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.
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
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