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Research and Strategic Bidding Office – How are we doing?
Following on from the organisational changes around the University, we’re taking stock of the services we offer to make sure that we’re able to meet your needs. We’ve put together a brief (and anonymous!) survey to capture your feedback on what we offer and we’ll use the results from this to set our priorities for 2017.
Please click here to access the survey.
Supervisor Development Programme – 2016/17
The university runs a development programme for supervisors who are new to research degree supervision, co-ordinated by Professor Ian Livingstone, Head of the Graduate School. It is a validated university postgraduate course and it is delivered as two modules – Workshops and Observation. It is a requirement of our research degree regulations that everyone who is new to supervision takes the first module – the workshops. The second module is optional but if you complete both you are awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision which you can count as one completion when putting together supervisory teams. Even if you have previously supervised research students, there may be some elements of the programme that you would find useful.
In 2016/17 the workshops will be delivered on two occasions:
Tuesday 14th, Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th February 2017
at The University of Northampton;
Tuesday 4th, Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th July 2017
at Regent’s University London.
Staff from both The University of Northampton and Regent’s University London plus staff delivering our research degrees as international partners are welcome to join either delivery. You only need to join one three-day course, not both. No fees are paid by participants on this programme, but if you will be travelling away from your own university you will need to discuss travel and subsistence expenses with your line manager.
If you are intending to join this programme for either delivery and have not yet contacted Ian Livingstone, please do so now. (01604 893362; email: ian.livingstone@northampton.ac.uk). He will be happy to answer any questions you have about the programme.
Postgraduate Research Conference in Arts and Humanities subjects – programme now available
What has previously been called the School of the Arts Annual Postgraduate Research Conference is taking place one last time on Thursday and Friday, 15 and 16 September 2016, including students across two new faculties delivering papers: the Faculty of Education and Humanities and the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology.
The full programme is now available – click link below to download the pdf file.
All events will be held in MY120 at Avenue Campus. For further information, please contact Dr Rod Rosenquist at rod.rosenquist@northampton.ac.uk
Collecting Research Impact Evidence – Research Report from Vertigo Ventures
Vertigo Ventures have led a piece of research commissioned by HEFCE to develop guidance on research impact evidence.
School of Education seminar – ‘I look away untul they have finished reading it!’ by Dr Michael Catchpool
The School of Education is hosting a seminar by Dr Michael Catchpool which focuses on children’s engagement with writing, particularly in the feedback process.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday 13th July, from 1-2pm in room S014 on Park Campus – all are welcome!
Transfer Seminars in SOTA this Wednesday
You are cordially invited to the transfer seminars of two School of the Arts students on Weds 8th June starting at 2pm in MR34, Maidwell Building, Avenue Campus.
Meriem Lamara, ‘A Study of the Gothic in Twenty-first Century Young Adult Fiction‘ at 2pm
Meghann Hillier-Broadley, ‘Analysing Post-War Children’s Fantasy Literature Through the Evolving Narrative of the Anthropocene’ at 3pm
The event will finish at 4pm.
‘Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story’
Gerri Kimber, Visiting Professor, and Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, in the Department of English and Creative Writing, are finalising preparations for an important international conference being held in Bandol on the French Riviera from 10-12 June and sponsored by the University of Northampton: ‘Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story’.
Conference: ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’: Critiques of Globalization in New Zealand and the Pacific
July 8 – July 9, Regents University, London
Supported by the University of Northampton and The New Zealand Studies Network
With the 2008 Financial Crisis and austerity, protest over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the refugee crisis in Europe and the spotlight on Australia’s inhuman treatment of asylum seekers, the rise of ISIS, the concerted turn to nationalism in the EU, scholarship and public discourse around globalization is increasingly turning away from celebration of global flows, interconnectivity, the transnational citizen and the transcultural happy hybrid.
While the internet, social media, and global networks and cultures have transformed the
marketplace, enabled new forms of cultural and individual identity construction and new types of movement, settlement and citizenship, the long-term benefits are not always as visible or productive as the short term gains. In this transformative era (2008-2016) the impact of globalization upon every sphere of life calls out for revaluation.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to interrogate and criticize conceptions and constructions of globalization. We welcome scholars from across the social sciences and humanities, with a particular focus on artistic and cultural expressions from the Pacific region, including Pacific Rim nations.
Dates and times:
Friday 8 July 2016, 10am – 9pm
Saturday 9 July 2016, 10am – 3pm
Tickets available here:
Registration: £80 waged, £65 unwaged
Day fee for visitors on application
Organisers: Melissa Kennedy (melissa.kennedy@univie.ac.at)
Janet Wilson (janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk)
Fleur Adcock: A Symposium
Saturday 21 May 2016, 10am – 5pm
Stripe Lecture Theatre, University of Winchester
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand but has lived in London since 1963. She is one of Britain’s best loved poets, celebrated her 80th birthday in 2014 and her most recent book The Land Ballot was published by Bloodaxe in 2015. Her Poems 1960-2000 was published in 2000. In 1996 she was given an OBE; in 2006 was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2008 was named Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
The University of Winchester is co-hosting with the University of Northampton the Fleur Adcock Symposium in honour of one of our best known contemporary poets. The organisers are Julian Stannard and Janet Wilson, and Fleur Adcock will be at the symposium in person! Read the rest of this entry
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