Beyond Reflections Trans+ Research Hub Sharing Sessions
What is it?
Anything!
The Sharing Sessions originally came from an idea to host an online seminar series for hub members to share presentations about their work, allowing others to provide feedback and help with development. In discussing this idea, we decided to go beyond it, imagining a more flexible and discussion-led approach within this academia-based framework.
Sessions can still include presentations about your work for practice purposes or if in-depth feedback would be useful, but could also be
-Discussion of current affairs and how, as researchers, you’d like to respond or the effect it has had on your work.
-Discussion around a particular paper or other publication to help develop understanding and hear other points of view -A supportive space to come together to discuss research hurdles and how you have overcome them
-An idea that you want to discuss with others
How will it be run?
To some extent, that is up to you – we want this space to allow everyone to take from it what they need with little restriction. We will ensure that someone from the steering group is present at every meeting to help chair the session and manage the technical aspects, but everything else can be flexible.
Anyone in the hub can contact us to forward any sessions they would like to run, along with any materials that participants should review beforehand if they wish to join in. We will arrange the session and share it with the rest of the group. Then it is over to you!
There will also be the opportunity to propose items for discussion that you would like the steering group to lead, if you do not feel comfortable or have the capacity to do so.
When will it run?
We will alternate the sessions between weekday evenings and daytime sessions, using members' availability data to understand the best times for a variety of people and allow everyone the opportunity to attend. Sessions will run for up to an hour and a half, but may be shorter in duration. If running for 90 minutes, a 10-minute break will be taken halfway through.
First session
Tuesday 30th June 12.30-2.00pm