Events from the 01 February 2024 - 29 February 2024 Reset
Academic Skills: Using AI to construct a literature search
AI is helping streamline the literature searching process. Find out how in this bite-sized academic skills session.
01 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Elvet Room, Bill Bryson Library
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
CHESS Research Group Meeting
CHESS organises weekly research meetings for its members and interested colleagues. Meetings take place each Thursday during term time from 11:00am - 12:00pm online via Zoom (until further notice).
01 February 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Philosophy Department (PO004) and on Zoom
- Research event
- Department of Philosophy
Insect farming with black soldier fly
The Biosciences department runs two seminar series: Departmental seminars that cover a wide range of biological topics, and EEE seminars that cover topics related to Ecology, Evolution and Environment.
01 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
L50, Psychology
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Biosciences
CANCELLED: Ken Kosik: A Neuroscience of Disembodiment: Brain Organoids
Hosted by the Narrative and Cognition Lab as part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, Passport Talks are talks where scholars and world-makers showcase a recent or in-progress method and/or topic and/or idea that they feel identifies their approach.
01 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Online & Institute of Medical Humanities Confluence Building Lower Mountjoy Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LE
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Engineering - Postgraduate Research Seminar Series
The Department of Engineering’s PGR students present their research in a supportive environment. Come along and learn about the Department’s diverse research portfolio.
01 February 2024
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Hybrid: E240, Higginson Building, Engineering Department and Online: Zoom
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
Durham Inspired Live: Sustainable and resilient food production in a changed climate with Professor Ari Sadanandom
POSTPONED How can we prevent millions from going hungry? Professor Ari Sadanandom, Professor of Biosciences at Durham University will give a talk on food systems and climate change.
01 February 2024
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Zoom
- Alumni
- Department of Biosciences
Academic Skills: Introduction to referencing
This session will show you why accurate referencing is essential, the referencing styles you will be expected to use, and how to use the Discover search engine and other databases to create references.
02 February 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using library databases - Business
If you are a business student, knowing what resources the library has and how to use them is vital. This session will introduce you to key sources of company information, market research, business articles and news.
02 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Academic Skills: Using library databases – Arts and Humanities
It is vital for Arts and Humanities students to know what resources the library has and how to use them. This session will introduce you to key sources of eBooks, journal articles, digitised archives, media, and news and help you use them effectively.
02 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online
- Support services
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Library and Collections
Reading other people: psychological mechanisms and differences in autism
This talk is part of the Department of Psychology seminar series.
02 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
L68, Psychology building
- Research event
- Talks, training, seminars & conferences
- Department of Psychology