Seamus is a skilled and engaging public speaker with a relaxed, comedic tone and a flexible mindset.
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You can see some of the topic Seamus has deliverd in the past below.
What even is a PhD?
Target Audience - PhD Candidates
While slightly drunk on his honeymoon in Vietnam, Seamus wandered into the Văn Miếu, Vietnam's first national university from the early 11th century. Now a national monument, he came across a series of stone turtles carrying engraved tablets on their back. Each tablet contained the names of those who had passed the doctoral exam between 1442 and 1779.
Bemused, confused, and jealous of the fact that he never got his name on a turtle, this kicked off a year-long research initiative by Seamus into what actually is a PhD.
In this talk, we explore the results of this work -
What even is a PhD.
Who was the first Dr.
What do you actually need to do to get a PhD.
Why does it matter.
Quantitative research for people who hate Quantitative research
Target Audience - Undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD Candidates involved in research. Good for social science and Arts students who may not have been exposed to Statistics beyond a single module.
Quantitative research can be intimidating to the point that many seasoned professors go to elaborate lengths to avoid being involved in it. It is a dense, complicated, and (worst of all) something you can do wrong. There is nothing Academics hate more than being wrong.
In this talk, we take a very practical approch to demystifying Quantitative research including -
What sort of research questions even merit a quantitive approach
Where to start
How select the right test
How to not screw it up
The eternal question: Academia or Industry?
Target Audience - PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral researchers.
In Dunegeons and Dragons characters specialise into subclasses. The same is true of academics. Do you spec into teaching and lecturing? Research for new knowledge? Do you take your domain depth and run with it? What about lesser-known paths like an enterprise trainer, public speaker, or consultant?
In this talk we look at the options and paths in front of early-career researchers. We honestly and directly discuss that there are significantly more PhD researchers than academic roles. We explore what skills a person with a PhD can bring to the industry roles and what the job market looks like for a fresh academic.
If you are looking for something more industry-centred, Seamus has talks on his lived experience in enterprise, including -