Category Archives: School of Science and Technology
Jessica York’s Transfer Seminar: Equine Aqua-Treadmills
Jessica York, PhD research student at UN, would like to invite research staff and students to her Transfer Seminar “The Use of the Aqua-Treadmill in Equine Rehabilitation and Training“.
Jessica’s seminar will take place on Wednesday 19th November 2014 from 9:00 – 10:00am in M2, HE Block, Main Site (Gate 2), Moulton College.
The seminar will give an insight into ongoing research in the area of Equine Aqua-Treadmills and aims to specifically investigate the movement of the horse on the aqua-treadmill at increasing water depths in order to identify constructive, specific and controlled therapeutic rehabilitation and exercise.
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.
Invitation to Professor Jeff Ollerton’s “Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain”
In preparation for a conference in Sweden next week, Professor Jeff Ollerton is giving a sneak preview of his 20 minute conference presentation. And he would love some feedback!
“Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain and the role of large-scale agricultural changes” will be held on Wednesday 22nd October at 4pm in Newton NW205, Avenue Campus.
All welcome.
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.
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.
Featured researcher: Clare Ellis
Clare Ellis & Rex cross rabbit. Photo: Learning Materials team at Moulton College.
Clare Ellis, Postgraduate Research Student
Second prize winner of the 2014 UN Graduate School poster competition
On the 7th May, at our Annual Poster Competition, Clare won a second prize of £75 for her poster entitled “Britain’s Bunny Problem: It’s not all black and white…” Clare is a postgraduate researcher in the School of Science & Technology and is based at Moulton College. Her research interests are in the field and animal welfare assessment using behavioural and other non-invasive measures within zoos and other captive animal settings. Read the rest of this entry
Call for Papers: 2nd International Conference on Semiotics and Visual communication
Posted on the behalf of Paul Middleton, Executive Dean, The School of the Arts, The University of Northampton
The School of the Arts at the University of Northampton and The Cyprus Semiotic Association are collaborating to host a conference and poster exhibition in Northampton, 24th – 26th October 2014.
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.)
Jeff Ollerton: The Cliff
Research Support Hub readers will surely be interested in Professor Jeff Ollerton’s latest blog post, The Cliff, in which Professor Jeff reflects on 20 years as a PhD examiner, discusses the growth of literature in his field and what it means for new research students, and highlights a mysterious publishing statistic.
You can subscribe to all Jeff’s posts at jeffollerton.wordpress.com.
Conference report: 9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education
Submitted by Dr Scott Turner
Two members of the Computing Team, School of Science and Technology Gary Hill and Scott Turner on 12-14th May 2013 presented a paper Electronic Online Marking Of Software Assignments (EOMOSA) in Milan at the 9th China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education. This conference was held in Northampton two years ago.
This conference series brings universities in Europe together with some of the top universities in China, in the field of software engineering, to discuss industrial orientation software education. As well as presenting, one member of the team chaired a session and members of the School of Science and Technology continue on the programme committee.
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