Rewind! Missed any workshops/training? Online resources now available.
If you are distance learner or you missed any Graduate School workshops or Induction sessions, this is a reminder that you can catch up using NILE.
You can access resources on the Graduate School Nile site “RES001: Postgraduate Research Training”.
After logging into NILE and finding RES001, choose “Training Materials” from the left hand menu. You can then choose between:-
- Research Training Workshop Materials: Materials from 2012 and earlier.
- Saturday Schools: Resources from the 8th December 2012 Saturday School.
- Induction materials: Materials relating to Induction – now updated to include October 2012 Induction.
New Q Methodology workshop in Feb 2013
Do you fancy learning about Q Methodology? Lecturer, author and Q expert Simon Watts is visiting the University to run a Q workshop on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 from 09:30 to 14:30 at MY120, Avenue Campus.
There are only 30 places, which will fill quickly, so go to Eventbrite now for more information and to book. Open to all PGR students studying at the University.
RefWorks updated
We’ve updated our Harvard UoN referencing style to fix an issue with formatting for book sections (a missing space between the author details and the date of publication).
Users will need to add the new version of the style to their RefWorks profile – please see our Hub post on restoring the Harvard UoN style for instructions.
School of the Arts Research Seminar: Tuesday 11th December
Submitted by Dr Larissa Allwork
On Tuesday 11th December at 12:00 noon (Avenue Campus, Room MY120), the Division of Media English and Culture will be warmly welcoming Professor Richard Godden from the University of California, Irvine to give a research seminar on ‘Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance’. Professor Godden teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include, Fictions of Capital; Fictions of Labour: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution and William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. He currently works on the narrative poetics of finance capital.
Staff and students from the University of Northampton are welcome to attend and for more information please contact: larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk
Interested in using focus groups in your research?
Do you need advice on how to set up focus groups, how to manage them, and how to analyse data from them?
If so, come along to Dr Jane Callaghan’s Focus Group workshop on Wednesday, 12 December from 17:00 to 18:30, in the T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus.
Book now on Eventbrite at http://focgrpdec12.eventbrite.co.uk/
Remembering the Apollo Moon Landings
Lewis Goodings, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Roehampton University, is coming to the University on Wednesday 12th December to speak about an analysis of people’s memories of the Apollo moon landings. All University of Northampton staff and research students are welcome.
Wednesday 12th December at 3pm in C204. Refreshments will be available. Read the rest of this entry
2012 EABIS Sustainability Conference report
Submitted by Nadeem Khan, NBS Postgraduate Student.
The University of Northampton was represented at the EABIS Colloquium, held at IMD Lausanne and Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), on 2–5 July 2012. The theme was Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Business. This forum brought together leading academics and Corporate leaders (IBM, Microsoft, Syngenta, Unilever) from across the globe, in dialogue on innovation for sustainability. Delegates from the European Commission and attendees of the Rio+20 Summit were also present.
“Creativity in Research” and “Academic Writing” Day
Dr Adair Richards, (trainer, consultant, broadcaster and academic), is delivering a training day for the UN Graduate School on Tuesday, 5th February 2013, covering both Creativity in Research and Academic writing. Read the rest of this entry
New resource: Journal Citation Reports
Good news! The University now has a subscription to the sector’s leading tool for assessing the impact and prestige of scholarly journals: Journal Citation Reports (otherwise known as JCR).
Based on citation data from journals indexed by Thomson Reuters, JCR calculates and reports the impact factors that are boasted of and aspired to by publishers and editors of academic journals. For researchers, they can provide a rough and ready measure of journal quality and answer the oft-asked question of “where should I publish if I want my work to have the highest impact?”.
The last three Graduate School workshops in 2012!
8th December: Saturday school. Click to book.
Writing and Structuring your Thesis, Introductory SPSS Statistics Session, Planning your Project and Time Management.
11th December 09:30-13:30: Successful research proposals & research ethics. Click to book.
Covers the requirements for registration as an APG. Essential for pre-registration research students but also important for supervisors who expect their students to be registering soon.
12th December 5-6.30pm : Focus Groups. Click to book.
Dr Jane Callaghan considers the specific features of focus groups, looking at both practical and theoretical issues in conducting focus group research.
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