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Monday 6 November: Professor Geeta Patel: In Conversation In-Person Event
Date: 06/11/2023
Time: 16.00-17.30
Venue: IAIS Common Room
Speaker: Professor Geeta Patel (Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia)
Host: The Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI), with the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS)
This PGR/ECR event is a chance to meet Professor Geeta Patel and listen as she discusses her research, which focusses on the themes of decolonisation, gender, sexuality and finances. An opportunity for a Q&A will follow.
Refreshments including drinks and pizza will be provided.
For further information, please click here. To register, please complete this short form.
Tuesday 7 November: Decolonizing on Notice: Returning Pensions to Colonial Paupers In-Person Lecture
Date: 07/11/23
Time: 12.00 – 13.30
Venue: Knightley Boardroom
A Keynote Lecture by Professor Geeta Patel (University of Virginia). The Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI) invites Professor Geeta Patel (Professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia) to the University of Exeter as a keynote speaker, discussing her research on decolonisation and pensions.
To register and for more information, please click here.
Wednesday 8 November: Public Engagement with Research Speaker Series
Engagement Through Comedy!
An opportunity to bring together those with an interest in comedy and engagement to share expertise, network and consider what purpose comedy serves. The event takes place on Wednesday 8 November 2023 (12.30 pm - 2.30 pm), Seminar Room 9 in The Forum at Streatham Campus.
Format : Speaker panel with Q&A (accessible in-person or over Teams). Click here to join the meeting on MS Teams (followed by small group discussion (in-person only unless people joining remotely want to have their own group discussion online).
Contact PER@exeter.ac.uk if you plan to join in-person or help plan the event and refreshments.
Thursday 9th November: Early career data science lightning talks; introduce yourself and your interests – with pizza
Are you a PGR or ECR with an interest in data science? If so, please join us at 15:30 on Thursday 9th of November in Laver LT3 for an informal lightning talks session where everybody will have 1 minute and 1 slide to say who they are and what they do (but you don’t have to present if you don’t want to). We hope this will help to (figuratively) break down the walls between departments, so please get involved. Sign up here.
Wednesday 29 November: "Introduction to Bioimage Analysis in ImageJ" workshop at St Luke's
Are you using imaging in your scientific research? Would you like to do more with your images?
Join us for a hands-on workshop, and learn how to extract quantitative data from images: "Introduction to Bioimage Analysis in ImageJ", Wednesday 29th November, 2.13 South Cloisters, St Luke's, 1-5pm
Places will be limited, so please sign up in advance by completing the following form. No image analysis experience required. We'll cover:
o Basic principles of bioimage analysis
o Image processing for making figures
o Image segmentation
o Quantitative image analysis
o Starting to automate analysis pipelines
Computers will be provided, but there will also be space to accommodate laptops if you'd prefer to bring your own (if so, please download Fiji in advance).
ImageJ/Fiji is a freely available program for the analysis of scientific images. It is widely used, enormously versatile, extremely powerful, and a lot of fun!
Young Professionals Scheme (YPS) from India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership
Young Professionals Scheme (YPS), agreed as part of the India-UK Migration and Mobility Partnership, offers UK citizens between 18-30 years of age to come to India to live and work for up to 2 years. For eligibility criteria and further information please see here. Application process can be found here.
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