Dust off your cameras, dig out your paintbrushes – Images of Research is back!
Images from the 2014-15 competition
It’s time for the call for research images, so why not take part in the Graduate School’s 2015-16 Images of Research competition? If you are a researcher at the University of Northampton, grab your camera or paintbrush and produce a unique image which captures the essence of your research, or an element of your research, in a visual, artistic or photographic way. Top that off with a snappy title and 150 word summary and that is all you need to do to participate.
This years IoR will, again, be a competition, where viewers can vote for their top three favourites. Entries for IoR 2015-16 must be emailed to Simone by November 6th 2015. Read on for the rules…
UK Data Service – free webinars
The UK Data Service, the ESRC-funded source of social and economic data, are offering a number of free webinars over the next couple of months:
- Webinar: Key data: Census – 3 September 2015, 3pm
- Webinar: Key data: Business data – 10 September 2015, 3pm
- Webinar: Key data: Longitudinal data – 16 September 2015, 3pm
- Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service – 6 October 2015, 3pm
- Webinar: Key data: International macrodata – 8 October 2015, 2pm
- Webinar: Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service – 14 October 2015, 3pm
- Webinar: Getting started with secondary data – 22 October 2015, 3pm
Click on each link to find out more and to book a place.
Find out more about the UK Data Service.
RDM at the University of Northampton: state of play
Over the last three years the University has been implementing its roadmap for research data management (RDM). This post outlines some of the work that has been undertaken and describes where we are now with respect to support for RDM at Northampton.
The University’s RDM roadmap was created in response to a demand from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) that Universities in receipt of EPSRC funding must conform to a set of expectations concerning the management of research data. Institutions were (by April 2012) expected to produce a roadmap outlining how they would meet these expectations and then (by April 2015) to implement that roadmap.
Data management planning using DMPonline
In its research data policy and principles, the University of Northampton strongly encourages researchers to produce data management plans (DMPs) for their research projects. DMPonline is the recommended tool for this purpose.
Last year the university’s Research Data Working Group discussed the creation of Northampton-specific guidance for DMPonline users. The tool permits institutions to enter local information about support for data management planning which users will see when they create their DMPs.
For Northampton, the local guidance now covers the University’s policies, procedures and responsibilities for research data management, as well as information about related services (such as TUNDRA2 and NECTAR) that can be used in your DMP.
To see the new University of Northampton guidance in DMPonline you will need to take the following steps when you create your plan:
Professor Gina Wisker announced as keynote for SOTA Postgraduate Conference!
We are very pleased to announce that this year’s School of The Arts Postgraduate Conference (15th -16th September 2015) will feature a keynote lecture from Professor Gina Wisker (The University of Brighton).
Guide to open access monograph publishing
The OAPEN-UK project has just published a Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts, humanities and social science researchers. 
The guide has been produced to “assist arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) researchers in understanding the state of play with regards to open access in the UK and what it means to them as current and future authors of scholarly monographs” (p.4).
It starts with an overview of open access publishing and business models for monographs and then goes on to address some common concerns of researchers such as legal issues, financial concerns, quality etc.
It is available to read online or download as a PDF.
New Book: ‘Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational’
I am pleased to say that my book. ‘Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational’ will be released on 30 July 2015. I held my launch for the book as part of the British Association of Holocaust Studies conference at the University of Birmingham (21-22 July 2015). To listen back to my launch talk which discusses the books main themes, influences and contribution to Holocaust Studies, please use the audio player below or download as MP3.
Using TUNDRA2 for research data: a researcher’s perspective
The University’s research data policy and guidelines place responsibility for good research data management on both the Principal Investigator and the University.
The University is obliged to “provide means and services enabling registration, deposit, storage, retention of and access to digital research data” and to “hold data securely with appropriate access controls”. Its solution for both of these requirements is TUNDRA2.
The UNARS project team have been using TUNDRA2 for their research data and I asked Research Assistant Jo Alexander about the team’s experiences:
Conference call for papers: The Great Outdoors? Children, Young People and Families in Natural and Rural Spaces
The University of Northampton’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing are holding a conference The Great Outdoors? Children, Young People and Families in Natural and Rural Spaces, on 9th-10th September 2015 at Sunley Conference Centre.
The conference marks 15 years since the publication of Matthews et al.’s (2000) ‘Growing up in the countryside: children and the rural idyll’. This anniversary represents a timely moment for reflection on the state of research into children, young people and families in, and in relation to, ‘rural’ and ‘natural’ spaces.
Papers are invited, which focus on children, young people and families, in relation to the following topics. Read the rest of this entry
21,000 new e-books available
Submitted by Georgina Dimmock
Library and Learning Services (LLS) has recently acquired three new e-book packages from major publishers, which together provide access to more than 21,000 e-book titles. All the titles are digital rights management (DRM) free, provide simultaneous multi-user access and are available via single sign-on through NELSON and the library catalogue.
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