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:
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.
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