Research seminar: Politics, policy and projects – landscape greening in the Tsitsa catchment, South Africa
The School of Science and Technology would like to invite you to a research seminar on the 8th June, by visiting professor, Kate Rowntree, who will be speaking on “Politics, policy and projects – landscape greening in the Tsitsa catchment, South Africa”.
Kate is from the Department of Geography, Rhodes University and the seminar will take place in Newton NW205, Avenue campus, at 1pm on Monday 8th June.
Computing staff present on the value of volunteering and robotic problem solving
Submitted by Dr Scott Turner.
Two members of staff from the School of Science and Technology recently presented and chaired sessions at the 11th China-Europe International Symposium of Software Engineering Education, in Zwickau, Germany.
Dr Scott Turner, Associate Professor in Computing and Immersive Technologies, presented work on the importance of volunteering as a method of improving computing students employability. Gary Hill, Head of the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, presented an overview of teaching of programming and problem solving to undergraduate first year computing students, using robots/robot simulators and visual programming to emulate the robot tasks.
See NECTAR for other Computing & Immersive Technologies outputs.
Image: Lego junkbot by Scott Turner.
Are you delivering research impact?
By Roger McLassus (CC by-sa 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons.
Does your research make a difference? Can you articulate the impact of your research on scientific progress, economy and society?
On Tuesday 2nd June at 2pm, Dr Miggie Pickton and Nick Dimmock will examine the ways in which, as a researcher, you can reach and influence both academic and non-academic audiences. From using project plans to design impact into your research, to disseminating your research in ways which promote impact, the 2-hour workshop will allow sharing of experiences and introduce new ways to demonstrate the value of your research.
This workshop is open to all research students and early career researchers at the University of Northampton. For more information and to book a place go to https://delresimpactjun15.eventbrite.co.uk
Intermediate SPSS workshops for research students – book now!
Dr Roz Collings will shortly be running our last two Intermediate SPSS workshops for research students and early career researchers, one on Regression Analysis and another on Psychometrics. Regression Analysis will run on Wednesday 27th May from 1pm-3pm and Psychometrics is on Wednesday 10th June from 11am-1pm. Both will be held in Grendon 152 on Park Campus.
Please book if you would like to attend (links below). Please note: Both workshops are at intermediate level and are for researchers who already have a good working knowledge of correlations in SPSS. Please don’t attend if you do not know how to run correlations on SPSS.
To book SPSS Regression Analysis https://interspssregresmay15.eventbrite.co.uk
To book SPSS Psychometrics https://interspsspsycjun15.eventbrite.co.uk
Resources for researchers – Elsevier Publishing Campus
Elsevier have produced a series of free resources for researchers in their Elsevier Publishing Campus.
They say, “The role of researchers is changing. Together with your research tasks, you have increased pressure to secure funding, collaborate internationally, share your data, publish your results, commercialize your research and have demonstrable impact. Elsevier is committed to supporting you in meeting these pressures that bring multi-faceted challenges in today’s increasingly competitive environment.”
Highlights from the Graduate School Poster Competition 2015
Saneeya Qureshi: 1st prize winner
The Graduate School held their 10th Annual Poster Competition for doctoral research students on Weds 13th May in Newton Hall on Avenue Campus. The event offered research students the opportunity to showcase their work, practice their presentation skills, discussing their research with a non-specialist audience, and a chance to win a prize of £100 or £75. Seven judges, a mix of University staff and Board of Governors, plus an external judge from the Open University, chose one first and three second prizes. Read the rest of this entry
Information on the Research Excellence Framework
Posted on behalf of Prof. Simon Denny
The following resources about the REF may be of interest to researchers reflecting on REF2014 and planning for REF2020:
From HEFCE’S REFlections conference – The presentations, project synopsis and completed project reports are available online at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/REFlections
From HEPI-Elsevier Research Conference – The speaker presentations are available for download at http://www.hepi.ac.uk/2015/03/31/hepi-elsevier-conference-reflections-ref2014-next-royal-society-31-march-2015/
A brief history of your h-index
Join campus Columbo Professor Jeff Ollerton on an intrepid adventure to calculate the evolution* of his Web of Science h-index, using nothing more than an online database, an export file and a copy of Excel and some coffee.
It’s unfortunate that this isn’t a built-in function, because it’s interesting information that wouldn’t be too difficult for WoS to provide. But Jeff has a straightforward* procedure for extracting and presenting the data, and his post also discusses the value of the exercise beyond academic curiosity.
* Use of term may not be scientifically accurate. Sorry, Jeff.
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