Institute of Health and Wellbeing: Theme leaders announced
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager, Institute of Health and Wellbeing
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing is very pleased to announce that the leaders for each of our research themes have been appointed. In some instances, we have appointed a second leader to assist and bring together an exciting mix of skills and experience.
Free access to Liverpool University Press journals during April 2014
To celebrate its tenth birthday, Liverpool University Press is making all of its journal content free for the month of April.
Call for Papers: 7th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference
Are you a Research Degree student in a social science discipline? Would you like to share your PhD experiences with others in a conference setting? If so, you might be interested in the 7th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference on 14th November 2014.
“4D Research: Early experiences of Designing, Debating, Doing and Disseminating Social Research” aims to bring together post-graduate researchers from a variety of disciplines to facilitate shared critical engagement with the various obstacles and opportunities of the PhD process.
For more information see the LTE blog post here.
Calling PhD students and early-career researchers!
Researchers from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) are asking for input from UK-based research students and early-career researchers on the teaching and learning of advanced research methods.
PhD students, who are within five years of commencing academic employment, and researchers early on in their career have been asked to comment on brief summaries of four themes from NCRM research findings;
- challenges for learning advanced methods;
- provision of advanced methods training;
- approaches for teaching advanced methods;
- qualities of advanced methods teachers and learners.
The research is being conducted by Melanie Nind, Rose Wiles, and Daniel Kilburn at the University of Southampton and will be ‘live’ until Friday 18th April. See the NCRM website for more information and to participate.
PhD Tips – don’t suffer in silence
Whether you are one of this week’s new inductees, or a post-grad further into your sentence degree, this article might give you some valuable advice:
HEFCE announce new policy for open access in post 2014 REF
Following on from their two stage consultation process last year, HEFCE have just announced their new policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework.
The policy applies to all journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016, but not to monographs, other long-form publications, creative or non-text outputs, or data.
School of the Arts Welcomes Diaspora Studies Symposium on 23rd April 2014
On 23rd April 2014, the University of Northampton School of the Arts at Avenue Campus will be hosting a special one day symposium on Diaspora Studies and Visual, Literary and Cultural Representations.
The Three R’s of Science – Reading, Writing and Reviewing
Simon Leather, Professor of Entomology at Harper Adams University, has written an excellent blog post on writing for science publications. In “The Three Rs of Science – Reading, Writing and Reviewing” Simon examines the process of science writing, how to construct that all important first draft and offers some sound advice for research students, or anyone looking to improve their writing for publication. You can subscribe to Simon’s blog at http://simonleather.wordpress.com/.
Charles Oppenheim: Visiting Professor in Library and Learning Services
Professor Charles Oppenheim
In possibly the UK’s first arrangement of its kind, Library and Learning Services is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Charles Oppenheim as Visiting Professor to the department.
Professor Oppenheim has had a distinguished professional and academic career and is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of Intellectual Property Rights and scholarly publishing. We are looking forward to benefiting from his expertise in a number of ways. In addition to delivering an annual lecture or workshop on his areas of specialism, Professor Oppenheim will provide academic leadership and mentoring to LLS staff engaged in research activity and will play an active role in the research life of the department.
Volunteers needed for Research Student Induction
Are you a Postgraduate Research Student at the University of Northampton? The Graduate School are looking for volunteers to participate in the PGR Induction day 4, which will be held on Thursday 3rd April at 2.30pm in MY120, Avenue Research Centre, Avenue Campus.
“Interviews with Current Research Students” is an informal ’round the table’ small group session, where our new students can ask current students any questions they like, learning what it’s like to study a research degree here at Northampton.
Whether you’re a fairly new starter or have been here a while, a part-time or full time student, your input would be really valuable. After the session we will close the Induction with a short social event and you’re invited to stay and enjoy some refreshments with us.
Please contact Simone.apel@northampton.ac.uk as soon as possible if you are interested in participating.
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