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.
Join us for the following presentations:
Amna Alshamsi (School of Global Studies)
Examining how compassionate confrontation may facilitate a deeper understanding of carbon market participants subjectivities
Vicky Bromley (School of Education and Social Work)
For Better and for Worse: Personal reflections on lone motherhood, and how lived experience can affect research positionality
Jacqueline Carhoun (School of Psychology)
Turning Pain into Purpose: Empowering Families Affected by the Opioid Crisis
Parichat Chiablaem (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
Who is that researcher I see, Staring straight back at me?
Mick Feltham (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
My Life as plobtr0n: The PGR as Auteur
Kam Meakin (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
Speculative Activism Personalised: Negotiations of intimacy and disagreement with activist participants
Lorne Power (School of Education and Social Work)
'Vulnerability' in completing trans research within a hostile environment and insights for trauma-informed practice
Harriet Scanlon (School of Media, Arts and Humanities)
Lesbian Since 1732 OR ‘What’s in a Name’: An Early Modern Identity Crisis
This event is supported by the Sussex Researcher School's Researcher-Led Initiative fund.
Contact
media-arts-humanities@sussex.ac.uk
+44 (0)1273 678001
