10 am Refreshments

10.15 – 10.30 Introductions

Dr Fabienne Emmerich, School of Law, Keele University

Host of this Research Thursday

10.30-12.30 Getting graphic: presentation and practical workshop

I have become increasingly interested in the practice of and potential for graphic social sciences to transform attitudes, awareness and behaviour around social issues. This practical workshop explores the potential of the graphic essay to communicate research processes and findings using the example of My Brilliant Career? An investigation, a graphic essay articulating the findings of research into higher education, career and gender through through Doreen Massey’s lens of space as social relations shaped by power.

Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas, Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch and opportunity for networking

1.30-2.30 Making zines about research

Zines are handmade, not-for-profit creations reflecting on a personal passion, belief, or experience and for that reason are incredibly diverse in style, form, and content. Largely using cut-and-paste methods, but not limited to any particular method, zine-making is an accessible, expressive, creative, and often cathartic process. This mini-zine workshop serves as an introduction to zines and zine-making as a way of expressing, reflecting on, and celebrating the personal connection to the research process.

Molly Drummond, PhD Candidate, Media, Communications and Culture, School of Humanities, Keele University

2.30-3.00 Round up and Q & A

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Dr Kate Carruthers Thomas is Senior Research Fellow and Athena SWAN Project Manager at Birmingham City University, UK. Kate specialises interdisciplinary enquiry into contemporary higher education, inequalities and gender and is currently exploring the potential for Graphic Social Science as a methodology and research output.

Her blog the gword reflects on gender from professional and personal perspectives and is a companion to her academic work in the field of gender: hilarious, horrendous, hopeful... .

@kcarruthterst

thegword2017.wordpress.com

Molly Drummond is a PGR student at Keele studying for a PhD in Media, Communications, and Culture. Her research is funded by an AHRC studentship. Currently she is examining contemporary safe space practices for the possibility of utopian expression. For her Masters, she discussed whether identifying the utopian expression of “zine ethics” suggested the zine form as a potential everyday utopia. Building on that research, she plans to use zine making as a research method for her current project.

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Ethos and format

Research Thursdays are one-day training events organised by links@Keele and held at Keele University. Research Thursdays will typically include a range of activities: keynote lecture, workshops, networking opportunities, roundtable discussions, ‘speed dating with ethnographers’, etc. Each day will always include contributions by researchers at different stages in their career.

For who?

The Research Thursdays at Keele University are part of links@Keele Advanced Methods Training. These training days are open to postgraduate students and researchers at all career levels. There is no fee, but registration to attend an Ethnography Tuesday is required. When places are limited priority will be given to (1) ESRC NWSS DTP and AHRC NWCDTP students, (2) postgraduate students and staff members from Keele University and (3) postgraduate students and researchers from other Universities.
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Questions and feedback

We are here to help you with any questions you may have around Keele’s Research Tuesdays. We also love to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Administrative questions: links@keele.ac.uk

Academic queries: Dr Lisa Dikomitis (l.a.dikomitis@keele.ac.uk)

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