Advanced research methods workshops for research students
Aston Business School, part of Aston University, are running a summer school for researchers in Birmingham and have opened their doors to PGR students by offering reduced rates.
The advanced research methods workshops are running from 20th June to 13th September and include Modelling Markets; Panel Data Models for Accounting and Finance; Experimental Designs in June, Data Mining and Big Data; Text Mining and Social Network Analysis; Multilevel Regression Analysis in July and Mapping Decision Making in September.
The workshops are open to all research students from any university. Reduced fees for students are from £75 for a 1-day course to £225 for a 3-day course.
The workshops are also open to research staff and industry researchers at a higher fee. See the Summer School website for more details and to book.
‘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’.
Graduate School Update Day
This year’s Graduate School Update Day will run on Tuesday 21 June 2016 from 9am in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3 at Park Campus. The theme for this year’s update will be research integrity with a workshop on integrity to be led by Dr Andrew Rawnsley (UK Council for Graduate Education). Update Day is open all the university’s research degree students and supervisors. Please note this date in your diary – booking details are here.
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)
Open invitation to the Graduate School PGR Annual Conference 2016
2014 GS conference
The University of Northampton Graduate School are holding their annual Postgraduate Researcher Conference on Tuesday 14th June and would like to invite staff and students from the University of Northampton to join us.
The conference provides an ideal development opportunity for new researchers to present their research, discuss and share good practice with others in an informal and non-threatening setting. There will be representation from all Schools and feature a diverse range of research activity. Read the rest of this entry
Images of Research 2015-16 winners announced!
Kim Dodd’s winning image
The winners of the Graduate School’s Images of Research (IoR) exhibition and competition have been chosen!
There were two competitions – 3 winners chosen by guest judge, Roy Wallace, Senior Lecturer in Media Production at the University of Northampton, and a ‘People’s Choice’. The ‘People’s Choice’ competition votes were counted from those on paper at the exhibition at Avenue gallery corridor in February and the university library exhibitions, plus 300 online votes via the Research Support Hub.
Karen Anthony’s Muscle by Numbers
Congratulations to Kim Dodd, Helen Scott and Charmaine Sonnex who were Roy Wallace’s winners. The People’s Choice winners were Karen Anthony, Carmel Capewell, Meriem Lamara and Emma Whewell. For more information about the winners please see the links above. The Images of Research Catalogue 2015-16 shows all the 2015-16 entries. Read the rest of this entry
Graduate School workshops – to turn up or not turn up!
We’re coming to the last few months of workshops in the 2015-16 programme and I thought a reminder on the delicate subject of attendance is perhaps overdue!
We have had (like most other universities offering free skills workshops) a problem with researchers booking a place on Eventbrite but then not turning up, or turning up half-way through a workshop. Neither of these scenarios results in a happy workshop facilitator, as they have spent hours preparing and then delivering the material to an expected number of bodies, in a planned time-frame. Please remember that by registering on a workshop you are committing to attend.
Many other Universities charge a booking fee or deposit, but we have chosen not to do this, so if you book a workshop please don’t abuse the system by not turning up.
So, here’s the booking etiquette….. Read the rest of this entry
Lunchtime seminar: Anorexia and Social Media
Join Anna Lavis (University of Birmingham) for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing‘s lunchtime seminar Anorexia and Social Media: Ethnographic Explorations and Clinical Implications on Wednesday 8 June.
Developing a tool for temperament and personality assessment in rabbits: Transfer seminar invitation
You are cordially invited to the Clare Ellis’s transfer seminar at Moulton College on Friday 20th May 9am (9:15 start).
Please email Clare by Thursday 15th May if you wish to attend so she can arrange visitor passes. Full details below. Read the rest of this entry
Inspiring Futures: The 2016 EMUA PGR Student Conference call for papers and posters
Calling all of our postgraduate research students! Here’s a chance to present your work via a talk or poster at the 2016 East Midlands University Association (EMUA) postgraduate research student conference, which will be held on September 1st 2016. The call for papers is now open and will close on July 7th. Read the rest of this entry
UON Graduate School Blog 