Category Archives: Events
Development Day for Pre-Transfer Research Students
Are you a UN research student between APG Registration and Transfer? If so, the Graduate School are running a development day for you on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 from 09:15 to 16:30 in MY120 in the Avenue Research Centre. Read the rest of this entry
School of the Arts Lecturers introduce films at the Errol Flynn
Lecturers from the School of the Arts have been providing informative short introductions to the public of films being shown at the Errol Flynn Film Theatre.
School of the Arts Lecturers Promote Research in London
This term researchers in the School of the Arts have been reaching out and actively promoting their work in London.
Intellectual Property: Seminar from Prospect IP
Update 5/12/13: Unfortunately this event has has had to be postponed. The organisers apologise and hope to rearrange for the new year.
Submitted by Dr Mairi Watson, Deputy Dean, NBS
How do you balance publication vs secrecy?
IP assignment or licence, which option is best?
These and other questions will be addressed in the forthcoming Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar, led by Prospect IP:
- Friday 6th December 2013,
- Senate 201, 11.45am—1.45pm
Lunchtime seminar: Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing.
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing presents Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position, a lunchtime seminar at Sunley Conference Centre on Wednesday 11th December. Read on for further details and booking information.
Finding and using PhD theses: free webinar
Sara Gould, Development Manager at the British Library writes:
“Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS
EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk is the national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It’s a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely available to download and use for your own research, and another 200,000 available to search and scan on demand.
Join us for a free webinar to learn how EThOS works.
Introductory SPSS Workshops for research students
On Monday 2nd December Paul Rice from CfAP is running the first of a series of two workshops on SPSS, specifically for research students with little or no experience of the software.
Introduction to SPSS will focus on the basic elements of quantitative research and the issues that should be considered in data analysis. The workshop will cover types of data, how this data can be entered into SPSS and will end with examining descriptive statistics. This is an application orientated session and the approach will be practical. No prior knowledge is required.
Title of workshop: SPSS part 1: Introduction to SPSS.
Where? Grendon 152, Grendon IT Centre, Park Campus
When? Monday, 2 December 2013 from 17:00 to 19:00
The follow on workshop Basic Inferential Statistics in SPSS will be held on 16th December.
British Library Doctoral Open Days
It’s that time of year again… the British Library are once again advertising their open days for new doctoral students. This is your opportunity to learn about the British Library’s unique research collections and how to access them.
This year the dates and subjects on offer are as follows:
Qualitative methodology days for research students
Dr Jane Callaghan will be running two 2-day workshops in qualitative methods in February and May 2014.
On February 4th-5th, Jane will be running a workshop on “Doing Discourse”, exploring the theoretical underpinnings of a discursive approach to qualitative analysis. Discursive analysis can be applied to text, visual images and ethnographic material. Throughout the two days, students will explore how language, space and visual material intersect in the production of discursive practice.
The second workshop, on May 13th-14th, will explore different forms of interpretation in qualitative research. Students will draw on phenomenological approaches, and Interpretive Interactionism, to work with a range of textual, visual and spatial materials.
Both workshops are ready for booking. They will be open to students outside of UoN so do book soon, as there are limited places. Further details can be found below, just click on the course titles for more information and to book:
Doing Discourse: 2-day workshop: Tuesday, 4 February and Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Doing Interpretive Qualitative Research: 2-day workshop: Tuesday, 13 May and Wednesday, 14 May 2014
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