Regional Postgraduate Day Archive

25 October 2024
Research into Higher Education
University of Surrey, UK

19 August 2024 (14:45-17:00)
Solutions to Homelessness: Research, Policy, and Practice
University of Oxford/Online

12 June 2024 (10am-5pm)
Being, Becoming and Belonging: Exploring Diasporic Identities
Doctoral College, Swan Room, 1.19, Elm Bank, Mile Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ (Hybrid)

10 June 2024 (11am-12.30pm)
“From Thesis to Monograph”: A guide to getting your first book!
Online

7 June 2024 (09:00-16:00)
Navigating a Postdoctoral Career In Academic Medical Sociology
Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 Saint Giles', Oxford OX1 3LW

31 May 2024 (10:00-16:00)
Getting in amongst it: BSA Postgraduate Forum on interventionist and covert methodologies
City, University of London (Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB)

7 May 2024 (10:30–16:30)
The Type of Art Matters: Exploring How Different Arts Inform Sociology Research
Violet Laidlaw Room, 6 Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD

27 April 2024 (10:00-16:30)
Networks of Gender: Connecting Postgraduate Researchers Through Gender Research
Elm Bank Building, Mile Lane, Coventry University, CV1 4NS

30 November 2023 (10.00am-3.00pm)
How to Research Everyday Life – Take Chinese Fieldwork as Cases
Online

1 November 2023
Approaching Rest, Work, and Activism through the Lens of Disability Politics: Relationships and Contradictions
Online

13 October 2023
From Data to Theory: Theorising at the intersection of digital sociology, economic sociology and STS
University of Edinburgh, UK

13 October 2023
Researching Feminism in East and South-East Asia (ESEA): Feminist Protests, Feminist Care, and Feminist Research
University of Leeds, UK

10 October 2023
Feminist Enquiry
University of Liverpool, UK

21 June 2023
Showcasing Sex Work Research
Nottingham Trent University, UK (Hybrid)

19 June 2023
Crisis and hope: Understanding the processes, relations and inequalities in migration
University of Sheffield, UK

16 June 2023
Telling Difficult Stories: Posthuman Postgraduate Research in Times of Crises (in partnership with Posthumanist Collective and the Open University)
Online

15 June 2023
Futuring Outside the Box: New Dynamics in Media, Communication and Sociology
University of Leicester, UK

9 June 2023
Patient-Led Methodology as an Approach for Researching Health and Illness
Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK

6 June 2023
Disrupting Normative Methodologies: Knowledge Production through Creativity and Collaboration
Online via zoom

12 May 2023
Writing as Repair/Repair as Writing (supported by the LSE Phd Academy)
LSE PhD Academy, UK

25 March 2022 (11:00-17:00pm)
Everyday ‘Englishness’: Sport, Leisure & the Postcolonial Nation
Bournemouth University, UK

11 April 2022 (09:30-16:30)
Veganism and Vegetarianism as Social Movement and Social Change
University of York, UK (this building and room have wheel chair access)

18 March 2021
Engaging Publics: Creative Ethnographic Methods and Representations
A BSA Postgraduate Forum Regional Event , produced in concert with University of Brighton’s Sport and Leisure Cultures, and Tourism, Hospitality, and Events Research Enterprise Groups
Online Virtual Event

8 November 2019
The BSA Postgraduate Forum Autumn Event: Creating Space in Academia
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK

3 October 2019
Gender and Networks
University of Manchester, UK

27 June 2019
The Embodied Researcher in Sport
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

14 June 2019
Surveillance in the 21st century: from the mundane to the spectacular
Royal Holloway University of London, UK

17 October 2018 (10am-4pm)
BSA Postgraduate Forum - Life Post PhD: What’s Next?
BSA Durham Meeting Room, UK

25-26 June 2018
Nation Building, Family (Un)Making, and Genetic Technologies
London School of Economics, UK

1 June 2018
Adaptive Ethnographies for a 21st Century Sociology
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

1 June 2018
Bioscientific innovation, medical imaginaries and experiences of contemporary healthcare
University of Edinburgh, UK

18 May 2018
Intimate lives? Autism, Gender, Sex/uality, and Identity
University of Birmingham, UK

11 May 2018
Empirical Research on Drug Use and Recovery: methodological concerns, ethical practices and the question of impact
University of Liverpool, UK

11 May 2018
Critical realism in practice: Applications in management and organisation studies
Newcastle University Business School, UK

15 November 2017 (9am-4pm)
Innovative Methods for Researching Societal Inequalities
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

21 September 2017
Social Theory Beyond Whiteness
University of Cambridge, UK

12 July 2017 (10.30am-6.00pm)
Understanding Human Rights in Practice: opportunities, challenges and the need for a contextual approach
University of Essex, UK

23 June 2017
'It’s a Family Affair' - Researching with Families
Birmingham City University, UK

23 June 2017
Contemporary Racisms in Scotland and England: Interrogating, Comparing, and Learning from Brexit and its Aftermath
Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, UK

7 June 2017
Policing Futures: Contexts, Practices and Debates
University of Leeds, UK

6 June 2017
Confronting and Experiencing the White Academy
Cardiff University, UK

2 June 2017
What is educational research and who is it for?
University of Stirling, UK

5 May 2017
Boundaries, Bodies, Borders: The Global Exchange of Human Body Parts
University of Leeds, UK

3 April 2017
BSA Postgraduate Forum Pre-conference Day
University of Manchester, UK

29 March 2017
Public sociology and the role of the researcher: engagement, communication and academic activism
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

22 September 2016
BSA Postgraduate Event: Subjectivity and Research practice within Qualitative Research

21 November 2015
The Making of the Sociological Researcher: Critique, Practice, Performance
BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

19 October 2015
Ongoing Research - Nuffield Q-Step Initiative
Cardiff University, UK

25 June 2015
Re-appropriating Values in Higher Education
University of Manchester, UK

4 June 2015
Society and Crisis: Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluations of Societal Well-Being
University of Leicester, UK

29 May 2015
The Sociology of technologically mediated reproduction
De Montfort University, UK

19 May 2015
Emotional Methodologies – methods for researching emotionally-charged data and reflections on researchers’ responses to them
University of Leicester, Open University, UK

15 May 2015
Challenging hidden normativity at work: Key thinkers in the research area of intersectionality
Heriot-Watt University, UK

8 May 2015
Uncertain Futures in Health Care and Illness
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, UK

2 April 2015
‘Place Hacking’ Sociology
University of Liverpool, UK

24 June 2014
Mapping Feminisms: Feminist Histories and Futures
University of Edinburgh, UK

18 June 2014
Citizenship in the 21st Century: Sociological, Political and Cultural Perspectives
University of Huddersfield, UK

13 June 2014
Youth Activism and Resistance
University of Leicester, UK

13 June 2014
BSA Regional Postgraduate Event: Pace, Penalty and Pirouette: The Sociology of Physical Culture
Glasgow Caledonian University, UK

3 June 2014
Exploring narrative approaches to research and re-presentation in the late postmodern era
Open University, UK

3 April 2014
Ending the Apprenticeship: From PhD. Student to Early Career Researcher
Northumbria University, UK