Category Archives: Conferences
Conference report: CAMHS 2013
The conference was opened by Professor Nick Petford, Vice Chancellor of the University of Northampton
Submitted by Dr Jane Callaghan
The Conference ‘Children and Young People’s Mental Health’ at the University of Northampton, 3-5 July was a great success. Focusing on young people’s mental health at a time of austerity, the conference drew together participants from academic and practitioner backgrounds, from the HE, public and voluntary sector. The conference offered a fantastic opportunity for multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral reflection on the challenges and opportunities that the current economic situation presents in working with children and young people on issues of mental health. We welcomed 134 delegates from around the UK, Pakistan, South Africa, Italy, Sweden and Israel. We and our guests delivered 65 papers and workshops, and 16 posters.
Call for papers for the Callaloo Postgraduate/Early Career Workshop: “Britain, Europe and the African Diaspora”.
Submitted by Professor Janet Wilson.
On 27-30 November 2013, Callaloo will be hosting its annual conference in Europe for the first time, at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). To mark the occasion, Oxford’s newly established Race and Resistance Network will be hosting a postgraduate/early career workshop on the 27 November. Read the rest of this entry
Prize winning presence at BPS conference
Submitted by Dr Helen Owton
10-13 July 2013, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park, UK
We are very proud to announce that at the recent British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women’s Section (POWS) Conference, Stephen Symons, a third year, in the Psychology department was awarded the POWS undergraduate prize for his dissertation entitled Discursive constructions of UK swingers’ self-identities and practices in a culturally gendered mononormative context. He presented an outstanding poster together with a team of colleagues who also presented at the conference from the Division of Psychology and the School of Health and the Centre for Health and Wellbeing research.
ICCSR Symposium 2013: Gender and Responsible Business
Submitted by Nadeem Khan, (PhD research student NBS)
Nadeem Khan
The ICCSR symposium was held on 20th June 2013 at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, based at Nottingham Business School, University of Nottingham.
Siham Elgergeni and Ouarda Dsouli
Nadeem Khan, Siham Elgergeni and Ouarda Dsouli from the UN Business School attended the symposium, hosted by Prof. Jeremy Moon, with keynote speakers including Nadia Younes (Rio Tinto) and Kate Grosser (La Trobe University). The dialogue highlighted the human rights and business case for advancing gender balance as a stakeholder; human rights; corporate innovation and sustainable communities’ perspective. Read the rest of this entry
Dr Lorna Jowett’s TV Fangdom impresses scholar at Spain’s University of Oviedo
Dr Lorna Jowett, Dr Stacey Abbott (The University of Roehampton) and Dr Mike Starr’s recent success with the TV Fangdom conference on Television Vampires (The University of Northampton, 7-8 June 2013), which featured key scholars Brigid Cherry and Marcus Recht as well as an outstanding presentation on often forgotten British TV vampires by BFI Television curator, Lisa Kerrigan has just welcomed a further success. Dr María Mariño Faza, a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain could not attend the conference but was so impressed by news of the scholars involved that she has decided to spend time researching representations of vampires and the supernatural at The University of Northampton School of the Arts this summer.
Open invitation to all PGR students at East Midland Universities (yes, that’s us!)
The East Midlands Universities PGR Conference, “New Perspectives”, is to be held at the University of Derby on Friday 6th September 2013. All research students at UN are entitled to book their free place via the EMU website http://www.derby.ac.uk/research/emu
The key note speaker will be Dr Jo Appleby of the Department of Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, who just might mention the discovery of the grave of King Richard III!
The Conference will feature, for the first time, Research Snapshots in which PGR students have just three minutes to talk about their research. There will be prizes for the best three as chosen by you, the audience. There are also fifty ten-minute talks arranged in five parallel sessions.
Additionally, every PGR student attending is invited to submit a poster which will be placed in the EMU Conference Website Gallery. There’s no conference fee, just an opportunity to meet PGR students at other universities and add to your experience.
Venue: Kirtley Hall, Kedleston Road Site, University of Derby.
Registration from 09.00 am commencing at 09.30 am and closing at 3.45 pm.
Psyche in the Arts Research Network announce symposium on 3 July 2013
Submitted by Dr Patrick Campbell.
The Psyche in the Arts Research Network presents:
Creative Encounters: Arts as Culture / Arts as Therapy?
Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 9.30am-5pm
The University of Northampton School of the Arts, Avenue Campus
Call For Papers: The SOTA annual postgraduate conference 2013
On the 19 – 20 September 2013, the University of Northampton School of the Arts will be holding its annual postgraduate conference. All students registered for PhDs at the School of the Arts are expected to submit twenty minute papers on their research areas, while Masters and MPhil students are strongly encouraged to do so.
Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2013
Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2013
“Global Interactions”
27th June 2013 in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3, Park Campus
9:30am – 4:15pm
You are warmly invited to join the Graduate School at their Annual Postgraduate Research Conference for PGR Students and Early Career Researchers. Please see the Conference flyer for more information. Sign up to book your place.
Event report: The Personal is Political Revisited
Submitted by Lisa Robertson.
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating Notions of Place and Space
An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by the School of the Arts, The University of Northampton
Saturday October 6, 2012
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the School of the Arts brought together scholars from around the globe to revisit the concept of the personal as political and consider its effect on the perception and experience of space and place.
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