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You are warmly welcomed to our next research process seminar.
“When you’re stuck, just narrate”: 10 + 1 tips on how to boost your productivity

Description
After years of trial and error, Roman will share some thoughts and tips on how to boost your productivity, focusing on the main challenges of staying focused and motivated. He will demonstrate some of the tools and routines he uses to organise tasks, readings, notes and writing, as well as a few mental strategies on overcoming sticking points. He will also demonstrate the ‘typing pool’ method of kickstarting your writing and overcoming ‘writer’s block’. Please feel free to bring a piece of writing that you’re currently working on or need to get started/done. The aim is to leave the session with a toolkit of practical techniques that can help boost your productivity, confidence and self-esteem. Everyone is welcome but this session may be particularly appropriate for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), Postgraduate Research Students (PGRs) and staff who are juggling fragmented diaries/workloads.

Roman Gerodimos is Professor of Global Current Affairs at Bournemouth University and a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. His research, writing, filmmaking and outreach/impact work focus on the challenges facing democracy due to globalization, digitization and extremism, the ways 21st century citizens engage with the world around them, the psychological drivers of violence, threats to global security, and the role of urban public space, art, media literacy and shame awareness in bridging divides. His latest book is Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory: Breaking the Cycle (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) and he recently completed his fifth short film (Fellows Hall). https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rgerodimos

About the research process seminar series:
The purpose of this research seminar series is different to your typical research seminar and conference presentation. Instead of presenting the results and outcomes of research, we want to share good practices around the process of doing research. This might often involve a focus on research methods but it also includes aspects of publishing, writing, time management, career management etc.

The idea here is that the speaker takes us through the anatomy of the project or approach focussing particularly on the process – the challenges, the successes, and the failures. For the audience, we walk away with a practical application of a method or approach we may not be familiar with or may not have applied in this way before. Our ambition is to make us all better researchers as a result.
All welcome

13 Feb at 3pm on Zoom
https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87405070443?pwd=NzJlUk4xWGZDZ0R4blQ4VEhqVTA0QT09

Meeting ID: 874 0507 0443
Passcode: p?6MPyDd

You can also register for the event here: https://bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpd-yoqTsuHtcYQHIoQWkRTHCCO01Wo_mq