Summer School Venue: The Italian Villa, Compton Acres, Poole (Near Bournemouth), Dorset, BH13 7ES
Start time: The Summer School programme will start with a networking/social evening with a BBQ, drinks and nibbles at Urban Reef Seafront Restaurant and Beach Bar in Bournemouth at 7.00pm on Sunday 1 July .
Finish time: The event will close at 5.00pm on Tuesday 3 July 2018.
The Digital Economy Summer School 2018 for DEN CDT Students will be hosted by the EPSRC Centre for Digital Entertainment of Bournemouth University and the University of Bath.
Overnight accommodation (single occupancy, bed and breakfast) for the nights of 1 & 2 July 2018 has been organised for attendees at the Ramada Encore Hotelin central Bournemouth, which is located within walking distance of Bournemouth Train Station. Coach transport will be arranged by the organisers to take delegates to and from the hotel to the Summer School venue.
ATC Boardroom, Aerospace Technology Centre, University of Nottingham, Innovation Park, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU
The bi-annual Digital Economy Network (DEN) CDT Managers/Administrators Meeting will be hosted by the Horizon CDT in My Life in Data at the University of Nottingham.
The meeting will start at 10.30am, and finish by 2.30pm. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
The Digital Economy Network (DEN) hosted their second PhD writing retreat of 2018 at the idyllic setting of Thrumpton Hall; a spectacular 17th century English country house, set in the village of Thrumpton near Nottingham. PhD students from across seven EPSRC-funded Digital Economy Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) signed up for this event to have the opportunity to focus on research writing or associated work relating to their doctoral study.
18 CDT students from the Network’s Cloud Computing, Embedded Intelligence, Horizon, HighWire, Media & Arts Technology, and Web Science CDTs attended the two-day retreat.
The retreat, which facilitated by Andy Darby of Lancaster University, is a structured programme which aims to establish a highly productive and healthy relationship with writing over the two days. Each day is broken down into four writing sessions of either an hour or ninety minutes, with set break times, including an hour slot for lunch to allow people to move away from their work, talk with other CDT students from across the Network, have food and refreshments and to take walks in the surrounding gardens and parkland.
Above: The gardens of Thrumpton Hall
Attendees paired up at the start of day one and discussed with each other their specific writing objectives for the event, and then individuals evaluated their progress against their set goals at key points during the retreat.
CDT students used the retreat to work on various tasks including thesis chapters, literature reviews, interview transcription, data analysis, coding, journal submissions, conference papers, blogs and annual review reports.
The majority of the 18 students who attended, also enjoyed an evening meal in the Hall’s impressive and grandiose dining room and stayed overnight in the country house, and were extremely well looked after by the Thrumpton events staff. DEN had exclusive use of the Hall and various rooms for the duration of the event, which provided ideal conditions for people to focus on their work, and base themselves in different rooms across the two days.
Above: CDT students at evening meal in Thrumpton Hall dining room
Cat Morgan, PhD Student at the Web Science CDT at the University of Southampton wrote a blog article entitled ‘To writing retreat or not to writing retreat’ about her experience of the event.
The next two-day retreat will be held on 15-16 May 2018 at Elmore Court in Gloucester.
Thanks and acknowledgements:
DEN would like to thank Andy Darby of Lancaster University for facilitating the retreat, and providing writing coaching and advice to the individual delegates who required this. Thanks also to Paula, Lynn, Nancy and the other staff at Thrumpton Hall for doing such a great job of looking after us during our stay. Thanks to all the CDT students who attended and I hope you made the progress you aimed for.
The Digital Economy Network held it’s fifth two-day writing retreat on 7-8 March at the New Bath Hotel in Matlock Bath, located on the edge of the Peak District.
35 CDT and PhD students from across nine EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) and University digital economy research groups attended the fully-subscribed residential event, which was held on the edge of the Peak District.
Although in a scenic setting, the Derbyshire-based venue was very easily accessible by train, with Matlock Bath train station being less than 1 mile away. PhD students travelled from as far as Newcastle and Southampton to attend the retreat.
Delegates used the retreat programme to focus on a variety of research writing priorities including thesis corrections, draft journal papers, Researchfish submissions and conference papers.
PhD students from the following nine EPSRC CDTs attended:
Cloud Computing CDT – Newcastle University
Digital Civics CDT – Newcastle University
Embedded Intelligence CDT – Loughborough University
Financial Computing CDT – University College London
Healthcare Innovation – University of Oxford
HighWire CDT – Lancaster University
Horizon CDT – University of Nottingham
Media & Arts Technology CDT – Queen Mary University of London
Web Science CDT – University of Southampton.
The Network will host it’s next two-day writing retreat at Thrumpton Hall in Nottingham on 24-25 April 2018, with two further retreats planned for May and June.
*This meeting is open to all current CDT/PhD/EngD students within the Digital Economy Network – it is free to attend, and funding available for travel and accommodation*
The third Digital Economy Diversity Network (DEDN) Meeting will be held at the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus on Friday 23 March 2018, from 9.45am-4.30pm.
This will be the third meeting of the DEDN, after meetings held at the Open Lab/Digital Civics CDT at Newcastle University and the Web Science CDT at the University of Southampton.
This meeting is open to all current CDT/PhD students within the EPSRC-funded Digital Economy Network and is free to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Travel and accommodation can be organised and funded for you.
There will also be an evening meal at Las Iguanas Restaurant in Nottingham City Centre on the evening of Thursday 22 March, for those travelling to Nottingham the night prior to the meeting.
How to register
You can register to attend this meeting and indicate your travel/accommodation requirements here: https://dedn.eventbrite.co.uk
A two-day facilitated writing retreat for current CDT/PhD/EngD students on the edge of the scenic Peak District in Derbyshire. 25 residential places are available at this event.
The retreat will start a 9.15am on Wednesday 8 March and will finish by 5.00pm on Thursday 8 March.
This event is free to attend for current CDT/PhD/EngD students within the CDTs of the Digital Economy Network. Overnight accommodation (all rooms en-suite) will be provided for delegates at the New Bath Hotel venue. Breakfast, lunches and evening meal is also included, as well as day time refreshments throughout the 2 days.
Registration for this event has now closed as it is fully booked.Please email felicia.black@nottingham.ac.uk if you want to be added to the waiting list.
The Digital Economy Network (DEN) held a two day event at the Digital Catapult Centre in London on 1-2 February 2018 , which over 75 CDT staff, students, alumni and Network collaborators attended.
Over the two days, over 75 doctoral students and staff from the DEN member Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), along with representatives from the EPSRC and Digital Catapult, participated in the following programme of activities:
The one -day DEN Annual Meeting for CDT staff, students, key collaborators and the EPSRC as funders of the Network.
A DEN CDT Directors Meeting to discuss current and future collaborations, and relevant EPSRC calls.
A CDT table-top showcase where delegates could experience a flavour of the multidisciplinary research that is taking place within the DEN EPSRC-funded CDTs.
An evening networking reception, which commenced with three short talks by CDT students from three different Centres for Doctoral Training across the Network.
A one-day CDT Careers Symposium featuring talks from CDT alumni who had progressed to positions in academia, industry or had founded/co-founded their own start-ups.
DEN Annual Meeting Presentations:
At the start of Day 1 Professor Sarah Sharples delivered a DENupdate presentation to delegates on recent events and activities that had been initiated and supported by the Network.
John Baird, Research Councils UK Digital Economy Theme Lead at the EPSRC delivered a themeupdate to attendees.
Mike Board, Project Manager at the Centre for Digital Entertainment at Bournemouth University, outlined the initial plans for the DE Summer School 2018, which will take place on 1-3 July in Poole, Dorset.
Rosie Bellini, Janis Meissner, Cat Morgan, Sean Peacock and Angelika Strohmayer, CDT Students gave an update on the Digital Economy Diversity Network meetingsthat had been held so far, hosted by the Digital Civics CDT at Newcastle University, and the Web Science CDT at the University of Southampton.
