Category Archives: News
Understanding Agency and Resistance: Children in situations of domestic abuse
Dr Jane Callaghan writes:
The UNARS research team was at the University of Northampton this week. This 4 nation project, funded by the European Commission through it’s ‘Daphne’ funding stream, focuses on young people’s experiences of domestic abuse. This week, we began the analysis of our interviews with children, carers and professionals who work with domestic abuse. Our researchers from Italy, Spain and Greece explored the complexities of young people’s lived experience of domestic abuse, and the creative and resilient strategies they deploy to cope with these situations.
Find out more about the project here.
Re-launch of the Supervisor’s Forum
(posted on behalf of Dr Ali Al-Sherbaz, Dr Wanda McCormick and Dr David Preece)
We are re-launching the University’s PhD Supervisor’s Forum.
The purpose of the forum is to enable doctoral supervisors to meet with colleagues from within and outside their disciplines, to share ideas and practice, to problem-solve with peers, to network and to have a nice lunch. Read the rest of this entry
Congratulations, Dr Johnson Jament
Johnson Jament graduated with a PhD from The University of Northampton in 2009. His new book ‘Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Indian Education’, based on his PhD research, has been published this month by Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP). Read the rest of this entry
Research degree board and research ethics committee deadlines 2013-14
Here are the deadlines for submission of papers to Research Degrees Boards and Research Ethics Committee. These will be strictly observed in order to allow board and committee members sufficient time to read papers in advance of the meetings. Papers arriving after the deadline will be deferred to the next meeting.
Deadline date: Meeting date:
2 September 2013 11-12 September 2013
14 October 2013 30-31 October 2013
16 December 2013 8-9 January 2014
3 February 2013 12-13 February 2014
17 March 2014 26-27 March 2014
19 May 2014 28-29 May 2014
The Student Toolkit will be updated to include these dates shortly. The Student Toolkit details the requirements for all of the processes and links to all relevant forms and guidance.
HEFCE consultation on open access and REF post 2014 – 2nd stage
Continuing the two stage consultation process announced earlier this year, HEFCE has just announced a further consultation on its proposals for open access to post-2014 REF outputs.
The University of Northampton’s response to the first (informal) stage of the consultation is here.
“Such a Long Journey”: New radio play recording and call for feedback
The rehearsed reading for the first act of Oladipo Agboluaje’s Such a Long Journey is now available to listen to online via Research Support Hub. See below for the recording and further details.
Emerald Awards for outstanding doctoral research project
Emerald and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) announce the launch of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
These Awards reward the best doctoral research projects in 12 different categories, each sponsored by an Emerald journal. The Awards are open to those who have completed and satisfied examination requirements for a Doctoral award, or will do so, between 1 October 2010 and 1 October 2013, and have not applied previously for one of these Awards. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 October 2013.
Award-winning entries will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or currency equivalent), a certificate and a winners’ logo to attach to correspondence. Go to the Emerald Website for more information.
School of the Arts researchers keep going global
This June researchers from the School of the Arts will be engaging with creative practitioners from all across the world. Read on for more details.
School of the Arts Reader in Poetry, Charles Bennett, reflects on BBC Prom ‘Angry Planet’
On Tuesday 21st May 2013, Reader in Poetry Charles Bennett reflected on the process of the commissioning of Angry Planet. This major cultural event was performed at the BBC Proms on 5 August 2012 and was a creative collaboration between Bennett, internationally renowned choral composer Bob Chilcott and The Bach Choir’s Musical Director, David Hill.
Listen back to Charles’s talk below or download the MP3:
Charles’s address also marked the start of the School of the Arts lunchtime research seminar series for the summer of 2013.
School of the Arts researchers on the radio
Submitted by Larissa Allwork
Alan Smith broadcast on American Radio
It is a great pleasure to announce that Alan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of the Arts has recently been interviewed for North Carolina Public Radio. You can listen back to his interview, ‘Debating Philosophy in Prisons’, using the player below, or access it from the show’s website.
See also the celebration of Alan Smith’s work in The Guardian.
TV Fangdom Conference on Radio Northampton
On 8th May, Reader in Television Studies, Dr Lorna Jowett appeared on BBC Radio Northampton to talk about the upcoming TV Fangdom Conference on Television Vampires which will be held at the School of the Arts (7-8 June 2013).
To listen back: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0182rl8
You will find it approximately 2 hours and ten minutes into the show.
UON Graduate School Blog 