The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, in partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, are collaborating on Spring into Methods to commission interactive, interdisciplinary and innovative research methods training for our postgraduate researchers.
The Spring into Methods programme brings together arts, humanities, social science, and other doctoral researchers from across Scotland to offer sessions providing an in-depth approach to learning a specific research method for up to 15 hours.
SGSAH and SGSSS invite proposals from members of staff in any of the affiliated HEIs to provide this training which will be offered, with our support, both/either online and face-to-face. To increase accessibility, we ask for highly interactive proposals delivered either online, in person, or a blend of both (hybrid). We aim to fund 6-8 training proposals.
Our emphasis is on interactive, interdisciplinary and innovative sessions that demonstrate both expertise in methods training and leadership to involve early career researchers in delivery. Our main audience is doctoral researchers from arts, humanities, and social science, but our emphasis on interdisciplinarity means we encourage applications from other disciplines, e.g. academics affiliated with centres for doctoral training (e.g. the UKRI Centre For Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents (SOCIAL AI) or research pools (e.g. SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance).
The deadline for workshop proposals is 4pm on Friday 28 January 2022.
Workshop proposals open |
Tuesday 7 December 2021 |
Deadline for workshop proposals |
Friday 28 January 2022, 4pm |
Applicants informed of decision |
Monday 7 February 2022 |
Applications open for students |
Monday 14 February 2022 |
Deadline for student applications |
Monday 28 February 2022, 5pm |
Students informed of application outcome |
w/c Monday 7 March 2022 |
Events take place |
Monday 11 April – Friday 27 May 2022 (avoiding Easter weekend 15-18 April and Spring holiday on 2 May 2022) |
Submit a Proposal
Submit a proposal via the SGSSS website here: https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/spring-into-methods/ (scroll down for the online submission form, below the timetable).
If you have any questions regarding this scheme then please do not hesitate to get in touch with Mike Crabb.
More information and guidance.