Are you a part-time research student? If so, read on…….
Part-time research students, who are in the first half of their studies, are invited to a free Part Time Researcher day at the University of Warwick on Friday 6th February from 10am to 4:30pm.
The day offers an opportunity to meet and share experiences with other part-time researchers and, with the support of facilitators, discuss common issues facing part-time researchers and work towards practical solutions to some of them.
The workshop will cover:
- The ethos and process of part-time research
- Working with your part-time supervisor
- Managing your time / avoiding self-sabotage
- Setting practical objectives to help you work more effectively
To book or for more information please see the Part Time Researcher document attached.
Researcher help desks – Spring 2015
Welcome back to a bright new term!
Dates and times for this term’s researcher help desks are as follows:
Avenue campus (in the library):
- Wednesday 28th January 10am – 12pm
- Monday 9th February 10am – 12pm
- Thursday 26th February 2 – 4pm
- Tuesday 10th March 2 – 4pm
- Thursday 2nd April 10am – 12pm
Park campus (in the library):
- Tuesday 20th January 2 – 4pm
- Monday 2nd February 10am – 12pm
- Wednesday 18th February 10am – 12pm
- Tuesday 3rd March 2 – 4pm
- Thursday 26th March 10am – 12pm
Learning and Teaching Conference 2015: Call for examples
Northampton’s Learning and Teaching Conference 2015 will take place on the 21st May 2015 in the Sunley Conference Centre at Park Campus. The Conference focuses on the theme of enhancing quality at Northampton: initiatives and perspectives on teaching, learning and assessment. The main keynote will be given by Prof Rhona Sharpe, Oxford Brookes University.
The Conference’s Call for Examples of Good Practice is now open until Friday 13 February 2015.
Registration for the Conference is now open.
How to be a Successful Digital Academic to Boost Your Career
Following on nicely from our last Hub post, Jobs.ac.uk is holding a Google+ Hangout on Tuesday 27th January at 12 noon, on integrating digital media, blogs, apps and social media into your academic practice. The session will help you learn how to use digital tools to give you a competitive advantage, great for your CV and for public engagement and networking.
- How to blend digital tools into your current work and conferences
- How to manage your time online effectively
- How to write for an online audience
- How to use a blog to increase your public engagement
- How digital networking can enhance your research
- How to effectively use online networking to find collaborators
To join the session go to the Hangout page.
What do academics do once the research is published?
Excellent article from our own Prof Jeff Ollerton on communicating your research
At the University of Northampton we run a programme of generic training workshops aimed at research students(MPhil and PhD) from across all disciplines. I contribute to several, including one called “Getting Published”, usually run with my colleague Professor Ian Livingstone. This focuses on academic papers/articles (phraseology varies with subject) and covers all of what you might expect such a workshop to feature, including asking about motivations for wanting to publish research*, when is the right time to publish your research**, issues about co-authorship***, and so forth.
One of the key aspects of the workshop is a flow chart of the process of getting published, beginning at “do the research”, moving on to writing it up, choosing a journal, submitting to a journal, peer review, dealing with reviewers’ comments, writing a covering letter, coping with rejection, re-submission to the same or a different journal, celebrating acceptance, etc. All fairly standard stuff.
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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.
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