Monthly Archives: November 2012
Conference report: UN Business School representation at the 20th anniversary conference of CGIR Journal
Prof. Kakabadse with PhD students Nadeem Khan and Ourada Dsouli
On 28th – 29th September at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Nadeem Khan and Ouarda Dsouli from UN Business School attended the Conference of Corporate Governance An International Review Journal (CGIR). The joint paper with Prof. Nada Kakabadse is titled – National Governance Bundles: A comparative of G20 Countries and Forbes 200 Corporations (2009-2012).
The paper presented compares and contrasts the social and financial performance of Nations with Corporations based on deeper characteristics such as Board structures; Debt; employment during the post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) era. Where Corporations dominate the top economies in the World (Fortune Magazine, 2011) Governments are grappling with Austerity. Further, a cause of concern is that out of the extra $2.4Tn spent by Nations, $1.9Tn has gone to Bank Bail Outs. Read the rest of this entry
Free one-day workshop on digital visual culture in education
Picturing Change: Digital visual culture in early years education
Saturday 19th January 2013 ; Venue: Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
This FREE one-day workshop will explore the role of digital visual culture in the formal and informal education of young children. As the screen becomes increasingly prominent in homes and schools as a source of visual stimulation and as a medium for visual exploration, educators and educational researchers must take on the responsibility of understanding how this cultural change will influence the development and learning of young children. Picturing Change will be an opportunity to discuss the theories and methods that are best suited to this task, as well as a forum for sharing findings that have been made in the field so far. Read the rest of this entry
Media, English and Culture Seminar – 22 Nov 2012
Dr Norbert Bugeja (The University of Kent)
Rethinking the Threshold: A Critique of Liminal Space in World Literary and Postcolonial Critical Discourses
22 November 2012, 6pm in MY120, Avenue Campus Read the rest of this entry
RSS tips #3: Mac options, and subcribing by email
I’ve had some feedback on our post about subscribing to the blog in Outlook, which has led me to discover that Microsoft Office for Mac doesn’t currently offer RSS support – so the post isn’t much use to Mac users.
This is disappointing, and is compounded by Apple removing RSS support from Safari and Mail apps in the latest version of OSX. A good solution is subscribing using a web-based, cross-platform service such as Google Reader, which I’ll look at in an upcoming post.
I’ve also added the option to subscribe by email. This uses Google’s Feedburner service, which will send you a daily digest of new posts. You’ll see the link in the new Subscribe widget on the right of the page.
Must all postgrad research have ‘impact’?
Interesting piece in The Guardian last week – http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/14/postgraduates-higher-education
Research assistant vacancy
Professor Alejandro Armellini of the university’s Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is looking for a research assistant to contribute to and coordinate the research, development and consultancy activities of the Institute, both internally and externally.
The post is part time (0.5 FTE) and the successful applicant will also be expected to provide secretarial and administrative support.
If you think you might be interested then more information is available on the university’s current vacancies website, or contact Professor Armellini, Director of the Institute.
Doreen Massey in Conversation
Doreen Massey
Come and see Professor Doreen Massey, geographer, author and OU Emeritus Professor,
on Wednesday, 28 November 2012 6pm
in room MY120, Maidwell Building, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, St George’s Avenue.
New Workshop: Follow research activity with social media
Keeping up to date with the research activity of others in your field is crucial for all researchers.
This brand new workshop introduces ways to make the information you need come straight to you! Even if you already use social media, this session will introduce you to alerting services, RSS feeds and research relevant websites which you can quickly and easily monitor without hassle.
Highly relevant and extremely valuable workshop for all research students.
Wednesday, 28 November 2012 from 16:00 to 18:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton
Book at http://socmedia2nov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Forum report: IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum in October
Nadeem Khan, PhD student from NBS attended the IMD and Grosvenor Business Forum on 15th October 2012 at which IMD President Dominique Turpin presented – “Leading with a Global Mindset”. The forum was attended by delegates from Industry along with IMD alumni and invited guests.
The essence of the Key Note speech highlighted the critical difference between international and global firms and identified global leaders as being/or having 8 traits: Open minded, sensitivity and empathy, the ability to connect, respect for others, cultural curiosity, multi-lingual, willingness to experiment, cosmopolitan.
Workshop “Creating harmonious relationships with your supervisor”.
Establishing a good rapport with your supervisor can help your research degree life run smoothly and without stress.
There is nothing worse than experiencing conflict and tension in the relationship; it will cause anxiety and eventually affect your research. Why not attend this unique workshop on November 29th, run by a skilled relationship therapist and trainer?
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