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SCDTP and Network Update

Newsletter

14 February 2025

Dear SCDTP Students, PGRs, and Supervisors,

 Welcome to this week's edition of the SCDTP newsletter!

We’re excited to bring you the latest updates, opportunities, and highlights from across the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. Whether you're gearing up for upcoming events, seeking new research collaborations, or exploring professional development resources, we've got something for everyone. Read on to discover how you can make the most of your time with us!

Meditation Sessions Today!

Instinctive Meditation

Sessions this month:

Fridays

1 to 1:30pm

 

Zoom link: https://port-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2961338859?pwd=3FjAZa2jJfZKK6C8kT5KD9mz1VdWtE.1

Each session will explore a different technique, meaning, there is no requirement around attendance. Come as often as you like.

There will be a combination of techniques aimed at managing anxiety and stress, and developing self awareness, or self-mapping.

Some sessions will guide you through techniques for managing anxiety, stress and overwhelm. These may include movement, using your voice, or exploring your body in the present moment. The purpose is to efficiently down regulating the nervous system by creating a calm brain/body connection. This technique offers access to physical relief and an easeful connection with the body's natural healing processes, with space to follow what feels natural for you and your body.

In other sessions you will be guided through techniques for developing self awareness and self-mapping. Understanding or getting to know the self and what may be under coping mechanisms or habitual behaviours, enables individuals to manage their emotions, needs and workloads with ease and clarity. 

All of these techniques offer access to physical relief and create an easeful connection with the body's natural healing processes. The sessions also have ample space to follow what feels natural for you and your body.

 

Community

As well as being a weekly resource for maintaining and supporting personal wellbeing, they are also a space of creating community. Meaning at the end of each session there will be 5 mins extra for you to share your experiences, insights or anything that came up for you. In this space we ask that you respect confidentially and listen with your heart as well as your ears.

Information about Tailored Meditation

Tailored Meditation offers a safe space to learn how to engage with your natural healing responses, process recent events and evaluate whats important for you.

Instinctive Meditation is based in tradition and modernised through science. This invitational style of self enquiry, creates a spacious and welcoming environment for meditation to be pleasurable and profoundly beneficial. Meditating offers access to stress reduction, anxiety management, better overall health and work/life balance.

Participant testimonials

Sabrina explains a concept and why we are exploring a practice, she highlights how its all connected, I found this to be helpful and deepen my self awareness. After meditating I enjoy the ample time given to adjust back to now." - Callum -

 "As I am studying it's really important for me to incorporate movement, Sabrina reminded me of this and offered new ways of threading this is into my day. To stretch, play, move and feel ahh now I'm more relaxed, now my body feels calmer." - Georgia -

 

"Sabrina put me at ease which gave me the confidence to try something that I might normally have dismissed, she spoke with knowledge and personal experience." - Jess -

Latest Blog & Updates

Click the link below to read the latest blog by our students Deborah Timoni and Mollie Ruler

3rd March 2025

Asante Sana! Thank you very much…

 

17th February 2025

No One Really Knows What They’re Doing – Overcoming Imposter Syndrome as a PhD Student.

ESRC News

A fellowship and a webinar opportunity by the ESRC

UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships – closing date 10 April 2025

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what epistemic, metascientific, ethical and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond. 

Fellowships can be up to two years duration, with full economic cost (FEC) up to £260,000.

Further information can be found here: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships – UKRI

Metadata management in the real world: Open science in France – Data Policy can make a difference

Registration is now open for CLOSER’s next ‘Metadata management in the real world’ webinar which will explore open science and data policy in France. The session will feature talks from Arianna Caporali (French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR)) who’ll discuss findings from a recent report on implementing open science policy in higher education and research institutions, and Alina Danciu (Socio-Political Data Center (CDSP)) who’ll share the impact of the policy on data sharing at the CDSP.

 

When: Wednesday 19 March 2025 | 15:00-16:30 GMT 

Where: Online via MS Teams

Find out more and register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/metadata-management-in-the-real-world-open-science-in-france-tickets-1245995749829?aff=oddtdtcreator

Other Network News

PopFest 2025: 29th Annual Postgraduate Population Studies Conference

 

University of Southampton on 6 - 8 July 2025. Deadline for Papers is 4 April.

More Details here: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/popfest_2025/

 

Part-time Postgraduate Researchers Symposium

Friday 4th April 2025

Send your EOI

The University of Southampton Mobility DTP Programme Management Team are delighted to let you know there are still spaces at our Part-time Postgraduate Researchers Symposium on Friday 4th April 2025. The EPSRC Mobility DTP Programme institutions (York, QMUL, Bruel and UoS) have run link events over the last few years. This is an overview of the UoS Event:

Aims of the day

• Provide PGRs an understanding of how to successfully navigate part-time doctoral study alongside other commitments

• Provide supervisors and other staff working with part-time PGRs an understanding of their needs, challenges and strengths and how to support them successfully

• Reflect on strategies to support individual and cohorts of part-time PGRs to succeed in doctoral study

 

Contributors include Dr Jon Rainford, Open University – co-author of the book, ‘Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study: integrating work, life and research’ – Jon Rainford and Kay Guccione.

Audience

• Mobility DTP PGRs, academics and programme managers/PRISMS from University of Southampton and EPSRC Mobility partner institutions

• UoS part-time PGRs, CDT/DTP/DFA/DLA Managers and academics

• PRISMS and any other colleagues from across the sector interested in or who wish to develop an understanding of these issues

If you wish to join us, please email to express and very briefly explain your interest: ds1dtp@soton.ac.uk 

 

It is an all-day event and refreshments will be provided so please also indicate if you have any specific dietary or other requirements.

Thank You for Reading

That’s all for this week on the latest edition of the SCDTP and Network Update!

We hope you found this edition useful and inspiring. If you have any news, achievements, or opportunities to share, we’d love to hear from you—just get in touch! Stay connected, keep making progress, and we’ll be back next week with more updates.

Warm regards,

 

The SCDTP Team