Masters in Clinical Research poster conference
Submitted by Sarah Neill, School of Health
On Friday 16th January 2015 from 10am-2pm, in the Dialogue Cafe, Rockingham Library, Park Campus, the first cohort of students undertaking the Masters in Clinical Research will be presenting the results of their clinical audits in poster form. So if you are interested in clinical audit and/or the Masters in Clinical Research it’s an event not to missed! Do come along to support our students.
Lunchtime seminar: Communities for Ageing Populations in Canada and Brazil
Submitted by Ruth Hughes-Rowlands.
The Institute for Heath and Wellbeing are holding a lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 14 January at Sunley Conference Centre. Professor Judith Sixsmith and Maria Mascolli, a visting PhD student from Brazil, are presenting on two community-based research studies on communities for ageing populations in Canada and Brazil.
A sandwich lunch will be provided. Please see the seminar flyer or Eventbrite page for further details and to book a place.
Professor David Cesarani OBE to give Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture at the University of Northampton
On Wednesday 21st January at 1pm in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 1 , Professor David Cesarani OBE (Royal Holloway, University of London) will give the University of Northampton’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture on ‘The Second World War and the Fate of the Jews.’
A new year’s resolution for PGRs…. start planning your career!
In the olden days a postdoc could expect a job for life in academia, possibly working his or her way through a logical academic career progression, right up to a professorship. But sadly, in the 2010s, this could turn out to be a career path limited to the very few and, arguably, the lucky! Of course, there are always those who do not wish for a career in academia and, for them, the outside world beckons with a plethora of jobs and career paths which are as diverse as the postdocs applying for them.
A Times Higher Education article, published just before Christmas, points out that a PhD alone may not be enough. Picking up transferable skills from training opportunities, broadening experience and knowledge, increasing experience of team working and leadership and the ability to assess and promote one’s own achievements will all help to construct the highly transferable CV that non-academic employers are looking for.
Research Support Hub: how did we do?
The Research Support Hub annual activity report has just been published.
You may be interested to know that the ever-popular Hub was viewed 36,000 times in 2014; we had visitors from 133 countries; and November 5th was the busiest day of the year (with 342 views).
At the same time, your enthusiastic research support bloggers managed to post 258 posts between them, and, curiously, it appears that Tuesday is their most popular day for posting.
If you’d like to know more then please do check out the full report here.
Image credit: By Zekelhuter (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Call for Participants: Walking Exercise Programme
Are you female, aged between 18-25 years old OR 50+ years old, and currently not participating in regular physical activity? If you can answer yes to these questions, would like to increase your physical activity levels, and are interested in participating in a research study, we would love to hear from you! The study will require you to walk for 30 mins on a treadmill (Park campus) on 6 separate occasions. For further information please contact Dr Florence Kinnafick onflorence.kinnafick@northampton.ac.uk or 01604 893328. By enquiring you are not committing yourself to taking part.
Season’s Greetings from SOTA Research!
Dr Sonya Andermahr and Dr Silvia Pellicer-Ortin (December 2014)
The last two weeks at SOTA research have been hectic but good, with three events which rounded off the term in style. Chaired by Dr Sonya Andermahr, on 11th December 2014, Dr Silvia Pellicer-Ortin from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, gave a talk on ‘Emerging Voices: British Jewish Women Writers’ to English staff, MA and BA students.
Inaugural John Clare Memorial Lecture with Professor Nick Groom a Success!
On Friday 12th December, the English Division at the University of Northampton School of the Arts was very pleased to welcome Professor Nick Groom (University of Exeter) to give the Inaugural John Clare Memorial Lecture. Accompanied by mulled wine and mince pies, the event was a real opportunity for the School to celebrate the legacy of John Clare and open its doors to members of the John Clare Trust, the John Clare Society and Sue Shields and Kathryn Parsons, artists who have been involved in the exhibition, ‘UnEarthed: John Clare’.
Join us for the Images of Research private viewing on 4th February 2015!
Some images from IoR 2013-14
You are all invited to join us at the 2014-15 Images of Research private viewing, which will be held on Wednesday February 4th 2015 from 5pm to 6:30pm in the corridor outside Avenue Gallery. Wine and other refreshments will be on offer, so come along and see this year’s fabulous research photographs and illustrations – and vote for your top three favourites!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year….
… to all our readers,
from everyone at the Research Support Hub
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