Reminder: ‘Working with industry’ seminar
It’s all go in the School of Science and Technology on Thursday!
Dr Terry Tudor has asked us to remind you that the ‘Working with industry: funding opportunities‘ seminar will be taking place this Thursday, 17th March in Newton Hall.
The seminar will be conducted by Professor Carolyn Roberts (Specialist) and Dr Lis Broome (Knowledge Transfer Manager), from the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), which is the engagement arm of Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency.
For further details please see the original post.
Guest lecture: Endangered sea turtles
Submitted by Professor Jeff Ollerton
On Thursday 17th March at 11:00 in NW205 there will be a guest lecture by Rowan Byrne, Senior Marine Environmental Scientist at the firm Mott MacDonald, entitled:
“Endangered Sea Turtles, Research, Biodiversity and Infrastructure Projects”.
This is a great opportunity to find out more about the kind of work these companies do and to ask questions about getting a career in conservation and environmental consultancy.
Photo credit: By P.Lindgren (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Transfer seminar “The Efficacy of Herbal Nutraceuticals in Improving Captive Animal Welfare”
You are invited to Lauren Samet’s transfer viva on Friday, 18th March at 9am (Moulton College, Main site, M11). The title is “The Efficacy of Herbal Nutraceuticals in Improving Captive Animal Welfare”.
All are welcome. If you are travelling from the University, email Lauren in advance so that she can book parking.
Dr Charles Bennett’s ‘The Voyage’ in Oxford/Reading this weekend
Dr Charles Bennett has been commissioned as librettist in collaboration with composer Bob Chilcott by Age UK (Oxfordshire) for a major choral work called ‘The Voyage’. It will be performed by a group of choirs, including youth choirs and a ‘choir of elders’, at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on Friday 18 March and at Reading Concert Hall on Saturday 19 March. The project’s website, from which tickets can be purchased, is here.
See the full write-up, including quotes about composing the lyrics, at the University main page here.
Psychology research seminar: Weird Science
Submitted by Dr. Helen Clegg
The next Psychology Research Seminar will be on Wednesday 16th March at 3.30pm in Fawsley room 43. The talk is by Professor Christopher French and titled Weird Science: An Introduction to Anomalistic Psychology
School of the Arts – Spring Research Seminar Series
The Research Seminar Series within the School of the Arts is now well under way, with new events still being added – click through to see the full list.
Science and Technology Research Conference – programme
Submitted by Professor Jeff Ollerton
The programme for this Wednesday’s Annual Science and Technology Research Conference has just been announced:
| Time | Name | Area | Title |
| 1230 | LUNCH | ||
| 1300 | Mu Mu | Computing | Towards immersive user experience: web-based media orchestration |
| 1315 | Ameer Al-Sadi | Computing | Management of Distributed Software-Defined Networks in Smart Cities |
| 1330 | Duncan McCollin | Ecology | Islands – natural laboratories for studying ecology |
| 1345 | Jeff Ollerton | Ecology | Extinctions of British pollinators and the role of large-scale agricultural changes |
| 1400 | Riyadh Abass | Engineering | Development of scheduling process for the M2M communications system in Smart Cities |
| 1415 | BREAK | ||
| 1430 | Joseph Maina | Wastes | Towards sustainable solid waste management in Kenya |
| 1445 | Lauren Samet | Moulton – Animal Welfare | The efficacy of herbal nutraceuticals in improving captive animal welfare. |
| 1500 | Douglas Mills | Engineering | Development of a hand held electrical device (the Procometer) to assess the protection afforded by an organic coating to a metal substrate in the field |
| 1515 | TianYang Lan | Engineering | Development of assessment method for conservation coatings applied to archaeological objects |
| 1530 | Oyin Olajubu | Computing | A textual language for requirement modelling |
| 1545 | BREAK | ||
| 1600 | Robin Crockett | Maths/Physical Geography | Patterns and trends in flows in the River Nene |
| 1615 | Zainab Al-Rubaye | Computing | The use of multivariable wireless sensor data to early detect lameness in sheep |
| 1630 | Melanie Limb | Human Geography | One in four |
| 1645 | Ian Livingstone | Physical Geography | Wind-blown sand in complex terrain: a case study from the Mojave Desert, California |
| 1700 | END |
If you have not yet told science.admin@northampton.ac.uk that you are attending, please do so for catering purposes. Thank you.
PGR Student Poster Competition 2016: Call for entries
Are you a UN Postgraduate Research student, registered on one of our research degree programmes? If so, you may be interested to know that The Graduate School are holding their 11th Annual Poster Competition on Wednesday 18th May 2016, so why not take part? We are offering a first prize of £100, and two second prizes of £75 and it’s an excellent opportunity for you to illustrate and discuss your research. The competition will be held in the Dialogue Cafe in Rockingham Library. Read the rest of this entry
Transfer seminar “Human behaviour modelling”
On Friday, 26th February at 1 pm Mohamed Redha Sidoumou will be presenting his Transfer Seminar on “Human behaviour modelling” in Room NW101. Please come along and see what his research is all about.
Supervisor Development Programme – next delivery
The university runs a development programme for supervisors who are new to research degree supervision, co-ordinated by Professor Ian Livingstone. It is a validated university postgraduate course and it is delivered as two modules – Workshops and Observation. It is a requirement of our research degree regulations that everyone who is new to supervision takes the first module – the workshops. The second module is optional but if you complete both you are awarded the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision which you can count as one completion when putting together supervisory teams. Even if you have previously supervised research students, there may be some elements of the programme that you would find useful.
The next delivery of the workshops will run 9.30-4.00 on Tuesday 5th, Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th July 2016. There will be a further session of seminars led by participants – dates to be negotiated.
If you are intending to join this programme and have not yet contacted Ian Livingstone, please do so now. (x 3362; email: ian.livingstone@northampton.ac.uk)
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