Calling all social scientists!

Registration for the 4^th Annual South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) Conference, happening here (Grimond Building, University of Kent) on Thursday 02 July 2015 (10.00 – 17.30), is now open!

The programme of events includes Keynote Academic Talks, a Journal Editors Panel, Interdisciplinary student-led sessions, posters and student pecha kucha presentations.

The Conference will also provide an excellent networking opportunity for students and academics involved in the SEDTC.

Full details of the day and the registration form are available here.

We will be running the inaugural Postgraduate Research Café on the Medway campus, on Friday 15^th May in the Medway building, M0-02, at 1.00pm – 3.00pm

You are all invited and welcome to attend.  The Postgraduate Research Cafe is a great way to support your fellow PGRs and offer questions and feedback.

We will supply tea, coffee and biscuits, please feel free to bring your own lunch.   A further programme of Research Cafés in Medway will be published soon.

NoRMMA (Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences) invites you to attend an interdisciplinary conference on non-traditional approaches to star studies research.

The one-day event will be held at the University of Kent on May 29th, 2015. The event will focus on ways to explore film studies research through non-traditional approaches. Examples include: performance, video essays, creative fiction/non-fiction, and various multimedia projects. Through this symposium, we would like to explore the connections between scholarship and fandom, research and creativity, the benefits and disadvantages of exploring an (audio)visual art through (audio)visual means, and the development of the innovative and ever-emerging field of practice as research.

Confirmed keynotes: Dr Catherine Grant, University of Sussex and Dr Kieran Fenby-Hulse, Coventry University

Preliminary schedule can be found here: http://www.normmanetwork.com/?p=153

If interested, you are welcome to register for free by Saturday, 9th of May by emailing normma.network@gmail.com   Supported by CISFMI and KIASH