Category Archives: Events

Media, English and Culture Seminar, 8th November at 6pm

‘A child of the sun’: Katherine Mansfield’s Spiritual Journey, presented by Gerri Kimber Read the rest of this entry

Research Methods: Distance learning workshops on Nile are available now!

Available on Nile are the excellent Epigeum online workshops in “Research Methods”. There are workshops in each of the following areas – Social sciences, Arts, Science and Literature Review. Go to “RES001: Postgraduate Research Training” and choose “Online Research Training” from the left-hand menu.

Disseminating your Research Workshop – book now!

Graduate School WorkshopsNew Ways to Disseminate your Research: Social media

Thursday, 1 November 2012 from 14:00 to 17:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton

This workshop describes some of the tools that may be used to disseminate research to a wider audience.  It will introduce a range of social media, including professional networking tools (e.g. LinkedIn; Academia.edu; ResearchGate; Mendeley), blogs (e.g. Blogger; WordPress) and microblogs (e.g. Twitter).

Book now at http://dissresnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/

Developing methods for the microanalysis of online data

Date: 9-10 January 2013

    Venue: Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

          Workshop fee: none. Lunch and dinner (day 2) and coffee/tea are included. Read the rest of this entry

“What’s Happiness in Hamlet?”

Dr Richard Chamberlain will be giving his research seminar, “What’s Happiness in Hamlet?” at 1pm on Tuesday 23rd October in MY 120.  Please come along: Read the rest of this entry

Rewriting the Rules? Non-monogamies and other adventures in non-normative relationships

There will be a seminar on Wednesday 31st October from 3.30pm until 4.30pm in Cottesbrooke, C204 for staff and research students (although interested masters and undergraduate students are welcome too).  The speaker is Meg Barker from The Open University and she will be talking about her research on non-monogamous relationships. Below is an abstract for her talk and a biography. I hope to see as many of you there as possible.  Refreshments will be available.

Dr Helen Clegg
Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychology
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PhD transfer seminar “Fine sediment dynamics in the Nene river basin”

Research student, Simon Pulley, will be presenting his PhD Transfer seminar entitled “Fine sediment dynamics in the Nene river basin” on Thursday 18th October at 1330 in Newton NW013.

All are welcome to attend.

Thumbnail credit: Jon Smith (Flickr) – Creative Commons

Research data clinics – 30th October 2012

Are you wrestling with a tricky research data problem?  If so, perhaps we can help.

As part of our ongoing ‘engagement’ with the Digital Curation Centre, Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy will be running a couple of data management ‘clinics’ for researchers at Northampton.  They will also present a short introductory talk covering the basics of research data management and highlighting the data services available to researchers at Northampton.

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Transfer Seminar “The Use of Hedgerows by Macro-Moth Species in Agricultural Landscapes”

Research student, Emma Elkins, will be presenting her PhD Transfer seminar entitled “The Use of Hedgerows by Macro-Moth Species in Agricultural Landscapes” on Wednesday 17th October at 1300 in M4 in the HE Centre at Moulton College.

All are welcome.

Cancelled event – Elena Marcevska

PLEASE NOTE: This event has been cancelled

Where? MY120, Avenue Campus, University of Northampton

When? Thursday 11th October at 6pm

What? Matrixal and the Screen: Motherhood in the work of Ettinger, Hiller and Rist

This seminar will attempt to embrace the relationship between the material realities of lived feminist motherhood and the stunning ways in which artist-mothers negotiate and translate their experiences into rich and complex bodies of work on screen. All welcome.