Monthly Archives: April 2014
The Graduate School PGR Annual Conference: Call for papers
The University of Northampton Graduate School are holding their 2014 Postgraduate Researcher Conference on June 26th and would like to invite UN research students and early career researchers to present a paper. Read the rest of this entry
Institute of Health and Wellbeing: Theme leaders announced
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager, Institute of Health and Wellbeing
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing is very pleased to announce that the leaders for each of our research themes have been appointed. In some instances, we have appointed a second leader to assist and bring together an exciting mix of skills and experience.
Free access to Liverpool University Press journals during April 2014
To celebrate its tenth birthday, Liverpool University Press is making all of its journal content free for the month of April.
Call for Papers: 7th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference
Are you a Research Degree student in a social science discipline? Would you like to share your PhD experiences with others in a conference setting? If so, you might be interested in the 7th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference on 14th November 2014.
“4D Research: Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research” aims to bring together post-graduate researchers from a variety of disciplines to facilitate shared critical engagement with the various obstacles and opportunities of the PhD process.
For more information see the LTE blog post here.
Calling PhD students and early-career researchers!
Researchers from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) are asking for input from UK-based research students and early-career researchers on the teaching and learning of advanced research methods.
PhD students, who are within five years of commencing academic employment, and researchers early on in their career have been asked to comment on brief summaries of four themes from NCRM research findings;
- challenges for learning advanced methods;
- provision of advanced methods training;
- approaches for teaching advanced methods;
- qualities of advanced methods teachers and learners.
The research is being conducted by Melanie Nind, Rose Wiles, and Daniel Kilburn at the University of Southampton and will be ‘live’ until Friday 18th April. See the NCRM website for more information and to participate.
PhD Tips – don’t suffer in silence
Whether you are one of this week’s new inductees, or a post-grad further into your sentence degree, this article might give you some valuable advice:
HEFCE announce new policy for open access in post 2014 REF
Following on from their two stage consultation process last year, HEFCE have just announced their new policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework.
The policy applies to all journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016, but not to monographs, other long-form publications, creative or non-text outputs, or data.
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