GradNet Southampton

An inclusive, student-led community for any #postgraduate in the Faculty of #Humanities, which strives to create a friendly atmosphere for #students to connect.

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

We are delighted to (re)announce that the CFP is now open for 13th Annual GradNet Conference!

The conference will be held on the 7th-8th of June 2021 online and we welcome abstracts of 250 words for 20-minute papers.

We can't wait to hear all about your research!

[Dr Frankie Morgan @fpmresearch]

I’m so excited that my first journal article is out in the world! Massive thank you to @GradNetSoton and the editors and reviewers who made it such an enjoyable process!

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

If you would like to get involved in organising next year's publication or conference, don't hesitate to get in touch! We are always open to volunteers who want to contribute to the postgraduate community in Soton. Otherwise, we hope to see you all at the next GradNet conference!

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

We are immensely proud to announce that the 12th Volume of our Postgraduate Journal 'Emergence', following from the success of our 2021 GradNet Conference, has been printed and published! A huge thanks to all of our contributors in working so hard to publish your research!

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

If you would like to have a look at the latest scholarship inside, you can find a digital version on the @unisouthampton website here: https://t.co/0v1K74QQAr or via the main Emergence page. Some copies will also be made available in the University Library.

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And that's a wrap everybody! We closed with some excellent papers and a detailed discussion about a variety of Early Modern topics. Thank you to all the panelists for such thought provoking papers, we hope to see them all in print soon! Watch this space!

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

We've had an excellent discussions after a thought provoking panel on language, but it will shortly be time for our final panel broadly on the Early Modern Period!

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We've just concluded our 'Music' panel with two excellent papers from Alexandra Huang, and Nakul and Namita Krishnamurthy, which was followed by a detailed and lengthy discussion on the divinity within music. Up after the break is our panel on 'Language'! Stay tuned!

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We are due to start the second day of the GradNet 2021 Conference shortly! We have loads of exciting papers to listen to, so if you'd like to join do get in touch and we will send you an invite!

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That's it for today! We've had loads of fascinating papers covering a variety of topics, and have a whole bunch more lined up for tomorrow! Many thanks for all those taking part so far, hopefully we'll see you all tomorrow!

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After a really interesting talk by Esther, our last paper of the day is by Ahmad Hamdi, who is presenting on the title: 'Sensitizing Language Teachers towards the Process of Materials Evaluation for English Language Teaching'.

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Many thanks to Attallah for his fascinating talk. Next in our Education panel is @EstherM_Cummins, who is presenting a paper titled 'Researching the ethos of Catholic schools using Bourdieu's thinking tool of cultural capital: What do stakeholders need to feel that they belong?'

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

Our last panel of the day 'Edcuation' is starting shortly with Attallah Alanazi who is talking about 'Language Ideologies and Identities: Saudi University Students’ views of English as a Lingua Franca'.

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Many thanks to Frankie for her powerful and harrowing paper. We conclude the 'Identity' panel with May Toudic from the University of Aberdeen's presentation on 'Queering History: Literary Re-vision and the LGBTQ+ Community'.

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

After an incisive and thoroughly detailed paper by Alina, we are followed with a presentation on 'Blurring the Online and Offline: Digital connectivity as consciousness-raising within feminist activism against street harassment' by Frankie Morgan.

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

Our next panel broadly focused on 'Identity' is kicking off now! Starting with Alina Kamalova discussing 'Development of Identities in Family Conversations: Discourse Analysis in Russian talk shows'!

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

We've just had some fantastic papers on the theme of 'Covid', from the impact upon BAME NHS professionalisms, to mapping happiness in spatial communities in Edinburgh! Incredibly captivating presentations so far!

[Esther Cummins @EstherM_Cummins]

Looking forward to presenting some of my preliminary PhD findings at the @GradNetSoton Conference later today. I'm looking at ethos in Catholic schools and the sense of belonging.

[GradNet Southampton @GradNetSoton]

The GradNet Conference starts in an hour's time! If you haven't grabbed a ticket yet, you can on our Eventbrite Page! See you soon! https://t.co/cNKNHwIrjU

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Quick reminder that the GradNet Conference takes place in just under a week, on Monday the 7th! If you're interested, sign up on our EventBrite Page: https://t.co/iki4nnydH4

See you there!