Hi everyone!
Welcome back to this fun little thread that I have been writing. Excuse the long e-mail below unless, of course, you are interested in UKPN's January meeting for Social Scientists!
Read on...
2015 is a brand new year and a new opportunity for us to organise ourselves, socialise, study and make some kind of impression on the development of Arctic and Antarctic Social Sciences together as a group within the UK.
UKPN is the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists' (APECS) UK national committee as well as the UK's national Polar Network, which is well-connected to a range of institutions and Polar organisations that you may or may not be aware of.
In our next Skype meeting I think it would be great if 1) I could either bring in some of the current or former Execs of the UKPN to speak on behalf of the network, just to bring everyone up to par with what UK Polar Social Science has achieved in recent years. If this is not possible, I would be more than willing to do a little personal research.
We shall also be discussing 2) a range of possibilities for organisation and, indeed, socialisation within our capable group of UK-based early career scholars. Many ideas include a graduate student-led workshop, seminar series, reading group and ideas for excursions to various Institutions. We can also discuss funding and I will be looking into the extent of the UKPN's budget for developing the Social Sciences in the UK.
How does this sound? Please get in touch with me, personally, via this e-mail address or via Skype: "mikes_finnish_connection" if you have any further comments you would like to raise with me.
The actual meeting date and time is still yet undecided. A new Doodle Poll has been set up targeting the end of January. If interested in attending this Skype meeting, please contribute to the Doodle Poll and hopefully we can organise a perfect time suitable for everyone this time. The link to the Doodle Poll can be found at: http://doodle.com/p7668vbprde9f7e2
Moreover, the previous Skype meeting minutes can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13UsBndByhsMFK3mE6rHxOdr5GTEfRHiAZluy_cB43gg/edit?usp=sharing - which ALSO includes a section for everyone to Edit; namely contact details and short bios. Please do us all a big favour and fill this in, preferably before Friday 23rd January! I will be sending out reminders.
And finally, an idea to 3) have our first web reading discussion on 31st January was put forward in the last meeting. If this is still possible, we can make this online meeting using either Skype or "Google+ Hangouts" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkpjZ7oA_Qg).
Thanks for your time and good luck with your research projects in the meantime.
All the best,
Mika
