School of the Arts Lecturers Promote Research in London
This term researchers in the School of the Arts have been reaching out and actively promoting their work in London.
Intellectual Property: Seminar from Prospect IP
Update 5/12/13: Unfortunately this event has has had to be postponed. The organisers apologise and hope to rearrange for the new year.
Submitted by Dr Mairi Watson, Deputy Dean, NBS
How do you balance publication vs secrecy?
IP assignment or licence, which option is best?
These and other questions will be addressed in the forthcoming Intellectual Property (IP) Seminar, led by Prospect IP:
- Friday 6th December 2013,
- Senate 201, 11.45am—1.45pm
Lunchtime seminar: Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position
Submitted by Katie Jones, Manager for the Institute of Health & Wellbeing.
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing presents Normalising childbirth – use of water and maternal position, a lunchtime seminar at Sunley Conference Centre on Wednesday 11th December. Read on for further details and booking information.
Finding and using PhD theses: free webinar
Sara Gould, Development Manager at the British Library writes:
“Using doctoral theses in your research: a guide to EThOS
EThOS http://ethos.bl.uk is the national database for PhD theses, managed by the British Library. It’s a fantastic resource for researchers, with over 100,000 UK theses freely available to download and use for your own research, and another 200,000 available to search and scan on demand.
Join us for a free webinar to learn how EThOS works.
Introductory SPSS Workshops for research students
On Monday 2nd December Paul Rice from CfAP is running the first of a series of two workshops on SPSS, specifically for research students with little or no experience of the software.
Introduction to SPSS will focus on the basic elements of quantitative research and the issues that should be considered in data analysis. The workshop will cover types of data, how this data can be entered into SPSS and will end with examining descriptive statistics. This is an application orientated session and the approach will be practical. No prior knowledge is required.
Title of workshop: SPSS part 1: Introduction to SPSS.
Where? Grendon 152, Grendon IT Centre, Park Campus
When? Monday, 2 December 2013 from 17:00 to 19:00
The follow on workshop Basic Inferential Statistics in SPSS will be held on 16th December.
BBC News asks “How broad is the research?”
The BBC news site today presents several examples of ‘unusual’ PhD work across the UK, featuring vampires, cows, and erotic shoes (in three separate examples, sadly).
DOIs and Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education
I mentioned in a previous post that the University had recently registered with CrossRef to allow us to allocate Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to published articles.
Our first use of these has been within Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education (ELEHE), the university’s first open journal. Each issue of the journal now has a DOI, as does each article within the issue. For example:
- ELEHE Volume 4, Issue 1; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14234/elehe.v4i1
- Stoncel, D and Shelton-Mayes, A. (2012) Students’ views on higher education learning environments for professional teacher education, Enhancing the Learner Experience in Higher Education, 4(1), pp.3-16; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14234/elehe.v4i1.45
Open Access Button – breaking down paywalls
Launched on Monday, the Open Access Button is a great new tool for finding open access copies of research articles and at the same time raise awareness and gather evidence of the impact of paywalls on scholarship worldwide.
How it works:
British Library Doctoral Open Days
It’s that time of year again… the British Library are once again advertising their open days for new doctoral students. This is your opportunity to learn about the British Library’s unique research collections and how to access them.
This year the dates and subjects on offer are as follows:
Finch report: progress review published
In June of last year the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings (or ‘Finch Group) published the ‘Finch report‘, describing ways and means of increasing access to UK research outputs. Amongst its recommendations it controversially argued that the sector should adopt the ‘gold’ route to open access (OA), where necessary paying article processing charges to publishers to ensure immediate access to research publications.
Within a month the Department for Business, Information and Skills (BIS) had announced its support for the Finch Group’s recommendations and Research Councils UK (RCUK) had published a new open access policy. Both parties quickly followed through with financial support – BIS made available £10 million to pump prime the system whilst RCUK announced a block grant scheme to support 107 organisations over the following two years.
