Category Archives: News
Engage Competition 2014
Submitted by Dr Scott Turner.
The National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement are running a national competition to find and celebrate high quality public engagement with research projects.
Institute of Health and Wellbeing mapping workshops
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing
The internal launch of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing was used as an opportunity to gauge interest in a number of research themes and identify others. We now have six themes that we’d like to explore in more depth with colleagues from across the University.
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.
