BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//International Social Capital Association (ISCA) - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:International Social Capital Association (ISCA) X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for International Social Capital Association (ISCA) REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20270314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20271107T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Dubai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0400 TZOFFSETTO:+0400 TZNAME:+04 DTSTART:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260107T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260107T150000 DTSTAMP:20260509T035232 CREATED:20251211T032015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T003923Z UID:10000433-1767794400-1767798000@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:Engineering & Social Capital - An Innovative Look at Building Disaster Resilience DESCRIPTION:Home\n \n \n\n \n Events\n \n \n\nWEBINAR: Engineering & Social Capital – An Innovative Look at Building Disaster Resilience \nFree Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday\, January 7\, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Central Time – North America \nInvited Speakers\n \nDr Arif Sadri\nAssociate Professor\, School of Civil Engineering & Environmental SciencesUniversity of Oklahoma \n \nDr Jeff Donaldson\nBoard DirectorInternational Social Capital Association \n https://youtube.com/live/mWH90NqjBbc \nIn an era where weather extremes\, geopolitical shocks\, and pandemics test the limits of human ingenuity\, how can we forge societies that not only endure but thrive amid chaos? Join Dr. Arif Sadri\, a pioneering civil engineer and resilience strategist\, and Dr. Jeff Donaldson\, Board Director of the International Social Capital Association\, for an exclusive January webinar previewing the groundbreaking Social Capital 2026 conference. \nThis session unveils a provocative fusion: engineering not as isolated blueprints\, but as a dynamic interplay with the invisible threads of trust\, networks\, and shared purpose that define social capital. \nThis webinar is a call to action for professional and academic leaders. Register now and secure your place where engineering meets empathy\, and social capital becomes the ultimate structural strength. \nThis event is organized by the Disaster Resilience Special Interest Group of the International Social Capital Association. It is a free event\, and everyone is welcome to attend. \nTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com \nAbout the presenters:\nDr. Arif Sadri\, whose expertise spans evacuation modelling\, urban flood mitigation\, and AI-driven interdependent infrastructure design\, will dissect how traditional engineering paradigms fall short without the “social glue” of community bonds. Drawing on case studies from tornado-ravaged regions to flood-vulnerable megacities\, he’ll reveal how social capital amplifies resilience\, transforming vulnerable populations into proactive guardians of their built environments. \nDr. Jeff Donaldson will bridge these insights to the broader Social Capital 2026 agenda\, set for March 26–28 at Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus\, the world’s first global summit dedicated to social capital. This landmark event convenes scholars\, policymakers\, and innovators to reimagine resilience beyond steel and silicon\, toward human-centered systems that heal divides and harness collective power. \nAbout Our Webinar Series\nThis event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.\nFor social capital researchers\, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people\, to get advice\, discuss ideas or issues\, get suggestions for literature to read\, or you can just listen. \nAre you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. \nGenerally\, presentations can be 20 to 45 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/engineering-social-capital/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Interest Group Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/DEM-SIG-January-7-2026.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260114T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260114T123000 DTSTAMP:20260509T035232 CREATED:20260105T022834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260115T041731Z UID:10000434-1768388400-1768393800@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Connections to Careers: How Social Capital Accelerates Progress DESCRIPTION:Home\n \n \n\n \n Events\n \n \n\nWEBINAR: Connections to Careers: How Social Capital Accelerates Progress\nFree Public Webinar on Zoom and YouTubeWednesday\, January 14\, 2026 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Gulf Standard Time \n \nInvited Speaker\nProfessor Dame Heather McGregor \nHeriot‑Watt University \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmT6EHhIkkE \nWhat if the difference between stalled and soaring careers isn’t more credentials but better connections? In Connections to Careers: How Social Capital Accelerates Progress\, Professor Dame Heather McGregor unpacks how purpose‑built interventions can combine social capital (trusted networks\, mentors\, sponsorship\, and visibility) with human capital (skills\, practice\, and feedback) to unlock opportunity and speed up progression. \nDrawing on two proven designs she has overseen—the Taylor Bennett Foundation programme that opens doors for minority ethnic graduates into UK corporate communications\, and Heriot‑Watt University’s Global Leadership Programme for its emerging leaders —Heather distills practical design principles you can adopt in universities\, employers\, and professional bodies: building bridging and brokerage ties; structured exposure to decision‑makers; mentor‑matching and cohort learning; and simple ways to track outcomes and ensure equity. \nTime converter at worldtimebuddy.com \nAbout the presenter:\nProfessor Dame Heather J. McGregor DBE FRSE is Provost and Vice Principal of Heriot-Watt University Dubai and a senior academic leader with a distinguished career spanning finance\, entrepreneurship\, and higher education. A former investment banker\, she spent 17 years as an entrepreneur leading an executive search firm before moving into academia\, where she previously served as Executive Dean of Edinburgh Business School. \nProfessor McGregor holds a PhD in Structured Finance from the University of Hong Kong\, an MBA from London Business School\, and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant. An experienced writer and broadcaster\, she wrote a long-running column for the Financial Times and has been a leading advocate for diversity\, founding the Taylor Bennett Foundation and serving as a founding steering committee member of the 30% Club. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was appointed CBE in 2015 and Dame in 2023 for her services to education\, business\, and heritage in Scotland. \nAbout Our Webinar Series\nThis event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.\nFor social capital researchers\, these sessions are an opportunity to hear about the latest social capital research and insights from scholars working on the concept. They can be a great way to connect with people\, to get advice\, discuss ideas or issues\, get suggestions for literature to read\, or you can just listen. \nAre you researching social capital and want to present your research? Click here for more information and to submit a proposal. \nGenerally\, presentations can be 20 to 30 mins. The content of your presentation will depend on your research stage. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/webinar-connections-to-careers/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Event-template-Heather-McGregor-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T120000 DTSTAMP:20260509T035232 CREATED:20251122T030847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251122T030847Z UID:10000412-1769684400-1769688000@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:Social Capital Research Design and Methods DESCRIPTION:A workshop discussing the research process with a focus on social capital research.\n\n\n\nAre you conducting research on social capital?\nWould you like to discuss or get some help with your research design?\nDo you have any problems or challenges with your research design?\n\nThese sessions are a supportive way to learn more about social capital research design and methods. You can connect with people\, ask questions\, get advice\, and discuss ideas or issues. \nWho is this for? \nAlthough this workshop is focused on PhD students\, we welcome anyone conducting research on social capital. \nWho will run the workshop? \nBeverly Sloan has a PhD in Organisational Leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force with more than 32 years of service. Her leisure activity includes mentoring masters and doctoral candidates on research practices. \nHow will the session work? \nIn these sessions\, we aim to discuss the research process. This includes defining research; discussing research significance\, problems\, and purposes; examining your worldview and philosophical stance; developing research questions\, sub-questions\, and hypotheses; and your theoretical or conceptual framework. We will discuss the initial literature review and its purpose in helping you build your initial central research question. We will use the initial research question to guide the preliminary literature review. During the preliminary literature review\, we will consider defining your key concepts and how they will drive your overall literature review. As we discuss the literature review\, the goal is to refine the research question\, identify gaps in the literature\, and focus the literature review on the central aspects of your research question. This should also help us develop a good outline for our literature review and identify variables or sub-research questions. Once we understand how the literature review shapes our study\, we will move on to research methods and design or our roadmap for collecting data. Then we will move on to data analysis and conclude by combining all the pieces. This will not be a linear process\, but it will be a process. \nAccess requirements \nWe seek to make our events accessible\, and this is no exception. If there is something that will help you to engage more effectively in this session\, please email us on: events@intsocialcapital.org. Sometimes\, it’s the small things that make a big difference\, so do email us if you have an access request. We recognise that not all participants are able to attend all sessions for the full duration. You are free to join us and leave at any time during the session. We request that you have your name on Zoom (this can be just a first name) to make it easier for us to facilitate the session and address participants correctly. It helps to have cameras on\, but we recognise that sometimes this isn’t possible\, for a variety of reasons. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/social-capital-research-design-and-methods-54/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/29996_image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T223000 DTSTAMP:20260509T035232 CREATED:20251122T030838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251122T030838Z UID:10000411-1769720400-1769725800@www.intsocialcapital.org SUMMARY:Social Capital Research Design and Methods DESCRIPTION:A workshop discussing the research process with a focus on social capital research.\n\n\n\nAre you conducting research on social capital?\nWould you like to discuss or get some help with your research design?\nDo you have any problems or challenges with your research design?\n\nThese sessions are a supportive way to learn more about social capital research design and methods. You can connect with people\, ask questions\, get advice\, and discuss ideas or issues. \nWho is this for? \nAlthough this workshop is focused on PhD students\, we welcome anyone conducting research on social capital. \nWho will run the workshop? \nBeverly Sloan has a PhD in Organisational Leadership from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force with more than 32 years of service. Her leisure activity includes mentoring masters and doctoral candidates on research practices. \nHow will the session work? \nIn these sessions\, we aim to discuss the research process. This includes defining research; discussing research significance\, problems\, and purposes; examining your worldview and philosophical stance; developing research questions\, sub-questions\, and hypotheses; and your theoretical or conceptual framework. We will discuss the initial literature review and its purpose in helping you build your initial central research question. We will use the initial research question to guide the preliminary literature review. During the preliminary literature review\, we will consider defining your key concepts and how they will drive your overall literature review. As we discuss the literature review\, the goal is to refine the research question\, identify gaps in the literature\, and focus the literature review on the central aspects of your research question. This should also help us develop a good outline for our literature review and identify variables or sub-research questions. Once we understand how the literature review shapes our study\, we will move on to research methods and design or our roadmap for collecting data. Then we will move on to data analysis and conclude by combining all the pieces. This will not be a linear process\, but it will be a process. \nAccess requirements \nWe seek to make our events accessible\, and this is no exception. If there is something that will help you to engage more effectively in this session\, please email us on: events@intsocialcapital.org. Sometimes\, it’s the small things that make a big difference\, so do email us if you have an access request. We recognise that not all participants are able to attend all sessions for the full duration. You are free to join us and leave at any time during the session. We request that you have your name on Zoom (this can be just a first name) to make it easier for us to facilitate the session and address participants correctly. It helps to have cameras on\, but we recognise that sometimes this isn’t possible\, for a variety of reasons. URL:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/event/social-capital-research-design-and-methods-53/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.intsocialcapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/29996_image.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR