Call for Papers: The Psychology of Emotion – A new student conference

Four doctoral students from the School of Psychology have been awarded funding from the UN Innovation Fund to run a student conference entitled Exploring the Nature of Emotion and Feeling; Critical Issues and Future Directions in Emotion and Feeling Based Research. 

PoEF15 logoThe conference will be held on April 8th 2015. Aiming to provide a friendly and welcoming environment where students can explore the nature of emotion and feeling, it aims to critically consider how this shapes our understanding of emotion today. Key themes in emotion and feeling based literature will be examined, providing students will the opportunity to consider future directions of research in this area.

A call for papers and posters has been announced for doctoral students to participate, with the first call for papers deadline 30th November. Final date for submissions February 15th 2015.

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Would you like some free training in image-elicitation methods in the social sciences?

OU imageIf you are a research student, early career researcher or just wish to develop your social science methodological expertise you might be interested to know that The Open University is offering free, ESRC-funded, on-line advanced training on image-elicitation methods.

Professor Helen Lomax, from UN, is working with colleagues at the OU to deliver the training. The three short modules will provide opportunities for participants to share their research and explore case studies from contemporary social science research in small groups, facilitated by experienced visual researchers. Read the rest of this entry →

Are you an active researcher….

…looking for new interdisciplinary areas to collaborate on?

Collaboration2Moulton College would like to invite interested University of Northampton researchers to view their facilities and discuss potential collaborations. Three dates are available for visits

Friday 5th December @ 1:30-3:00pm
Wednesday 14th January 2015 @ 3-4:30pm and
Tuesday 17th February 2015 @ 9-10:30am

For more information see the attached flier or contact Dr Wanda McCormick at Moulton College.

RefWorks update

Just a brief note to say we’ve made some changes to the Harvard UoN citation style in RefWorks (some minor corrections and improved support for audio recording citations), so if you use the Harvard UoN for your bibliography you’ll need to add it to your list of output styles again.

Psychology research seminar on step-mothering

The next Psychology Research Seminar will be on Wednesday 26th November 2014 at 3.30pm in F43. Refreshments will be available from 3.15pm.

Sandra Roper, a PhD student from The Open University will be presenting her work on step-mothering, Talking to my sister: Reflections on some challenges and opportunities for feminist research. Read the rest of this entry →

By any other name: rchive.it, RoMEO and your self-archiving rights

Can you self-archive your e-print? How would you know? What does it even mean? Why am I bothering you with this? These are all perfectly valid questions that may now have a more straightforward answer thanks to a rchive.it. Read on for details of how this web service can simplify an important part of the self-archiving process for NECTAR deposits.

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Research participants wanted for PhD study

Posted on behalf of Charmaine Sonnex, Postgraduate Researcher, Division of psychology

I am looking for participants for my research investigating the effects of Pagan health and well being spells. For more details please open the recruitment advertisement Research Participants Advert non PP)

 

Moulton College: 3rd Annual Research Symposium

moultonYou are warmly invited to:

The 3rd Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium
at Moulton College at 1.30pm (12:30pm lunch)
on Tuesday 16th December 2014
Room P9 (Lecture Theatre,) Pitsford Centre, Moulton College.

[Submitted by Wanda McCormick]

The afternoon will involve talks from our current PhD students as well as some of our staff speaking on developments within their area. The event will start with a buffet lunch at 12.30pm and talks will begin at 1.30pm (see attached poster for schedule and further information). The symposium is being held at our Pitsford Site (gate 4 of the main campus).

If you would like to attend this event, please email Wanda McCormick by Friday 5th December.

Call for papers: Workshop for early career researchers on the Impact of Emerging Economies

Call for Papers and Research Proposals
The Impact of Emerging Economies and their Multinational Enterprises on the World Economy
       Workshop for Early-Career Researchers
Almaty, Kazakhstan
26-28 February 2015

NBS logoThe University of Northampton Business School (UK), and Kazakh-British Technical University Business School (Kazakhstan), in Association with Brunel University (UK) and KIMEP University (Kazakhstan), are holding a workshop for early-career researchers under the British Council Newton-Al-Farabi ‘Research Links’ Programme, in association with the JSC Science Fund. Read the rest of this entry →

A new Postgraduate Society – members wanted!

Lucy Atkinson, PhD research student at UN is looking for members to join a new society. The Postgraduate Society is open to all students at UN who are registered on Postgraduate courses, which includes doctoral study – PhDs, Professional Doctorates and MPhils – and other Postgraduate courses such as Masters degrees.

PG SocietyThe idea for the Society is being promoted by Lucy after several discussions with students and the Student Union. The Society would…

  • …be entirely led by Postgraduate students
  • …raise the profile of postgraduate students among the student population
  • …gain funds from the Student Union
  • …put on quality events

The Society will need a committee, specifically secretary and treasurer, and perhaps reps for events and social functions. Consequently, the support of a large group of students would be needed to enable the new society to get off the ground so if you are a Postgraduate student at UN why not get in touch?

If you are interested in becoming a member then please email your name, email address and student number to lucy.atkinson@northampton.ac.uk. Please also contact Lucy if you have any further comments or ideas.