TheCultureLab @ PDN Cambridge (12 sessions)

Exploring and improving local research culture - with postdocs. Hosted by Prof. Bénédicte Sanson at the Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Department. Funded by Cambridge Action Research on Research Culture.

Michaelmas Term 2024

4 x 1.5-hour sessions

Session 1. Research Cultures // 13 November, 1pm

Session 2. Scenes from science: Affect // 21 November, 8:30am

Session 3. Scenes from science: Sociality // 27 November, 1pm

Session 4. Scenes from science: Ideals and Utopias // 5 December, 8:30am

Lent Term 2025

| 8 x 1.5-hour sessions | Resources

Exploring and improving local research culture - with postdocs.
– Hosted by Prof. Bénédicte Sanson at the PDN Department. Link

Session 1. Mother tongues, language, and the Anglo-sphere // 22 January, 1pm

Session 2. Writing forms: abstracts, method sections, project pitches, poems // 31 January, 4pm

Session 3. Translating from concept to experiment and back // 5 February, 1pm

Session 4. Addressing different audiences // 14 February, 4pm

Session 5. Who you cite is who you are: on disciplinary belongings // 19 February, 1pm

Session 6. Building and borrowing from each-other // 28 February, 4pm

Sesison 7. Feedback that makes us grow // 5 March, 1pm

Session 8. Enacting change // 14 March, 4pm

For me, it's a treat to come here. It's not like another thing on my agenda

I really look forward to the [workshops], and I think it's a nice space to have because post-doc can be quite isolating

[These exercises] move different parts of your brain

[The exercises] created a feeling of confidence in the room

The depth of the conversations: I never spoke with anyone from the department on that level

It made me think how to improve communication and how to be part of the community rather than just focus on yourself

The project continued as:

Living Science: Devising a Public Outreach Event @ Cambridge Postdoc Academy

| 2 x 5-hour workshops Public outreach for scientists: performing, presenting, devising. For two Saturdays, Helene Scott-Fordsmand and I worked with a group of creative postdocs from the PDN Department to devise an outreach performance for the Cambridge Festival. And a journey it was! As Helene puts it, - A

Anatolii Kozlov, PhD | Creativity in AcademiaAnatolii Kozlov

“Living Science” @ Cambridge Festival

Molecules perform functions to support life. Scientists perform actions to study the molecules. But who are these scientists? What is it to be the one? Come to learn with us at the PDN this Sat (22d) through the exciting performative readings and subsequent discussion! From the Department of Physiology, Development

Anatolii Kozlov, PhD | Creativity in AcademiaAnatolii Kozlov

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