Events
Close to My Heart: PGR Perspectives
Close to My Heart: PGR Perspectives is a one-day symposium taking place on campus on Wednesday 15 May 2024 between 9.30am - 4.45pm, that invites researchers at Sussex to reflect on their doctoral experience through a personal lens. With presentations from postgraduate researchers across the University, Close to My Heart seeks to facilitate dialogue regarding the researcher's role/relationship to their research, with a focus on how ‘closeness’ can strengthen, or challenge, our studies. Centred on ethical discourse that surrounds positionality, reflexivity, and the impact of lived experience in a research context, the symposium offers a space to speak from the heart and connect as, together, we straddle the various considerations we take in our position to and with our research.
Tea, coffee and lunch are provided. Please register to give us an idea of numbers.
If you have any access requirements or questions, please get in touch with event organiser Tiffany Murphy (PGR in Drama, Theatre and Performance).
This event will be photographed by University photographer, Stuart Robinson. If you would prefer not to be featured in any photographs, please let Stuart know on the day.
Schedule:
9.30 - Registration, tea and coffee, welcome
9.45 - 11.00 - Panel 1 - chaired by Prof Sara Jane Bailes
Vulnerability' in completing trans research within a hostile environment and insights for trauma-informed practice. Lorne Power (School of Education and Social Work)
Lesbian Since 1732 OR ‘What’s in a Name’: An Early Modern Identity Crisis. Harriet Scanlon (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
11.00 - 11.15 - Break
11.15 - 13.00 - Panel 2 - chaired by Amna Alshamsi
Who is that researcher I see, Staring straight back at me? Parichat Chiablaem (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
Where does my story fit in? Exploring positionality as a narrative researcher in education. Susan Soar (School of Education and Social Work)
My Life as plobtr0n: The PGR as Auteur. Mick Feltham (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
13.00 - 13.45 - Lunch
13.45 - 15.30 - Panel 3 - chaired by Tiffany Murphy
Speculative Activism Personalised: Negotiations of intimacy and disagreement with activist participants. Kam Meakin (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
Examining how compassionate confrontation may facilitate a deeper understanding of carbon market participants subjectivities. Amna Alshamsi (School of Global Studies)
Turning Pain into Purpose: Empowering Families Affected by the Opioid Crisis. Jacqueline Carhoun (School of Psychology)
15.30 - 15.45 - Break
15.45 - 16.30 - Workshop
Collective reflections on themes of the day, facilitated by Tiffany Murphy (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
16.30 - Closing comments
This event is supported by the Sussex Researcher School's Researcher-Led Initiative fund.