Faculty Workshops for Postgraduate Students

KINDLY CIRCULATE THE FOLLOWING UPCOMING WORKSHOPS TO YOUR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS
The Postgraduate Project Office invites you to the following free workshops for postgraduate students. Please access the full programme and booking form on www.wits.ac.za under "Postgraduate Resources"
Email Hildegard Chapman at hildegard.chapman@wits.ac.za for booking forms. You can book for any programme at any time.
1. A two hour workshop on Using RefWorks will be held by Paiki Muswazi on Monday 4 August 2008 from 10.00 to 12h00 in the Electronic Classroom (ECR), First Floor, Wartenweiler Library.
The University has a site license for Refworks a system for automatically including references in your research writing that simultaneously builds a reference list. This workshop will develop Refworks skills.
2. A four hour workshop on Organising, Analysing and Writing up Interview Data will be held by Dr Susan Van Zyl on Wednesday 6 August 2008 from 12.00 to 16.00 in the Conference Room, 4th Floor, Wartenweiler Library.
Writing up research based wholly or partly on the rich data arising from interview material can present problems. This workshop will take participants through a suggested method for writing up interview-based research using what could be described as language-sensitive Thematic Content Analysis. Some reference to how this approach might be adapted to suit Discourse Analytic methods of various kinds will be made.

3. A four hour workshop on Supervision Practices and Entitlements will be held by Professors Hilary Janks and Mary Scholes and Ms Jenny Hadingham on Thursday 7 August 2008 from 9.00 to 16.00 in the Conference Room, 4th Floor, Wartenweiler Library.
Based on the latest literature pertaining to Research Education, this workshop brings students up to date with best practice in the postgraduate supervision, the role of transference and identification in supervision, time management and research timetables, publication and conference attendance
AND FROM THE GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(email gradschool.humanities@wits.ac.za to book)
DOING ETHNOGRAPHY
Thursday, 7th August, 14:00 to 16:00 (Prof Robert Thornton)
Graduate School, Seminar Room
In the words of the title of a recent re-examination of ethnographic practice, ethnography is described as 'Writing Culture'. In other words, ethnography attempts to capture the 'unsaid' and to construct 'implicit meanings' that are present in both the everyday activities of people and in the extraordinary activities involved in ritual, ceremony and public performances of all kinds. The ethnographer does this through what is called 'participant observation', a method that requires the participation of the ethnographer in the life he/she attempts to describe, and a close reading of the activities, meanings and interpretations of those he/she observes. This seminar will examine in particular specific ethnographic techniques such as the non-directed open-ended interview, the use of visual records, note taking and coding.

Mind, Brain and Behaviour Thought Paper

Hi All,

Just a reminder for next week. Your thought paper for next week is one to two pages on.

Pick an area of Psychology you have studied before (e.g. Social, Development, Personality) and try to explicate how and Evolutionary Psychology approach would be different from other approaches you have studied.

This may include
What ways would EP theories about XXXX be different from other theories you have covered?
What kinds of questions would be asked in researching XXXX?
What kind of evidences would be appealed to (as opposed to those currently used)?

ref: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html

In general you should consider for next week

What is evolution?
What is Natural selection and how is this involved in Darwins theory of evolution?
What are the central claims / assumptions of evolutionary psychology?
What are the opposing views ?(it may be easier to think of the extremes first before thinking about realistic positions)
What kind of evidence do EPists appeal to?