The Director's seminar is a weekly gathering of graduate students and staff. As well as welcoming a dynamic group of visiting speakers from pan-disciplinary fields, we aim to discuss topics of all kinds related to the theory and practice of graduate life. Our goal is to provide graduate students with an additional set of skills to enhance those provided in the graduate skills training sessions. This year we are focusing on the impact of academic scholarly work beyond the academy, and asking how we can learn to reach wider audiences. All are welcome.
Many of the topics we cover will be of interest to all graduate students, whether or not their research falls within the period 1500-1800.
Spring 2011 Schedule
The title (and theme) of this semester's Director's Seminar will be 'Making an impact: the engaged academic'.
13 January: Reaching out
20 January: Introducing Professor Amanda Vickery
27 January: Getting your work published
3 February: Writing for non-specialist readers
10 February: People's Palace Project — Afro-Reggae, Drumming to wave theory, and Physics in the classroom
17 February: Pitching to radio & TV
READING WEEK
3 March: Unpromising material I
10 March: Unpromising material II
17 March: Visiting speaker
24 March: What do you do next?
31 March: Celebrity guest, end of year round-up and conclusions
Thursdays, ARC Seminar Room, 10.30-12.00am
Please note that to attend these sessions your QM ID card needs to be programmed for entry to the ARC building. Contact the Security Lodge (5555) for access permissions. All QM graduate students are eligible for this entry status.
