Graduate School Update Day – research integrity and ethics
This year’s Graduate School’s Update Day will run on Thursday September 24th 2015 from 11am to 4pm in the Delapre Lecture Theatre at Park Campus. We are offering supervisors, research students and researchers in the University two related workshops on research integrity and ethics. We are very pleased that the workshop on integrity will be led by Dr Andrew Rawnsley (UK Council for Graduate Education). Please note this date in your diary – booking details are here.
New trial: SAGE Video
SAGE Video comprises video collections in the social sciences and covers the subject areas of education; media, communication and cultural studies; and counseling and psychotherapy. Content includes tutorials, interviews and practical advice.
The website is currently in test mode and the full site will be launching soon. Approximately 50% of the videos are currently live on the site, and SAGE aim to have all the content in the collections by July 2015. In the meantime, you can view a complete list of titles here. There is also a ‘Help Page’ for guidance on using the SAGE Video platform features.
The trial to SAGE video is available on campus only.
Hannah Rose, Academic Librarian for Education, has arranged this trial and would appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
The inaugural Northampton Business School Research Conference on 18th June
The very first Northampton_Business_School_Conference will take place on Thursday 18th June at Sunley Management Centre, University of Northampton. All staff and PhD students from the Business School and across the University are welcome. The Programme will be released shortly.
The day begins with a presentation from our Guest Speaker, our Visiting Professor Carol Atkinson, Professor of HR and Associate Dean for Research, MMU Business School. This is followed by three streams of presentations by NBS staff and PhD students, totalling nearly 30 papers, split into five tracks: Marketing and Logistics, Education and Language, HRM, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability & Corporate Governance.
For more information please contact Sandy McDonald or Kathleen Mortimer.
SRHE Newer Researchers’ Conference – call for papers closes 10th July.
The call for papers for this one day conference for Newer Researchers*, held by the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), has been launched. The conference will take place on the 8 December 2015 at Celtic Manor Resort, Newport in Wales. Read the rest of this entry
™, © and patent pending: unpicking intellectual property rights with IP Tutor
We all use intellectual property and we all create intellectual property, but the intricacies of IP law are often daunting. IP Tutor is an online course from the government’s Intellectual Property Office. For the low price of half an hour of your time it will help you understand the role and value of IP, whether you’re building on the work of others or maximising the potential of your own output.
‘Opps for Apps’ Symposium (17 June 2015) will welcome mobile technology innovators Touchpress
Dr Sonya Andermahr and Dr David Simmons will be hosting the ‘Opps for Apps’ symposium on Wednesday 17 June 2015. Sponsored by the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, this event will be a great opportunity to discuss the use of digital technologies such as apps in educational environments. We are also very lucky to have two representatives of app design company Touchpress, Selam Zuru and Louise Rice addressing the symposium.
Help with public engagement
Following last week’s Graduate School workshop on ‘delivering research impact’, Dr Scott Turner drew my attention to the work of the National Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).
Scott writes:
Did you know there is a body, the National Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, which has been set up to support Universities across the UK to increase the quality and quantity of their public engagement activities. The University has signed their Manifesto.
Part of the NCCPEs remit is proving a wide range of training or CPD activities on public engagement.
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Developing as an Early Career Researcher*
The Graduate School would like to invite all Early Career Researchers* to join us for a development event on the morning of Monday 22nd June.
The event is split into two sessions (you can attend just one session) and will include lunch during our second session. Both sessions will be held in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3 at Park Campus. Read the rest of this entry
Finding Alternative Sources of Funding: Workshop for PGRs
Are you a postgraduate researcher at the University who is self-funded? If so, you might be interested in coming along to Lucy Atkinson’s new workshop, on Wednesday, 24 June 2015 from 16:00 to 18:00 in C311, Cottesbrooke, Park Campus. Lucy will show you possible routes to finding alternative sources of funding, whether for fees, maintenance, research expenses, conferences or travel.
Lucy has been very successful in obtaining funding for her self-funded PhD and she would like to share the idea, requirements, documents and enthusiasm with you to try to help alleviate some financial pressure during your postgraduate studies. The workshop looks at a major, but neglected, alternative funding source in the area of charities and external bodies. Read the rest of this entry
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