Programme

Programme for Quadrivium 2009

All events take place in the Gartree and Rutland Room on the Fourth Floor of the Charles Wilson Building on the University of Leicester campus (campus map).

WEDNESDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

12.30-1.45 pm               Lunch And Registration

1.45-2.00 pm                 Welcome

Orietta Da Rold (Leicester)

Professor Douglas Tallack (Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Leicester)

2.00-3.00 pm                 Networking Among Established And Early Career Researchers, Doctoral Students, Supervisors And Researchers

Facilitator: Dr Alison Wiggins (Glasgow)

In this session a leading academic with extensive experience of research supervision, national and international funding bodies, collaborative research projects and academic career support will lead discussion designed to help you to focus strategically on your research future. Here you can talk about your own research and identify how best you might benefit from Quadrivium.

3.00-3.20 pm                 Tea and coffee

3.15-3.30 pm                 Short walk to the David Wilson Library First Floor Seminar Room

3.30-5.00 pm                 Primary Research Resources and Resource Enhancement: Research Methodologies and The Manuscript Library

Chair: Philip Shaw (Leicester)

John Thompson (Queen’s):  Looking In Local Archives:  Research Lessons Learned for Medievalists From Some (Northern) Irish Case Studies

Gavin Cole (Nottingham):  The Manuscript Book: Skills, Catalogues and Questions

Takako Kato (Leicester):  Early Printed Books: Layout, Typesetting and Contextualisation

This session will focus on the work of the manuscript library or archive, with special attention to methodologies applicable to preservation of early material and dissemination in the digital age.

5.00-5.15 pm                 Short Walk Back to the Gartree and Rutland Room on the Fourth Floor of the Charles Wilson Building

5.15-6.45 pm                 Transition, Experience and Life as a Postgraduate and a Postdoctoral Researcher

Chair: David Clark (Leicester)

Helen Foxhall Forbes (Leicester):  Hic Abundant Leones: Entering the World of Postdoc Applications

Allan Westphall (St Andrews):  Transition from PhD to Postdoc

Thom Gobbitt and Kate Wiles (IMS, Leeds):  How to: Research, Data and Writing in Medieval Studies. A Rough Guide

This session will focus on research environments; research management and personal effectiveness. We will consider the experience of postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in major research projects. The session will examine the research methodologies and techniques of the projects. It will also address practical advice on recognising opportunities, making grant applications and the ability to recognise and validate future projects.

6.45-7.45 pm                 Wine Reception Sponsored by the English Association in the Quorn room

8.00 pm                          Dinner at Kayal on Granby Street, Leicester

THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

8.30-9.00 am                 Tea and Coffee

9.00-9.20 am                 Careers

Chair: Orietta Da Rold (Leicester)

Martin Coffey (Leicester): Planning your Career

 9.20-10.50 am               Careers for PhDs in this field within and beyond academia

Sponsored by the University of Birmingham and organised by Wendy Scase

Chair: Alison Wiggins (Glasgow)

Simon Forde (Brepols): On Publishing

Suzanne Paul (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge):  On Libraries and Archives

Edward Moss (McDaniel & Co.):  Beyond the Middle Ages: PhD Skills and the Legal Workplace

The session will comprise presentations from panelists who are now working in a range of careers beyond academia (e.g. law, librarianship, publishing). The session will enable participants to identify the transferable skills they are acquiring as part of their PhD and to reflect on ways they might put them to use in a range of careers.

10.50-11.05 am            Coffee/Tea

11.05-12.30 pm            Publishing workshop run by Simon Forde (Brepols)

Chair: Ian Johnson (St Andrews)

12.30-12.45 pm            Completion and collection of questionnaires

12.45-13.45 pm            Lunch and Close