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!
Resources: Orbis and MarketLine to replace Global Business Browser
Joanne Farmer, Academic Librarian for Northampton Business School, reports:
“Some of you will already know that I have been looking into alternatives to Global Business Browser. This resource has served us well for many years but, more recently, has not been meeting the needs of students quite as well as it used to.
Orbis
Following a trial of Bureau Van Dijk’s database Orbis, this has now been purchased as a (partial) replacement for Global Business Browser. This database provides in depth financial data in relation to very large global companies. To enhance the content on this database, I have also subscribed to the EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts component.
Focus group invitation: give your views on the journal article publishing process
As part of their forthcoming workshop on publishing and reviewing, journals publisher, Taylor & Francis, are looking for 15 researchers to take part in a short focus group. Forming part of a project to improve the author journey, your views will influence and inform how their researcher-facing processes work in the future, with the aim of ensuring they meet the needs of the many researchers they work with.
Date: Thursday 30th June
Time: 1pm to 2pm (come from 12:30pm t0 to get your free lunch!)
Venue: Pytchley 101, Park Campus
Seminar: Review of Selected Inorganic Surface Water Quality Monitoring Practices
Submitted by Professor Ian Foster
A Review of Selected Inorganic Surface Water Quality Monitoring Practices — Do We Really Know What We’re Doing?
This seminar, hosted by the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, is presented by Professor Art Horowitz, formerly of the United States Geological Survey. Art is a brilliant speaker and has a lifetime’s experience designing monitoring networks for the US government so the seminar promises to be both interesting and fun.
Date: Monday 18th July
Time: 1pm-3pm
Venue: NW101
If you have any questions about the event or to book a place please contact Ian Foster.
Robinson Crusoe, apps, smart cities and harvest mice!
On Tuesday 14th June diverse research topics took the stage at The University of Northampton Graduate School’s 2016 Postgraduate Researcher Conference. 18 postgraduate research students, in various stages of their research degree, each presented a 10 minute paper, with other student colleagues chairing or helping organise the event.
The conference is held annually to give the University’s cohort of doctoral students a chance to present to a friendly audience, practice communicating their research and engaging a general academic audience with their project. They also get a chance, in 5 minutes of questions, to discuss their research in a supportive environment with an audience of fellow students, academics and supervisors. The conference was opened by Andrew Scarborough, the Chair of the Board of Governors, and speakers were chosen from across the University’s six schools. Read the rest of this entry
Transfer seminar: Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the divine in an empirical world?
Please note venue change to W23a, Walgrave building, Avenue Campus
You are invited to view Adam Ghani’s work and attend his transfer seminar entitled Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the divine in an empirical world? on June 14th, 2016 in W23a, Walgrave building, Avenue Campus.
Adam will be screening his practical work on loop, projecting several montages from 10am and his seminar will commence at 1pm in the same venue. All are welcome.
Adam’s practice led research aims to explore if the idea of the liminal state (the in-between, the transitional) has ‘divine’ resonance in an atheistic age, through contemporary art practices.
Essential PhD tips: 10 articles all doctoral students should read
The THE has some useful reading on their Website for research students.Whether you’re still deciding on doing a doctorate or you’re nearing the end of a PhD, there’ll be something of interest in these ten tips. They include…
- 14 essential PhD questions answered
- Choosing a PhD subject
- The PhD experience: this far, and no further
- 10 steps to PhD failure
- How not to write a PhD thesis
- Realistic expectations keep you on the path to a PhD
- 10 truths a PhD supervisor will never tell you
- Me and my PhD supervisor: tales of love and loathing
- How to get students through their PhD thesis
- How to get ahead with a PhD
Postgraduate Research Student Network Summer PGR get-together
All postgraduate research students are warmly invited to a postgraduate networking party, to be held after The Graduate School PGR Annual Conference in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3 (HLT3), Park Campus on Tuesday 14th June at 4:30pm. Whether you’re doing a PhD, an MPhil or any of our professional doctorates you are all welcome to join us.
This will be a chance for all our PGR students to meet students from other Schools, socialise and enjoy a selection of drinks and snacks.Book your place here for catering purposes please http://pgrsummerparty.eventbrite.co.uk
Why not come along to the PGR Conference first and see some of your fellow students present their research?
We look forward to seeing you there!
Lucy Atkinson & Simone Apel
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.
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