Your tutor will outline the day and group the participants into pairs for introductions. This will be followed by a short exercise that includes some reflective note-taking and group discussion. You will then be invited to complete a short solo writing exercise and feedback to the group.

This workshop focuses on the preparation for talking about your research, rather than the delivery of presentations.

By using storytelling techniques and focusing on the message, this workshop will help researchers communicate their passion to any au

Forming part of the University of Sussex's Centre of American Studies interdisciplinary Subsurface Ecologies Symposium, CHASE will be supporting a roundtable discussion titled “How to Get Published in the Environmental Humanities.”

You’ve passed your viva and got your life back. Now everyone keeps asking, “When are you going to publish your PhD?” You’re vaguely aware of what’s involved, but you’re not sure where to start. There are so many options, decisions, and conflicting experiences. What’s right for you? And, more importantly, how long will it take?

Are you ready to take control of your research?

In this interactive session, you’ll discover the core elements of project management and how to apply them in your research projects.

This workshop brings together some crucial factors for success, taking you on a journey from 'beige'(mediocre) communication, to talking about your research in way that engages and inspires others.

Are you part-way through your PhD and wondering how to keep going? Do you need a push to progress to the final stages?

Goldsmiths and University of Kent, in partnership with Iklectik, offer two days of spatial audio workshops for composers, music producers and sound artists interested in deepening their understanding of immersive audio and applying spatialisation techniques to their compositional material.

Join artist and researcher Jo Gane for a workshop which explores early photographic techniques including the three major photographic processes in use prior to 1860 - the daguerreotype, calotype and wet plate collodion.

Goldsmiths and University of Kent, in partnership with Iklectik, offer two days of spatial audio workshops for composers, music producers and sound artists interested in deepening their understanding of immersive audio and applying spatialisation techniques to their compositional material.

AuralPluralities is a research network led by academics and creative practitioners dedicated to addressing, and extending upon, the ‘auraldiverse turn’ in the Arts and Humanities research. We welcome all CHASE Studentship holders, across disciplines.

This introductory workshop is designed to de-mystify peer review in the humanities and social sciences, examining it in a broad context, and analysing and developing the necessary critical skills.

Perfectionist behaviours and imposter feelings mean we sometimes get in the way of our own success – forms of self-sabotage. Experiencing either (or both) may mean you put yourself under more pressure to achieve, whilst at the same time your stress increases, productivity declines, and confidence is undermined. This webinar will introduce you to some techniques to minimise, address, and (with practice) overcome these unhelpful thinking patterns so that you can effectively handle perfectionist behaviours and imposter feelings if they arise.

Join a screening of the short film on transmasculine parenthood, M(other)hood (dir. Bea Goddard), followed by an in-conversation between Goddard and trans reproduction scholar, Dr. Gillian Love.

Join us for this event with artist and researcher Meris Angioletti on embodied feminist expression. Taking place on 9 February 2024 at the University of Sussex, the vocalic realm as a site of metamorphosis will be explored through a series of bodily exercises, involving breathing, resistance, vocal emission, and touch. 

This course, aimed at graduate students at CHASE-affiliated institutions, is intended to introduce participants to medieval French materials, and give researchers the tools to read (in print and manuscript) and interpret medieval French texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Join Broadly Conceived as they wind down, reflecting on a busy year and revealing exciting plans for 2024…

“Whether you’ve never met us and want an opportunity to say hi, or you’re a BC regular and want to hang out with a hot drink – join us for a cosy catch-up! This December we’ll be having an online social”

Join one of the UK’s leading menstrual research scholars, Maria Tomlinson, in conversation with Broadly Conceived’s Jemma Walton.

Maria will be joining us to talk about her current research, which focuses on the impact of the menstrual movement on young people's knowledge and perceptions of menstruation and related health and social issues.

This essential 5-part crash course in digital culture studies provides an overview of the main theoretical debates around the impact of digital technology. We will get you thinking through a digital lens via five 2-hour lectures/seminars supported by high impact readings and low intensity assignments. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out. And if you can only join some of the sessions for some reason, let us know and we’ll try and figure something out.

This workshop addresses the all too common problem of front-loading the writing process, whereby some students spend the bulk of their time researching, leaving their write-up until the end, with too little time for thinking.

Academic writing the creative way: How can the creative writer’s tool kit make your academic writing engaging, compelling, and narrative-led, while admitting no loss of rigour? This workshop will introduce you to a range of writerly skills through which you can make your presence felt on the page.

The symptoms of chronic illness are often invisible and unmeasurable by those not experiencing them. In this workshop, Lia Pas will lead us through the process she uses to create her symptomatology embroideries.

This autumn, we hold a special gathering for making and eating stone soup. Taey Iohe's ongoing ‘Leak’ research is the starting point for this event, which explores the socio-botanical entanglement of excavated land and our wounded bodies through slow metabolic practice.