Advanced Training Residential Course 2015
Location
Kindrogan Field Studies Centre
Enochdhu Blairgowrie PH10 7PG United KingdomDescription
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science welcomes postgraduate research students to the following advanced training event:
Advanced Training Residential Course 2015
26-28 Aug 2015
The Kindrogan advanced training event is residential field course which all Scottish Human Geography PhD students are expected to attend at the end of their first year (end of second year students are also invited). This year it will take place in August, from lunchtime on Wednesday 26th to lunchtime on Friday the 28th.
Kindrogan is a field centre beside Pitlochry in Perthshire; a beautiful part of the world. The annual field course in Kindrogan is something of an institution and has been running for many years, funded by the Scottish Funding Council, Scottish ESRC Doctoral Training Centre and the respective departments. It is a training event for the Scottish Graduate School’s Human Geography pathway.
What’s in it for you?
- You get to meet and interact with c.40 PhD students representing the best of human geography research in Scotland (the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and St Andrews participate).
- It is a great opportunity to network with staff from these institutions; normally two from each department attend.
- Each academic member of staff presents an informal training session on a topic of their choice (topics will include, for instance, using social media in research, the importance of impact) providing a great opportunity for you to enhance your human geography-specific transferrable skills.
- Furthermore, a special invitee will add to the proceedings: Professor Peter Hopkins of Newcastle University whose research focuses on challenges and complexities of inequality and justice.
- There will also be panel discussions and a mock viva where staff members will act out a series of different role-play activities.
- You’ll get to see some of the Perthshire area and enjoy a few days away from your department, in good company, and get to find out more about the range of human geography research going on in Scotland.
Attending Kindrogan is free for you, and transport will be organised by your respective departments.
For any questions, please contact Deborah Dixon.
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The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is the UK's largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science. By combining the expertise of sixteen universities across Scotland, the school facilitates world-class PhD research. The school is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council.
SGSSS is a highly attractive environment for doctoral research. Not only do our partner universities offer an excellent research environment, we also offer comprehensive and world-class research training in a number of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary pathways. In addition, the school manages a programme of advanced training courses and an annual summer school which together offers our students further opportunities to develop their research, knowledge exchange and transferable professional skills.
At the heart of the SGSSS is the Doctoral Training Partnership (formerly the Doctoral Training Centre) in Scotland. The SGSSS was established in 2011 and is the biggest of 14 Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) accredited DTPs in the United Kingdom. The bid for renewed funding has been successful and from 1 October 2017 the SGSSS will be one of the ESRC's 14 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP).