Author Archives: David Watson
BBC News asks “How broad is the research?”
The BBC news site today presents several examples of ‘unusual’ PhD work across the UK, featuring vampires, cows, and erotic shoes (in three separate examples, sadly).
Institute of Health and Wellbeing seminar: “Male, pale and stale or best person for the job? Understanding the lack of workforce diversity in grass roots sport”
Submitted by Ruth Hughes-Rowlands
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing present:
‘Male, pale and stale or best person for the job? Understanding the lack of workforce diversity in grassroots sport’
Wednesday 13th November 2013, 1-2pm
Sunley Conference Centre
Institute of Health and Wellbeing mapping workshops
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing
The internal launch of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing was used as an opportunity to gauge interest in a number of research themes and identify others. We now have six themes that we’d like to explore in more depth with colleagues from across the University.
‘Hunting down permissions’: fair use, copyright and academic publishing
I was particularly intrigued by the Slate article Executors or Executioners? by Joseph Thomas, the frustrated would-be author of a Shel Siverstein biography, not only because Silverstein is currently among my daughter’s favourite authors but also for the discussion of the chilling effect that ‘playing it safe’ with copyright can have on fair use and scholarly publishing.
Finding journals and journal articles using NELSON
FAQ: How can I use NELSON to find journals and journal articles?
While researchers are often best served by accessing Library and Learning Services’ electronic journal collections directly (via our A-Z list), our research discovery tool NELSON can be a quick and convenient way to find articles and journals online. Read on for a short guide.
Re-launch of the Supervisor’s Forum
(posted on behalf of Dr Ali Al-Sherbaz, Dr Wanda McCormick and Dr David Preece)
We are re-launching the University’s PhD Supervisor’s Forum.
The purpose of the forum is to enable doctoral supervisors to meet with colleagues from within and outside their disciplines, to share ideas and practice, to problem-solve with peers, to network and to have a nice lunch. Read the rest of this entry
Citation data and metrics in Google Scholar
Google Scholar has offered basic metrics data for some time, but the service has seen some interesting developments recently that make it easy to discover highly-cited journals and articles for a wide selection of academic disciplines.
Congratulations, Dr Johnson Jament
Johnson Jament graduated with a PhD from The University of Northampton in 2009. His new book ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Indian Education’, based on his PhD research, has been published this month by Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP). Read the rest of this entry
Research degree board and research ethics committee deadlines 2013-14
Here are the deadlines for submission of papers to Research Degrees Boards and Research Ethics Committee. These will be strictly observed in order to allow board and committee members sufficient time to read papers in advance of the meetings. Papers arriving after the deadline will be deferred to the next meeting.
Deadline date: Meeting date:
2 September 2013 11-12 September 2013
14 October 2013 30-31 October 2013
16 December 2013 8-9 January 2014
3 February 2013 12-13 February 2014
17 March 2014 26-27 March 2014
19 May 2014 28-29 May 2014
The Student Toolkit will be updated to include these dates shortly. The Student Toolkit details the requirements for all of the processes and links to all relevant forms and guidance.
Job Vacancy: Project Co-ordinator, The University of Northampton Students’ Union
Job Title: P2 Co-ordinator
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week) fixed term contract to 31 July 2015
Salary: £18,523 per annum
Work Base: Avenue/Park Campus/Pavilion or any University of Northampton premises as required
Overall Purpose
The aim of the Students’ Union is to support and enhance the educational, social, cultural and recreational activities, and opportunities of the student body, and also to provide a channel of communication for students with the University, NUS and other bodies.
The purpose of this role is to deliver the P2 (Planet Too) project, funded by the NUS / HEFCE Student Green Fund. See http://www.studentsgreenfund.org.uk for more information about the fund. It is a wide ranging project that builds on the University’s commitment to social value and combines aspects of volunteering and campaigning with social enterprise and employability to engage students in leading change on the campus. It also targets private and community student housing, aiming to reduce the impact on the environment by unnecessary energy consumption.
For further information contact:
Email: yvonne.anderson@northampton.ac.uk
Human Resources, Park Campus, Boughton Green Road,
Northampton, NN2 7AL Tel: 01604 892818
Website: http://www.northamptonunion.com
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