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Seminars run by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.

See our full timetable for spring/summer 2022/23 below, or jump to the school or department you're most interested in to find out more. 

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School of Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature

Date Time Description Speaker Open to Link and/or location
4 January 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm (Re) Educating deterrence? Unpacking the experiences of experts within the field Patricia Shamai PGR students and staff Milldam LE 0.06
1 March 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm SASHPL Postgraduate Research Seminar. An opportunity for all colleagues to hear from two of our PhD students about their research. Titles: The Impact of Foreign Aid of Human Mobility. Studying at Foreign Shores: Chinese Students in Europe from 1860s until 1930s Hiba Benlarbi and Charlotte Steffen PGR students and staff

Students and staff: follow this link

8 March 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm The New Area Studies Agenda. Followed by lunch for all attendees! Tony Chafer PGR students and staff University Learning Centre 1.24
5 April 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm SASHPL Postgraduate panel on Brexit. An opportunity to for all colleagues to hear from our postgraduates on their research and reflections on Brexit Dimitra Kiousi PGR students and staff Milldam LE 0.06
3 May 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm SASHPL Research Seminar. Gendered Responses to Brexit in Contemporary British Polish Literature Maggie Bowers PGR students and staff Milldam LE 0.01
7 June 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm SASHPL Research Seminar. Counter-revolutionary Governmentality: Reproducing international hierarchies in Egypt Nandor Revesz & Amira Abdelhamid PGR students and staff Dennis Sciama 1.01

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Date Time Description Speaker Open to Link and/or location
12 January 2023 9.30am - 11.30am Relational and Restorative Practice Seminars 2023 Aaron Pycroft PGR students and staff Oasis Centre, Portsmouth
8 February 2023 1.00pm - 2.00pm SCCJ ResearchWise Sessions: Innovation at UoP and SCCJ: what you need to know Paul Smith PGR students and staff St. Georges Room 1.12
1 March 2023 1.00pm - 2.00pm SCCJ ResearchWise Sessions: Research funding: What you need to know Helen Walker PGR students and staff St. Georges Room 1.12
23 March 2023 3.00pm - 4.30pm Probation, Prisons and Penology Research Group In conversation with Prof David Polizzi Aaron Pycroft PGR students and staff

Students and staff: follow this link

10 May 2023 1.00pm - 2.00pm SCCJ ResearchWise Sessions: Submitting an article to an academic journal: views from an editor-in-chief Sarah Charman PGR students and staff St. Georges Room 1.12

School of Education and Sociology

Date Time Description Speaker Open to Link and/or location
10 - 13 January 2023 See website The 6th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry See website Academic, independent researchers and students (national or international)

University of Portsmouth: see website here

18 January 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm An introduction to getting pedagogical research published Professor Jane Creaton PGR students and staff St George's Building, 1.12
8 February 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 1 Dr Nikki Fairchild EDSOC PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
1 March 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 2 Dr Nikki Fairchild EDSOC PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
9 March 2023 1.30pm - 4.00pm REF2028 Education Workshop - Writing for the Education REF Professor Carol A. Taylor (University of Bath) All staff who might submit to Education REF 2028 St George's Building, 5.12
29 March 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 3 Dr Nikki Fairchild EDSOC PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
April/May TBC TBC Findings and recommendations from the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network funded project Alex Sabine, Sarah Barton, Nikki Fairchild, Eva Mikuska (University of Chichester) EDSOC and SLAL Staff TBC
10 May 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 4 Dr Nikki Fairchild EDSOC PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
31 May 2023 12.00pm - 1.00pm Research funding: what you need to know Dr Helen Walker EDSOC and SLAL Staff TBC
7 June 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 5 Dr Nikki Fairchild PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
5 July 2023 2.00pm - 4.00pm Power Hour of Writing 6 Dr Nikki Fairchild PGR students and staff Online. Link to follow.
7 July 2023 TBC FHSS KE Strategy seminar Dr Paul Smith EDSOC and SLAL Staff TBC

School of Languages and Applied Linguistics

Date Time Description Speaker Open to Link and/or location
11 January 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm Multilingual pedagogies in foreign language submersion programs: The Gambia Clyde Ancarno PGR students and staff

Hybrid: Park Building Learning Resources Centre and online. Students and staff: follow this link

8 March 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm Research roundtable event Alessia Tranchese and Sevinc Garner PGR students and staff

Hybrid: Park Building Learning Resources Centre and online. Students and staff: follow this link

22 March 2023 12.00pm - 1.00pm PhD research seminar Helen Ringrow (chair) PGR students and staff Hybrid: Park Building Learning Resources Centre and online. Link to follow.
26 April 2023 11.00am - 12.00pm Unpacking climate crisis discourses across cultures: A contrastive corpus-assisted discourse analysis Niall Curry PGR students and staff Hybrid: Park Building Learning Resources Centre and online. Link to follow.

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All our faculties run seminars open to academics and students within the University and in the global research community.