SMMR Training: Visual Storytelling with Infographics

Online

Nigel Hawtin was the graphics editor at New Scientist for 20 years and companies including BBC, the UN, the NHS and many more have all been clients of his infographic content. In this training Nigel expertise will help you to learn how to take your own research and tell a story and how to visualise […]

Marine Natural Capital Accounting: Impacts of the Sandeel Fishery in the North Sea

Online

Enhancing natural capital is a core element of the UK Government 25 Year Environment Plan (YEP). As such, we need to understand how we can enhance natural capital to achieve the ambition of providing multiple benefits to people and wildlife. So, what would happen if we closed fisheries? This online webinar, on 6 July, 12:15 pm […]

SMMR Webinar with Tara Marshall

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PUf4-QviST-OL7Sv_N5DXw Join us for the next SMMR Webinar in the series with Tara Marshall from the University of Aberdeen. Lessons learned from the design and deployment of an industry-based tool for avoiding by catch in Scottish fisheries C. Tara Marshall University of Aberdeen c.t.marshall@abdn.ac.uk An innovative, web-based app, known as the Bycatch Avoidance […]

Skills for Collaborative Inter-disciplinary Training

Hold the date and watch our for a sign up link coming soon for for the training with Paul Hibbert surrounding Skills for Collaborative Inter-disciplinary research. This will run over two half days on the 1st and 2nd of August in the afternoon. Exact times to be confirmed. This will be the second time SMMR […]

Skills for Collaborative Inter-disciplinary Training

Hold the date and watch our for a sign up link coming soon for for the training with Paul Hibbert surrounding Skills for Collaborative In-disciplinary research. This will run over two half days on the 1st and 2nd of August. This will be the second time SMMR puts on this training due to the high […]

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Environmental Engagement in Practice: Session 2

Online

The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement are running a series of events on 'Environmental Engagement in Practice'. Public engagement skills (online) 25th May 2022, 10.00 -16.00 This event will focus on practical skills that support public engagement work. All delegates will have the opportunity to participate in an inclusive engagement session, and then choose […]

Social Media Training – What’s Your Story? Communicating your research to the world.

Online

Join Chris Stewart and Kate Ravilious as they host workshop to develop participants’ confidence and skills in communicating about their work as professional scientists — with a particular focus on the professional use of social media for networking and public engagement. The two half-day workshops proposed here allow participants to expand their sci-com toolbox, starting […]

Social Media Training – What’s Your Story? Communicating your research to the world.

Online

Join Chris Stewart and Kate Ravilious as they host workshop to develop participants’ confidence and skills in communicating about their work as professional scientists — with a particular focus on the professional use of social media for networking and public engagement. The two half-day workshops proposed here allow participants to expand their sci-com toolbox, starting […]

Size-based multi-species fisheries modelling with mizer: a practical introduction

Online

Gustav Delius will show in a hands-on manner how to use the mizer R package (https://sizespectrum.org/mizer/) to set up a size-based multi-species model of a fished marine ecosystem and how to use it to explore the ecosystem consequences of different fishing scenarios. This is being used in the SMMR project “Pyramids of Life”. If this […]

Introduction to Flexible Coding for Qualitative Marine Sustainability Research

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SMMR-Net are hosting Liliana Bastian and Dr. Sien van der Plank who will deliver a 2-hour workshop on 13th December 2022 from 14:00 -16:00. This two-hour practical introduces flexible coding for the context of collaborative, qualitative research in marine sustainability. Flexible coding is a contemporary approach to qualitative data analysis developed by Deterding and Waters […]

Networking Through Story with Dr Anna Ploszajski

Online

The Sustainable Management of Marine Resources-Net are hosting Dr Anna Ploszajski who will run two half days of online training from 1pm on 10th January 2022 and 1pm on 31st January 2022. This event will be online and will also run alongside a month long networking event on SMMR/MASTS new networking site OPT (Ocean Partnership […]

Environmental Engagement in Practice: Session 3

Online

The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement are running a series of events on 'Environmental Engagement in Practice'. Public engagement skills (online) 25th May 2022, 10.00 -16.00 This event will focus on practical skills that support public engagement work. All delegates will have the opportunity to participate in an inclusive engagement session, and then choose […]