Category Archives: Events
Call for Papers: The Psychology of Emotion – A new student conference
Four doctoral students from the School of Psychology have been awarded funding from the UN Innovation Fund to run a student conference entitled Exploring the Nature of Emotion and Feeling; Critical Issues and Future Directions in Emotion and Feeling Based Research.
The conference will be held on April 8th 2015. Aiming to provide a friendly and welcoming environment where students can explore the nature of emotion and feeling, it aims to critically consider how this shapes our understanding of emotion today. Key themes in emotion and feeling based literature will be examined, providing students will the opportunity to consider future directions of research in this area.
A call for papers and posters has been announced for doctoral students to participate, with the first call for papers deadline 30th November. Final date for submissions February 15th 2015.
Would you like some free training in image-elicitation methods in the social sciences?
If you are a research student, early career researcher or just wish to develop your social science methodological expertise you might be interested to know that The Open University is offering free, ESRC-funded, on-line advanced training on image-elicitation methods.
Professor Helen Lomax, from UN, is working with colleagues at the OU to deliver the training. The three short modules will provide opportunities for participants to share their research and explore case studies from contemporary social science research in small groups, facilitated by experienced visual researchers. Read the rest of this entry
Are you an active researcher….
…looking for new interdisciplinary areas to collaborate on?
Moulton College would like to invite interested University of Northampton researchers to view their facilities and discuss potential collaborations. Three dates are available for visits
Friday 5th December @ 1:30-3:00pm
Wednesday 14th January 2015 @ 3-4:30pm and
Tuesday 17th February 2015 @ 9-10:30am
For more information see the attached flier or contact Dr Wanda McCormick at Moulton College.
Moulton College: 3rd Annual Research Symposium
You are warmly invited to:
The 3rd Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium
at Moulton College at 1.30pm (12:30pm lunch)
on Tuesday 16th December 2014
Room P9 (Lecture Theatre,) Pitsford Centre, Moulton College.
[Submitted by Wanda McCormick]
The afternoon will involve talks from our current PhD students as well as some of our staff speaking on developments within their area. The event will start with a buffet lunch at 12.30pm and talks will begin at 1.30pm (see attached poster for schedule and further information). The symposium is being held at our Pitsford Site (gate 4 of the main campus).
If you would like to attend this event, please email Wanda McCormick by Friday 5th December.
Call for papers: Workshop for early career researchers on the Impact of Emerging Economies
Call for Papers and Research Proposals
The Impact of Emerging Economies and their Multinational Enterprises on the World Economy
Workshop for Early-Career Researchers
Almaty, Kazakhstan
26-28 February 2015
The University of Northampton Business School (UK), and Kazakh-British Technical University Business School (Kazakhstan), in Association with Brunel University (UK) and KIMEP University (Kazakhstan), are holding a workshop for early-career researchers under the British Council Newton-Al-Farabi ‘Research Links’ Programme, in association with the JSC Science Fund. Read the rest of this entry
Graduate School Workshops: Highlights for November and December 2014
From now until the end of December, the Graduate School are offering doctoral students at UN a variety of skills development sessions.
For new PGRs: Two Development days are on offer – Getting Started 1 and 2 – containing no less than 6 different skills workshop.
For those students who are well into the task of writing: We have the skilled and knowledgable Adair Richards coming in to run an academic writing day – a skills training session AND practical writing retreat. Only 11 places left on this so book soon!
For those near the end of their PhD: Chris Roe’s Preparing for the Viva will run as an evening workshop and a careers workshop will support those looking for research work in academic and non-academic fields.
For all: We are also running two SPSS training sessions, these are open to Early Career Researchers and PGR students.
See below for booking details and more information …. Read the rest of this entry
Getting Started on your doctorate?
If you are in the first year of your doctorate, you might want to book on Thursday 13th November’s Getting Started 1 workshop.
This Development Day contains three workshop sessions and has been designed for research students who are in the early stages of their research degree, covering:
- Systematic Literature Searching
- Risk Assessing your Research
- Word: Working with Long Documents.
All Development Days include lunch and refreshments and the opportunity for students to meet and chat with students from other disciplines. Read the rest of this entry
Autumn Term Research Bulletin from SOTA!
This Autumn term we have enjoyed some great news and research events in the Centre for Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory and the Centre for Practice Led Research in the Arts.
Jessica York’s Transfer Seminar: Equine Aqua-Treadmills
Jessica York, PhD research student at UN, would like to invite research staff and students to her Transfer Seminar “The Use of the Aqua-Treadmill in Equine Rehabilitation and Training“.
Jessica’s seminar will take place on Wednesday 19th November 2014 from 9:00 – 10:00am in M2, HE Block, Main Site (Gate 2), Moulton College.
The seminar will give an insight into ongoing research in the area of Equine Aqua-Treadmills and aims to specifically investigate the movement of the horse on the aqua-treadmill at increasing water depths in order to identify constructive, specific and controlled therapeutic rehabilitation and exercise.
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