Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Media Club careers event
We’ve got some places left on the Insight into Broadcasting and Journalism course on Monday 25th March. If you’d like to come along, please get your applications in to us as soon as you can.
Full details at:
We’ve extended the deadline for applications, so you’ve still got time. We can however only accept cheques until 12th March – after that, it will be cash only we’re afraid.
Best Wishes
The Media Club
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research
Crossing the bar: Public Engagement and Humanities Research (http://humanitiesandpublicengagement.wordpress.com)
Applications are invited from Humanities postgraduate and early career researchers across the North West to take part in this AHRC-funded initiative, which will explore practical methods of finding ways of engaging the public with your research – an increasingly important consideration for researchers entering an academic marketplace which expects research to create impact.
The project will take the form of two workshops. The first, to be held at Keele University on Friday May 17th 2013, will address the idea of “Connected Communities”. At this event, invited community partners (Staffordshire Archive Service, Englesea Brook Museum, the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum and the New Vic Theatre) will explain their experiences of the nature of collaborative relationships, suggesting ways of establishing meaningful contact with local research institutions, prompting discussions of how such a working-relationship can be sustained and how it can develop the long-term prospects of both researcher and community partners.
Developing from this, the second workshop, to be held at Liverpool University on September 27th 2013, will address the “Care for the Future” theme. Talks from Gladstone’s Library, the Reader Organisation, the Prince's Trust and the Wordsworth Trust will explore the variety of contexts in which Humanities researchers might interact with it, from digitisation projects which preserve and make accessible a resource, to uses of reading which seek to enhance health and well-being.
The workshops will be supplemented by a blog, which will enable participants to discuss their experiences of seeking public engagement opportunities throughout the time between the workshops. Each participant will be asked to write a short post to contribute to this blog.
To apply, please send a letter of support from your supervisor, a brief outline of your research project, and a brief (500 word) description as to how you see your project being utilised in a public engagement collaboration to j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk and k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk by Friday March 29th 2013.
Applications are invited from Humanities postgraduate and early career researchers across the North West to take part in this AHRC-funded initiative, which will explore practical methods of finding ways of engaging the public with your research – an increasingly important consideration for researchers entering an academic marketplace which expects research to create impact.
The project will take the form of two workshops. The first, to be held at Keele University on Friday May 17th 2013, will address the idea of “Connected Communities”. At this event, invited community partners (Staffordshire Archive Service, Englesea Brook Museum, the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum and the New Vic Theatre) will explain their experiences of the nature of collaborative relationships, suggesting ways of establishing meaningful contact with local research institutions, prompting discussions of how such a working-relationship can be sustained and how it can develop the long-term prospects of both researcher and community partners.
Developing from this, the second workshop, to be held at Liverpool University on September 27th 2013, will address the “Care for the Future” theme. Talks from Gladstone’s Library, the Reader Organisation, the Prince's Trust and the Wordsworth Trust will explore the variety of contexts in which Humanities researchers might interact with it, from digitisation projects which preserve and make accessible a resource, to uses of reading which seek to enhance health and well-being.
The workshops will be supplemented by a blog, which will enable participants to discuss their experiences of seeking public engagement opportunities throughout the time between the workshops. Each participant will be asked to write a short post to contribute to this blog.
To apply, please send a letter of support from your supervisor, a brief outline of your research project, and a brief (500 word) description as to how you see your project being utilised in a public engagement collaboration to j.e.taylor@keele.ac.uk and k.astbury@liverpool.ac.uk by Friday March 29th 2013.
Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination
Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination
An afternoon symposium at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, all welcome
15 March 2013
12.30 arrival and coffee
1.00
Opening remarks (Jerome de Groot)
1.15
Lauren Working (Durham)
Unnatural Disobedience: Sedition and the Literature of Tobacco in Jacobean England
1.45
Philipp Rössner (Manchester)
Tobacco and Mechanisms of British Imperial Control. The case of Scotland and the Atlantic Economy
2.15 Coffee
2.30
Bruna Gushurst-Moore (Plymouth)
‘Take of Tobacco Leaves Bruised two pound’
3.00
Lucy Munro (Keele)
Keynote
'Joking about Tobacco on the Early Jacobean Stage'
4 end
An afternoon symposium at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, all welcome
15 March 2013
12.30 arrival and coffee
1.00
Opening remarks (Jerome de Groot)
1.15
Lauren Working (Durham)
Unnatural Disobedience: Sedition and the Literature of Tobacco in Jacobean England
1.45
Philipp Rössner (Manchester)
Tobacco and Mechanisms of British Imperial Control. The case of Scotland and the Atlantic Economy
2.15 Coffee
2.30
Bruna Gushurst-Moore (Plymouth)
‘Take of Tobacco Leaves Bruised two pound’
3.00
Lucy Munro (Keele)
Keynote
'Joking about Tobacco on the Early Jacobean Stage'
4 end
Monday, 4 March 2013
Training for Peer Mentors
If you have recently volunteered to be a Peer Mentor, then please follow this link for info on training for Peer Mentors. It is vital that all new Peer Mentors undergo training before taking up their new role.
Finally, many thanks to those of you who have volunteered - it is much appreciated!
Friday, 1 March 2013
Thursday, 28 February 2013
EAC PG Social
Attention postgraduates and staff in EAC:
You are warmly invited to an EAC spring celebration at Kro Bar (Oxford Road, M13 9PG), Thursday, 7 March, from 5.00, in the upstairs rooms. Apart from welcoming the warmer weather (they say), we also hope to welcome our new PhD students and any other new arrivals to EAC.
Do join us for some free wine and for the legendary fast-disappearing snacks. Postgraduates and members of staff are all welcome.
Best wishes
David Firth and Rena Jackson
Postgraduate Representatives
English, America Studies and Creative Writing
You are warmly invited to an EAC spring celebration at Kro Bar (Oxford Road, M13 9PG), Thursday, 7 March, from 5.00, in the upstairs rooms. Apart from welcoming the warmer weather (they say), we also hope to welcome our new PhD students and any other new arrivals to EAC.
Do join us for some free wine and for the legendary fast-disappearing snacks. Postgraduates and members of staff are all welcome.
Best wishes
David Firth and Rena Jackson
Postgraduate Representatives
English, America Studies and Creative Writing
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