomes of it can be seen to be taken up as creative learning by pupils and students. This session will focus on ethnographic research carried out over some years on the nature of creative learning in the primary school and will show how, given a creative teaching context, young people develop creative skills and understandings. We will examine how they act in relevant creative situations, bring ownership and control to their learning practices and how innovation is developed. Some aspects of the research process will be exemplified to indicate how teachers and prospective teachers might research, identify and encourage creative learning. There will be an opportunity for group discussions.. Full details	Add event
17 February 2016	17:30	Alternative Careers for Law Students Come along to this event to hear from a panel of speakers who have followed a less typical career path with their law degree and gain an insight into different areas you too could go into after graduation. Join us for drinks and networking from 6:30pm for the chance to speak with our panellists. Full details	Add event
16 February 2016	12:30	PwC Graduate Opportunities in the Middle East careers workshop PwC in the Middle East are keen to employ Exeter graduates. This workshop will be a skype meeting with Charlotte Edwards, Graduate Recruitment Assistant Manager for PwC in Dubai. She will run through everything you need to know about the Grad programmes in the Middle East. PwC have a number of graduate position in the Middle East: http://pwcmegraduatecareers.ae/pwc/vacancysearch.a... If you would like to learn more about what the graduate scheme is like, and what it's like to live and work in Dubai come along to this small, interactive session. Charlotte will present slides and talk through all aspects of graduate work in the Middle East. This is a skype meeting as Charlotte is based in Dubai.. Full details	Add event
10 February 2016	14:45	Careers in the Humanitarian Sector Careers in the Humantarian Sector is an event which brings together a panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds. Our panellists will talk about their own experiences of how their careers developed, be it through a linguistic, research or legal training route. As well as three panellists in the room, if the technology allows us, we will skype in to a fourth panellist - Mike Sanderson - currently deployed with the UNHCR in Lesbos where he is overseeing the processing of Syrian refugees. Our panellists: Liz Harris: HR Marketing Officer International Committee of the Red Cross Liz joined the ICRC as an Urdu interpreter in 2002, after graduating from SOAS with a BA in Hindi and South Asian History. She spent three years working in Indian Administered Kashmir, after which she studied Pashto and worked in Afghanistan. She is now based in London and specialises in recruiting linguists for the ICRC. Dr Kelsey Shanks: Research Fellow - ESRC Iraq Disputed Territories, University of Exeter In 2013 I held the position of Research Fellow at the University of York’s Postwar Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU), and I am currently a Research Associate at Ulster University’s UNESCO Centre. To compliment my academic interests I have also worked as an Education Advisor to the United Nations, leading research projects for UNAMI Political Affairs and serving as Peace-building Education advisor to UNICEF Iraq. I have completed both the IOM and Control Risks Security Awareness Training (SAIT) for working in fragile and conflict-affected areas and have fieldwork experience in Iraq, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and South Central Somalia. Abigail Grace: Project Development Worker, Refugee Support Devon Abigail is an FCH graduate (International Relations and Anthropology) from 2014. She is currently working to support refugees and asylum seekers in the role of Project Development Worker for Refugee Support Devon. Mike Sanderson: Lecturer in Law Prior to joining the School of Law, Mike served as a legal officer with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in duty stations across Africa and in the former Yugoslavia. Most recently, Mike served as a legal adviser to UNHCR in Sudan and Somalia during the introduction of new citizenship regimes in these states. His scholarly work has appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, the European Human Rights Law Review, and the Wisconsin International Law Journal. Mike is currently on secondment with the UNHCR in Lesbos, Greece and will Skype in to the discussion.. Full details	Add event
10 February 2016	13:30	ICRC Linguist Careers presentation The International Committee of the Red Cross regularly recruits Arabic and Farsi speakers for its field operations as interpreters and delegates. Their job is to put the organisation's mandate into action; carrying out humanitarian visits to detainees, monitoring the conduct of hostilities, re-uniting families separated by conflict and organising emergency relief aid are all part of a day's work. Liz Harris will give a presentation outlining the work of the ICRC and what we are looking for in recruits, followed by a question and answer session. Liz joined the ICRC as an Urdu interpreter in 2002, after graduating from SOAS with a BA in Hindi and South Asian History. She spent three years working in Indian Administered Kashmir, after which she studied Pashto and worked in Afghanistan. She is now based in London and specialises in recruiting linguists for the ICRC.. Full details	Add event
9 February 2016	18:15	Professor Michael Hauskeller - Asking the Right Questions; On Being a Philosopher and Ethicist Hardly a month goes by without the announcement of yet another significant technological innovation. So much has changed during the past three decades, it is almost impossible to predict with any degree of certainty what we will be able to accomplish and what our world will look like a decade or two ahead. Anything seems possible. This makes it more pressing than ever to figure out what we actually want and what kind of life we should strive for. This talk looks into some of the challenges we face today and tries to identify the role philosophy and especially philosophical ethics must play in a world so rapidly changing as ours.. Full details	Add event
3 February 2016	12:30	Careers in the EU - Employer Presentation Paul Kaye, London Office of the European Commission will be giving a talk on EU careers. He will provide information on where an EU career can lead, why it will be a fulfilling career choice, what involves and who they are looking to employ. He will also provide a very clear outline of the application process and the selection procedure, leading you straight into your career at the EU!. Full details	Add event
3 February 2016	12:30	Careers in the EU - Employer Presentation Paul Kaye, London Office of the European Commission will be giving a talk on EU careers. He will provide information on where an EU career can lead, why it will be a fulfilling career choice, what involves and who they are looking to employ. He will also provide a very clear outline of the application process and the selection procedure, leading you straight into your career at the EU!. Full details	Add event
2 February 2016	15:30	Centre for Research in Professional Learning - Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2015/16 academic year.. Full details	Add event
21 January 2016	13:00	THINK research centre seminar: Play and Learning in Finnish Education Policy and Practice Play is a serious matter to young children across cultures. This is evidenced by the passionate, intensive, and energetic engagement many children invest in this activity. Play experiences are widely recognised to create the foundations for children’s healthy and holistic development. In Finland, children’s opportunities for play are highly regarded in the education of children under seven years old, and lately the interest towards play and playful learning have extended to the education of older children, even adults. In my talk, I will be reflecting on current international research on play and learning and how this scientific evidence is taken up in Finnish education, in its policy and practice. I will draw attention to the possibilities and thresholds, and show how play and learning is also about playing with learning. I will end my talk by considering the changing landscapes of play in the digital era and their consequences for children’s learning, educational practice and teacher professional competencies.. Full details	Add event
26 November 2015	17:00	Careers with regional law firms: find out more with Stephens Scown Are you interested in becoming a solicitor? Do you want to find out what it is like training with and working for one of the largest firms in the South West? Join trainees and the graduate recruitment team at the Exeter office of Stephens Scown. Full details	Add event
24 November 2015	17:15	Careers That Make Society Work Panel 5.15-6.15pm – Arrival drinks and nibbles and networking 6.15 – 7.30pm - Panel discussion 7.30 – 8pm - Further networking time following panel discussion Discussion with panelists from charity, NGO and Public sectors. They will talk about the nature of their roles as well as offer insight into what life in their field is really like; including the opportunities, rewards, but also the challenges. Along with handy hints and tips as well as possible roles that are available within their companies. Between them they work across the spectrum of society to help individuals and communities to work better. Before the panel there will be an opportunity to speak with panelists and career’s consultants during the networking reception. As well as the discussion will be preceded by drinks and nibbles, and an opportunity to talk to the panelists individually after the event.. Full details	Add event
18 November 2015	12:30	How to become a Barrister Alex was called to the Bar in 2007 and specialises in the law of international organisations (e.g., the UN, the World Bank and the IMF). He studied at Exeter University (2002-2005) on the double-diplôme (LLB European (French)) and spent a year in Rennes (2005-2006) for his Master 1. Alex will talk through the first steps to becoming a barrister and discuss his own career specialism in Public International law. Full details	Add event
12 November 2015	17:30	Women in the law, discussion and networking Hear from a wide range of women who have made it to the top of their profession and gain an insight into the challenges they faced along the way but also the value of choosing such a career path. Networking drinks will follow this event from 7pm. Full details	Add event
11 November 2015	14:00	Alumni presentation: Working in the Middle East Chris is a graduate from the University of Exeter (BA Politics, 1975). He has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Jerusalem and Turkey. He currently holds the position of Director of the Saudi British Joint Business Council (SBJBC). In his talk he will give a brief overview of the range of government and business roles he has had in Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He will take questions and discuss opportunities for working in the Middle East, as well as internships with the SBJBC. Joining Chris is Becky Kilsby, Postgraduate Careers Consultant in the Business School. Becky has 20 years experience of working in the Middle East in the Education sector. Becky will contribute to the discussion with her own perspectives on building a career in Dubai. Full details	Add event
9 November 2015	13:30	BT Legal Commercial Awareness workshop and in-house careers presentation Our talk is aimed at students who want to understand more about commercial awareness and who are curious about embarking on a legal career in-house. This unique presentation offers an ideal opportunity for students to find out what it’s like to train as an in-house trainee solicitor. You’ll hear from some of our current trainees who will discuss: •their experiences as an in-house trainee and their honest opinions on why they chose to pursue a career in-house •the latest recruitment hot topic: “commercial awareness”, including what it is and how you can start to demonstrate you have it. The talk includes a few case studies to bring the topic to life •the BT Legal Training Contract, including how to apply and some handy tips to make your application stand out The presenters will be welcoming any questions you may have following the presentation.. Full details	Add event
4 November 2015	12:30	Careers with the Government Legal Services Lawyers in the Government Legal Service (GLS) have one client: the British Government. It’s a terrific responsibility. As a legal trainee in the GLS, it’s a responsibility you could share. Full details	Add event
4 November 2015	12:30	Careers with the Government Legal Services Lawyers in the Government Legal Service (GLS) have one client: the British Government. It’s a terrific responsibility. As a legal trainee in the GLS, it’s a responsibility you could share. Full details	Add event
2 November 2015	16:00	An International Law Career - Andrew Stott, Olswang, Singapore: with interactive law & data session An International Law Career with interactive workshop. Andrew Stott (Law Alumnus) will give students an insight into tackling 21st century legal problems involving data, or as he calls it “Chasing the Unicorn – creating the next billion dollar start-up: a case study of the legal and commercial issues involved in launching a disruptor app” Andrew will also discuss how he developed an international law career working in the US and Asia. Andrew Stott, University of Exeter LLB., 2000, Dip. Legal Practice,2002. Andrew has been with Olswang since 2002 and advises companies, financial institutions and individuals on international public and private M&A, investment deals and strategic joint ventures. Andrew has particular experience in working on multi-jurisdiction transactions across Europe, North America and Asia and spent part of his career based in New York. Full details	Add event
28 October 2015	13:00	Ask a Law Trainee Anything Hear from a panel of trainee solicitors working in a range of teams from Education to Property Litigation and gain an insight from those recently new in the industry. This is the chance to reflect on your first few weeks at University and ask any career related questions you want answering!. Full details	Add event
27 October 2015	13:00	Careers working in German Schools Susanne Ramírez-Zimmermann, the HR Manager of Phorms Education SE, will give a talk to PGCE students about finding teaching jobs in Germany. Phorms Education SE are looking to recruit graduates from Early Years, Primary and Secondary PGCE programmes for their seven schools in Germany. They offer bilingual education in English and German at their internationally minded private schools with nursery, reception, primary and secondary divisions. Phorms Education SE offers: - an international team with 50 % native English speakers, - an innovative didactic concept - a relocation allowance for international new staff - and a lot more to be presented during Susanne’s talk Please note that you do not need any prior knowledge of the German language as you would be teaching exclusively in English. For more information please visit their website: http://www.phorms.de/en_pms/. Full details	Add event
21 October 2015	13:30	Careers that make society work - panel discussion Our panellists will talk about their roles in social work and the social work post-graduation qualifications available and give you an insight in to what it is really like to work in their field, the opportunities and rewards, but also the challenges. Between them they work across the spectrum of society to help individuals and communities to work better. The discussion will be followed by drinks and nibbles, and an opportunity to talk to the panelists individually. Full details	Add event
20 October 2015	17:30	Social work for languages students - with Frontline Frontline's mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children by recruiting and developing outstanding individuals to be leaders in social work and broader society. Frontline is especially interested in meeting languages students / foreign language speakers, particuarly Arabic. Full details	Add event
1 October 2015	13:30	Travers Smith: Ask me anything about M&A and working for a commercial law firm Ask me anything about M&A and working for a commercial law firm! Interested in these areas of law but want to find out more? Here's your opportunity to grill two individuals from Travers Smith about what the work is like and involves. Full details	Add event