Call For Papers: The SOTA annual postgraduate conference 2013
On the 19 – 20 September 2013, the University of Northampton School of the Arts will be holding its annual postgraduate conference. All students registered for PhDs at the School of the Arts are expected to submit twenty minute papers on their research areas, while Masters and MPhil students are strongly encouraged to do so.
Learning to be a practitioner researcher
Event report: LLS Research Summer School 2013
In keeping with its mission to fly the flag for practitioner research, Library and Learning Services (LLS) has this week presented its second biennial Research Summer School.
Designed to provide practitioners with the motivation, knowledge and tools to conduct effective research projects, the two day event was aimed at staff in libraries and learning services who were new to research or wanted to brush up on their research skills. Through a mix of talks, practical activities and networking opportunities, the event was a great opportunity for delegates to kick start their own research projects and share their research challenges with others in similar positions.
Journal Citation Reports: 2012 data now available
Thomson Reuters have just released the 2012 Edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
Eagerly awaited by editors and publishers alike, JCR is the authoritative source of journal impact factors for nearly 11,000 peer reviewed journals.
In this edition some 379 journals have received their first impact factor and 66 have had theirs suppressed due to ‘anomolous citation patterns’ (JCR Notices).
Jeff Ollerton: The Cliff
Research Support Hub readers will surely be interested in Professor Jeff Ollerton’s latest blog post, The Cliff, in which Professor Jeff reflects on 20 years as a PhD examiner, discusses the growth of literature in his field and what it means for new research students, and highlights a mysterious publishing statistic.
You can subscribe to all Jeff’s posts at jeffollerton.wordpress.com.
Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2013
Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2013
“Global Interactions”
27th June 2013 in Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3, Park Campus
9:30am – 4:15pm
You are warmly invited to join the Graduate School at their Annual Postgraduate Research Conference for PGR Students and Early Career Researchers. Please see the Conference flyer for more information. Sign up to book your place.
From Who Can Tell?…! to Such A Long Journey: New Radio Play Rehearsals Announced
On the evening of 5th June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu and Dr Jumai Ewu hosted a very special re-union of the production team and cast members behind the 2008 JAWI Theatre collective production, Who Can Tell?…!.
This community based play was based on material from the oral history archives of the Northamptonshire Black History Association (NBHA) and gave theatrical voice to black people’s experiences of living and growing up in 1960s Northampton.
Event report: The Personal is Political Revisited
Submitted by Lisa Robertson.
The Personal is Political Revisited: Investigating Notions of Place and Space
An Interdisciplinary Symposium hosted by the School of the Arts, The University of Northampton
Saturday October 6, 2012
This one-day interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the School of the Arts brought together scholars from around the globe to revisit the concept of the personal as political and consider its effect on the perception and experience of space and place.
Call for papers: Food security conference on World Food Day
The 16th October 2013 is UN World Food Day. To tie in with this, the University of Warwick is holding a one-day conference, “Food (In)Security Research Network: International and trans-disciplinary perspectives”. Supported by BISA-PGN and GEM PhD School, the conference will be the starting point for a new multi-disciplinary postgraduate community focusing on issues and ideas relating to food security.
School of the Arts researchers keep going global
This June researchers from the School of the Arts will be engaging with creative practitioners from all across the world. Read on for more details.
English and Creative Writing at the School of the Arts Summer Show
English and Creative Writing will be contributing three events to this year’s School of the Arts Summer Show at Avenue Campus. All three events are open to University of Northampton staff members and visiting members of the public. To reserve a place email larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk.
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