Research seminar in the School of Science and Technology
Submitted by Professor Jeff Ollerton
The following double-header research seminar is taking place on Wednesday 8th May 1200 to 1300 in NW205. All welcome.
Professor Kate Rowntree (Department of Geography, Rhodes University, South Africa):
“Integrating geomorphology into the classification of ecological condition: GAI and the Ecostatus model for South African rivers”
Professor Roddy Fox (Department of Geography, Rhodes University, South Africa):
“A comparison of modelled and recorded rainfall for the extreme weather event of February 2011, Ganora, Sneeuberg Mountains, South Africa”
Kate and Roddy will each speak for about 30 minutes. Further details are available from Ian Foster.
Image credit: delayedgratification on Flickr 
Saturday School on April 13th
The Graduate School will be running a Saturday school for UN PGR students on April 13th 10-5pm in the T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus.
We will be covering “Preparing for Transfer” in the morning, followed by brand new workshops on “Interviewing for Researchers”, and “Negotiation skills”. The afternoon workshop on Negotiation Skills will be run by external trainer Karin Blak and you will learn a range of skills vital for managing situations in collaborative relationships, such as with your supervisor or other work and study colleagues. For more information see the outline Eventbrite page.
Book now to secure your place.
CoHaB summer school open lectures on diaspora studies
Submitted by Dr. Larissa Allwork.
The University of Northampton is one of six members of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network called Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB). Other partners are the Universities of Munster, Mumbai, Oxford, SOAS and Stockholm.
This March the 12 international postgraduate students affiliated to CoHaB will be coming to The University of Northampton School of the Arts to engage in CoHaB’s core module on Diaspora Studies. There will also be two postdoctoral students from COMPAS and the English Faculty at Oxford University, who have arranged the programme and will oversee the teaching of the core module of the Summer School on Diaspora studies.
University represented at Holocaust Memory Re-visited conference
Submitted by Dr. Larissa Allwork.
School of the Arts researcher Dr Larissa Allwork will be representing the University of Northampton at the internationally prestigious ‘Holocaust Memory Re-visited’ conference at Uppsala University in Sweden (21-23 March 2013). Dr Allwork will be contributing her research on British/Lithuanian Holocaust memorialisation efforts to the Uppsala conference which addresses recent cultural endeavors to depict and commemorate the Holocaust and Nazi era crimes. Dr Allwork is currently working with Professor Janet Wilson on the EU-Marie Curie funded Centre of Home and Belonging project and Dr Sonya Andermahr’s Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research in Trauma, Narrative and Performance.
Don’t Track Me, Google: a plugin to reclaim your search URLs
I had a problem this afternoon: searching for details on a conference from the distant past, I hit Google and found a link to a Word document with the conference programme. I wanted to email this link to someone, and that’s when the problem appeared: I couldn’t. Here’s what I discovered, and what I discovered I could do about it.
Posthumous Posterous: the importance of the exit strategy
I this post I discuss the imminent closure of the Posterous blogging service, and the wider topic of what happens to your data when a tool you rely on is killed off (or, perhaps, you grow out of it and want to move elsewhere). I’ll take a look at the export options for various major online tools that researchers may be likely to use, and suggest a few things to check for when you’re starting out (or if you’re already knee-deep in published content).
If postdoctoral life is about playing by the rules, what are the rules?
This article about postdoc careers might be of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/25/post-phd-rules-academic-mentors
Upcoming Graduate School workshops
‘Preparing for your Viva’: Tuesday 12 March from 4:30-6:30pm in the T-Pod. http://prepvivamar1213.eventbrite.co.uk/
‘Your Thesis: Working with Long Documents in Word’ Tuesday 12 March from 4:30-7:00pm in Grendon 152 http://yrthesismar13.eventbrite.co.uk/ (this will be repeated in June)
‘Getting Published’ Thursday 14 March from 4-6pm in MY120, Avenue http://getpubmar13.eventbrite.co.uk/
‘Advanced statistics drop-in clinic’, Thursday 21 March 4:30-6:30pm in Grendon 151 http://adstatsmar13.eventbrite.co.uk/
‘Poster design & presenting’, Tuesday 26 March from 4:30-6:30 in MY120, Avenue http://postermar13.eventbrite.co.uk/
FREE Vitae ‘entrepreneurship’ workshop in Bristol
“Charting an entrepreneurial career: how researchers can control their professional destiny” is a free day-long event open to postgraduate researchers and research staff. It is being held on the 9th April at the University of Bristol and is sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Institution.
Wherever you are in your research career, whether you are applying for research funding, moving into a new career or starting your own business (commercial or social) this day will enable you to understand your enterprising potential to create impact through research and take your ideas into a business.
During the day you will explore your own skills in relation to entrepreneurship
- explore research impact in relation to grant applications and REF
- explore different types of enterprise
- hear from successful entrepreneurs
- hear about social enterprise, commercialisation and knowledge exchange
- network and plan next steps
Book now via the Vitae website.
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