CONTENTS:

1. REMINDER: funding applications
2. LISS DTP Student News
3. RA Internships
4. Internship opportunity
5. Reading group: Capital, Vol. 1
6. ESRC Steps Centre
7. NCRM training courses
8. NCRM conference

1. REMINDER: FUNDING APPLICATIONS – NEXT DEADLINE: 4^TH APRIL

There are only a few days left now to submit an application for the next round of funding applications to support research-related activity and events.  These applications need to be in by 4^th April. 

On the Research and Events Funding page of the LISS DTP website, you will find details of how to apply for:

• Research Training Support Grant funds (RTSG);
• Student Led Activities Fund;
• Overseas Fieldwork Funding (OSFW).

As we look to the spring and summer months ahead this year, we strongly encourage applications from our funded students to host events and activities on campus; these might be workshops, seminars, reading groups or other activities. To this end, we welcome applications to the Student-Led Activities Fund (see link above) to support student-led events. There is also funding available through LISS DTP pathways for these kind of events, with further information available from the following page of the LISS DTP website: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/about/pathway-lead-information/.

On the Funded Extension Schemes page of the LISS DTP website, you will find details of how to apply for (with a 4^th April application deadline too):

• Internships/Secondment Extensions;
• Overseas Institutional Visit Extensions;
• Difficult Language Training Extensions;
• Quantitative Methods Teaching Preparation Extensions.

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2. LISS DTP STUDENT NEWS

LISD DTP students have been very active in this first quarter of 2022 – delivering presentations, writing publications, receiving awards.  Keep up-to-date on what all LISS DTP students are up to on the ‘LISS DTP Student News’ page of the LISS DTP website.

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3. LISS DTP RESEARCH ASSISTANT INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

The following opportunities for Research Assistant Internships are available to apply for:

• Causal Pathways to Psychopathy in Prisoners and Adults in the Community with Mark Freestone
• Climate Change, Strategic Communications and the International Relations of CARICOM with Nicholas Michelsen
• The Application and Consideration of Elinor Ostrom’s Principles for Collaborative Group Working: a Literature Review to Inform Future Best Practice with Glenn Robert
• Has COVID-19 exacerbated health inequalities in people living with severe mental disorders? Linkage study with Jayati Das-Munshi
• Investigating the Role of Parents in University Education with Eleanor Dommett
• The EU and Global Apartheid with Lucia Pradella

Full details of all of these opportunities are found on the ‘Internships’ page of the LISS DTP website.

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4. INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY (EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE, 12^TH APRIL):

As recently circulated, the Royal Institution is looking for a DTP-funded PhD student to take on an internship with them as Science Presenter Intern in their Young Scientist Centre for a 3-month placement to gain experience of presenting to a group of young people in an engaging educational environment and to receive training in science communication . The internship is from May to July 2022 with some flexibility.

The successful intern will:

• Present hands-on science workshops to young people in the LYSC.
• Research and develop hands-on science experiments for Ri social media content.
• Work with the YSC team to develop content for other Ri activities.

For more information about this internship programme and details on individual placements, timeframes and how to apply, please visit the RI website at: https://www.rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us

The new extended closing date for receipt of applications is midnight on Tuesday, 12th April 2022 (9.00am), with interviews now planned for 26^th & 27^th April

The role is based in Central London; students will be expected to base themselves within or near to London for the period of the placement.

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5.  READING GROUP: CAPITAL VOL. 1 BY KARL MARX

A group of staff and PhD students, led by Dr. Majed Akhter (Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society at King’s), will meet virtually, once a week, for several months over summer 2022 to read this the classic work, Capital Vol. 1 by Karl Marx.

All are welcome, so please email majed.akhter@kcl.ac.uk or alfredo.saad-filho@kcl.ac.uk if you would like to join these online get-togethers.

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6.  ESRC STEPS CENTRE: ‘PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY’ COURSE

The ESRC STEPS Centre is currently running a free online course on ‘Pathways to Sustainability’. This course is aimed at a range of audiences but particularly PhD students and early career researchers.

This online course gives an introduction to the STEPS Centre’s core conceptual approach, the Pathways Approach to sustainability. The course covers theories, methodologies and practical examples. On your journey through the course, you’ll be encouraged to think about the roles of knowledge and uncertainty, policy processes, technology and innovation, and resource politics. You’ll also explore how methods link research with action.

There is no fee or time-limit on this course, and you are welcome to study it at your own pace or use it as an aid to teaching.

There is more information on the STEPS webpage here: Online course: Pathways to Sustainability – STEPS Centre (steps-centre.org)

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7.  NCRM TRAINING COURSES, APRIL AND MAY 2022

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Items for next newsletter: The LISS DTP team want to do more to help students disseminate information about events/activities they want to share with the rest of the cohort. If you have any items – Information and/or good news – to be included in our monthly newsletter, please send them to this email address for the attention of Stephen Wadsworth by 30^th April, for the next newsletter, with all the details and we’ll include it in our next monthly circular! Newsletters will be sent in the first full working week of every month!