NBS Seminar
On 16th November the Northampton Business School are holding a seminar for NBS Research Students & Staff.
Associate Professor, Kathleen Mortimer, will talk on “Pitfalls to be avoided when designing a Questionnaire” in the Business School, room C227 at 11am.
Please note: This is for NBS research students and staff only, due to room size restrictions.
Media, English and Culture Seminar, 8th November at 6pm
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NECTAR, faster: import your publications with a DOI
We’re always delighted when staff and researchers add their work to NECTAR, the university’s research repository. It helps develop NECTAR as a comprehensive showcase of our research output, it helps authors by pushing the work to their staff profiles and NECTAR-friendly web resources like Google Scholar, and it helps schools by driving annual research reports and the REF.
But we’re also aware that adding an item takes time, and time is a valuable commodity. In this post I’ll show you how to use a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to get your work into NECTAR as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Redirect your university email to a personal address
FAQ: How do I redirect my university email to a personal address?
In this post I’ll demonstrate how to use Outlook to redirect emails from your university email address to a personal email account. All you’ll need for this is a web browser. Once this is set up, any email to your @northampton.ac.uk address will be sent on to the address you enter (a copy will remain in your university inbox). Redirection can be turned off and on easily.
Journal impact factors
FAQ: What is a journal impact factor and why does it matter?
A journal’s impact factor is used to evaluate the relative importance of a journal in its field. The higher the impact factor, the more prestigious the journal. From a researcher’s point of view, ‘high impact’ journals are usually perceived to be the ‘best’ and most career enhancing places to be published.
The impact factor is a statistical measure; a journal with a high impact factor will have received more citations than one with a low impact factor.
Research Methods: Distance learning workshops on Nile are available now!
Available on Nile are the excellent Epigeum online workshops in “Research Methods”. There are workshops in each of the following areas – Social sciences, Arts, Science and Literature Review. Go to “RES001: Postgraduate Research Training” and choose “Online Research Training” from the left-hand menu.
Introducing research data management
Reporting on this event: Research data clinics – 30th October
Yesterday’s visit by Sarah Jones and Marieke Guy from the DCC gave a dozen or so Northampton researchers the chance to find out a bit more about the benefits and challenges of managing research data.
Blogs added, blogs wanted
We’ve added some new university staff and researcher blogs to our blogroll in the right-hand column:
At History at The University of Northampton Dr. Drew Gray and the history staff are posting on a variety of interesting topics including crime and punishment, Northampton Castle, motherhood in the media and political strategy.
Cotswold History is the blog of PhD researcher Nell Darby and focuses on the social history of the Cotswolds region, with posts on cautionary tales, local eccentrics, magic lanterns and everyone’s favourite, murder walks.
Professor Mike Redwood is a seasoned blogger whose posts on the global leather industry date back to 2007. He has recently posted from the Netherlands, Shanghai, Germany and everyone’s favourite, Northampton on leather and its relation and relevance to the University of Northampton.
These new sites join our existing link to the blog of Professor Jeff Ollerton, whose diverse posts revolve around biodiversity by way of creationism, architecture, post-everything activism and everyone’s favourite, toilet seats.
If you’re a blogging PhD or staff researcher we’d love to add your site to our list – please contact Nick with the details.
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Disseminating your Research Workshop – book now!
New Ways to Disseminate your Research: Social media
Thursday, 1 November 2012 from 14:00 to 17:00
T-Pod, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, University of Northampton
This workshop describes some of the tools that may be used to disseminate research to a wider audience. It will introduce a range of social media, including professional networking tools (e.g. LinkedIn; Academia.edu; ResearchGate; Mendeley), blogs (e.g. Blogger; WordPress) and microblogs (e.g. Twitter).
Book now at http://dissresnov12.eventbrite.co.uk/
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