What are reviewers looking for?

Are you thinking of submitting a paper for the upcoming ESRC DTP Cambridge Conference? Well … if you are, this blog post is written for you. Here are some helpful questions which our reviewers will be using this year to assess all submitted papers. We hope by providing these to you it will take some

Organising your ESRC DTP internship—the good, the bad, and the impossible

Purpose of this blog This blog is written for ESRC DTP students at the University of Cambridge who are contemplating what type of ESRC internship to do and tossing up between the advertised or self-organised routes. All three of us have tried to create internships and are writing this because we think it’s a really

Who has the best profile to learn a tone language? Evidence from traditional and novel linguistic research methods

This presentation was given at the 2021 ESRC DTP Cambridge Conference by Tim Laméris, PhD student with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. The abstract for this presentation is as follows: Most of the world’s languages are tonal, which means that the relative pitch height on a

I wish there was an applause emoji!

Blog post by Tim Laméris, PhD candidate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge Like everyone else, my research too has been impacted by the pandemic. Therefore, before attending the ESRC DTP conference, I had bluntly assumed that the theme ‘Research in the 21st Century’ implied that the conference would largely emphasise the challenges

Data Works: From Data Ethics to Questions of Power and Work

This presentation was given at the 2021 ESRC DTP Cambridge Conference by Stefanie Felsberger, @flsbrgr, of the Centre for Gender Studies, POLIS, Cambridge University. The abstract for this presentation is as follows: Data today is both an important source of value and knowledge. This intersection underpins most business models in the digital economy and is

Unearthing corporate marketing activity: using Nielsen data to assess changes in expenditure on soft drink advertising following the announcement and introduction of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy

This presentation was given at the 2021 ESRC DTP Cambridge Conference by Hannah Forde, PhD candidate with the Centre for Diet and Activity Research University of Cambridge. The abstract for this presentation is as follows: Each year in the UK, millions of pounds are spent marketing food and drinks to encourage product sales. As unhealthy

Lessons Learned: Mapping a US State’s Response to Human Trafficking

This presentation was given at the 2021 ESRC DTP Cambridge Conference by Lucy Mahaffey, MPhil student with the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. The abstract for this presentation is as follows: Three questions underpin this research. What is the nature of human trafficking in Oklahoma? Who is currently responding to this problem

Indigenous environmental justice as a legal principle

Written by Sakshi, PhD student at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge Decolonisation aims to recover, re-centre, and recognise Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies and in academe is a process that runs concurrently to political decolonisation. However, we cannot talk of decolonisation without recognising the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples, working towards returning the stolen

Shining a Light on Research and “Access”

ESRC DTP Conference 2021 Blog Post by Nicholas Goldrosen, M.Phil. student, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge Louis Brandeis, a 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court justice, coined the well-worn aphorism, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” I’ve often thought this principle to be a sound underlying philosophy

The functions of Education and reflections on the role of researchers engaged in an academic collective

Alexandre da Trindade e Oliveira, Second-Year PhD Student, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. In October 2020, a group of PhD students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge founded the Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective (CLAREC) aiming to make Latin America, its knowledge, and its needs more visible within