Category Archives: Northampton Business School

Inaugural John Clare Memorial Lecture with Professor Nick Groom a Success!

On Friday 12th December, the English Division at the University of Northampton School of the Arts was very pleased to welcome Professor Nick Groom (University of Exeter) to give the Inaugural John Clare Memorial Lecture.   Accompanied by mulled wine and mince pies,  the event was a real opportunity for the School to celebrate the legacy of John Clare and open its doors to members of the John Clare Trust, the John Clare Society and Sue Shields and Kathryn Parsons, artists who have been involved in the exhibition, ‘UnEarthed: John Clare’.

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Call for papers: Workshop for early career researchers on the Impact of Emerging Economies

Call for Papers and Research Proposals
The Impact of Emerging Economies and their Multinational Enterprises on the World Economy
       Workshop for Early-Career Researchers
Almaty, Kazakhstan
26-28 February 2015

NBS logoThe University of Northampton Business School (UK), and Kazakh-British Technical University Business School (Kazakhstan), in Association with Brunel University (UK) and KIMEP University (Kazakhstan), are holding a workshop for early-career researchers under the British Council Newton-Al-Farabi ‘Research Links’ Programme, in association with the JSC Science Fund. Read the rest of this entry

New research students: getting started

FAQ: I am a new research student and the next induction week is some time away.  What do I need to know now?

First of all – welcome to the University of Northampton! There are plenty of people here to help you get started with your research – your supervisor of course, but also a number of people in the Graduate School and the Library.  If you have any questions, please don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Your top priority will be to make sure that you can access the university computer network and the various services that it offers.  The checklist for new research students elsewhere on the Research Support Hub (this blog) describes what you need to do to achieve this.

Now that you have all the right login details you should be able to find all the key information you need about being a research student at Northampton.

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New resource for marketing: WARC

warc-logoThe library has just purchased WARC, a database of brand case studies, campaign videos, articles and trends.

Over 8500 WARC case studies can be searched by industry sector, country, region, campaign objective, media and more.  Articles and research papers are grouped into 80+ topics ranging from alcoholic drinks to utilities and WARC guides include company profiles, best practice articles and briefings on communications and branding.

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Programme for the SOTA Postgraduate Conference Announced!

On Thursday 18th September and Friday 19th September, the School of the Arts will be convening its annual postgraduate conference.  We are looking forward to keynote lectures on Thursday 18th September by Visiting Professor, Victor Ukaegbu (The University of Bedfordshire) and Professor Ebitsam Ali Sadiq (King Saud University) on Friday 19th September.

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School of the Arts Postgraduate Conference, 18th-19th September 2014

We are delighted to announce that the annual School of the Arts Postgraduate Conference will be held on the 18th-19th September 2014.  MA and PhD students from the School of the Arts are strongly encouraged to submit papers on their research projects to Larissa.Allwork@northampton.ac.uk by 31 July 2014.

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Checklist for new research students

FAQ: I’ve just started as a research student at the University of Northampton.  How do I get access to university IT systems and library resources?

As a new research student it is important that you are quickly able to take advantage of the many resources and services available to you at the university.  This checklist will show you how to log in to the different services and tell you where to get help should you have any problems.

(Note: The checklist contains a lot of information and is therefore quite long, but if a quick overview is all you need then check out the summary table toward the end.)

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New resource: Emerging Markets Case Studies

Submitted by Joanne Farmer, Academic Librarian

We now have access to 250 ‘Emerging Markets’ case studies on the Emerald database. Our new subscription includes perpetual access to all of the 2014 reports and also an archive back to 2011. These reports cover a range of subject areas including Entrepreneurship, International Business, HRM, Management Science, Marketing, Strategy and Tourism and Hospitality. Each case study comes with notes for teachers, which may be accessed via a separate login (teaching staff please contact your librarian for details).

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Seminar: Collecting and Analysing text and images from Web2.0

Submitted by Dr Sandy MacDonald

Dr Katrina Pritchard and Dr Rebecca Whiting from Birkbeck University and the Open University will be giving an NBS Research Seminar on their use of Web 2.0 data as part of their Age at Work research. This includes the use of blogs, images and text from Google, Nexis, Twilerts etc and will take place in Cottesbrooke C226 on 12th February at 12 noon.

All UN PhD students and members of staff are welcome. We now have a number of people researching the use of social media and this seminar is an ideal opportunity to find out what other researchers are doing and what methodologies they employ.

If you are interested in attending please email Sandy MacDonald.

IP seminar – new date

Submitted by Debbie Christopher

The postponed Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar has now been rearranged to Thursday 23rd January 2014 and will be held in Cottesbrooke C326 from 12.00 – 2.15pm.

How do you manage publication vs secrecy?

IP assignment or licence, which option is best?

Delivered in partnership with ProspectIP, this event will introduce attendees to four key areas of intellectual property:

  • Concepts and understanding
  • Entitlement and Ownership
  • Confidentiality, publications and copyright
  • Exploitation

The 2 hour seminar will be delivered by IP experts and will cover a range of IP topics. Click here for the full programme.

business_school_colAfter the seminar there will be FREE 15 minute 1:2:1’s available for you to discuss any IP queries. To book a slot please contact Debbie Christopher.