University of Glasgow Social Sciences Postgraduate Research

24/07/2020

📣 ACCELERATOR OPPORTUNITY! 📣

A new flagship four-month social sciences student and alumni accelerator hosted by LSE to support and scale socially-responsible student and alumni ventures is now open for applications‼️

Up to twenty UK selected university student and alumni enterprises, all of whom are solving pressing socio-economic and environmental issues, will collaborate and develop their businesses over the a four-month period. The new online accelerator brings together students and alumni from across the Aspect community (a network of Universities that support innovation, entrepreneurship and research commercialisation in social sciences)

Businesses must:

🔹Have a background in social sciences (we also encourage those with businesses whose models and processes are rooted in social sciences to apply).
🔹Be impact driven and align to at least 2 UN SDG goals
🔹Have recently launched and be less than 2 years old
🔹Be pre-seed or seed-round only
🔹Be pitch ready
🔹Places are open to up to maximum two team members.

For more information and to apply, visit the accelerator homepage: https://aspect.ac.uk/aspect-accelerator/. Any immediate queries can be directed to LJ at [email protected]

24/06/2020

📣⏱ It’s time again for one of the most exciting PGR events of the year: Three Minute Thesis (3MT)! ⏱📣

Register through Bookitbee for a ticket! Friends and family welcome. Registration closes on the 30 June 2020 ‼️https://event.bookitbee.com/28093/uofg-three-minute-thesis-finals

3MT is an academic competition for research students which challenges them to present their research to a non-specialist audience in three minutes with the use of only one slide 😱 It’s a great opportunity to develop and improve public engagement skills including public speaking, communicating complex ideas, and adjusting presentations to your audience 😎

The Heats were held in March, but the finals had to be postponed...until now!

Join us Thursday 2 July 2020 from 3:00-4:30PM for some bite-sized learning ‼️

13 finalists will compete for the chance to move onto the U21 Three Minute Thesis Competition. They’ll also be competing for some fabulous prizes: The overall winner of the competition wins a £1000 travel/research grant, while the runner up wins a £500 travel/research grant, and the People’s Choice winner will receive a £100 voucher 🏆🥳

More info: https://universitas21.com/get-involved/student-competitions/three-minute-thesis-competition

09/06/2020

📣 Check out this week's PGR@Home sessions! 📣

We've put together these resources to support our UofG PGRs and Postdocs during the time of coronavirus, with a structured programme of personal and professional development.

Materials will be released on a weekly basis but you can go back to previous weeks to fit with your timetable.

17/04/2020

Hi everyone! We hope you're all well and taking good care of yourselves during the lockdown 💙💪

We've put together these resources to support our UofG PGRs and Postdocs during the time of coronavirus, with a structured programme of personal and professional development.

Materials will be released on a weekly basis but you can go back to previous weeks to fit with your timetable.

Check out all the materials here:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/ourresearchenvironment/prs/pgrcoursesandevents/pgr-at-home/ #

Joanna Royle, Researcher Development Adviser, introduces the resources and events designed to support PGRs at Glasgow during the coronavirus shutdown.

04/03/2020

✨ Applications are Now Open for Converge! Scotland’s Springboard for Academic Entrepreneurs! ✨

From helping you commercialise your research to developing your new start-up, Converge turns business ideas into business reality 💡 Open to staff, students and recent graduates across all of Scotland’s universities until Monday 6 April, this is your chance to access business training, guidance, support and game-changing prizes to springboard your venture.

Choose from three challenge categories:

🔹Converge Challenge – for new business ideas with strong commercial potential and a solid intellectual property foundation
🔹Creative Challenge – for innovative, new business ideas within Scotland’s creative industries sector
🔹Impact Challenge – for innovative, new businesses with a social or environmental mission at their core

Applications are welcomed from any industry sector and for both product and service-based ideas.

What have you got to lose? APPLY NOW at www.convergechallenge.com

06/02/2020

🙌 Matchmaking to Success! 🙌
Transforming Society through Social Science Innovation

Date: Friday 14th February 2020
Time: 12:30 – 2pm
Venue: College of Social Science Research Office, 66 Oakfield Avenue

To confirm your attendance, please email Morven Fraser – [email protected]

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Are you a social scientist with innovative research ideas that could be developed into a business or social enterprise? Achieving societal impact from research is difficult and time-consuming, and social enterprises could be key to unlocking your idea’s potential.

Come along to our first Valentine's matchmaking session to find out about working with researchers from different disciplines to support your idea, and to understand more about Success - the opportunity to access entrepreneurial skills, training, and the chance to win £50,000 for social science researchers employed by the University of Glasgow who are interested in turning their bright ideas into business or social use.

This event is organised with ASPECT – a platform for entrepreneurship and commercialisation of the Social Sciences in partnership with LSE, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, University of Sheffield, Glasgow University, University of Sussex and Cardiff University.

This event is open to all academic staff and PhD students, and please do promote to other academic colleagues who might be interested.

13/01/2020

Applications for a new cohort to join Global Center on Adaptation's Young Leaders Program are now open!

Deadline 📆 18th of January ‼️

As part of their commitment to build on, improve, and deliver breakthrough climate adaptation solutions, Global Center on Adaptation have created a Young Leaders Program for university students from all regions of the world who are enrolled in a full-time graduate study program (pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. degree). This internship program allows students to bring new perspectives, innovative ideas, and the latest research experience into the work of the Global Center and to improve their professional skills while working in a diverse environment 🤓💡

All necessary information can be found here:

13/11/2019

The Gaitherin brings together Scotland's most innovative academic and business minds for regular networking events 🤗 Join them on the 28th of November (6-8pm) at CitizenM Hotel Renfrew Street!

In partnership with VentureFest Scotland 2019, this event aims to explore how business and academics can work together to address the challenges raised by the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4Id) and deliver benefit from the opportunities that will arise.

Tom Swanson (Chief Digital Officer of Atos) and Chris Warhurst ( Director of Institute for Employment Research at University of Warwick) will deliver a keynote speech giving their views and experience on the identified challenges and how to adapt to them.

Check out the agenda, speakers and more details here 👉https://www.meetup.com/The-Gaitherin/events/264988946/

07/11/2019

The University is running a PhD Transitions Survey to capture views from UofG PhD Graduates since June 2016 🧐 Findings will be used in a variety of ways, to support career planning for current and future researchers.

If you know of someone who graduated with a PhD from UofG in the last three years, please pass on the survey and encourage them to take part! 🤗

https://glasgow.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/phd-transitions-study

25/10/2019

📣New RDP Course‼️📣

We are excited to introduce a brand new course to our RDP course catalogue: Post-PhD routes into academic research: post-doc funding and approaches. It will take place on Tuesday 5 November 1-5pm, Kelvinhall G56, Seminar Room 1 📆

🔹Register now: postdocfunding.eventbrite.co.uk/

You will develop in individual and small-group activities your own plans, routes and approaches, formulating further questions and seek feedback on these. Doing so, you are invited to map and explore key stages, challenges in your professional development and identify ways of navigating the research funding landscape in the light of your individual interests and plans.

We are excited to introduce a brand new course to our RDP course catalogue: Post-PhD routes into academic research: post-doc funding

21/10/2019

Interested in science? 🧪🔬

The GIST - Glasgow Insight into Science and Technology are currently hosting a 30-second video competition in collaboration with Glasgow Science Centre and Discovery with Three on the theme ‘Science is for Everyone’ 🧬 https://the-gist.org/video-competition/

The competition is open to everyone and anyone, and winners will have the opportunity for their videos to be screened on the 15-metre-long LED screen outside the front of Glasgow Science Centre! 😱

This is an excellent opportunity for students and researchers to develop transferable skills in the field of public engagement as well as potentially engage a wider audience to share their ideas/innovations/research with the public 📣

16/10/2019

📣 Attention PGR students! 📣

Our postgraduate research information event registration is now open! 🙌

If you are considering postgraduate research study at the University of Glasgow, College of Social Sciences, we would be delighted to welcome you along to our information event on Monday 18 November 2019 at 4-6.30pm 'Main Building: Senate Room' 📆

Our postgraduate research information event is the perfect opportunity for you to get more information on funding and scholarships, meet with potential supervisors, an insight into postgraduate research life, development and support availability and how to apply 🎓📚

Register now ‼️ pgrevent.eventbrite.co.uk