| Workshop 1: Wellbeing with Alex Pavey Workshop 2: Reproducibility with Sam Parsons Workshop 3: Motivation by Music with Emily Ballon |
The workshop speakers aim to inspire, encourage and relate to Surrey’s PGR & ECR community.
Dr Alex Pavey
Research Welling in Uncertain Times
Research has always involved confronting uncertainty. When we are taking intellectual risks to develop novel ideas and new arguments, this uncertainty can be exciting. But other feelings of uncertainty – about our skills as researchers, our ability to meet others’ expectations, or our employment prospects – can be more difficult to overcome, and can affect our wellbeing. All of these challenges have been magnified by the uncertainty of our current circumstances, and every researcher has been impacted in different ways.
Dr Alex Pavey is a Researcher Development Training Officer in the University of Surrey Doctoral College, and a MHFA England Mental Health First Aid Instructor. This ‘…in conversation’ session will discuss the importance of protecting our mental health and wellbeing in challenging circumstances. How can we support ourselves and each other, find help when we need it, and work to reduce the stigma associated with poor mental health?
Dr Sam Parsons
Reproducibility
Sam Parsons is a postdoctoral research associate in the Oxford Centre for Emotions and Affective Neuroscience with Professor Elaine Fox. Sam is engaged in a number of open and reproducible research related activities. He helped created the ReproducibiliTea Journal Club in Oxford Experimental Psychology branch. He now also co-directs ReproducibiliTea global, and co-hosts the ReproducibiliTea podcast. Sam is also on the Experimental Psychology Open Science Committee, and part of the Steering Committee for a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT). One of FORRT’s goals is to curate open teaching materials and their pedagogies to support teachers wishing to incorporate open and reproducible research into their courses, as well as advocating for wide recognition and appreciation of those sharing their teaching materials.
Emily Bollon
Motivation by Music
Former Surrey Students’ Union president and BMus Music graduate (2012) Emily, founded Motivation by Music as a social enterprise in 2014, bringing creative and engaging team-building experiences to companies and organisations as well as giving support to families and sufferers with Parkinson’s disease by creating a gospel choir.
“The Parkinson’s Group Gospel Choir started last year and we now have about 20 members. I am absolutely thrilled because it is so easy for my husband not to go to events but this has really been amazing; it helps his voice and his general movement is better.
“Em has a natural ability to motive and inspire people. She is just brilliant and really deserves to be acknowledged for what she is doing in the community.”
Emily was previously named winner of the Music and Arts prize in Eagle Radio’s Local Heroes Awards of her work with the Parkinson’s Group Gospel Choir.
Emily has many years’ experience of developing community gospel choirs within the education, charity and public sectors and sings for two professional and renowned UK-based choirs: Kingdom Gospel Choir and the ACM Gospel Choir.
She has led backing choirs for X Factor at Wembley, BBC Gospel Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and sung with artists such as Melanie C, Alfie Boe and Sarah Brightman. As well as regularly leading backing choirs for X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent and ITV’s Your Face Sounds Familiar, she has supported UV Talent Ltd with its hugely successful immersive screenings of Sister Act with Amacoast Cinemas 2016/17.
Who are the Workshops for?
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
FASS
Faculty of Engineering and Social Sciences.
FEPS
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
FHMS
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