Category Archives: Events
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
Census update webinar: Census geography tools
UK Data Service Census Support is holding a webinar on 24 July 2013 to provide an introduction to the full collection of digital boundaries and geographical look-up tables which they hold.
The webinar will also show how online Census Support applications can be used to access these datasets. Through UK Data Service Census Support, users have access to a large collection of geographical datasets. This includes digital boundaries that define the location and extent of the output geographies of UK decennial censuses and geographical lookup tables like ONS postcode directories, which can be used to relate different geographies to one another. Read the rest of this entry
School of the Arts Research Seminar Update
The University of Northampton School of the Arts ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Research Seminar with Dr Sonya Andermahr, Dr Larissa Allwork and Dr Esther Jilovsky will be starting at 12.00 as opposed to 12.30 on Wednesday 10th July in MY120, Avenue Campus.
All welcome.
Sunshine and showers – LearnTech summer showcase
Message from Rob Howe, Head of Learning Technology, LLS:
What is changing in NILE on July 21st?
What is SaGE?
How do I use a voting handset to encourage in class participation?
How can I use a SMARTboard more effectively?
Why are iPADs and mobile devices so popular?
What training is available to support my technology development?
If you have questions similar to those above or just want to come to see how the Learning Technology team are able to support you then please come along to the LearnTech Summer Showcase – Sunshine and Showers.
School of the Arts summer show successes and Angry Planet commemorative booklet
Beginning on Tuesday 11th June, English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton School of the Arts hosted three special events as part of the School of the Arts Summer Show. All of these events were well attended by individuals from both within and outside of the School of the Arts.
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
Updated Itinerary: The School of the Arts research seminar series 2013
The itinerary for the remaining events in the School of the Arts research seminar series has been updated. Please see the original post for the revised details:
UON Graduate School Blog 