Past Events 2022
Our Stories: Digital Methods For Supporting Transitions Of Autistic Children And Young People
Age: Professional
Type: Virtual/Online Activity
Host: Prof Sarah Parsons, FSS/Southampton Education School
Date and Time (UK Time):08/11/2022 16:00 - 18:00
Virtual
Free
Summary
This two part virtual presentation via Zoom focuses on exploring and promoting the research undertook in the 'Our Stories' Project. A Project that focused on the development of innovative Digital Stories - to support autistic children and young people in the transitional processes between home and school. This interactive talk will include space for discussion and questions and involvement from community partners, including schools and families.
Description
The Autism Community Research Network @Southampton [ACoRNS] is a research-practice partnership between Education and Psychology at the University, and school leaders and practitioners in the local community.
Our Stories focuses on the development of an innovative methodological approach - Digital Stories - to support autistic children and young people in transitional processes. We do this through cocreating short videos that enable the participation of children and families so that important information about the child and about the spaces or places to which they are transitioning can be shared. This event will showcase how this approach has been used in different transitions including: moving from Y6 to Y7; moving into adult provision; meeting health care professionals; and supporting emotion regulation at school.
Our Stories: Digital Methods For Supporting Transitions Of Autistic Children And Young People
Numbers In Everyday Life: Developing Young Children's Understanding Of The Social Uses Of Numbers In The World Around Them.
Age: Adults, Children and Families
Type: Participatory/Interactive
Host: Dr Charis Voutsina and Dr Debbie Stott
Date and Time (UK Time):29/10/2022 10:00 - 12:00
29/10/2022 14:00 - 16:00
Building 65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, B65 - 1173 B65 - 1097 B65 - L/T C,B65 - 1177
Free
Summary
This three part in person event explores research on how preschool children understand the multiple
meanings and social uses of written numbers. The first hour will include an interactive presentation and video montage. Followed by the opportunity to partake in an exciting outdoor number hunt for 30 minutes and finishing with a 30 minute interactive session on enhancing children's interest about numbers.
Description
The event will share findings from a longitudinal study that has been funded by The Leverhulme Trust and examined the development of preschool children's awareness and understanding of the social uses and meanings of written numbers in everyday life.
Key findings and educational implications for practice will be explored. With discussion on how interactions and conversations in the home environment and in the preschool/primary school context can direct children's attention on written numbers in the world around them and develop their awareness of meaningful connections between a written number and the object and context within which the number is situated.
Numbers In Everyday Life: Developing Young Children's Understanding Of The Social Uses Of Numbers In The World Around Them.
How Can Volunteering Help Me On The Way To My Dream Job? A Workshop For Young People With Local Volunteers, Careers Advisers And Local Volunteering Organisations
Age: This event will be particularly relevant to young people at the start of their careers, although all ages can benefit.
Type: Participatory/Interactive
Host: Jane Parry and Peter Rodgers
Date and Time (UK Time):26/10/2022 14:00 - 17:00
John Hansard Gallery, 42-144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU
Free
Summary
An interactive workshop to inspire young people about how volunteering can be an important step in achieving a dream job. In an attractive and convenient space for students, the in-person event will be delivered in Southampton's Cultural Quarter. Attendees will come away with a new perspective and a developed employability plan.
Description
This event draws together diverse stories about volunteering during the pandemic, inspiring young people to utilise volunteering as a principle step in achieving their dream job.
Commencing with storytelling from our recent research on volunteering during the extraordinary periods of national lockdown, we will provide evidence of the value that local volunteering opportunities offered young people at a time when the pandemic otherwise threatened to slow their career progress.
This research will be brought to life through introductions to young volunteers talking candidly about their experiences (e.g. from Saints Foundation, University Hospitals, and No Limits, tbc). We will challenge the audience to think about how volunteering can help build their skills and employability, as well as being personally rewarding.
Experts from the University's careers service and the local voluntary sector will provide support on how to access volunteering, achieve personal goals, and make a difference. The session will be highly interactive, and attendees can expect:
to come away feeling energised and thinking differently about volunteering
to receive practical top tips about what to do next
to have developed an individualised employability plan
How Can Volunteering Help Me On The Way To My Dream Job? A Workshop For Young People With Local Volunteers, Careers Advisers And Local Volunteering Organisations
Teacher Voice Matters! Collaborative Approaches To Research Agendas
Age: Professionals
Type: Virtual/Online Activity
Host: Dr Alison Porter (Research in Primary Languages Chair) and Dr Amy Wallington (Research in Primary Languages Research Project Co-Ordinator)
Date and Time (UK Time):08/11/2022 18:00 - 19:30
Virtual
Free
Summary
Primary languages are compulsory but schools can often struggle with this relatively new primary curriculum subject. It can be difficult to organise provision and document progression. In this webinar we'll tackle these issues through the lens of the Ofsted Deep Dive.
Description
Join our team of researchers and invited speakers and together we'll work out some suggestions for navigating the school inspection process for primary languages.
- How can we plan for languages? Guest speakers: Sarah Dugdale Blackfield Primary School, Suzanne Graham University of Reading
- What does best FL practice look like? Guest speaker: Clare Seccombe Lightbulb Languages, Alison Porter University of Southampton
- How should we evidence learning? Guest speaker: Bernadette Clinton MFL Consultant, Rowena Kasprowicz University of Reading
Teacher Voice Matters! Collaborative Approaches To Research Agendas
Monitoring Our Coast Through More Than Maps
Age: Young People and Adults
Type: Other
Host: Yanna Fidal
Date and Time (UK Time):07/11/2022 18:00 - 20:00
08/11/2022 18:00 - 20:00
Virtual
Free
Summary
This event offers the opportunity for you to participate in a two-part workshop series. The 2-hour workshops focus on monitoring and managing coastal hazards in the UK.
These workshops are organised by 'More than Maps' and are taking place as part of the 2022 Festival of Social Science.
The workshops are open to everyone 18 years and older and will take place online.
If you register by 5th November you will receive a free e-workshop booklet to your email to support your learning.
Description
Using Google Earth Engine to Monitor our Coast
In this first workshop you will learn how to use Google Earth Engine and how it can be applied to monitor our coasts. It will involve an introduction to using spaceborne imagery and programming in JavaScript. We will guide you through every step so you can learn a technique that we use in our research at Southampton University!
Household Adaptation to Coastal Flooding
In this workshop you will learn how households can and do adapt to coastal flood risk. Our team will guide you through a workshop where you can critically assess flood adaptation strategies and consider why households do and do not prepare for flood events.
Monitoring Our Coast Through More Than Maps
Housing And The Cost Of Living Crisis
Age: Professionals and Young Adults
Type: Discussion/Debate,Other
Host: Helen Carr Professor of Property Law and Social Justice, Professor Lisa Whitehouse Professor of Property Law Policy and Practice, Dr Mark Jordan and Dr Emma Laurie.
Date and Time (UK Time):09/11/2022 10:00 - 12:30
The Art House 178 Above Bar St Southampton SO14 7DW
Free
Summary
This event focuses on housing affordability in the Cost of Living Crisis. Specifically on what and if anything can be done to combat this. It will address your legal rights, for instance only being evicted with a court order.
Description
"Housing and the Cost of Living Crisis" will explore a variety of perspectives on housing affordability. Including presentations from tenant activists, industry experts and speakers from Southampton Law School. Attendees can expect to learn about:
• The cost of housing
• Mediation with your landlord
• Illegal eviction
• Affordability campaigning
• Seeking help and future strategies
• What is happening elsewhere in the world
Please see the program below:
10.00 - Introduction and housekeeping - Professor Helen Carr, Law School, Southampton University
10.05 - Setting the context - Mary D'Arcy, Executive Director Communities, Culture & Homes, Southampton City Council
10.20 - Landlord perspective - Peter Littlewood of iHowz Southampton Landlords Association
10.30 - Tenant perspective - Dan Williams, ACORN
10.40 - Student perspective - Sam Scott, Head of Advice and Lettings, SUSU
10.50 - Panel discussion
11.15 - Break
11.30 - Resolving disputes through mediation - Alwin Oliver, landlord and instrumental in setting up Portsmouth Mediation Service
11.40 - Resolving disputes through mediation - Sue Austin of Portsmouth Mediation Service
11.50 - Panel discussion
12.30 - Ends
Housing And The Cost Of Living Crisis
Past Events 2021
Beyond 1.5 To Stay Alive: Small Island Developing States And Policy Change At CoP26
Age: Adults
Type: Discussion/Debate,Film Screenings
Host: Jack Corbett, Professor of Politics
Date and Time (UK Time):24/11/2021 16:00 - 17:00
Summary
CoP26 is a summit bringing together leaders, from a variety of countries that are signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This event will document and reflect on the process of attempting to enact policy change at CoP26.
Description
The event will consist of two parts; firstly a 20 minute film that will document the experience of a group of academics and policymakers who sought to initiate and sustain a discussion at CoP26 about the way the current climate finance regime is detrimental to SIDS (Small Island Developing States). These are the first and worst affected by climate change and includes locations such as the Maldives, Seychelles, Cuba, Aruba and Puerto Rico.
The second half of the event will feature a panel discussion where the audience will have the chance to ask questions to the academics and policymakers involved, about the climate change in SIDS and how to make an impact at an event like CoP26. The event will help to raise awareness and promote the importance of social science research for informing policy decisions in SIDS.
Beyond 1.5 To Stay Alive: Small Island Developing States And Policy Change At CoP26
Count Me In! Celebrating Student Contributions To Collaborative Video And Game Design
Age: Adults & Students at Fairmead School
Type: Virtual/Online Activity,Other
Host: Verity Ward, PhD Candidate at the University of Southampton, Social Sciences School
Date and Time (UK Time):05/11/2021 10:00 - 11:00
05/11/2021 11:30 - 16:30
Fairmead School
Summary
This is a two-part event, the first part is an online webinar open to the public and second part an invited audience. Both parts will showcase research that students at Fairmead School contributed towards, that provided new and different opportunities for student participation at school either through computer game design or video making.
Description
The Autism Community Research Network @Southampton [ACoRNS] is a research-practice partnership between Education and Psychology at the University, and school leaders and practitioners in the local community. Fairmead School is a school in Somerset for autistic students, and students with moderate learning difficulties. The event will consist of two parts; an online webinar open to the public and an interactive exhibition of student work in school. The webinar will give students an opportunity to present their work and is aimed at an adult audience of researchers and practitioners. The exhibition will involve screenings of videos and displays of student work (including a computer game).
Count Me In! Celebrating Student Contributions To Collaborative Video And Game Design
Games For Social Good
Age: General Audience(All ages)
Type: Exhibition,Participatory/Interactive
Host: Joerg Fliege, Professor of Mathematics
Date and Time (UK Time):09/11/2021 14:00 - 17:00
16/11/2021 14:00 - 17:00
23/11/2021 14:00 - 17:00
Summary
A series of interactive workshops involving online games that seek to engage the public on how societies can reach a consensus on tackling climate change and sharing resources.
Description
This event will consist of a series of online games designed to raise awareness on the issues of collaboration, fairness, and democratic participation in the context of environmental management and natural resources. Attendees will have the opportunity to play games by themselves or with university staff, who will provide guidance on the games' mechanics and features. In-person attendees will have the opportunity to play on laptops and projectors, with the chance to have discussions with non-playing attendees, and online attendees will have the opportunity to play online, watch livestreams and discuss with players and staff via an online Q&A session. Demo versions of the games will also be available for personal download.
Games For Social Good
Imagining A Sustainable Future Via Green Stories (Adults)
Age: General Audience (all ages - teachers of creative writing, members of the writing community, and aspiring writers in particular)
Type: Multi-format (talk; participatory/interactive; workshop/training)
Host: Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business
Date and Time (UK Time):20/11/2021 09:30 - 12:00
Bitterne Park School
Summary
At this event you will have the opportunity to learn about what a sustainable society might look like and how fiction can be used to communicate green solutions to help reduce our feelings of powerlessness in the face of climate change and inspire action. You will have the opportunity to hear winning entries from previous competitions, share your ideas with others and to write your own story.
The event will have the following structure:
9:30: attendees arrive
9:45: a talk covering environmental challenges and feelings of powerlessness
10:00: group discussions about how a sustainable society might look
11:00: a talk about how a model sustainable society might look and how we can use fiction to promote sustainable behaviours
11:20: group discussions to come up with stories conveying green solutions
12:20: wrap-up talk
12:30: finish
Description
This event will consist of a half-day session, running from 9:30-12:30. Firstly, a talk will be given by Professor Denise Baden on the key environmental challenges we face, and how these can cause feelings of powerlessness. Attendees will then split into small groups and discuss positive visions of what they think a green society might look like, with help from university staff, who will share ideas and encourage discussion. Professor Denise Baden will then give a talk on how a sustainable society might look, considering themes such as carbon budgets and green energy. This will also cover how using fiction to convey green solutions can help tackle feelings of powerlessness over environmental change and inspire action, with the Green Stories Writing Competition being introduced. After this, attendees will work in small groups to create ideas for their own green stories and discuss these with the wider group. The session will conclude with some final thoughts by Professor Baden and details for how to submit stories to the competition.
Imagining A Sustainable Future Via Green Stories (Adults)
Law And The Creative Imagination In A Pandemic: A Time Of Remarkable Flourishing
Age: General Audience(All ages)
Type: Discussion/Debate,Virtual/Online Activity
Host: David Gurnham, Professor of Law and Haris Psarras, Lecturer in Law
Date and Time (UK Time):24/11/2021 18:00 - 19:00
Virtual (MS Teams; joining instructions sent with Eventbrite ticket)
Summary
A panel of artists and poets discuss how lockdown restrictions proved to be a unique source of creative inspiration and connection.
Description
How did the Covid-19 lockdowns and other restrictions prove to be such a potent and compelling source of creative inspiration? Law and legal rules may not be an obvious motivator for artists and poets in normal times, but this changed when the order to 'stay at home' began to impact on all aspects of life. Our panel of poets and artists share their experience of turning a crisis into an unprecedented opportunity for inspiring people of all ages and backgrounds to find solace, hope and positivity in new acts of creativity. The event looks back at the coronavirus pandemic as a rare and unusual meeting between law and the imagination: a time of isolation, of feeling caged, and for many sadly a time of loss. But also, a time of remarkable flourishing.
Law And The Creative Imagination In A Pandemic: A Time Of Remarkable Flourishing
Political Trust - Documentary Screening
Age: Adults
Type: Film Screenings
Host: Viktor Valgardsson, Research Fellow at the University of Southampton
Date and Time (UK Time):18/11/2021 20:00 - 22:30
Harbour Lights Picture House Cinema (Southampton)
Summary
This is a documentary, produced by Silverfish and commissioned by the TrustGov research project, about Political Trust. After the screening, there will be a Q&A session with the filmmakers and university staff involved in the film.
Description
The documentary explores how diverse, ordinary citizens (from the UK, USA and Denmark) feel about their governments, political institutions, politicians and why they feel this way. The film highlights the state of political trust in the world and whether it has been declining in recent times; furthermore it looks at what the consequences may be for our democracies and society. The documentary includes extensive interviews with multiple academics from the UK, USA, Denmark, France and Iceland; all within the social sciences remit. They share their findings and ideas with the audience in an engaging and relatable way, woven together with the personal stories of ordinary citizens.
Political Trust - Documentary Screening
Quiz/Debate: Water And Waste Services - Who Knows Best?
Age: Young people (11 years+) and Adults
Type: Discussion/Debate,Virtual/Online Activity
Host: Jim Wright, Professor of GIS and International Development, Simon Damkjaer, Research Fellow and Mair Thomas, Geography and Environmental Science Postgraduate Researcher
Date and Time (UK Time):13/11/2021 15:00 - 17:00
Summary
This event will be a mixture of a live debate and quiz questions that will cover the different ways data can be collected about service providers (such as water utilities or waste collection agencies). The audience will have the opportunity to vote for the most compelling and trustworthy form of data, either direct from the service provider or from consumers through household surveys.
Description
It is important to show the value of social science research in holding service providers around the world to account, and why the investment in household surveys has value. The event will begin with a short live debate where two speakers present their cases; one for the robustness of data on service quality and coverage from service providers; the other being data received from consumers via household surveys.
The quiz will focus on water and waste service from around the world, with a focus on low and middle income countries. The questions will be thought-provoking, informative and will be drawn from both data gathered from consumers via household surveys as well as via service providers.
Quiz/Debate: Water And Waste Services - Who Knows Best?
The Ethics Of Taking And Sharing Photos Online
Age: General Audience(All ages)
Type: Participatory/Interactive
Host: Holly Hancock, Research Fellow in the School of Law
Date and Time (UK Time):17/11/2021 19:00 - 20:30
Virtual
Summary
An educational workshop designed to encourage participants to think about and discuss issues on the ethics of taking and sharing photos, with a particular focus on images of the injured or deceased and the implications of privacy surrounding these.
Description
Photographs of the scenes of accidents and distressing situations have recently shocked the world, with images of Kobe Bryant's fatal helicopter crash, Emiliano Sala's body, and Christian Eriksen's collapse during the World Cup widely shared. This talk will assess the ethical implications of taking and sharing such images, and how these could be addressed in the future, in a world where smartphones are becoming increasingly commonplace.
The Ethics Of Taking And Sharing Photos Online
What's The Connection Between Food, Culture And Climate?
Age: Young People (11-15)
Type: Virtual/Online Activity,Participatory/Interactive
Host: Sebastian Reichel, University of Southampton, UK Faith Mutavi, Kenyatta University, Kenya Dr Claire Bedelian, IIED, Denmark Frank Musa, University of Malawi, Malawi Gertrude Owusu, University of Ghana, Ghana Henry Hunga, University of Malawi, Malawi Dr Yaw Atiglo, University of Ghana, Ghana Moses Asamoah, University of Ghana, Ghana Dr Daniela Anghileri, University of Southampton, UK
Date and Time (UK Time):20/11/2021 10:00 - 12:00
Summary
This session will engage with young people to use social science perspectives to understand connections between food, culture and climate, and how they differ between three countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK.
Description
The foods that people grow and eat depend in part on their social history and on their local cultural preferences. Food is also dependent on the climate in which it is grown. Social science perspectives on human belief systems and behaviours help us to answer questions around why we eat what we eat, and how climate change is impacting food availability and preferences in the present and might do so in the future.
The event will be an interactive session that focuses on Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and the UK, engaging the audience around issues based on their own experiences. The session will include polls, breakout rooms for discussion, and offline tasks during short breaks. A variety of topics will be covered including discussion of food preferences and changes over time, food access and availability, weather, and food seasonality and more! The participants will receive insights into how social science can be used to analyse their own
20th November:
10:00am - 12:00pm UK and Ghana time
12:00pm - 14:00pm Malawi time
13:00pm - 15:00pm Kenya time
What's The Connection Between Food, Culture And Climate?
Climate Change Impacts On Food Security And Migration
Age: 11-15 year olds
Type: Other
Host: Ailish Craig, PhD Student, School of Geography and Environmental Science
Date and Time (UK Time):15/11/2021 09:00 - 16:00
16/11/2021 09:00 - 16:00
17/11/2021 09:00 - 16:00
18/11/2021 09:00 - 16:00
19/11/2021 09:00 - 16:00
Avonbourne Boys' and Girls' School (Closed Event)
Summary
Interactive talks and workshops for a group of year 9 students will discuss the decisions made by people in Malawi and the Philippines regarding food security and migration.
Description
Climate change is creating numerous challenges to society, particularly in low-income countries. These talks will highlight how climate change has impacted food security and migration to local students. They will learn about the decisions made by people in Malawi and the Philippines and will take part in an interactive group workshop. Here they will discuss the possible coping strategies they could adopt for different scenarios around the negative impacts of climate change.
The event will follow on from the year 9 curriculum for learning on climate change and will further the students understanding of the complexities of climate change, food security and migration. Furthermore, they'll discover how the impacts vary for different households.
Climate Change Impacts On Food Security And Migration
Waves Of Change: Flooding And Heatwaves In Southampton
Age: Specialist interest (asylum seekers and refugees)
Type: Other
Host: Sien van der Plank, Senior Research Assistant in the School of Geography and Environmental Science
Date and Time (UK Time):24/11/2021 09:00 - 11:00
25/11/2021 09:00 - 11:00
CLEAR, 2 James Street, Southampton, SO14 1PJ (Closed Event)
Summary
This is a series of lessons designed to engage English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), specifically asylum seekers and refugees, as vulnerable communities in the risks of heatwaves and flooding in Southampton. These lessons will look at risks based on the current climate, potential future climate change, and how we can adapt to these hazards. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in quizzes, games, and creative activities aimed at furthering their understanding of adaptation, based on the latest research.
Description
Asylum seekers and refugees are particularly vulnerable to climate-induced hazards, as they are likely to be inadequately supported in standard adaptation strategies. Subsequently, this series of lessons will target asylum seekers and refugees to further their understanding of hazards and adaptation. This series of lessons will comprise of 3 versions of the same 2-hour lesson for different levels of English-speakers, with language adapted to cater for Entry 1, Entry 2, and Entry 3 level ESOL. These lessons will involve several activities:
1. The creation of mood boards, based on attendees' experience and current knowledge of environmental hazards.
2. Interactive card games covering risks, adaptation, climate change, and hazard vocabulary.
3. Visualisations of flooding and heatwaves in Southampton.
4. A quiz on adaptation opportunities in Southampton.
5. Creation of an updated mood board to help attendees present their new knowledge.
These lessons will subsequently allow attendees to share their experiences of climate change hazards, gain a new understanding of heatwave and flooding adaptation strategies, explore their abilities to adapt, and learn practical methods of adaptation.
Waves Of Change: Flooding And Heatwaves In Southampton
Imagining A Sustainable Future Via Green Stories
Age: Teachers; schoolchildren aged 14-18
Type: Discussion/Debate,Participatory/Interactive
Host: Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business
Date and Time (UK Time):09/11/2021 09:00 - 10:50
Bitterne Park School (Closed Event)
Summary
At this event, you will learn what a sustainable society might look like and will have the opportunity to participate in a writing competition to explore how green solutions can be communicated through fiction, and how this can inspire action. You will have the opportunity to hear winning entries from previous competitions, share your ideas with others and to write your own story.
The event will have the following structure:
9:00: A talk covering environmental challenges and feelings of powerlessness
9.20: Group discussions about how a sustainable society might look
9.45: A talk by Prof Baden about how a model sustainable society might look and how we can use fiction to promote sustainable behaviours
10: Group discussions to come up with stories conveying green solutions
10.25: Feedback ideas to group
10.50: Wrap up session.
Description
This event will consist of a two hour session, running from 9 - 11am with year 9 students from Bitterne Park School. Firstly, a talk will be given by Professor Denise Baden about the environmental challenges we face, and our feelings of powerlessness. Attendees will then split into small groups and discuss positive visions of what they think a green society might look like, with help from Denise, who will share ideas and encourage discussion. Professor Denise Baden will then give a talk on how a sustainable society might look, considering themes such as carbon budgets and green energy. This will also cover how using fiction to convey green solutions can help tackle feelings of powerlessness over environmental change and inspire action, with the Green Stories Writing Competition being introduced. After this, students will work in small groups to create ideas for their own green stories and discuss these with the wider group. The session will conclude with some final thoughts by Professor Baden and details for how to submit stories to the competition.
Imagining A Sustainable Future Via Green Stories
Past Events 2020
Digital Transitions: Learning From Lockdown For The Future
Age: Teachers
Type: Discussion/Debate,Seminar/Conference,Virtual/Online Activity
10:00
Date and Time (UK Time):2020 - 11
Online
Summary
A free webinar to share examples, learning, and tips from co-produced research on supporting transitions for autistic children during lockdown using digital tools
Description
The Autism Community Research Network @Southampton [ACoRNS] is a public engagement project that has developed a research-practice partnership between Education and Psychology at the University of Southampton, school leaders and practitioners in the local community. Together they have established a co-constructed network for researching evidence-based practices in autism education, with the views and perspectives of children and young people at its centre.
Festival of Social Science events were held in 2017 and 2019 to showcase the research being undertaken by this partnership; bringing together local families, educational practitioners and related professionals.
This online event for 2020 will be an opportunity to share the important and innovative research that has been done with Digital Stories during lockdown to support the assessments of children for their EHCPs, and the transitions of older students with complex needs beyond school. These approaches were particularly important under social distancing measures and could also be helpful for the longer term.
This event will include opportunities for discussion and sharing of ideas and will be chaired by Professor Sarah Parsons
This event will be held online and is free however you must register to attend and receive the joining link and instructions. You will receive an information pack following the event, including a guide on making Digital Stories and relevant research summaries and papers
For general event enquiries please email the foss team at foss@soton.ac.uk
Digital Transitions: Learning From Lockdown For The Future
Self-Building Our Lives: Navigating Social Care With Learning Disabilities
Age: Young People/Schools (aged under 20)**
Type: Discussion/Debate,Virtual/Online Activity
14:00
Date and Time (UK Time):2020 - 11
Eastleigh College, Hampshire
2 Hours
BY INVITATION ONLY
Summary
The event is a half-day online workshop for students studying social care at Eastleigh College and will explore how social care is accessed and experienced by people with learning disabilities.
Description
This event will engage participants by designing a facilitated role-playing session, which will get them to reflect on their relative abilities and support networks and how these could affect their ability to build a meaningful life. They will then be introduced with a set of cards prompting a series of scenarios and hypothetical events that may alter their imagined future life. The event will draw on ESRC-funded research with adults with learning disabilities to encourage the participants to consider how different constraints affect other people's experience building a meaningful life. The aim is two-fold, to facilitate and encourage young people to: (1) reflect on their own support networks and capabilities that they can draw upon for their positive mental health and to build a meaningful life. (2) think of people from other marginalised groups including disabled people who may have very different support networks and capabilities - and constraints.
The event will be chaired by Dr Andrew Power
This invitation only event will be held on Microsoft Teams and is free however you must register to attend and receive the joining link and instructions. Workshop packs will be distributed to the learners in advance.
For more details about the project or event please email the event organiser Dr Andrew Power ( A.Power@soton.ac.uk )
For general event enquiries please email the foss team at foss@soton.ac.uk
Self-Building Our Lives: Navigating Social Care With Learning Disabilities
Managing Seaweed Through More Than Maps
Age: Young People/Schools (aged under 20)**
Type: Discussion/Debate,Virtual/Online Activity
Date and Time (UK Time):2020 - 11
Online
FREE
Summary
"Managing Seaweed through More than Maps" is a co-development project that fosters transferable skills for college students. This free workshop explores seaweed management as a climate change adaptation case study. Two hours are spent on coding skills using remotely sensed data, and two hours focus on the role for social science methods in adaptation.
Description
Using seaweed as a unique example, researchers aim to learn from the students what skills are useful in ground-level climate change adaptation and how skills are best transferred. The students gain coding and data analysis skills, with possible future support for their EPQ.
Target audience:
A-level students studying subjects that include a focus on climate change, hazard management, and/or remote sensing. This includes:
• Geography - case study of climate change hazards
• Politics - evidence-based policy development
• Physics - the science of remote sensing and using wavelengths
• Maths - application of mathematical algorithm
• Computer science - developing coding skills
• Design and technology - developing coding skills, use of satellite sensors
• Biology - climate change and changing ecosystems
Because of the advanced nature of the workshop content, it is recommended students are selected based on their interest in the content matter.
Learning outcomes:
1. Case study: of sargassum for curriculum case studies, such as climate change adaptation or hazard mitigation.
2. Coding: in basic JavaScript.
3. Social data analysis: social sciences frameworks for future research or adaptation.
4. EPQ opportunity: possibility for further researcher-student interaction to support development of an EPQ.
The motivation behind the workshops:
The SARTRAC research project at the University of Southampton is researching how vulnerable communities in the Caribbean and West Africa can effectively adapt to the massive influx of the seaweed Sargassum washing up on their beaches since 2011.
We want to share mapping and social science methods and skills with your students, and in turn learn from your students what format of content and delivery works best.
Date and time
Wednesday 11 Nov 4-6pm More than Maps Part 1: the importance of mapping in adapting to climate change
Thursday 12 Nov 4-6pm More than Maps Part 2: the importance of the social sciences in adapting to climate change
We strongly encourage students to participate in both parts, as a key goal of the workshop is to bring together social sciences with remote sensing (mapping).
The maximum number of participants in one session is 30 students. If you have 30 college students interested in the topic and skills, we can run the workshop for your college exclusively. If not, we hope to coordinate between multiple interested colleges.
Please contact the research team with your preferred dates and times within the Festival of Social Science week (9-13 November)
Contact details:
This workshop is being developed by a team based at the University of Southampton.
Please contact Ms Sien van der Plank for further information, at s.vanderplank@soton.ac.uk
Managing Seaweed Through More Than Maps
Migration And Performance Between Languages And Cultures
Age: General Audience(All ages)
Type: Discussion/Debate,Film Screenings,Seminar/Conference,Virtual/Online Activity
16:00
Date and Time (UK Time):2020 - 11
Online
Summary
The University of Southampton and performance group 'Around the Well' will present the story-telling performance 'Between'. 'Between' tells the migration stories and professional experiences of the performers, who are all interpreters, exploring the topics of migration, multilingualism, identity, empathy, loss and renewal.
Description
Migration offers us the opportunity for multilingual and multicultural encounters in everyday life. Not all those encounters will be straightforward. There will be times, when we want to communicate with someone, and we don't share a common language. That's when we need the help of an interpreter. One example could be a healthcare practitioner (a physician, nurse, GP, etc.) in a medical consultation with their patient. That can be a challenge for everyone involved. In their regular tasks, interpreters are constantly navigating between language and culture. Language is culture and culture is deeply embedded in language. What's that like for the interpreter? What's that like for the patient and the doctor?
The performance group 'Around the Well' together with the University of Southampton are organising an interactive event designed for both the general public and the research community. During this event, we will invite the audience to engage their various senses and immerse themselves into the world of interpreters through shared activities and experiences. After the video streaming showcasing snapshots from the performance production, 'Around the Well' will present the story-telling performance 'Between'. 'Between' builds on the migration stories and professional experiences of the performers, who are interpreters, psychotherapy and theatre practitioners, exploring the topics of migration, multilingualism, identity, empathy, loss and renewal.
This event will be held on Microsoft Teams and is free however you must register to attend and receive the joining link and instructions.
For more details about the project or event please email the event organiser Ms Martina Schneider Forrσovα (msf1g19@soton.ac.uk)
For general event enquiries please email the foss team at foss@soton.ac.uk
Event Resources:
Who is in charge here_WS.pdf
Migration And Performance Between Languages And Cultures
CPC Population Pyramids: Minecraft Edition
Age: General Audience(All ages)
Type: Hands On,Virtual/Online Activity
Date and Time (UK Time):2020 - 11
Summary
We invite you to explore our Minecraft world to learn about Population Pyramids.
Description
Population Pyramids are graphs used to illustrate the structure of a population; they tell us who is in the population at a particular time, as well as what has happened to the population in the past. You will see some examples of different populations. Using your Minecraft character to explore the area, you will learn to read the graphs.
This game has been produced by the ESRC Centre for Population Change
The game can be accessed via CPCpopulation.mc.gg. Please see the PDF document attached to this listing for full instructions.
This activity will run from 7-22 November 2020.
Instructions:
CPC Population Pyramids Minecraft edition.pdf
