Category Archives: Events
NBS Seminar
On 16th November the Northampton Business School are holding a seminar for NBS Research Students & Staff.
Associate Professor, Kathleen Mortimer, will talk on “Pitfalls to be avoided when designing a Questionnaire” in the Business School, room C227 at 11am.
Please note: This is for NBS research students and staff only, due to room size restrictions.
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!
New 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.
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.
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