Event information

📅Date: November 18th 2024

⏲Time:11:00 - 12:30 pm

📍Venue: R0.03

👥Target Participants: Social sciences PhD sand ECRs

Inaugural meeting

The Social Sciences Research Engagement Group (SSREG) held its first event on 18th November 2024 in the Ramphal Building, supported by the Doctoral College Networking Fund. We brought together 16 attendees from diverse disciplines, including Political Sciences, Education Studies, Warwick Business School, Applied Linguistics, Sociology, and IATL, who rated the event an impressive 9.5/10.

The session began with a warm introduction from the co-founders, who shared the group's aims, introduced themselves, and outlined planned activities for the coming months. This was followed by an engaging 30-minute speed networking session. Participants then engaged in collaborative group discussions, exchanging insights about their current research and gathering ideas from their peers. Attendees shared their preferences for future event formats, such as hybrid events, walk-and-talk sessions, invited speakers, informal panel discussions, writing sharing, and poster presentations. In terms of session topics, participants highlighted interest in effective research practices (e.g., researchers' emotions, well-being, anxiety, and motivation), fieldwork complexities (e.g., navigating research partnerships and participant recruitment), and data collection and analysis (e.g., methods, tools, and software). Practical themes, including thesis planning and writing, publishing strategies (both academic and non-academic), and AI tools for researchers were also suggested.