Seminars to explore hot issues for researchers
A lunchtime seminar series for researchers at Sussex got under way this week.
The 2014 Sussex Research Hive seminars began yesterday (30 January) with an event about using archives to conduct qualitative research.
The seminar was chaired by Fiona Courage, Manager of the University’s Special Collections, which are now housed in The Keep, the new, state-of-the-art archive centre across the road from the University.
Professor David Hendy, Professor of Media and Communication, and Dr Paul Quinn, Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, talked about their experiences of using archives in different ways to support their research.
The series continues on 13 February when Charlie Rapple will speak about Kudos, a new service that she co-created that can help academics increase the impact of their research. She will be joined by two Sussex academics who use social media to generate interest in their work: Professor James Wilsdon, Professor of Science and Democracy, and Professor Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History. The event will be chaired by Dr Ian Carter, Director of Research and Enterprise.
On 6 March, Sussex researchers Dr Catherine Grant, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, and Dr Lynne Murphy, Reader in Linguistics, will look at how to demonstrate the impact of creative research outputs. The event will be chaired by the University’s REF Impact Officer, Saskia Gent.
The final seminar in the current series will take place on 21 March. It will focus on the issues with Open Access publishing and other approaches taken by the academic community to make research more openly available. Rupert Gatti, Director of Open Book Publishing, and Professor Peter Coles, Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, will speak, chaired by Kitty Inglis, the University’s Librarian.
All Sussex Research Hive seminars take place on Thursday lunchtimes, between 12 noon and 2pm.
The seminars are funded by academic publishers SAGE and hosted by the Library. They are open to everybody engaged in, or supporting, the research process at Sussex.
They take place in the meeting room on the second floor of the Library and a sandwich lunch is provided.
For more information and to book a place, visit the Library’s web pages.