Sunshine and showers – LearnTech summer showcase
Message from Rob Howe, Head of Learning Technology, LLS:
What is changing in NILE on July 21st?
What is SaGE?
How do I use a voting handset to encourage in class participation?
How can I use a SMARTboard more effectively?
Why are iPADs and mobile devices so popular?
What training is available to support my technology development?
If you have questions similar to those above or just want to come to see how the Learning Technology team are able to support you then please come along to the LearnTech Summer Showcase – Sunshine and Showers.
“Such a Long Journey”: New radio play recording and call for feedback
The rehearsed reading for the first act of Oladipo Agboluaje’s Such a Long Journey is now available to listen to online via Research Support Hub. See below for the recording and further details.
Rehearsed reading of Such A Long Journey at Northampton’s Doddridge Centre
Update: the rehearsed recording of Act I can now be listened to online.
On 19 June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu, Dr Jumai Ewu and Richard Hollingum were joined by five performers (Original Who Can Tell?…! lead actress, Myrle Roach and four undergraduate drama students from the University of Northampton) to rehearse the first episode of Oladipo Agboluaje’s new radio play, Such A Long Journey.
School of the Arts summer show successes and Angry Planet commemorative booklet
Beginning on Tuesday 11th June, English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton School of the Arts hosted three special events as part of the School of the Arts Summer Show. All of these events were well attended by individuals from both within and outside of the School of the Arts.
Emerald Awards for outstanding doctoral research project
Emerald and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) announce the launch of the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards.
These Awards reward the best doctoral research projects in 12 different categories, each sponsored by an Emerald journal. The Awards are open to those who have completed and satisfied examination requirements for a Doctoral award, or will do so, between 1 October 2010 and 1 October 2013, and have not applied previously for one of these Awards. The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 October 2013.
Award-winning entries will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or currency equivalent), a certificate and a winners’ logo to attach to correspondence. Go to the Emerald Website for more information.
Dr Lorna Jowett’s TV Fangdom impresses scholar at Spain’s University of Oviedo
Dr Lorna Jowett, Dr Stacey Abbott (The University of Roehampton) and Dr Mike Starr’s recent success with the TV Fangdom conference on Television Vampires (The University of Northampton, 7-8 June 2013), which featured key scholars Brigid Cherry and Marcus Recht as well as an outstanding presentation on often forgotten British TV vampires by BFI Television curator, Lisa Kerrigan has just welcomed a further success. Dr María Mariño Faza, a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain could not attend the conference but was so impressed by news of the scholars involved that she has decided to spend time researching representations of vampires and the supernatural at The University of Northampton School of the Arts this summer.
Open invitation to all PGR students at East Midland Universities (yes, that’s us!)
The East Midlands Universities PGR Conference, “New Perspectives”, is to be held at the University of Derby on Friday 6th September 2013. All research students at UN are entitled to book their free place via the EMU website http://www.derby.ac.uk/research/emu
The key note speaker will be Dr Jo Appleby of the Department of Bioarchaeology at the University of Leicester, who just might mention the discovery of the grave of King Richard III!
The Conference will feature, for the first time, Research Snapshots in which PGR students have just three minutes to talk about their research. There will be prizes for the best three as chosen by you, the audience. There are also fifty ten-minute talks arranged in five parallel sessions.
Additionally, every PGR student attending is invited to submit a poster which will be placed in the EMU Conference Website Gallery. There’s no conference fee, just an opportunity to meet PGR students at other universities and add to your experience.
Venue: Kirtley Hall, Kedleston Road Site, University of Derby.
Registration from 09.00 am commencing at 09.30 am and closing at 3.45 pm.
Research informing practice in LLS
Last Wednesday, and hot on the heels of our Research Summer School, practitioner researchers from Library and Learning Services (LLS) were more than willing to present their ongoing research activity to colleagues. The result was a busy afternoon with ten LLS staff each speaking for ten minutes on their latest project.
Psyche in the Arts Research Network announce symposium on 3 July 2013
Submitted by Dr Patrick Campbell.
The Psyche in the Arts Research Network presents:
Creative Encounters: Arts as Culture / Arts as Therapy?
Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 9.30am-5pm
The University of Northampton School of the Arts, Avenue Campus
Updated Itinerary: The School of the Arts research seminar series 2013
The itinerary for the remaining events in the School of the Arts research seminar series has been updated. Please see the original post for the revised details:
UON Graduate School Blog 