Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students, STAR 2 (2015)
Location
The Burn
Glenesk Brechin DD9 7YP United KingdomDescription
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science welcomes postgraduate research students to the following advanced training event:
Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for
Social Anthropology PhD Students, STAR 2
18-21 May 2015
All sessions will be specifically designed for post-fieldwork writing-up students of social anthropology. Prof Janet Carsten (Edinburgh) and Dr Adam Reed (St Andrews ), and Dr Maggie Bolton (Aberdeen) will attend for the full 4 days. Other staff from Edinburgh (Dr Delwar Hussein and Dr Lotte Hoek), will attend for all or some of the days.
Master Classes in PhD writing over 3 days given by distinguished international social anthropologists, Prof Michael Stewart (UCL), Prof Sophie Day (Goldsmiths, University of London) Prof Peter Pels (University of Leiden).
Single sessions on career training; publishing; impact and knowledge exchange; and non-academic careers with appropriate experts on these themes will be held (further details tba).
For questions regarding this event, please contact Mhairi Aitkenhead in the first instance.
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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).