Call for papers for the Callaloo Postgraduate/Early Career Workshop: “Britain, Europe and the African Diaspora”.
Submitted by Professor Janet Wilson.
On 27-30 November 2013, Callaloo will be hosting its annual conference in Europe for the first time, at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). To mark the occasion, Oxford’s newly established Race and Resistance Network will be hosting a postgraduate/early career workshop on the 27 November. Read the rest of this entry
First steps in hyperspace
Submitted by James Ressel
Not long ago I started a blog entitled Law, Culture & Ideas (http://lawcultureblog.wordpress.com/). However, as soon as I posted my first article I came to dread the expenditure of time and energy that will be needed to feed the voraciously hungry virtual baby now growing in hyperspace. In this post I will try outline some of the ideas underlying the blog, its rationale and plans for the future.
Graduate School Workshops online on NILE
If you missed one of the 2012-13 Graduate School development workshops, or want to refresh your memory, do take a look on NILE at our training site “RES001 Postgraduate Research Training”. You’ll find Powerpoint slides, associated documents and a few videos for many of the workshops we ran this year.
Log into Nile, choose ‘Training materials’ from the left hand menu, then ‘Research Training Workshop Materials’. Also in the ‘Training materials’ content area you will find resources in the ‘Saturday Schools’ and ‘Induction’ folders.
RES001 also contains a folder item entitled “Online Research Training”. This folder contains our Epigeum training resources on Research Methods. These are excellent online training tools which you can dip into as and when you are able. Why not take a look? We will shortly be making Epigeum workshops in Ethics available online so watch this space!
Prize winning presence at BPS conference
Submitted by Dr Helen Owton
10-13 July 2013, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park, UK
We are very proud to announce that at the recent British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Women’s Section (POWS) Conference, Stephen Symons, a third year, in the Psychology department was awarded the POWS undergraduate prize for his dissertation entitled Discursive constructions of UK swingers’ self-identities and practices in a culturally gendered mononormative context. He presented an outstanding poster together with a team of colleagues who also presented at the conference from the Division of Psychology and the School of Health and the Centre for Health and Wellbeing research.
Bitesize stats resources for researchers!
A great selection of links to statistics resources, recommended by UN research students.
If you have any more recommendations in your discipline please email the links to me!
Basic Stats Online Links
How2stats.com
These ‘how to’ videos contain “most” stats tests for social sciences up to advanced level
http://www.youtube.com/user/how2stats?feature=watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDT0tjU1TWo (Factor Analysis) Read the rest of this entry
ICCSR Symposium 2013: Gender and Responsible Business
Submitted by Nadeem Khan, (PhD research student NBS)
Nadeem Khan
The ICCSR symposium was held on 20th June 2013 at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, based at Nottingham Business School, University of Nottingham.
Siham Elgergeni and Ouarda Dsouli
Nadeem Khan, Siham Elgergeni and Ouarda Dsouli from the UN Business School attended the symposium, hosted by Prof. Jeremy Moon, with keynote speakers including Nadia Younes (Rio Tinto) and Kate Grosser (La Trobe University). The dialogue highlighted the human rights and business case for advancing gender balance as a stakeholder; human rights; corporate innovation and sustainable communities’ perspective. Read the rest of this entry
Census update webinar: Census geography tools
UK Data Service Census Support is holding a webinar on 24 July 2013 to provide an introduction to the full collection of digital boundaries and geographical look-up tables which they hold.
The webinar will also show how online Census Support applications can be used to access these datasets. Through UK Data Service Census Support, users have access to a large collection of geographical datasets. This includes digital boundaries that define the location and extent of the output geographies of UK decennial censuses and geographical lookup tables like ONS postcode directories, which can be used to relate different geographies to one another. Read the rest of this entry
School of the Arts Research Seminar Update
The University of Northampton School of the Arts ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Research Seminar with Dr Sonya Andermahr, Dr Larissa Allwork and Dr Esther Jilovsky will be starting at 12.00 as opposed to 12.30 on Wednesday 10th July in MY120, Avenue Campus.
All welcome.
Ebook price increases from three publishers
” It is with regret that we have to inform you that with no prior notice from the publisher Wiley has imposed an immediate price increase across selected titles. “
So begins another email from Dawson books, our leading supplier of academic ebooks. The email goes on to explain further:
” The price increases are the publisher’s reaction to a recent US Supreme Court ruling whereby lower priced editions bought elsewhere in the world were allowed to be sold back into the US, a market which has traditionally had higher prices than other markets. To reduce the impact on US sales, Wiley have chosen to increase the prices in the UK to match the American prices. Unfortunately we have no ability to influence this decision although our buying team has vigorously championed non-US customers against price increases.”
Research Seminar Invitation
You are invited to attend a seminar by Marco Caniato, a PhD student from the University of Brescia, Italy, on Wednesday, July 10, at 10:am, in MY35. The topic of the presentation will be:
“Development of a Health Care Waste Management system in facilities with severe constraints: case study from the Gaza Strip”.
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