Techne Student Congress
Distanced But Not Alone:
The Practice of Being a PhD Researcher
8th to 10th July 2020
Welcome!
Welcome to Techne's first online Student Congress! It's a real shame that we can't be together as the Techne community in person at the University of Westminster as planned, but we hope that you enjoy the online sessions that we have planned over our three afternoons and get a chance to meet new fellow Techne students as well as catch up with familiar faces.
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Thank you to the University of Westminster for hosting this Techne Congress. Although we're not physically at their campus, it is mostly University of Westminster colleagues who have organised and are delivering this programme, and we hope it gives you a flavour of some of their research.
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We are aware that attending an online conference will be quite a different experience to a usual conference, and that tuning in for long hours of back to back online sessions can be quite draining. Because of this, we decided to split the conference over three days with just a few sessions running at a time. We hope that you will be able to pick as many or few of the sessions that you are interested in - please feel free to dip in and out of the programme to suit your interests and schedule.
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The only thing we ask is that where possible you pre-register for the sessions you are interested in by clicking the links on the programme page.
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This is how the online conference will work:
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Take a look at the programme and speakers to familiarise yourself with the sessions.
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You need to pre-register for individual sessions. On the programme, please click the relevant link for each session you would like to attend and register yourself.
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When you register for a session it will send you an email with a joining link and the password. When it is time for the session to start, you should follow this link to enter the Zoom meeting.
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We will also send out an email on each day of the Congresswith a reminder of sessions happening that day, including meeting links, in case you lose your original email.
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We will be finishing each day with a virtual drinks reception on Zoom so that you all get a chance to meet together and chat more informally.
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Sessions will be held on Zoom, which is an easy to use video conferencing platform. Zoom works on phones, tablets and laptops/PCs so we hope it is accessible for everyone. If you haven't used Zoom before, please take a minute to download it before the conference.
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Please see here for our best practice advice on participating in Zoom conference sessions.
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If you have any questions or need any help please email techne@rhul.ac.uk.
Hello from your Congress organising team!
LEIGH WILSON
University of Westminster (Techne Academic Lead)
Leigh has been Director of the Graduate School at the University of Westminster since 2018. She is a Professor of English Literature, working on modernism and on the novel through the 20th and into the 21st century. Her current research is on the ways that publishing shapes and interacts with the textual aspects of literature that are the more usual focus of literary studies. She also runs the Contemporary Small Press project at Westminster which supports and investigates the role of the small press in contemporary literary culture.
EMMA WARD
Techne Senior Administration Officer
Emma has been working for Technē since 2018, organising all of the training, events and conferences for Techne students and keeping everyone informed about what Techne has going on. Her favourite part of the job is organising conferences because she enjoys the challenge of spinning lots of plates at the same time! She also enjoys the opportunity to sit in on conference sessions and relive her academic days. Emma has a BA in English and an MA in Victorian Literature, Art and Culture from Royal Holloway.
