Author Archives: Simone Apel
Graduate School workshops for researchers in October and November 2016
The Graduate School Development Programme is designed for all University of Northampton researchers, research students and early career researchers. The following workshops are coming up and are open for booking through Gateway. See the instructions at the end of the post to see the full calendar, or you can click on the links in the table below to the individual workshops. [Please note: you will need to log into Gateway to access the information].
| Finding Resources on the Web | 19 Oct 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
| Shut Up and Write! writing session | 31 Oct 2016, from 10:00 to 13:00 |
| Preparing for the Viva | 08 Nov 2016, from 17:00 to 19:00 |
| Smarter speed reading | 15 Nov 2016, from 12:00 to 15:00 |
| SPSS 1 beginnner’s workshop | 16 Nov 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
| Grounded Theory | 24 Nov 2016, from 10:00 to 12:00 |
| SPSS 2 (follow on workshop from 16th November) | 30 Nov 2016, from 14:00 to 16:00 |
Psychology Research Seminar on 26th October
Submitted by Dr Helen Clegg
The first Psychology Research Seminar of this academic year will be held at Park Campus in F43 on Wednesday 26th October 2016 at 3.30pm. Refreshments will be available from 3.15pm.
Professor Tom Dickins from Middlesex University will be speaking on “Life on the Edge: The first two years of a long-term study of Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)”
Grounded Theory Forum and GT resources
Submitted by Dr Sarah Neill.
Welcome to a new academic year for the Grounded Theory Forum! The forum will meet approximately four times a year to discuss GT approaches, challenges – this would interest those teaching grounded theory, researchers using grounded theory, post doc and doctoral students.
The new dates this academic year are as follows:
9/11/16 1-3pm C318
15/2/17 1-3pm S007
12/4/17 1-3pm S007
7/6/17 1-3pm S007 (sorry, this date has been cancelled)
For all of you interested in Grounded Theory the University has subscribed to Sage Research Methods, in which there is a plethora of GT material, including an introductory video tutorial by Kathy Charmaz and the whole text of the Sage Handbook of Grounded Theory.
Invitation to transfer seminars (Faculty of Business and Law)
The Faculty of Business and Law invite all our research staff and supervisors, PGR students and all those interested to two transfer seminars, happening next week in C227. PGR student, Louise Atkinson, is presenting at 1pm on Tuesday 4th October on “The Role of Community Influences on Socially Responsible Activity within SMEs”. PGR student, Maher Daboul, is presenting at 12.30pm on Wednesday 5th October on “Impact of Brand Crises on Brand Image in the age of Corporate Social Responsibility.” Read on for the abstracts…
Dust off your cameras, dig out your sketchbook – Images of Research is back!
Last year’s winning images.
The Graduate School’s Images of Research competition is back! The call for research images for 2016-17 is open so, if you are a researcher (staff or student) at the University of Northampton, why not take part? Pick up your camera or paintbrush and produce a unique image which captures the essence of your research, or an element of your research, in a visual, artistic or photographic way. Top that off with a snappy title and 150 word summary and that is all you need to do to participate.
Last year’s IoR was judged in two competitions. This year’s IoR will, again, be a double competition, where viewers can vote for their top three favourites and an expert judge will choose their top three. Entries for IoR 2016-17 must be emailed to Simone by November 9th 2016. There will be a launch party, where you can view all the images for the first time, on January 31st from 5-6:30pm in the Avenue Gallery corridor. Read on for the rules of entry…
A clean and fair Battle of Ideas!
The Battle of Ideas is a weekend of high-level, thought provoking public debate, organised annually by The Institute of Ideas. This year it takes place on 22nd and 23rd October at the Barbican in London.
This, the 12th Battle of Ideas festival, provides a forum for free thinking, debate and discussion, featuring over 80 sessions and hundreds of insightful and thought provoking speakers from across the globe, representing a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints.
Early bird tickets are still available (until 14th September) and can be purchased here. There is also a limited number of Immunocore Student Champion 2016 weekend tickets for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the early bird rate of just £25. Read the rest of this entry
University of Northampton research students share their work at East Midlands Conference
Four University of Northampton research degree students recently shared their work at the 2016 East Midlands Universities Association (EMUA) Postgraduate Research Student (PGR) Conference.
The event, Inspiring Futures, was held on Thursday 1 September, and hosted by the University of Loughborough. An annual event, the conference is open to all PGR students from the Midlands universities – Northampton, Lincoln, Loughborough, Nottingham, Derby, Bishop Grosseteste, Leicester, Nottingham Trent and De Montfort – and provides a professional, yet friendly environment in which students can practice presenting their research to a mixed discipline, academic audience.
Research project management in science and technology event
Submitted by Stefan Kaczmarczyk
On Tuesday 20th September 2016 a series of workshops and lectures will be held in Newton Hall, around the theme of research project management in science and technology. The event will be held from 9am – 7pm and is open to all research staff, academic staff and research students from all faculties in the University. Read the rest of this entry
Will you Shut Up and Write!?
From September 2016 The Graduate School are holding a new monthly 3 hour writing cafe called Shut Up and Write! The first one is on September 28th and I will be facilitating, along with Nikki Woods from Learning Development.
The concept of Shut Up and Write! originated in the San Francisco area among creative writers, but, thanks to social media, this has spread to research students around the world. Shut up and Write! turns writing from a solitary to a social experience and involves small groups of writers getting together to have coffee (or other beverages), offer support, chat for a short while, then shut up and get down to do some writing! We will introduce the concept to you in this session and let you try it out for yourself in two (nearly three!) 45 minute Pomodoro-style free-writing sessions. Read the rest of this entry
Moulton Research reaches Global Audience in the National Geographic!
Submitted by Wanda McCormick
If you pop down to your local newsagents today and flick through the latest August edition of the National Geographic magazine, you will find a striking image linked to one of our ongoing research projects here at the College. The image was taken by a professional photographer who visited the College last summer to document our ongoing conservation work with the photogenic but incredibly elusive harvest mouse! We have been investigating the ecological habits of this most charismatic of creatures as a means of prescribing pro-active conservation measures to ensure its survival in our green and pleasant countryside.
With a global circulation of around 7 million, this truly puts Moulton’s research on a global stage! To find out more about this and other research activities we undertake, why not check out: https://twitter.com/MoultonResearch
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