Category Archives: Events
Research Council requirements for data management – workshop and clinic
Don’t forget this Wednesday’s workshop featuring the Research Council requirements for data management, to be hosted by the School of Social Sciences:
Research Council requirements for data management
Many research funders have issued policies that require researchers to effectively manage, and where possible, share their data. The main expectations are reflected in a set of common principles, released by RCUK in 2011. This workshop aims to demystify funder requirements and provide practical guidelines on how to meet them.
- Hosted by: School of Social Sciences
- Intended audience: Research active staff and research students in social sciences
- When: Wednesday 27th February 10am – 12 noon
- Where: Naseby N25
- Contact: Miggie Pickton
There will also be an opportunity for individuals to chat through the data management aspects of their latest funding bids, or to discuss any other data management issues. Contact Miggie for a one-to-one appointment. Half hour slots are available from 1pm to 3pm in F39.
Workshop for lecturers on Aspire reading lists
If you are engaged in teaching students at UoN and giving students reading lists, these workshops may be of interest to you. Further dates will be added and published here.
Library and Learning Services is offering workshops at Avenue on the Aspire Reading List Software on Feb 26th and March 4th (see below for details and times). Aspire is a piece of software that enables you to create an online reading list with direct links through to full text articles, websites, e-books and items on the library catalogue. You can also link to Aspire from within NILE. To sign up, please email the session leader running the workshop.
Aspire workshops will last an hour and you will be shown how Aspire works as well as being able to have a go at creating your own Aspire reading list. If you have a real reading list you’d like to put online, bring it along and we can work on it during the workshop. There will also be an extra half an hour at the end of the session, with a member of the LLS Academic Liaison Team on hand to help, for anyone who wants to stay and work on their reading list.
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available.
Tuesday, Feb 26th
12:00 – 13:30, Tuesday, Feb 26th, in the Library IT Training Room (Avenue Library) – Aspire Session Leader: George Dimmock (georgina.dimmock@northampton.ac.uk)
Monday, March 4th
12:00-13:30, Monday, March 4th in the Library IT Training Room (Avenue Library) – Aspire Session Leader: Fiona MacLellan (fiona.maclellan@northampton.ac.uk)
Professor Vijay Mishra to address the School of the Arts
The Postcolonial Visual Culture and Narrative Research Cluster in the School of Arts are delighted to announce that Professor Vijay Mishra, author of What was Multiculturalism?, The Gothic Sublime and Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire will be addressing the University of Northampton on Friday March 1 between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. Please come along to Avenue Campus, Room MY120 for what promises to be a stimulating talk entitled Ghostly Spectres of the Transcultural. For more details, please see Professor Mishra’s abstract and biography below.
To register your attendance please contact Larissa.Allwork@northampton.ac.uk.
RDM workshops for Graduate School and NBS – slides available
Yesterday’s research data management (RDM) workshops with Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy of the DCC sparked a lot of interest from researchers. For those that were unable to attend, the slides are here:
Alan Ayckbourn play at Royal & Derngate on Monday 25th March
As part of the Summer School for the Marie Curie funded Consortium Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB) being hosted by the School of Arts from 21 to 27 March, we are inviting all the delegates to a theatre event at the Royal and Derngate on Monday 25th March, This is to see a new Alan Ayckbourn play, Mr Whatnot.
There may be some tickets over (at £11.00) each and if you would be interested in attending as one of the party, can you let Janet Wilson and Larissa Allwork know — we will treat htis on a first come, first served basis.
Please get back to them by Sunday 24th February at the very latest, as we have to let the theatre know about the pre booked tickets as to how many we actually need.
You should contact larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk and janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk
Event at the British Library – Open Data: What’s the Use?
This event is part of the British Library’s ‘Inspiring Science’ event series. Pre-booking is essential.
TalkScience@BL Open Data: What’s the Use?
A discussion with Professor Nigel Shadbolt
19 March 2013, 18.20 – 20.30
The British Library (Terrace Restaurant)
£5, Booking Required, Light refreshments provided. Booking is via the Box Office
Workshop: Patient and Public Involvement in Research and Service Development.
Submitted by the Centre for Health & Wellbeing Research
This research training programme is for staff across all NHS Trusts in Northamptonshire, UoN’s School of Health staff and post-graduate students who wish to refresh or gain new skills in the research process, research methods and the use of evidence to inform practice.
Workshops in Research & Development: Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)
Dr Jackie Parkes & Dr Paula Wray
12th March 10.00 – 12.00 in the Oak Room, Berrywood Hospital.
13th March 10.00 – 12.00 in Seminar Room 5, Prince William Education Centre, Kettering General Hospital.
14th March 10.00 – 12.00 in Room 11, Sunley Conference Centre, University of Northampton. Read the rest of this entry
Supervisors’ Forum Meeting ~ postponed
Because of the Vice Chancellor’s visit to three schools on 13 March, we have had to postpone this meeting of the Supervisor’s Forum. We will post a new date for the meeting once it is decided.
You are warmly invited to a meeting of the university’s Supervisors’ Forum
Between Theory and Practice: the pedagogical dimension of doctoral supervision
Dr Cristina Devecchi, School of Education
Wednesday 13 March ~ 12-2 pm ~ Cottesbrooke 201, Park Campus
This workshop aims to bridge the gap between the implicit theory of supervision and its practice. It will do so by providing a theoretical canvas onto which it would be possible to map personal practice and experiences as supervisors and teachers. In the first part of the session, an overview of major theories of learning would be provided. In the second part of the session, a more practical workshop will enable participants to make explicit the link between theories and their own practice. Read the rest of this entry
Graduate School workshops coming up: Book now!
20 February 9:30-14:30: Doing Q Methodological Research
20 February 15:00-17:15: Managing your PhD research data
26 February 17:00-19:00: Writing & Structuring your Thesis
Workshops in March and April include 1-1 Careers/CV sessions, Preparing for the Viva, Your thesis: Working with Long Documents, Getting Published. For further details on these and all other workshops and events, please see the Graduate School Skills Training Webpages.
Managing your research data – forthcoming workshops
As part of our ongoing engagement with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) we have arranged the following workshops:
- Managing data through the research lifecycle
- Managing your PhD research data
- Research Council requirements for data management
All sessions will be led by experts in data management from the DCC.
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