Queen Mary is pleased to hold a range of subject specific taster sessions throughout the year. If you've missed our tasters, or would like a recap. We've made the recording of our sessions available so you can find out what studying your subject of choice is like at Queen Mary.
Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management. His research focuses on organizational psychology and HR, including: work and well-being, the psychological contract, work-nonwork relationships and ethnicity. Rob was recently named one of the '100 most influential people in HR'.
Professor Briner's interactive and engaging session will introduce the notion of how emotions and moods affect performance at work. This will be followed by a talk from the Careers and Employability team.
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Who are entrepreneurs and what do they do?
With the rise of digital start-ups such as Google and Facebook, there seems to be a stereotype of “successful” entrepreneurs. Yet this is a myth. Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes.
In this session, Dr Zhang will explore what motivates entrepreneurs and what value they are creating for their customers and stakeholders. Dr Zhang is Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship. She is also the director of the SBM Entrepreneurship Hub and the founding director of QM social venture fund - the first student-led social venture fund investing in student-led social ventures in the UK.
The Crowd Economy
Digital platforms have enabled new business models by bringing together large audiences or 'crowds' in activities like crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and task-based employment.
Dr Panagiotopoulos explores the two aspects of the crowd economy in terms of collaborative value creation (e.g. Wikipedia, Amazon Mechanical Turk) and collaborative consumption (e.g. AirBnB, BorrowMyDoggie).
Marketing Taster Lecture
Join Dr Stephan Dickert, Reader (Associate Professor) in Marketing for this insightful subject taster session.
Accounting Taster Session - Year End Accounts
Dr Didem Gundogdu gives a taster session on year end accounts.
We've put together some recordings from recent Economics and Finance taster events we thought you might like to watch in case you missed them.
Defining Race and Racism
This lecture will introduce key concepts and debates in the study of race and racism. It will suggest that the history of colonialism holds the key to understanding racism in the contemporary world.
This virtual taster session recording will give current Year 12 students an overview of life as an undergraduate student in the School of Physics and Astronomy. You will be able listen to a taster lecture with one of our friendly academics and learn about the cutting-edge research the department is involved with, that you could be too!
You will also get the opportunity to virtually explore our facilities, including our teaching labs and our state-of-the-art observatory. Finally, you will get an opportunity to hear about the vast range of jobs a degree in Physics can lead to, including game design, data science and robotics.
The recordings have been split into different topics for you to choose from below:
An introduction to the School
Academic Taster Session
Departmental Tour
Careers Talk
Student Ambassador Q&A
A recording of a chemistry lecture that describes the atmospheric gases and focusses on the chemistry of dioxygen – its origin, importance for aerobic life on earth, its transport and storage in humans and its reduction products – including hydrogen peroxide that is a useful disinfectant and bleaching agent but is toxic to cells and how the body ensures that it does not accumulate – yet is stored in a special sack in the bombardier beetle and used as a defence mechanism to ward off predators
The passcode to view this recording is: 0j#wUrf$
View some Engineering and Materials Science subject talks from the October 2022 Open Day, covering several disciplines.
Aerospace Engineering Subject Talk - October 2022
Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering Subject Talk - October 2022
Sustainable Energy Engineering Subject Talk - October 2022