Northern Bridge DTP Summer School 2024
Hosted by QUB and UU, this years NBC Summer School is open to all current Northern Bridge students
outline programme
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Wednesday 19 June 2024
Ulster University, York Street
6.30pm - Directors Welcome - Ulster University
A welcome and orientation for those who have travelled across to Northern Ireland from the North East.
Details of the room location will be updated in due course.
- Thursday 20 June 2024
Queen's University, Riddell Hall, Stranmillis Road
First day of Summer School activities at Queen's University, Riddell Hall, Stranmillis Road
Time Session Speaker Room Location 9 - 9.20am Registration Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 9.20 - 9.30am Welcome Professor Janice Carruthers, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Dean of Research Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 9.30 - 10.30am Key Note Address Professor Helen Small, Helen Small is Merton Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. Her 2013 book The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press) offered a critical account of the arguments standardly employed to defend the public value of the humanities. Not a polemic, it aimed to clarify the nature of the claims and test their validity for the present day and has been widely taken up by universities and higher educational policy makers. Her more recent work in the area includes an essay on the place of aesthetic value in advocacy for the humanities, included in George Levine (ed.), The Question of the Aesthetic (2022), and an exploration of the strengths and limits of the 'Wicked Problems' concept (often appealed to by those arguing for the humanities' ability to help solve environmental and other global challenges). Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 10.30-11am Coffee 11 - 12 noon Parallel Sessions Please choose from one of the following sessions by registering here Applied Arts, Chris Murphy UU and Andrew Livingstone Sunderland Heritage - David Coyle UU Arts Management, Creative Industries and Cultural and Museum Studies, Sarah Baccanti and Gerard Dunleavey Languages, Literature and Creative Writing, Patsy Horton, Blackstaff Press and Linen Hall Library and Dawn Watson, QUB Law, Legal and Political, David Archbald in conversation with Therese Murphy 12.15pm - 1.30pm Lunch Riddell Hall, Conference space 1.30pm - 2pm EDI update An update on EDI developments by Rachel Carroll, Teesside Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 2pm- 3pm UN Sustainable Goals UN Sustainable Goals in the research space - Alison Calvert, QUB and Kieran Higgins, Ulster Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 3pm - 3.30pm Coffee Riddell Hall, Isdell Courtyard 3.30pm - 5pm Student Voices Student Presentations, an opportunity to present your research and take questions as well as hear from others about their research. Sign up for these sessions here Conference Dinner - 6.30pm - 9pm in the Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
With light entertainment from
Dress code - smart casual
- Friday 21 June 2024
Ulster University, York Road
Second day of summer school activities at Ulster University, York Road
Time Session Speaker Location 9am - 9.15am Coffee 9.15 - 10.15am Key Note Address Mike Murawski is a consultant, change leader, and author of Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (2021). After more than 20 years working in education and museums, he has become an outspoken advocate for transformative, human-centered change in organizations and communities.
10.15 - 11am Ethics in Research A roundtable on ethics in research, hear from some fellow students who have required ethics approval and from academics who have navigated this area in their research
11am - 11.30am Coffee 11.30am - 12.30pm Parallel Sessions Choose from a selection of parallel sessions by registering here
Early Career Researchers, REF and Publications. hear from an early career researcher, get some up to date information on fellowships available from Research Development staff and a panel discussion on REF and publications from Professor Karen Fleming, Ulster and Ramona Wray, QUB
Engaging with the Media - How to pitch, develop media contacts and navigate media requests, by Channel 56
How to manage your supervisory relationship, hear from some Alumni on how they navigated their supervisory relationships and from supervisors who have managed PhD students
Presentation skills - present with confidence and utilise linkedIn to it's full potential
Screen Industry opportunities, Gerard Dunleavey (max 20 participants)
VP Studio 12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch 1.30pm - 2pm Closing Remarks - Key Note Speaker Bios
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Professor Helen Small, Helen Small is Merton Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. Her 2013 book The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press) offered a critical account of the arguments standardly employed to defend the public value of the humanities. Not a polemic, it aimed to clarify the nature of the claims and test their validity for the present day and has been widely taken up by universities and higher educational policy makers. Her more recent work in the area includes an essay on the place of aesthetic value in advocacy for the humanities, included in George Levine (ed.), The Question of the Aesthetic (2022), and an exploration of the strengths and limits of the 'Wicked Problems' concept (often appealed to by those arguing for the humanities' ability to help solve environmental and other global challenges).
Mike Murawski is a consultant, change leader, and author of Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker (2021). After more than 20 years working in education and museums, he has become an outspoken advocate for transformative, human-centered change in organizations and communities.
- Accommodation
Accommodation for Summer School is in our Queen's University Elms complex, BT9.
It's 20 minutes walk to Riddell Hall from the Elms complex (walking directions here). Riddell Hall is where our Thursday summer school activities are taking place, for those who don't want to walk, please let me know and I'll make alternative arrangements for you northernbridge.admin@qub.ac.uk
Queen's Elms are a 48 minute walk to the Ulster University, York Street, campus where the welcome reception and the Friday activities are taking place. We will be providing a coach for those travelling to the welcome reception and on Friday morning, so that you can bring your luggage with you when you leave. There will be a room in Ulster University where you can store your luggage. For those travelling back to the airport, a coach will be leaving Ulster University after the Friday summer school activities have completed.
Walking directions from Queen's Elms BT9 to Ulster University
Queen's Elms is also on a bus route directly into the city centre