Visiting Professors and Fellows: policy and guidance
Submitted by Matthew Watson on behalf of Research and Enterprise Committee
Revised policy, guidance and nomination forms for new Visiting Professors and Fellows are now available.
Visiting Professors and Fellows – Policy
Fleur Adcock: A Symposium
Saturday 21 May 2016, 10am – 5pm
Stripe Lecture Theatre, University of Winchester
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand but has lived in London since 1963. She is one of Britain’s best loved poets, celebrated her 80th birthday in 2014 and her most recent book The Land Ballot was published by Bloodaxe in 2015. Her Poems 1960-2000 was published in 2000. In 1996 she was given an OBE; in 2006 was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2008 was named Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
The University of Winchester is co-hosting with the University of Northampton the Fleur Adcock Symposium in honour of one of our best known contemporary poets. The organisers are Julian Stannard and Janet Wilson, and Fleur Adcock will be at the symposium in person! Read the rest of this entry
Final Registration: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story
Bandol, France, 10-12 June 2016
An international conference, celebrating the centenary of Katherine Mansfield’s visit to Bandol, where the first draft of ‘Prelude’ was written, Jan-March 1916.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Professor Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK
Organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society, primarily Dr Gerri Kimber and Professor Janet Wilson, University of Northampton
Hosted by the town of Bandol, France
Supported by the New Zealand Embassy, Paris, and the University of Northampton, UK
For further information or to register (before 30 April), please visit: Katherine Mansfield Society website
or write to: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
PGR Student Poster Competition 2016: Invitation to all
The Graduate School would like to invite you to their 11th Annual Poster Competition on Wednesday 18th May 2016, 11am to 2pm, in the Dialog Cafe, ground floor of Rockingham Library, Park Campus.
The poster competition is a development opportunity for doctoral research students, who present their research on an A1 poster, giving short 1-1 verbal presentations alongside. So why not come along to meet some of our research students. They have been given a brief to present their research for a general, non-specialist audience, accessible to all. Read the rest of this entry
Spring 2016 NBS Research Seminar Series announced
Submitted by Debbie Christopher
The Northampton Business School (NBS) have announced dates for their Research Seminar Series in April and May. The sessions are open to all staff and doctoral students.
28th April 2016 at 13:00 in C226.
Dr Yongjiang Shi from Oxford University. ‘International Operations Management (IOM) of Multinational Corporations (MNCs): To pursue a holographic understanding for their IOM network systems.’
4th May 2016 at 13:00 in C226.
Visiting Professor Deborah Johnston: ‘Combining Excellence in Research and Teaching.‘
11th May 2016 at 13:00 in C309.
Maher Daboul, Phd Student. Transfer Seminar.
25th May 2016 at 13:00 in C227.
Payal Jain, Phd Student. ‘Developing social value creation framework: perspectives of private, public and third sectors.’
Please email Debbie Christopher if you would like to attend.
Intermediate SPSS statistics workshops now scheduled
The Graduate School has added some intermediate SPSS workshops to this year’s development programme. They are for research students and early career researchers who have some experience using SPSS at a basic level. The workshops will run from the end of April to the middle of June and are now open for booking. Read the rest of this entry
Support for part-time research students from Midlands universities
If you are a research student studying on a part-time basis, did you know that there are workshops coming up designed specifically to support your mode of study?
Three Midlands universities are holding the Vitae-inspired Part-Time Researcher’s days so, whether you are still near the beginning of your studies or coming to the end of your research degree, there is a day for you. Read the rest of this entry
Have your say on reference management
Do you use RefWorks? Mendeley? OneNote, Papers, CiteULike? Do they improve your life, or raise your blood pressure? Is there anything you wish they did, or didn’t do? Do you avoid them altogether?
All researchers and staff are invited to take part in our survey on the use of reference managers. This is part of a project within Library and Learning Services looking at support and provision for reference management and citation services.
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The Graduate School PGR Annual Conference 2016: Call for abstracts
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 University of Northampton research students (PGRs) and early career researchers (ECRs) to present a 10 minute paper, chair or help organise the event.
If you are interested in presenting please register your interest by emailing an abstract & preliminary information (see below) to simone.apel@northampton.ac.uk. Please submit the following by Thursday May 19th:
- Your presentation title, your full name, School and email address.
- An abstract (ca. 150 words) summarising your presentation; eg. outlining your research, its context, methods, results (if any), conclusion. Nb. Style of writing; you should write clearly for a general academic audience, so no jargon please!
Dr Adair Richards
You have until the date before the conference to prepare your paper. A workshop on making “Excellent Conference Presentations’ will run on June 10th, delivered by Dr Adair Richards. This will help you to fine tune your paper and your presentation skills. You can book here. Read the rest of this entry
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