Category Archives: Events
Lunchtime seminar: Anorexia and Social Media
Join Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham) for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing‘s lunchtime seminar Anorexia and Social Media: Ethnographic Explorations and Clinical Implications on Wednesday 8 June.
Developing a tool for temperament and personality assessment in rabbits: Transfer seminar invitation
You are cordially invited to the Clare Ellis’s transfer seminar at Moulton College on Friday 20th May 9am (9:15 start).
Please email Clare by Thursday 15th May if you wish to attend so she can arrange visitor passes. Full details below. Read the rest of this entry
Inspiring Futures: The 2016 EMUA PGR Student Conference call for papers and posters
Calling all of our postgraduate research students! Here’s a chance to present your work via a talk or poster at the 2016 East Midlands University Association (EMUA) postgraduate research student conference, which will be held on September 1st 2016. The call for papers is now open and will close on July 7th. Read the rest of this entry
Human Endeavour in Antarctica and Space: Inspiring stories from the end of the Earth and beyond.
On the 10th June 2016, the University of Northampton will host the conference ‘Human Endeavour in Antarctica and Space‘. Using Antarctica and Space as the context, the accomplished conference speakers will discuss a variety of topics connected to science, exploration and endeavour, photography and entrepreneurship.
Antarctica has often been used as a context to study humans in isolation and served as an analogue environment for human spaceflight. Bringing speakers together who have been involved in both Antarctic and Space related endeavours offers a unique experience and one which we hope will go some way to inspire others in their own work and life. Read the rest of this entry
All invited to Transfer Seminar on May 5th at 12 noon.
Nicola Smithers (Senior Lecturer in Law) is presenting her Transfer seminar on May 5th at 12 noon in Naseby 24, Park Campus. The seminar is open to all University research students and staff.
Nicola’s title is: ‘The Legal, Ethical and Clinical Justifications for Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment from Critically Ill Neonates’. She would welcome all feedback on her project and work so far, so if you would like to attend please confirm your attendance with John Horton.
Workshop: Publishing and reviewing with Taylor & Francis
Library and Learning Services in conjunction with the Graduate School are delighted to announce a new workshop for research students and staff.
Elaine Devine from Taylor & Francis will be leading the workshop and will bring a publisher perspective to the two important scholarly activities of getting published and becoming a peer reviewer.
Programme:
| 10 – 11am | How to get published in an academic journal: tips to help you succeed |
| Questions / break | |
| 11.15am – 12pm | How to be an effective reviewer for an academic journal |
| 12 – 12.30pm | Breakout review exercise on effective reviews for journals Including feedback and questions |
| 12:30 – 1pm | Lunch |
| 1pm – 2pm | Taylor and Francis focus group: give your views on the journal article publishing process (optional) |
Where: Pytchley 101, Park Campus
When: Thursday 30th June from 10am to 1pm (includes lunch)
Who: Research students and staff
To book a place: Please register on our Eventbrite site
Call for papers: 2nd Annual Northampton Business School Research Conference
A call for papers from NBS staff and NBS doctoral students for the 2nd Annual NBS Conference has been announced. Changemaker for Tomorrow: creating business impact through research is this year’s theme and the conference will run on 15th and 16th June 2016. The deadline for abstracts is May 3rd 2016.
If your research area relates to any of the following themes:
- Sustainability
- Logistics and Supply Chain
- Emerging Economies
then why not submit a paper? Please email your abstract, along with a brief personal biography to Sandy.MacDonald@northampton.ac.uk
Sharing our Struggles Seminar Series: Putting pen to paper…… reflections, modes, interactions and dynamics.
Find out more about this event by following this link
Hosted by University of Birmingham Business School, May 10th, 2016 Read the rest of this entry
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